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Leaked Chats Show Alleged Kirk Killer 'Doesn't Fit Into Any Tidy Narrative'

www.commondreams.org Leaked Chats Show Alleged Kirk Killer 'Doesn't Fit Into Any Tidy Narrative' | Common Dreams

Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein challenged conflicting narratives circulating about Tyler Robinson by obtaining online chats and speaking with a childhood friend of the 22-year-old man accused of assassinating far-right activist Charlie Kirk.

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Taking politics (mostly) out of it -
Luigi allegedly killed because he saw injustice and had empathy for other people, wanted to show the evils of health insurance companies.
This kid imo allegedly killed because he loved someone CK was spouting hateful narratives about. His empathy for this person he loved, and people like them who are just normal people living life, made it easy for him to turn to guns when he wanted this person gone for eternity.
People with empathy are snapping.
- People with empathy are snapping.
  This line hits hard. I hate this fucking timeline.
  
  This is what the MAGAs don't understand since MAGA requires, and trains, people to be Sociopaths.
  An empathetic person will avoid violence for as long as possible, but when the forces against them become too great, and they snap, their empathy morphs into Protection Mode, and anyone who has people in their life that they protect, knows how dangerous Protection Mode can be.
  I've been identifying my personal Red Lines, and one of the biggest is certain people in my life who are members of vulnerable demographics that MAGAs particularly despise. If anything were to happen to those people, I would become very dangerous. My empathy for them could easily be twisted into revenge against MAGA.
  
  anyone who has people in their life that they protect, knows how dangerous Protection Mode can be.
  And if you don't, just ask a mama lion protecting her cubs...
  
  This is my personal conclusion about this situation because in my personal life people with empathy are drowning right now. It’s hard to live life these days if you give a single fuck about anything real, any real injustices or struggles people are living.
  
  I just told my mama that I'm upset with her for raising me with empathy. Now I'm always broke. She couldn't teach me to care more about money than people, ugh.
- Didn’t CK say empathy was a bad thing?
  
  The ultra Christians now say empathy is a sin.
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sin-empathy-christian-trump-vance-b2812330.html
  
  Their central religious figure is literally God's empathy taking on a human form. He empathized with the human experience to the point of experiencing a human death.
  Amazing how people can be so bad at understanding their own religion.
  
  *Very specific right wing mostly non-denominational Christians are saying this. Most Christians will think that's an insane claim to make as most denominations dont hold that view
  
  Then they need to speak the fuck up about it instead of stuffing their fingers in their ears and pretending everything is all honky dory.
  
  Yes he did. The whole MAGA movement believes empathy is a bad thing.
  
  Technically speaking they aren't wrong ; empathy is a bad thing for MAGA. One could say antithetical.
- But this doesn't fit the other narrative that they have been talking about... which is him hating the guy for not being right enough or whatever you want to call it...
  
  Yes, that’s why I took the politics out of it. Empathy can make you hate people enough to kill them if you see them hurting people you love. I think it’s been proven his house mate / partner is a trans person and they were romantically involved.
  CK was sitting, sharing the hateful transphobic ideals he had the actual second he was murdered. Looking into this guy, he wasn’t a MAGA and he wasn’t a leftist. He wasn’t extreme politically and that’s precisely the medias / MAGAs problem : he was just a seemingly average dude who snapped because of the hatred and torment he witnessed from CK.
  It’s only this political imo because he killed DT’s pet pig and they’re of course going to use that as FUD. I think the truth is probably that he would have killed CK regardless of who CK aligned with politically.

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