News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
From what I am hearing from Kyle Kulinski...
The kid is very academically bright, possibly autistic, obviously into online uwu meme culture... appears to be from a well-off Republican family, which involved a good deal of being raised with guns, definitely is not registered as a Democrat, may have himself donated to Trump's campaign, wore a Trump costume to a Halloween party... and also wrote Bella Ciao lyrics on a casing.
So... I am going with 'very confused, nerdy, ancap kid with above average marksman skills for someone his age and no military training'.
... But thats all extremely speculative at this point.
He appears to have literally done this for the lulz, and then become overwhelmed with guilt.
I do not know what to make out of this other than our society is doomed.
I would be incredibly wary of any descriptions of his character or any details that aren't easily corroborated by trusted sources. There is a LOT of misinformation out there.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2jaemvpgujnb5nzi66rcxhse/post/3lynjvt3yyx2q is a good breakdown which is as cited as anything gets these days.
Which lines up with what many others are saying: He is a "groyper" and seemed more alligned with the fuentes alt-right than the kirk alt-right and this seems like the sadly logical outcome of heavily armed children getting radicalized every second of the day.
Yeah, I will literally go back and bold the part where I said 'this is all speculative.'
I guess I trust Kyle when it comes to actually sourcing things.
But yeah, lets get as much citations and context as possible, now that this is a few hours older and more is being written.
People are deeply stupid. Even "This is pure speculation" rapidly becomes Fact through the game of telephone. It is best to avoid it as much as possible in situations like this. Even "he might have been autistic" very clearly lines up with certain fascist agendas.
I won't be surprised if he used fediverse/Lemmy do we know what his major is?
Oh god please don't say that, this reeeeally does not need to be the way normies learn about lemmy/fediverse oooh no.
His major?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/09/12/what-we-know-charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect/86091474007/
Undetermined.
He... seems like he dropped out, or more like bounced off of going to college... ???
Yeah... certainly looking like some kind of perma online, basement dwelling, probably autisitc, uber dork.
Which I say lovingly, in reference to most of us here.
But yeah... If he bounced off after one semester, he would not have even gotten to declaring a major, I don't think.
I seriously hope that he doesn't have some kind of mental health issue because Kennedy will have a big excuse to come after anyone who has a mental health diagnosis no matter how minor their condition is.