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Texas man accused of threatening to shoot up Pride parade to ‘pay them back for taking out Charlie Kirk’
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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Sure, but that certainly lowers the likelihood that he's a far-right Kirk-hater, no?
Only if true
Obviously. But same goes for the accusations that he's far-right -- of which there doesn't really seem to be anything to go off.
I might've misunderstood? I thought you meant I had said this, or supported this claim.
But yes as far as I can tell there's not much to suggest a strong political alignment of any kind. I don't know what info we can trust that has been provided. If we take their statements at face value he was in a relationship with a trans person and found kirk hateful. He engraved memes from a video game on his bullets and shot this guy.
There were also some weird statements about his actions while running after shooting which confuse me, but it's not something I've read all that much about.
Oh then yes, we agree -- there's nothing of substance to support really any claims about his ideology whatsoever. The focus should not be on which "side" he was on regardless, but we're way past that level of rationality.
I make no claims as to why he did what he did. If he is the one that did it, I dunno.
Okay, but that's the thread we're in.
That's great. It's not a claim I've made or implied at any point. I just said a thing about being queer vs being in a queer relationship.
Okay?
Grindr always reports a spike in usage whenever the RNC convenes. Being gay or in a queer relationship sadly doesn't mean that the person isn't far right. They might just be self-loathing.
The suggestion wasn't that the shooter was secretly queer.