Very true. Lots of people jumping to lots of convenient conclusions at the expense of nuance on this one.
The thing with communicating in memes is that they reduce actual ideas so deeply that the same one meme can start in a space on one end of the political spectrum and, by way of obscured context, later be picked up by the complete opposite end of the spectrum.
There is evidence that he leaned right, and there is evidence that he leaned left. There’re bits and pieces that imply he wasn’t really fully aligned with either, as well. Without the proper context to weigh these things with, it is basically impossible to tell what his true motivations were. For now, at least. As more information comes to light, it will become easier to tell what this was all about, as is generally how things work.
So, anyone saying they know for certain what he stood for before definitive evidence surfaces is either lying through their teeth or has simply been misinformed. Remember to take it all with salt, people. Jumping to conclusions won’t help a thing.
This is why outsiders see the US politics as two cults. They’re very very eager to frame any “bad guy” as the opposing team. They’ll try to shoehorn it everywhere to make it stick. Conflicting evidence be damned.
While I agree we don’t know everything yet, it’s kind of infuriating to have one side -the side who has been responsible for what? 80% of political violence in the past decade,- immediately start calling for violence and retribution, while the other side says “you know, maybe the side spewing hateful rhetoric non-stop is partly responsible…”
#4 isn’t definite yet. There’s a lot of contradictory evidence on that
Very true. Lots of people jumping to lots of convenient conclusions at the expense of nuance on this one.
The thing with communicating in memes is that they reduce actual ideas so deeply that the same one meme can start in a space on one end of the political spectrum and, by way of obscured context, later be picked up by the complete opposite end of the spectrum.
There is evidence that he leaned right, and there is evidence that he leaned left. There’re bits and pieces that imply he wasn’t really fully aligned with either, as well. Without the proper context to weigh these things with, it is basically impossible to tell what his true motivations were. For now, at least. As more information comes to light, it will become easier to tell what this was all about, as is generally how things work.
So, anyone saying they know for certain what he stood for before definitive evidence surfaces is either lying through their teeth or has simply been misinformed. Remember to take it all with salt, people. Jumping to conclusions won’t help a thing.
This is why outsiders see the US politics as two cults. They’re very very eager to frame any “bad guy” as the opposing team. They’ll try to shoehorn it everywhere to make it stick. Conflicting evidence be damned.
While I agree we don’t know everything yet, it’s kind of infuriating to have one side -the side who has been responsible for what? 80% of political violence in the past decade,- immediately start calling for violence and retribution, while the other side says “you know, maybe the side spewing hateful rhetoric non-stop is partly responsible…”
Blackpill Aesthetics: A Crash Course in Meme Extremism
All accounts of this guy indicate he wasn’t political in real life. From his grandma to his friends at highschool.
Given his online activity, I’m more convinced by the theory that he was nihilistically lashing out than enacting a politically motivated plan.