• coolusername [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    his confession text looks fake as fuck +1
    i like how it wraps everything together and uses language typical of 50+ year old mormons that are employed by the CIA

    anyway, the feds are incompetent.

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    yeah this shit stinks of planted evidence. this is literally no different to when they “found” that “manifesto” that was supposedly written by Luigi when they caught him

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    This convo seems fake as fuck idk. Is he stupid? If he can manage to do an assassination that well surely he can’t be stupid enough to say all this shit over text. It does read like a right-winger’s idea of what a heckin woke sjw would say.

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    Fuck.

    The facts are he was allegedly bi, dating a trans person, killed Kirk for his hate, his family will corroborate he was a “loony leftist” and blame the internet and college most likely for taking their best attempt at raising a chud and turning him into the person he ended up as who disagreed with them on politics. Given he didn’t go on any rants about Jews or anything like that (the only other option being thinking Kirk hated white people for not being against the Jews enough) I think the chances are near zero he wasn’t just a liberal or vaguely left type person. Probably didn’t really have anything super concrete himself in terms of political ideology other than not wanting to be his parents, not agreeing with his parents and MAGA, etc which is good enough to call him a liberal/leftist unfortunately.

    Nothing else really matters. This is the cold, hard, damning evidence the right needs to paint this as an assassination by a leftist. I guess we can be thankful he wasn’t a member of a communist party and it seems unlikely he organized with antifa or other groups, and he didn’t post a ton of overtly leftist political stuff for them to show around but he’ll be painted as antifa anyways (the anti-fascist song inscription on the bullet seals that) and this will be used as an example of liberal/left “intolerance” and violence against the “totally peaceable” right.

    All these attempts at nuance are not strong enough and take too much thought and good faith. The right will be able to successfully blast out that he was a radicalized liberal-leftist who hated conservatives, was part of some imagined by the right “violent trans” agenda or movement they’re trying to conjure up. The likely interviews from his family where the ridiculous hogs bray about how he was a radical and changed from a good little chudlet into a crazed leftist (as defined by Fox News) will be blasted around likely by all the usual bourgeois press. The liberal conclusion will be we need to tackle “online radicalization no matter what ideology” and the right will take that and run with it to force censorship of the left on major platforms, force major platforms to feed more automated reporting data on anyone talking in too leftist a manner to the police state priority flagged, etc.

    Considering what we’ve already heard of discord pro-actively giving police info on people buying t-shirts and cops calling them in a chilling effects way it’s concerning. And explains why they’re harping on the online angle so much because that’s seemingly the goal here.

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      This is the cold, hard, damning evidence the right needs to paint this as an assassination by a leftist

      They were already painting it as an assassination by a leftist minutes after he was shot and would have continued to do so no matter how much the evidence proved otherwise. The truth does not matter to these people.

      You’re right though, they’re gonna make shit as nasty as they can. The fascist takeover is accelerating.

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    Ok if you’re worried about your “love” maybe don’t fucking murder someone and then indirectly implicate them in your crime by immediately messaging them and admitting it. Maybe skip the whole murdering part tbh. I dunno.

    That sentence just comes off crazy to me. “I’m worried about you. Oh btw, let me confess all this shit so you’re now obligated to snitch on me to police otherwise you’re committing a pretty serious crime. I’m sure they and the media will be very normal and treat you as an innocent bystander to all this.”

    People talk about trauma dumping, but goddamn. This is criminal (heh) levels. I feel bad for this person.

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        Long answer short: This is what lawyers are for. Anything you say to police except “i want a lawyer” can AND WILL be used against you. You are absolutely not obligated to tell the police anything. However, when you get a lawyer, and they see that the police have enough to charge you as an accomplice, then you’ll be advised to tell the police what you know (through the lawyer or in court).

        Anything besides getting a lawyer and cooperating with the investigation via the lawyer would probably result in getting charges. FOr example, say they did delete messages. That could get charges. Say they tell a lie after being caught off-guard (no, he didn’t tell me anything). That’s a charge. Maybe they misspeak and accidentally say something even more incriminating (“i mean neither of us liked Kirk, but…”) that’s a charge.

        IMO “snitching” is different when done with a lawyer, since at least you’re protecting yourself. Snitching without a lawyer just puts everyone in danger, including yourself. What @Justice@lemmygrad.ml was saying is that if the roommate was left totally in the dark, then they could truthfully answer (through their lawyer or on the stand) that they had no knowledge of the crime. But now that there’s concrete proof of their knowledge, any lawyer will advise them to cooperate in order to avoid charges.

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          Yeah, all of this.

          I will add I was also referring to like “harboring” a suspect, but that may not even apply. Maybe it’s more “obstructing justice” I don’t know how these work for this scenario.

          I can guess that if someone texts you they murdered someone and tells you plans for a getaway or whatever, you do nothing with that information, and later the person is captured and the messages discovered… you’re gonna have a “not good” time.

          It would be one thing I think to be generally aware of the murder either through some sort of witnessing of it (guy running away from the scene) or they confess to you verbally in person at some point.

          It’s a bit different I think when it’s during the “manhunt” stage and the guy is directly contacting you with information such as they did it, how they did it, where they are currently located, etc. At the absolute least cops are gonna be digging into your entire life to find out why you were contacted and why you didn’t report them to police immediately. That’s just common sense on their end. And that investigation and possible (because I’m not sure) charges is what I meant. You’re subjecting a totally outside person to the authorities. Whether or not anything happens legally from it, you’re gonna have to get a lawyer and deal with years of shit when you could have honestly said “He never mentioned it to me ever” otherwise.

          Of course just the circumstances of being the roommate basically guarantees they were going to investigated the moment he decided to actually do this… but yeah.

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      ditching the rifle in a bush and trying to come back for it so they don’t get prints is wild levels of hopium

      even if there wasn’t a single security camera on this campus he’d have been caught 5 other ways…

      These texts read as kinda fake but honestly its probably legit. I’m glad to not be his age in the current political climate.

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      20 hours ago

      He was watching The Handmaiden and found the revenge against a bigot plot very inspiring, but he paused it right there and forgot to watch the third act that explains how to get away after you do the thing.

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    23 hours ago

    What 22 year old fucking talks like this?? And why is he detailing his actions like he’s some cartoon villain who just caught the protagonist in a trap and is explaining their grand master plan.

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    This just made me really sad. If this is indeed accurate he really did mess up his trans partner’s life for a long time. How do you even begin to pick up the pieces from this when things finally settle? I thought I would feel nothing but joy, but turns out there is a way to make me wish this was undone. If you’re gonna do something like this, then burn all your bridges and disappear for a while first. Don’t drag a trans person down with you (even if this is what motivates you).

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        No, unless you think them receiving funding between 2012-2016 through the Open Technology Fund (which is a nonprofit that receives/received grants from the federal United States Agency for Global Media) means they are ‘compromised’ lol.

        Anyways I’d argue that if you’re worried about the US government compromising an E2E encrypted messaging app, you probably should be more worried about the fact that every telecomm company in the US is more than willing to bend over backwards and provide the US government with open access to every message/piece of data that is sent through their towers without needing any legal reason to do so, whereas Signal can only provide the telephone number associated with an account in response to a warrant because they literally don’t have anything else.

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        True for Android, iOS, and Windows. Linux is pretty good to go though with good opsec. Something like Debian with full disk encryption, and only FOSS software installed using DNSCrypt, and an encrypted VPN that blocks all non-VPN traffic is about as good as you’ll ever need. And is still a very functional computer. For a browser just make sure to use something like Librewolf, and not Google Chrome.

        On a phone your best bet is gonna be Graphene OS and for messaging you can use Briar, or Matrix. Don’t put a SIM card in it, and keep a seperate phone to do calls and texts. At that point your more secure than most high profile people even.

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      It’s wild. I remember a younger gen z tell me (their tutor) that they had cheated on online university exams during COVID on WhatsApp. More secure than text messaging (end to end encryption) at least, but I made sure that they deleted the messages for everyone so I wouldn’t be forced to snitch.

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    So I’m guessing he was struggling with a lot of residual guilt and shame of being raised in a conservative MAGA family, while being in a relationship with a transitioning partner, and it negatively effected his sense of self-worth. Probably just went “fuck it” when he found out the worlds most obnoxious conservative twit was going to visit.

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    Does anyone else find it strange there are no timestamps? This conversation looks like it was typed up in a random text editor. And the supposed roommate’s response make me wonder if this is the first time they saw these texts.

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      That partial transcript isn’t an exhibit, but rather part of a charging document; it’s presumably formatted to be consistent with the standards of the court in which it is filed (courts can be very picky about this stuff, requiring specific margins, typefaces, spacing, etc., and sometimes judges have their own personal rules). In addition to this charging document, the prosecution will file exhibits consisting of screenshots or some other type of transcript that is admissible as evidence.

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        It should have timestamps, even if it is just a charging document. I can’t imagine prefacing the names with times would be out of bounds.

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      We know the roommate was cooperating, and the police had Robinson’s phone, so without timestamps this looks planted.

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    How on earth you use a pretty unique and easily recognizable rifle that you left behind on the scene of the crime and think that you can hide and die of old age?