• MasterNerd@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Wouldn’t this dude be 15-16 at the time of those posts? That’s a lot of time for a young person to change their views. I know I basically did a 180 from conservative to leftist in that time frame.

    I’m not trying to say he wasn’t right-wing, but using what someone posted when they were in high school as evidence for political motivation 4-5 years later seems flawed to me

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      3 months ago

      In the absence of any other visible political opinions I dunno what else we’re supposed to attribute to him

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        3 months ago

        Why obsess so much over his motivations? I can think of 1000 reasons why someone with a gun and a lack of morals might want to kill Trump. Does it really matter which one got him to the rally? Even if we found a verifiable suicide note saying “I did it for X reason” it wouldn’t change anything.

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          3 months ago

          Because it’s relevant to the conversation and the point Vance is trying to make. There’s no evidence he was a Democrat beyond one 5 dollar donation after the fucking insurrection. To me it sounds like he’s a libertarian who doesn’t like tyranny.

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      3 months ago

      Just reads like your average 15-16 year old’s comments said over the weekend playing Xbox …