[zahlman]

I have seen comments on HN posting this narrative as well. It defies comprehension. One of the pieces of evidence used to spin this story is the suspect wearing a Trump costume for Hallowe'en, as a 14-year-old, in 2017 (the year that this costume was popular; the entire point was to protest Trump by treating him as a literal boogeyman).

(But of course, it is only seemingly all of Bluesky; and of course it's very easy on social media to start filtering for this content once you first encounter it.)

[maxerickson]

Why do you think the killer had to have a coherent motive?

[zahlman]

I'm inclined to think that a gunman without a coherent motive wouldn't write slogans on the bullets, for one thing.

[kevinh]

One of the "slogans" was a reference to the game Helldivers 2. They were memes.

[maxerickson]

You think that writing messages on the casings is obviously coherent?

[f33d5173]

People are calling for violence against left wingers at large because of this one lone wolf. I don't blame people who want to disassociate from him.

[zahlman]

> People are calling for violence against left wingers at large

I have seen nothing of the sort, and I have access to beyond-the-Overton-window right-wing sources. What they have been doing, instead, is pointing out the Bluesky users that TFA concerns itself with.

[f33d5173]

Consider turning on showdead and looking at your sibling comment lol

[zahlman]

I do have showdead on and have had it on basically since I joined the site and learned of the option.

"cindyllm" is, as far as I can tell, an automatically filtered, AI-powered shitposter.