Huge respect to the father of Tyler Robinson for trying to consult with a pastor on what to do, but instead of giving advice or something the pastor immediately ratted them out to the cops.

Given the fact there's now good reasons to believe the (alleged, but himself confessed) assassin of Charlie Kirk was a right wing gun nut, to whom Kirk was not right wing enough, makes me feel more valid in my cynical criticism of Kirk and his passing.

He died not just as a result of the world he created, but specifically through the hands of a person he radicalized, utilizing gun “rights” Kirk defended day and night.

If life was a screenplay, this would be an on the nose plot point that the writers inserted to spread their own political beliefs. Yet it isn't, this is real life, and these are the real consequences of your words.

Before 1933 the Nazi's only official crime was speech. Afterwards, they legalized anything that speech justified. Remember that.

A far right media outlet told people to mass report my posts on Instagram, many of them were removed without any notice or ability to appeal.

When a story of mine was deleted and Instagram notified me so I could appeal, it was almost immediately reinstated.

Whatever you think of my posts, I should at least be told they were wrong or against the community guidelines. Instagram happily told me that. If a post on Mastodon is moderated, a user on Mastodon is immediately notified and can appeal. This process can sometimes be intransparent depending on the moderator, but it's a hell of a lot better than having some AI algorithm delete your posts for being mass reported and then gaslighting you that they never existed.

I've been told by a couple of big accounts it sometimes takes days or weeks for you to be able to appeal a decision and there doesn't seem to be any reason for why this happens. Certain AI automated decisions cannot be appealed.

Now that the assassin is confirmed to be a Nick Fuentes fan right winger, nobody cares about Kirk anymore and the golden age of newly discovered Republican empathy has abruptly come to an end.

@ErikUden Are you sure? We don't what his political affiliation was at the moment. Unless I haven't read something. The messages on his bullets were mostly left-leaning.

@shellheim @ErikUden

Not "left leaning" groyper nonsense.

And he was in deep.

@futurebird @shellheim @ErikUden I WANT him to be a groyper. But I think it’s tentative at best at the moment. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/was-tyler-robinson-a-groyper-charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect-being-linked-to-alt-right-movement-101757703508205.html

@Annaspanner @shellheim @ErikUden

Unfortunately I've had some run-ins with these people and recognized the non-sense on the casings right away. But more to the point this is one of a few far right communities who have been angry at Kirk and saying violent things about him in the lead up.

Now, to what degree is this just a disturbed man acting out? That's harder to say. All shootings have that element as well.