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How, specifically?
from the wiki:
Boelter claimed to have military training and a career in private security
His anti-abortion views are considered a possible motive.
Boelter was registered to vote in Oklahoma as a Republican for the 2004 United States presidential election
Boelter's wife told investigators their family "prepared for major or catastrophic incidents"
He's also a white guy that was wearing a cowboy hat in CCTV footage.
These all track right wing to me. There's a ton of confounders to this, yeah, which is why even his affiliation was muddy. But in situations like these affiliation is being used as an assumed motivation most of the time. I don't think that's true but I was just trying to meet Skibboleth halfway to try to maintain decorum since the post was mostly just pure seething.
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That's exactly what the wikipedia article says. But Boelter tracks to right wing and has said he was right wing 20 years ago.
It just reads, to me, like Skibboleth giving up and getting mired in the same guesswork where everything is made up and the points don't matter that he's decrying which undermines the point just a bit.
You eventually get crests or something that alter your attack moveset (but require you to unlock equipable slots all over again) and the first one i got changed the downward plunge to much more forgiving hitbox that's slightly slower but you get it after you've probably gotten used to the fast diagonal or at least had to use it for four to five hours.
I don't know, whether or not it's a rarity, I think the reason this is getting this much attention is because it's on video. The same with the subway stabbing that this subsumed or even George Floyd. If there was public video of those school shootings I think there'd be a major national conversation about them. Seeing someone die evokes much more of a reaction than seeing a dead person, and even less than reading about a dead person. Politicians obviously want to protect themselves but most people don't really care about politicians, or political people, not in the way that this would be an important event to them. But this guy died and they saw it happen. It imparts a connection without any other knowledge of him. I suppose it's why martyrdom can be so captivating.
I also think this is why it seems so much worse that the ghouls are dancing on a grave. The video removes the steps of abstraction that should make it easy to treat a political enemy as someone who should die because they're bad. You could believe that the violence and death was abstract enough that they didn't really mean it. It becomes harder to rationalize the ghoulishness when you and the person you're arguing with just watched a man die. I think when /pol/ comes to you instead of you having to go to it that will definitely shock and stir a lot of people into continued interest.
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