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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 8, 2025

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Tyler Robinson, Kirk shooter, has been caught after a family friend turned him in

The markings on the bullets described by authorities indicate that the suspect, Tyler Robinson, was steeped in online culture and included references to the Antifa , or the anti-fascist, movement. A fired shell casing was inscribed with “notices bulges OwO what’s this?” - a reference to a “copypasta” - a piece of text that is repeated over and over again, often to troll people online.

Authorities say one unfired casing had the words “Hey fascist, catch!” and three down arrows - a common symbol used to represent the anti-fascist movement. A second casing had the lyrics to a song “Bella Ciao” inscribed on it. The song honours WWII-era partisans of the Italian resistance who fought Nazi Germany.

The third unfired casing was inscribed with the words “If you read this, you are gay lmao” - again an apparent reference to online trolling humour.

Parents, keep your kids away from Discord. Will be interesting to see if this guy is a true believer or just ragebaiting.

Something seems to be going on with young men and social media, radicalized into violence with incoherent beliefs, deeply immersed into meme culture. The same day as Charlie Kirk's death, the Evergreen shooting was done by a radicalized boy immersed and radicalized online (apparently by a neonazi group).

There are whole online communities like 764 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(organization) and O9A that target young loner males and try to radicalize them into violence. They're international groups operated by crime rings and antisocial psychopaths. And their attitudes are this exact type of brain poisoned "irony" rotten youth that we keep seeing pop up recently. There is no message, there is no idea, there is no politics. There is chaos, accelerationism, edge.

Perhaps the answer is as Joey Mannarino put it

If the person who killed Charlie Kirk was a [insert group here], there can be no mercy for that species any longer. We've already tolerated far too much form [sic] those creatures

Maybe we've tolerated too much from young men, maybe they need to be detained

The [insert group here], whose people keep committing mass shootings, need to be brought in and detained until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

I don't think that would be good, but it seems like there's increasing calls to detain all members of a group that a violent person might belong to. Hopefully we don't start locking up all young men for the actions of a few, but it looks like we might be heading that way with this logic.

Have you actually seen anything specifying "neonazi"? Everything I saw in the news had just a generic statement about "an extremist group" and "still unclear about the motive".

Yes.

The accounts also include references to Holocaust denial, and the name of one of the accounts appeared to end with a reference to a prominent white supremacist slogan. That account reposted several videos showing school shooting scenes from movies, as well as another video that appeared to show the two Columbine shooters taking target shots at bowling pins. Other videos the account reposted were explicitly antisemitic or depicted people in Nazi uniforms.

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/evergreen-high-school-shooting-colorado-updates/

He also had stuff like this

Holly had also liked a comment telling him to acquire a white supremacist sonnenrad patch like Tarrant and Gendron wore, replying that he had made some and sharing a photo of patches featuring a Totenkopf and sonnenrad. Both are Nazi-era symbols used today as hate symbols.

Among plenty of other explicitly neo Nazi posts and comments.

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