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It’s just sampling bias. For example, if you trudge through my Reddit history and find only the posts that sound left-wing and present those, you could probably convince someone I’m a leftist. There’s far, far more evidence than could be presented for this shooter! But it’s not because I’m a leftist, it’s because I have many thousands of posts, and you only need a handful to present for a case.
Similarly, you could find all the horrible contraband I’ve posted on HBD and easily prove I’m a fascist.
None of the underlying evidence changed; just the choice of what to magnify.
It's trivial to come up with justifications for why your theory is correct no matter what, that's why predictions are so important. You should be able to make some that prove your theory correct, and some that prove your theory false.
Obviously the way to know is to look at the unfiltered post set.
For example, you have people in this very thread contending “oh, the markings on these bullets prove he’s a leftist! obviously they’re not meaningless game references like the markings on these other bullets.” And of course no mention of the one that’s coded right-wing, “If you read this, you’re gay!”, because that one doesn’t fit the narrative.
Look, I’m sorry, I don’t enjoy this discussion with you. I do not find it meaningful, so for the last time, thank you, and good night.
As a general point: all of this means nothing, if you can't make a prediction. It just shows you feel more comfortable squeezing established facts into your preferred theory, something that is pretty trivial to do, no matter what you believe, for the very reasons you, yourself outline.
And on the specifics:
You have backwards. Left wingers are the ones glossing over the bullet that clinches it ("catch that, fascist"), and the "you're gay" one is not even very right-coded. I've seen gay people throw glitter bombs and exclaiming "you're gay now!".
Also the point of my prediction is that upon further investigation we won't need to rely on one-liners scrawled on bullet casings, the wider context will become available.
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