Chatting about video games seems to be the best chance at having a fun convo that doesn’t turn into dehumanizing groups of people. If we can pull that off, given Luigi’s supposed internship at Firaxis, the rotation could scrape by a passable 7/10.
More realistically, a 2 or 3/10 if the weed is really good. Otherwise I don’t know if I would even bother.
Gonna need y’all to clue me into the three that aren’t Luigi
3/10, wouldn’t keep me out though
Trash ass roto
I’d only pass it to Luigi
No, the new guy doesnt get a hit because he killed a Nazi, hes a Nazi himself.
You mean Tyler Robinson? Everything I’ve read says he’s an anti-facist. Am I missing something?
Tyler is a Groyper. Look that shit up. An opposing right wing gang to TPUSA.
I can’t find anything linking him to the movement except for a picture of him wearing a meme Halloween costume and a whole lot of wild speculation.
I’m not saying he isn’t part of far right subculture, but there’s way more available evidence at this time that points to him being anti-fascist.
Long Ass Edit: Post Deep Dive.
Alright.
Messages on gun casings: A lot of news sources are saying, by varying degrees, these are associated with Groypers.
Groypers use memes to obfuscate and soften their horrible, horrible views. I ran searches on symbols of the groyper movement, only looking for results posted more than a week ago. None of those phrases were noted as part of the movement or culture - except in one suspiciously post-edited article that mentioned only the messages on the bullet casings without providing references, despite having citations for everything else in the article. I’m not inferring anything nefarious from that, just pointing it out.
There are more iconic symbols of the movement: The groyper toad, pit vipers, swastikas, that weren’t used. However, since Groypers have been largely deplatformed their culture is even more obscure and hard to pin down. I acknowledge it would be difficult to find what might be inside jokes.
Bella Ciao is more difficult to pin down because it’s become popular again an both an ironic and an anti-facist message. It could go both ways.
All I can tell is that he was into memes.
The Halloween Costume: It’s pepe and it’s from 2018. I’m not even going to analyse this.
He was into guns: Not a good point for either side. He hunted. And guns are fun for everyone (as long as they’re regulated and operated safely.)
No one seems to know what the hell Tyler Robinson believed: He’s described as “political” by his family and “MAGA” by his grandma (who said their whole family is MAGA) without any specific examples. His online presence is null.
He was a registered non voter with no affiliation. Important to note here that Nick Fuentes called on his followers not to vote in recent election. But there are plenty of reasons someone might not vote.
A mysteriously anonymous letter from a “friend” was posted and later redacted by The Guardian, claiming he was left wing. Other second hand anecdotes say he was progressive. He supposedly donated money to Trump, but that was (I think?) discredited as someone else with the same name. He apparently hated Charlie Kirk, but that could go both ways.
Conclusion: I don’t fucking know. With partisan politics controlling media, half want him to be a socialist and the other half want him be a right wing extremist. There’s a lot of weak evidence pointing to a right wing extremist which could solidify in the coming days, and I’m open to that. I can see this swinging the other way, too.
I could see debating forever and never really understanding why he did it.
Personally, I’m going to keep a eye out for clear citations linking the messages to any movement if nothing else comes out about his motives. Until then I’m not convinced either way.
We should definitely avoid jumping to conclusions at this point
Bella ciao is played in a scene of sniper elite, and could well just be a game the shooter enjoyed honestly.
Yea I think he was anti facist raised in a MAGA family. He probably realized how brainwashed they were and it pissed him off.
Pretty sure luigi is the only one who’d smoke in that group.
Everyone else seems like a bad time.
Mormons will surprise you there, they’ll smoke a blunt while telling you why God doesn’t want them to drink caffeinated soda.
How do you stop a mormon from drinking all your beer?
Invite two of them.
I had a friend who would say awkward situations were “worse than Mormons making eye contact at the liquor store,” so that tracks lol
Kinda like how my buddy who grew up in rural Lancaster, PA said the Amish kids always grew the best weed.
Smoking big doinks out in Amish
If it’s plain weed as the lord provides and they’re industrious and plain folk there’s no reason not to unless the charter forbids it
I can only imagine if there’s nothing to do but build barns and agriculture, you’d be damn good at both.
I used to travel for work and had a couple of rather nice hook-ups with some Utah Mormon guys. Magic underwear and everything.
ETA: Also a guy here. May be relevant context.
I don’t really understand the magic underwear thing. Because there’s a lot of very gay underwear that doesn’t really cover anything while still being clothes, technically. But they wear underwear like Disney’s Goofy during sex?
Oh, no, not worn during sex. It’s a “spiritual armor” kinda thing that’s worn under your regular clothes. I mentioned it because I’m not sure how strict most Mormons are about wearing them.
Not usually, but yeah, in this context.
Now I want to read up on “magic underwear”,but I’m a little scared to Google it…
Temple Garment is the technical name for it.
The deal with Utah is it’s actually only 40% Mormon. And when you have a bunch a kids growing up in the Mormon church, a decently large number of them will crash out. And when they crash out, they tend to crash out pretty hard.
So Utah has large communities for various countercultures and alternative lifestyles. You can visit a random business, and often find both types working together side by side. And it is usually quite obvious which is which from external signs.
Salt Lake City, despite being home to The Mormon Temple, has a huge number of non-Mormons, and non-religious people in general. Pride there was a lot of fun!
Sounds like a mormon i (briefly) dated in high school. Couldn’t take a sip of my Arizona bc caffeine, had no problem showing up for a band competition rolling off her ass after a rave the night before. Got super into coke after high school as well, and who knows what else. The logic leaps sound exhausting to keep going.
Last I heard, she was clean and doing good though, happy for her.
My good friend is exmormon and he blows coke constantly
Coke is an unusual name but that’s his parents’ fault. Did they meet on a mission?
Actually they were originally known as the Cockluvers but when they came to America they shortened it to avoid persecution.
Oh so it’s like how Baptists drink all your beer
… You fuckin with me?
Dead serious.
One of these things it not like the others.
Yeah, Luigi’s innocent. He was with me the whole time
Let Luigi smoke while I kick the other 3 into a coma.
Who’s top left?
I forget his name. Guy who capped the Minnesota dem state reps.
Why does he just look right wing? Maybe it’s the haircut?
Fetal alcohol syndrome.
Cop vibes
Vance Boelter. Killed/went after democrats.
What do they all have in common? They are white men! Someone round them all up and deport them! /s
Are they all transitioning to alpha maga?
Is it that one of them achieved the goal?
The 3 horseman of justice, and a narc
