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2. Not accepting he's "left wing." However, it's kind of tough to expect majority to believe he's just some right winger

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Tue Sep 16, 2025, 05:49 PM

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who decided to go out and shoot a soon to be very popular martyr for the hell of it.

There are better ways to handle this in media than trying to bend ourselves into pretzels to claim he was just another white wing gun-humper bent on killing another white wing gun-humper.

Who the hell is Ken Klippenstein?

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So he was a perfectly normal, no trouble kid who woke up one day and did an elaborate murder of a public figure Bluetus Tuesday #1

Not accepting he's "left wing." However, it's kind of tough to expect majority to believe he's just some right winger Silent Type Tuesday #2

But there must be resistance to the flood of gaslighting coming from everybody on the right Bluetus Tuesday #3

Klippenstein is an independent journalist. He comes from the left and generally does good work LymphocyteLover Wednesday #4

the shooting really doesn't appear "politically-motivated" as much as personally motivated LymphocyteLover Wednesday #5