“I can say that he has been very cooperative,” Cox continued, possibly misgendering the roommate. “This partner has been incredibly cooperative, had no idea that this was happening and is working with investigators right now.”

This has to be intentional. Shitting in one hand calling it “civility” then in the other lobbing a grenade of transphobia. Love it.

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    Does hexbear not know about groyper culture? From what I’ve read, there are quite a few trans people who are firmly in the alt right. Apparently, incels have an obsession with fem boys and even nick fuentes has engaged in erotic behavior.

    Part of me believes that this shit is way too nuanced for the MSM to report on accurately. Seems like it’s a wash and again, people are going to believe whatever confirms their beliefs

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      I honestly think that there’s an above average chance he’s a groyper and the MSM and FBI just don’t understand these Nazi freaks can be chasers.

      The sexual liberalism merged with fash really is something that MSM/liberals are unprepared for.

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        They absolutely know and that’s why they’re trying to find a way to make that angle fit.

        They are not misunderstanding anything here. They’re trying to manufacture consent for a trans genocide the same way they’ve been manufacturing consent for ethnic/religious xenophobia and it’s actually not working as well so they’re having to shove it into the public consciousness even harder to make it work.

        This is about divide and conquer and there’s no benefit to targeting conservative white boys (their in-group) so of course they’re ignoring that evidence.

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      The (now deleted) reddit account that’s being used to “confirm” that the roommate is trans belonged to some far-right truscum 4chan poster in Utah who liked cryptocurrency and Jordan Peterson, so unless somehow the cishet white boy cop brat who used groyper memes and targeted someone only groypers gave a shit about somehow simultaneously had better politics than his trans roommate/landlord but also not better enough politics to understand why throwing your life away to remove a literal nobody grifter is a bad move, the safe bet is they were both far-right 4chan addicted gamer chuds regardless of their relationship.

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            I don’t believe this is true. At worst it’s ironic and anti-furry. You could make that claim about the 2nd and the 3rd bullet, though, and even there it’s intentionally pretty dubious. They’re all floating signifiers.

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            What is it’s “Actual context” then? Because that meme was originally used to make fun of furries, and then was subsequently reclaimed by said furries. All before Groypers were ever even a thing

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                Still not a Groyper meme. Groypers aren’t just “young internet chuds” They’re a specific breed of young internet chud who follow Nick Fuentes. Words, in fact, mean things.

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                  groypers love internet chud band kid memes. also some of the bullets were directly groyper memes. nick fuentes already did the “i disavow” meme. he knows it’s him

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                    Leftists also love repurposing lib memes and chud memes sometimes, though. None of the bullets had anything that’s exclusive to groypers. There is not enough direct evidence to land at any conclusions, just circumstantial and contextual evidence. Fuentes is covering himself but the fact that not many people have turned against him (think about it, Zionists could just point to his straight up antisemitism, boomer chuds could just look at his general aesthetic, and they’d hate him, so this isn’t a matter of “ape doesn’t kill ape”) should tell you that this isn’t so cut and dry.

                    I don’t think we should be intellectually dishonest; I was one who immediately thought he must be a groyper but the truth is you have to force one interpretation of symbols that are inherently vague and whose meaning depend on how much irony you assign to them.

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      It’s too nuanced and straight up bizarre even for people who are lgbtq unless they’re very far into rabbit holes and obscure online subcultures. Reactionary and nazi femboys specifically hasn’t been a rare thing for years, they seem (especially to cishets) like they’d overlap with trans women but that’s not really the case. They’re far closer to very misogynistic incels culturally than they are to tg and it’s a complicated phenomenon but the thing with some people being into “men in uniforms” etc and other lowkey psychopaths because supposedly they’re more macho and masculine is more well known and understood. It can be as stupid and shallow as that but disguised by tons of esoteric memery and terminally online slang. Maybe some pretense of ideology but it’s just confused shit used as vibes and aesthetics. They still network and parrot far right crap though so functionally there’s no real difference.

      Transmedicalist binary trans people can also be comedically conservative and reactionary but we also don’t talk about that openly.