I finally caught this in a theatre this year, amazing to watch it with a hundred people all roaring (admittedly, at various times as some people remembered jokes before they happened, but that just added to the charm.)
"All we did was rip up agreements we signed causing job losses, accused you of poisoning our people with fentanyl (despite shipping more of it to Canada than vice versa) and threaten your national sovereignty! What's the big deal?"
You're not making this determination based on the evidence, you're belief is that because you're a leftist and wouldn't use violence and you don't feel the other leftists with whom you interact would assassinate someone, it would take some crazy radicalization to do so. Goypers on the other hand, you feel are hate filled, already extreme and thus ready to kill people.
To each their own I guess. This sounds like really motivated reasoning, in that you started with the end you want and then worked backwards. Right now, your hope is that the shooter is actually a fan of Fuentes despite being in a transgender relationship, despite being on the more extreme side is saying he's doing it because some hate can't be negotiated out (implying that he's actually calling for more hatred and naming it as such, which most folks on these sides don't do) while ignoring his parents claims that he's getting more into Left wing politics.
Or, y'know, a kid who intended to get away with it, wrote some memes from a semi plausible group on bullets in an attempt to blame the Far Right.
I'm not saying your version is impossible but it does beggar belief. It's like when my uncle defends trump and invokes all manner of wild conspiracies to do so, what he's saying isn't impossible it just requires a bunch of wild coincidences etc.
I can't speak to the shooter's motivations (though meme forensics seems pretty silly) but the "at a Right wing state with a Right wing governor" etc bits seem pretty dumb.
It'd be like saying the guy who went after Pelosi was clearly a Leftie because it was in a Leftie state, with a Left song governor, in a Left wing city against a Left wing politician. Pretty nonsense points and make us look dumb.
I'm not saying the shooter definitely isn't a groyper or whatnot, I'm saying that meme forensics seem a bit of an odd way to definitively decalre someone in one group or another.
Especially when that group is really transphobic and your romantic partner is trans.
I dunno but it strikes me like anyone declaring they know this guy's motivations one way or the other is probably just seeing what they want to see.
Edit: Okay, and now they've released the text exchanges and stuff. Seems pretty darned clear he's Left wing, not Right. (Can you really imagine a far Right killing Kirk would be doing so because they "had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out" ?)
I've been wondering about this too, thought I was just out of the loop but nothing I can find from a reputable source has really made me think he's a right winger.
Like, maybe we can't say for sure but to insist he's actually extremely far right seems like a wild leap.
Hypocrisy in politics is nothing new and certainly not something someone would resign over (he'll have his own rationale about some trivial detail.)
As for turfing him out right away, he just led the Conservatives to crack 40% of the popular vote, something they hadn't done for 30+ years (Mulroney in '88 was the last one) and it took almost historic defections from the NDP/Greens to keep them out of power.
If things don't get better rapidly (economy, housing, both of which are long term challenges unlikely to be solved in a single Parliament) I'd say Poilievre has a pretty good shot next time as the defectors return to their parties and the Right continues to rise among young voters etc.
What seat would you have expected him to take, if not a very junior member of the party's? He can't win you a Liberal seat in a voluntary by-election...
The seat, that's because that was likely one of the most junior members of the party ("seniority sucks until you're senior") and the election... Well, they cracked 40% which they hadn't done since '88.
So the question for their base becomes "which is more likely, Poilievre keeps most of his coalition together or everyone else in Canada bands together to stop him again?"
Personally, I have trouble imagining the NDP/Greens don't recover to some degree.
Throw in economic pain from tarrifs etc and well, unless you really expect Carney to magically fix large systemic global problems...
Oooh, haven't seen Loaded Weapon but fully agree on Top Secret, so I'll have to check it out.