The Adam Mockler Show - Charlie Kirk Shooter Exposes MAJOR Problem in US

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Starting point is 00:01:00 channel, but I think that really misses the point. At this point in time, the ideology of the shooter is not as important. We are seeing a broader pattern pop up of young males in particular being radicalized online, using that radicalization to enact real world violence, and then it becomes a cyclical pattern where people see it happen online and do it again. Like, did you guys know that as Charlie Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University, tragically, at the very same time, There was a school shooting going on in Colorado. Now, the school shooter in Colorado has already been found. We know his motives.

Starting point is 00:01:37 He was a far-right anti-Semite. That was the school shooter in Colorado. The school shooter at Utah, or the person who killed Charlie Kirk, we still don't quite know his exact motives. They found bullet casings that said Bella Chow, Chow, Chow. It said something about a bulge. It was like a sexual remark. It had a meme about being gay.

Starting point is 00:01:59 and then it said, hey, fascist, catch this. Now, people online are debating a lot about this kid's ideology. There's a lot of disinformation going around, so I'd be very, very careful. Like, people thought that this person who donated to Trump in 2020 was him, but he would have actually been 17 at the time, and people found out this was a 40-year-old man with the same name, Tyler Robinson. So no, 17-year-old Tyler Robinson did not donate to Trump. That was separate.

Starting point is 00:02:24 But there are still indications that his family was Republican-leaning, but all evidence that we have from the official investigation that was released thus far has memes on bullet casings and anti-fascist writing. So the argument about that is really not worth having. What I do want to show you is this tweet of mine that's going quite viral. It says, I'm 22 years old, the same age as Tyler Robinson. And I believe we have a bigger problem here. Young men are being radicalized by the Internet at an unprecedented rate,

Starting point is 00:02:55 which was only accelerated by COVID's social isolation, plus foreign actors trying to incentivize this type of radicalization. Now, let me just expand on that. I think it's both foreign and domestic actors who are trying to radicalize people into violence. You see it on Elon Musk's X algorithm. You see it when other countries try to boost these things with bots, it radicalizes people.

Starting point is 00:03:18 Also, when I talk about COVID's social isolation, I'm not saying that's like the main primary factor, But I've seen a lot of my friends, this even happened to me, too. Throughout COVID, you spend more time alone, and then you have to intentionally tear that bubble down and try to spend more time with people. I remember having to do that. I had to get back into the habit of spending time with people after COVID. A lot of young men never got back into that habit, and they never tore that bubble down. They continued to be isolated and radicalized.

Starting point is 00:03:46 So I'm not blaming just the COVID isolation, but it's a piece. I then said, I've seen it happen to many of my friends. young men spending their formative years clawing back from COVID isolation, usually spending too much time deep in algorithms. Now, people are debating whether Tyler Robinson was a far leftist or on the far right, but at this point, I don't think it matters. I think we have a larger problem of young white men who are easily radicalized having access to guns.

Starting point is 00:04:13 For example, another young white male who looks eerily similar shot up a high school at the exact same time. This 16-year-old, I believe, shot up a school in a... Evergreen Colorado. This reads, quote, radicalized evergreen high school shooter appears to hold anti-Semitic violent views in online comments. What about this dude? This was Tyler Robinson, who was just arrested. Again, easily radicalized white dude. Thomas Matthew Crooks had a list of a bunch of politicians he wanted to assassinate. He was also a Republican, and he was looking up Joe Biden rallies, too, to see if Joe Biden was coming anywhere near. So he was just targeting politicians.

Starting point is 00:04:50 dudes are getting easily radicalized, and this is coming from a white dude. I'm not trying to put people down here. I'm just saying when you grow up in this gun culture. We've seen this with not only Tyler Robinson, but also the dude who tried to assassinate Donald Trump, also the shooter from just a few days ago over and over, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Tyler Robinson, this dude, I don't even know his name and I don't want to. They all are growing up in the same type of gun culture, easy to access guns, and then getting pulled down these social pipelines.

Starting point is 00:05:22 It's happening over and over. This was Tyler Robinson's mom in 2017 on her Facebook saying, having fun, an SLC, showing her sons with access to guns. People who have access to this type of stuff at a young age and then get radicalized will enact violence. It's not very surprising. So to go back to my tweet, I said, you know, people are debating whether Tyler Robinson was far left or far right. Here's the reality.

Starting point is 00:05:49 At this point, I don't think it matters. Now, if you look at the stats, right-wingers do disproportionately commit violence via mass shootings. There are people who have shot up synagogues, shot up mosques, shot up Walmarts in El Paso, killing 23 people. Someone shot up a church killing nine black people, intentionally targeting black churches. But I'm just saying that why the ideology does matter to some degree, I think that right-wing ideology is more pervasive. We talk about that all the time. I'm trying to paint a broader picture here. I'm trying to paint a broader narrative that everybody can understand,

Starting point is 00:06:23 which is social media algorithms, just radicalizing lonely people. We need better infrastructure to take care of this, and that honestly requires both sides coming together for some sort of legislation or coherent message, but that's not going to happen. It also sucks when we have leaders in our country, like Donald Trump, being radical in our most formative years.

Starting point is 00:06:46 So when this dude, who's 22 years old, Tyler Robinson, the same age as me, when we were, I'd say, 14 years old Trump first got elected. During our most formative years, we watched a bully-ass president used crazy radical rhetoric about locking people up. Okay, then Biden comes in office. Things are kind of quiet. Then when Trump gets back in office, he's again using insane rhetoric during our most formative years. I then say, his ideology does not matter. And this one got a lot of people Matt on Twitter. Like, people on Twitter were at my neck for this. So I do want to expand in this video. Of course I understand that right wingers are radicalized at a much higher rate and commit

Starting point is 00:07:25 violence at a much higher rate. I'm just saying in this specific case, when everybody's arguing about whether he was far left or far right, we're really missing the broader point of this radicalization that is happening. And it's so entirely easy to make this point because I can show you three dudes who look like eerily similar to each other, who have all committed these shootings over the past few years or even months or days. These two shootings happened on the same day, for example. So then, you know, my final paragraph, he was only at the whims of the algorithm that was radicalizing him.

Starting point is 00:07:59 That algorithm could have just as easily introduced him to Nick Fuentes or introduced him to some far left ideology and people get sucked down these rabbit holes. Half of his bullets had memes on them. This was not some ideologue confident in his. views. This was genuinely just a dude who was radicalized throughout his life. So as this investigation continues and as everybody is at each other's necks trying to figure out what side was he on, who did he support, who was he following online. We need to return to this point that there is a major, major problem with what's going on in United States culture, and a lot of it is downstream from the

Starting point is 00:08:35 internet radicalization, boosted by foreign actors, and then finally access to guns, which we touched briefly on throughout this video. But I do think that is part of the problem. when the United States has a unique problem with gun violence compared to other comparable countries in our cohort, then you have to begin to ask why. Why are people allowed to do this over and over and over? The sadistic part is Charlie Kirk was debating about gun violence when he was shot. So it's so prevalent in our culture that you can't escape the debates and while debating it, you can't escape it yourself. I'm going to leave it there. If you appreciate these videos and if you think we bring at least some sort of moral clarity, please drop a like. Subscribe below. I appreciate you all.

Starting point is 00:09:12 I'll see in the next one. Peace out.

The Adam Mockler Show - Charlie Kirk Shooter Exposes MAJOR Problem in US

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