| ▲ | kashunstva 16 hours ago | |
> I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air. Very little was needed. The U.S. president had already ominously threatened Kimmel and other late night hosts the day after Colbert was canceled, weeks before the shooting. I thought Kimmel was hilarious; but as they say, there’s no accounting for taste. The most ridiculous thing about this is that the world doesn’t cleave neatly into “radical left lunatics” and the righteous real Americans. I still can’t tell what the murderer was. Whatever that was, he acted on his own impulses - ones that are not broadly celebrated, irrespective of claims to the contrary. | ||
| ▲ | defrost 16 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Of all the takes on his motivations I've seen the most on point comes from an Australian of Robinson's generation .. Death by shitpost: Why modern media is so ill-equiped to diagnose Tyler Robinson https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/19/tyler-robinson-alleged-... https://archive.md/Lil0U#selection-941.0-941.80 Watching the US media struggling to cleave this into either left OR right as if the world is binary is, as you noted, ridiculous. | ||