r/TrueReddit • u/wiredmagazine Official Publication • 6d ago

Politics How Disinformation About the Minnesota Shooting Spread Like Wildfire on X

https://www.wired.com/story/disinformation-minnesota-shooting-x/
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u/Big_Dinner3636 5d ago

The shooter chose Annunciation because they had a history there and knew the location. Nothing in their manifesto or video expressed an intention to target Catholics specifically. Their ideology was just to kill and the school provided an easy target which they had an extensive knowledge of.

Every example you mentioned explicitly stated why they were attacking where they were attacking and who specifically they were attacking, so your retort is just so disingenuous, it really can't even be taken seriously.

Dylann Roof explicitly wanted to kill black people to start a race war.

Timothy McVeigh explicitly wanted to kill federal employees, specifically ATF and FBI agents, over Waco and Ruby Ridge.

The 9/11 hijackers explicitly wanted to attack US symbols of American economic and military power.

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u/bliceroquququq 5d ago

They also knew the layout of the local Starbucks, the local grocery store, and the local shopping mall.

Why not any of those places?

Why did Audrey Hale go murder nine year olds at their former Christian school?

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u/Big_Dinner3636 5d ago

The shooter explicitly had a desire to kill children and idolized mass shooters, school shooters specifically. This is all public knowledge, my guy.

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u/subLimb 4d ago

In 2025 we are now accused of "splitting hairs" if we apply even the most rudimentary amount of nuance or critical thinking to our understanding of a situation. Wild times.

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u/Aman-Ra-19 4d ago

More like you’ll propagandize and lie and anything. The guy wrote mocking slogans against catholics and then killed them and their children at a mass. Reddit just refuses to accept Christian’s could be the target of hate.