What about a trans shooter? Or some Palestinian activist?

Foreign actor resolves center? Hard to tell if it’s left/mid/right or left(US)/right(US)/other

@Gen I live in the US, so I'll be judging on a US scale, I think.

@Marnix so, say it’s an Iranian, Chinese, Ukrainian, or Russian sponsored attacker — is this scale going to apply based on the vibes of the country? Their individual vibes? Or is that likely to fall into the center camp if they have no obvious US political motive & it’s just to sew chaos

@Gen it's "sow" chaos, as in sowing seeds.

@WilliamGunn lmao cool, thanks. Probably the first time I’ve ever typed it out. I’ll leave the error and eat the L

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Personally? Pure vibes? I'm going with groyper

@Marnix This seems unlikely to me. I have like 20% chance on some kind of right-wing shooter, but more wignat militia type, the hyper-online shooters are more mass-shooting than assassination focused in my understanding. But on priors it's usually a confused incoherent person with more personal than political motivation.

Luigi and Crooks were both, uh, "crazy". Not traditional partisans in either direction. I suspect this is a pattern with political murders.

@IsaacKing Political assassins are almost always crazy, attention-hungry misanthropes, but extremist political ideologies attract people like that. Oswald was definitely crazy for example, but it would probably be accurate (if a little misleading) to classify him as "left-wing" because of his fixation on communism. (Although Oswald never seemed committed to communism and wasn't really interested in policy, he was somewhat motivated by a fantasy that if he killed prominent politicians speaking out against communism, he could somehow get personal attention from Castro and defect to Cuba where he would be seen as a hero.)

EDIT: made it more clear that this is one motivation among many, I do not know and nobody could ever know the exact motivations in their exact proportion that lead to basically any action.