In the investigation, the FBI said that there were PLANNING details discussed on Discord. (Planning, i.e. before the actual shooting)
Discord did a review and said there were not
The FBI had to backtrack.
So from the very start it looks like the FBI was trying to create a narrative.
Maybe someone misspoke, maybe this is about the nuance of language...
But your claim relies on your belief that the FBI, in this case, was competent in retrieving these messages.
I think you're misinterpreting how that discussion went down.
Patel never said that there were
planning details discussed on Discord, he said they were investigating anyone and everyone involved in those Discord chats with Tyler to gather information. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but the FBI made no mention that there were details discussed about the shooting before it took place.
The spokesperson who came out and said they had found "
no evidence that the suspect planned this incident or promoted violence on Discord", only originated because there was skepticism around whether or not there were plans when the Discord messages first leaked when he confessed. It was more a reply to the hysteria because folks believed he also posted his plans on there too.
It's not my belief the FBI was competent or not, you're the one who more or less believes the FBI wasn't competent in retrieving those messages despite having absolutely no evidence to suggest so. I'm none-the-wiser if they were or not, I just know the level of competency in retrieving those messages has no relevance to the ineptness they showed in their efforts of finding the actual suspect.
Which means because you have no evidence of this alleged incompetence that led to a 'parallel construction', it means your argument doesn't hold any weight.
Screenshots can be faked, just like the content of the message.
They already tried to create a false narrative and Discord stepped up.
Given how much flack media companies have gotten, and how much legislators were about to clamp down on Discord, it would make sense for them to stay quiet these so-called messages going forward.
Discord would file a lawsuit if they faked the screenshots, especially if they were used in prosecution.
Besides, if you see the screenshots, the large majority of them are, once again, not worthy of faking. He's talking about video games, he's talking about who he thinks would win the election, posting cat memes etc. Why would they go to the trouble of re-creating Discord screenshots of him posting cat memes?
The only screenshot that is relevant is his confession, and the nature of it is pretty mundane, in fact, it makes him come across as a well-adjusted person and not this crazed domestic terrorist that they tried to curate a narrative for. He reveals himself to be the shooter and then thanks the group for all the good times and laughs, says they've been amazing and that he's turning himself in.
Again, there's nothing in the Discord messages or the text messages that's even remotely worth faking. Those messages actually humanize him more than demonize.
Just like I can't really know the mind of Tyler, I can't really understand the mentality of Kash and Co.
Maybe they thought those details would make make it seem real.
So you admit your argument has no legs to stand on?
It doesn't matter whether or not you understand the mentality of the people involved who could've fabricated this. What matters is all those people would need to conspire together and risk not only blowing up this case, but potentially incriminating themselves, leading to all charges been thrown out and Tyler gets off. All their lives would be ruined. The MAGA cult would make damn sure of it. It would only take one fracture in that chain of people to expose it all.
Why would they risk the fall out over some made up messages that are of little-to-no consequence?
They spoke to his family.
You think it's realistic within a finite time of speaking to the family that they'd have even the slightest idea of to re-create how he spoke and acted, given the mental state he was in after just killing someone? The family would've barely had time to process and rationalize the fact he was capable of killing another human being, nevermind actually trying to then explain to the feds what his behavior was and how he would've sounded in wake of.
What makes even less sense if we follow your theory is, he made jokes about the shooting when he confessed to his roommate. Do you seriously believe the family would've said something like "
yeah, I believe our son would've spoken in joking manner after killing that man", and not only that, but then the feds would have to take that to be true of his character and then come up with some jokes to add in.
Again, this point kinda goes nowhere.
You're argument is that they could have/should have written it better, but they didn't - thus real.
My argument is all the things needed to line up to where they created a dialogue, not knowing really anything about Tyler nor the roommate, in such a limited period of time, where there's personal/emotive language and attributes (like him joking about the shooting) is such an improbable scernario, and that's before we get into the fact they didn't add any radical-left propoganda.
The only person who knew of his mental state after the shooting is Tyler, himself. Nobody else could've known, therefore, nobody could've created an appropriate account of him.
As I've mentioned in previous posts, if it's your belief it's fabricated because the language doesn't sound real, then your suspicions should be directed towards Tyler planting it.
And I'm saying their incompetent, as evidenced by their view of digital evidence, and how they tried to capture him, and their taking credit for his father/family turning him in.
I've already disproven this point. There's nothing that suggests they were incompetent in retrieving the digital evidence. And as I mentioned above, their futile attempts at trying to capture him are irrelevant.
They're risking incriminating themselves and/or ruining their lives.
He very well may be a well spoken boy that uses full sentences and does not use slang in his texts.
Which only makes his use of memes on the bullets that much weirder.
Weird is relative.
It's only weird because you have a predetermind idea of how you think he should sound despite not even knowing him. We don't know if it's out of character for him to use memes while also speaking in somewhat proper manner, because we don't know him. It could be exactly who he is. The online world is a vast place, with infinite subcultures that birth all different types of personalities, behaviors and actions.
The mistake that you and many others in this thread are making is that your idea of who he is isn't the same as who he really is.