How is the Russian military abbreviation "РЭБ" (very niche term in Rus language outside the invasion on Ukraine) is "a reference to the Columbine shooters"?🙃 You're stretching, son. Try yoga©️
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because of the other context clues, alex, and the fact that the shooter was a native english speaker who wrote a diary using cyrillic to write in english
aug 28, 2025, 4:31 am • 6 0 • view
Not sure what your point is. Journos submerged in the context of The War and Russian state fascism Z-propaganda instantly recognize the NICHE Russian-language memes from there on the weapons of a non-Russian mass shooter in phukin Minneapolis. In your opinion, it's what? Coincidence? Unnewsworthy?
aug 28, 2025, 4:38 am • 0 0 • view
again, neither of the examples you’ve given are niche in the circles robin would have been in
aug 28, 2025, 4:40 am • 3 0 • view
Well, a "non-niche" presence of the Russian war / genocide propaganda, in Russian language, in the Western "circles" of wannabe mass-shooters is PRECISELY my point(
aug 28, 2025, 4:53 am • 0 0 • view
read this and let me know what you think. seriously. i don’t say shit unless i’m pretty sure about things because i am not confident unless i know something about it
aug 28, 2025, 4:54 am • 2 0 • view
I think you're hopelessly lost in your own reasoning, sorry.
aug 28, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/alex...
aug 28, 2025, 5:00 am • 0 0 • view
and you’re not?
aug 28, 2025, 5:01 am • 1 0 • view
Clearly not. It's you trying to convince me that I must ignore something IMPORTANT because it's, I dunno, not new in your opinion? Go have a good one🤗
aug 28, 2025, 5:11 am • 0 0 • view
i wouldn’t ever claim to know more on the actual war than you, but i seriously think you’re not seeing the forest for the trees.
aug 28, 2025, 5:12 am • 0 0 • view
Again, with max clarity: The fact that the current, literal Russian war / genocide propaganda somehow got into American wannabe mass-shooters discourse is important IN ITSELF, new to many pro audiences and worth watching. It HAD A ROLE in the particular shooting (I don't care if it was 10% or 70%)
aug 28, 2025, 5:20 am • 0 0 • view
@alexpanchenko2.bsky.social see this post for an example
aug 28, 2025, 4:32 am • 5 0 • view
also go google “vodka & reb” and see what you get. i’m not someone who knows school shootings inside and out but columbine has been such a mutual fixation for shooters that i know this much
aug 28, 2025, 4:39 am • 12 0 • view
its always about white nationalism, this has been the same thing since Columbine
aug 28, 2025, 2:17 pm • 2 0 • view
He capitalized РЭБ = радиоэлектронная борьба. ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%...
aug 28, 2025, 4:42 am • 0 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 4:45 am • 6 0 • view
please tell me which is more likely in the context of a school shooting inspired by other school shooters
aug 28, 2025, 4:45 am • 4 0 • view
the one NOT capitalized and not in Russian - unlike the ACTUAL writing on Westman's guns.
aug 28, 2025, 4:56 am • 0 0 • view
westman was obsessed with writing shit in russian cyrillic regardless of whether or not it was russian though. i don’t think westman was fixated on putin’s russia, necessarily. also you missed the FSB patch on the sleeve of the KMFDM shirt westman wore. i honestly think it’s supposed to be…
aug 28, 2025, 5:00 am • 5 0 • view
…ideologically confusing to trap people into seeing a cause they want to see. it makes the conversation around it impossible to have coherently. you have to understand that the writing on the guns was likely intended to make everyone see the cause they want to see in it
aug 28, 2025, 5:00 am • 5 0 • view
also see that they write two characters identically
aug 28, 2025, 2:15 pm • 4 0 • view
it's pretty clear that the shooter did not know much outside capitalised cyrilic. it really is a columbine reference.
aug 29, 2025, 8:11 am • 0 0 • view
Please don't gaslight me (and several other journos who spotted this) to fit some ideological stereotype you probably have in your head. bsky.app/profile/alex...
aug 29, 2025, 8:33 am • 0 0 • view
the first thing you said is correct, that Z motives have found a spot in terrorgram/mass shooter culture disagree with the second one though. yeah, they reference Z stuff, but they would have committed this shooting the same way even if Russia didn't even exist (not trying to gaslight anyone btw)
aug 29, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
Or, get this, he’s not a mative Russian speaker and made a mistake?
aug 28, 2025, 8:17 am • 0 0 • view
He made NO mistakes with several memes and slogans in Russian specific for The War in Ukraine, correctly spelled them in Cyrillic.
aug 28, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
this person wrote an entire diary in english in cyrillic
aug 29, 2025, 5:49 am • 1 0 • view