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His name is Lane Maurice Davis, and up until he killed his father, the 33 year old conspiracy driven blogger, youtuber, and redditor lived with his parents . He was unemployed and spent his days on the RW internet.
He is everything you imagine when you think about gullible, unemployed adult men who want to blame their failures on some grand set of liberal conspiracies. He is a ball of raging fury over conspiracy stories like Seth Rich, the pedophile pizza shop, and others.
It was a clear summer afternoon on July 14, on Samish Island—a small, idyllic community off the northwest coast of Washington state—where Lane, a balding, bearded, Donald Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist and prolific YouTuber and Redditor, known online as Seattle4Truth, lived with his parents.
Lane had spent that Friday morning as he did most mornings, on the internet. This day, like the others, Lane read and retweeted posts celebrating the Second Amendment, bemoaning diversity, and spreading conspiracy theories that alleged Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta was involved in a child sex ring and DNC staffer Seth Rich had been murdered.
In a seeming confession, Lane Davis told detectives that the fight had started over “whether toddlers could consent to sex or not,” and his father had called him a Nazi and a racist. Held on $1 million bail and represented by a public defender, Lane has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. His trial is slated for January.
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Davis pleaded not guilty to the charge that he stabbed his father to death.
He was clearly familiar with all of the common conspiracies against liberals in general. He accused his parents of being “leftists” and “pedophiles”.
An audio recording of the fight, found on his father Charles Davis’ cellphone, indicated that Lane Davis threatened to kill his father several times.
Lane Davis told police he was angered after reading something on the internet about “leftist pedophiles,” which sparked an argument between the two men.
By the time police arrived, Charles Davis was dead, documents state
Lane’s Youtube channel has, among other things, a 3 hour long special on Gamergate. Gamergate has been a source of supporters for the Trumpco agenda since it began. It’s one of the places where a large chunk of young men were radicalized by anti-feminist media.
He has a pro Trump rap.
Naturally, his youtube account also linked to his Patreon account.
The Daily Beast article is full of information. When you encounter these people on the internet, it’s sometimes easy to dismiss them as cranks, trolls, bots, and morons.
This guy had 11,000 Youtube subscribers. Not a huge number to larger Youtube names, but still a pretty big number.
The finals bit is about how he encountered Milo. He even had an initial shared authorship with Milo on an article, but that was removed.
Around this time, Lane had hooked up with Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos, an alt-right provocateur who shared a similar interest in GamerGate, or the clicks that came with their army. Lane signed on as researcher and ghostwriter, one of 44 in Yiannopoulos’s mostly unpaid employ. (Lane later leaked the details of Yiannopoulos’s intern horde to BuzzFeed.)
Milo has, of course, made a statement distancing himself from the accused murderer.
The propaganda of the RW in the US is killing people. Dailykos has been a reliable place when it comes to sniffing out similar fake stories, hyperbole, and propaganda.