This article was posted 9/8/25. Two days prior to the death of Kirk.

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I’m sorry. I’m sorry Etsy witches that I ever doubted your abilities.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    I'm about to spend a ton of money on Etsy.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    ngl kinda tempted to hire some Etsy witches

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You can try some Fiverr witches if you feel like taking a gamble. There was a scandal or two because of that knockoff mugwort they like to use, but in this economy I can't really blame them for pinching pennies.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Even the Fiverr ones can be beat in price these days. I've got a local LLM running on my computer, I could set it chanting curses 24/7 for just a modest cost in electricity.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Is this how witches do "thoughts and prayers"?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Witches vs patriarchy has never been more literal.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    And there I was, in the year of our Lord 2025, staring at my computer, chatting with a witch on Etsy about the state of the world, hoping that somewhere between the cosmos and the internet, justice would be served.

    And Lo, . . .

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Salem Witch Trials repeat was not on my 2025 bingo card

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Imagine being that witch right now and feeling like you were jus thanked a Death Note

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sooooo, where can we find these witches? They got their work cut out for them

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    I can appreciate the sentiment, but do you honestly believe that Trump & friends need an excuse? They've fabricated every justification they've wanted in the past, so I don't see how this makes him more or less likely to do Something Else Evil.

    If anything, I would think it would give them pause. A brazen political assassination like this might suggest that their opposition might do more than march peacefully in the streets while he dismantles the country.

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    so I don’t see how this makes him more or less likely to do Something Else Evil.

    you're right, but it's a matter of how much cooperation he gets and the cultural tone around him - Bush was able to invade Iraq because of 9/11, sometimes political violence really does create a cultural backlash and writes a blank check for retaliation

    A brazen political assassination like this might suggest that their opposition might do more than march peacefully in the streets while he dismantles the country.

    maybe, but this is exactly the kind of conflict he craves - one fought with guns and blood, it is the preference of authoritarians in power and who desperately wishes to wield the military against his political enemies

    The kind of violence that will give pause won't be an assassination that delivers a perfect rhetorical moment to justify the political violence he wants to normalize and bring about.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I could wish for all three to die.

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    Do you have any idea what it would cost to deploy the national guard in every state? Even just the red ones over a month or so would bankrupt this administration's ability to mobilize.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Adding that note about not condeming the violence is pathetic. They could have left it as is perfectly fine but there goes Jezebel showing the side they are happy to comply with.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Thought I was in a captcha black hole for a minute there, but eventually I got through.

    And holy shit, is that considered murder? And if so, is it the witch, or the person buying the curse who's the murderer?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    During the first Trump administration I made a game of trying to come up with responses to events that were too stupid even for Trump to make, and I kept losing because he would find ways to top me. I gave it up for the second Trump administration because there's no way I'd keep up.

    But I'll come out of retirement for this one: president-ordered witch-burnings. Let's see how he manages to top that one.

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