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[–] [S] 201 points 1 year ago* (18 children)

This is just a lone wolf. Hell, there isn't even remotely a pattern of violence aimed at Confederate pundits. There is not even stochastic terrorism aimed at Confederates.

Who the fuck do these sister-fuckers even want vengeance on? We don't even know who the shooter is yet and there are no prominent figures on the left who are doing the stochastic terrorism thing (unlike much of the right).

For all we know, it's Charlie's jilted gay lover that shot him.

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

    But apparently the truckloads of dead children are totally fine

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

    That's what Republicans love, whether it's dead children or raped children, it's their favorite!

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

    All the previous shooters have been disillusioned republicans. The guy they arrested is older and white so... We will see in the morning

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

    It’s not even the right guy. They let him go. They have no leads, apparently.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Time to do some police work. Let's see, who had motivation? Oh, like half the country? Jeez. Well what about opportunity? Oh, he was at a college, outdoors, surrounded by thousands of people, engaging in provoking "debate", and there was no real security set up? Yikes. And no credible witness accounts? Fuck. Well, send somebody over to the Altoona McDonald's and see if we can pin it on some Italian guy.

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

    They released the guy in custody, shot came from a rooftop, dark clothing, is all they released. Cctv everywhere on campus.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Won't matter. Colleges are so huge with so many blind spots. If the shooter knew the area they're gone. Ironically the huge spy apparatus feeds to Utah but there probably weren't satellites or anything overhead they can use.

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  • [–] 156 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    So, if the shooter turns out to be some Nazi shitbag, these right wingers are going to war with them right? Of course not, because they don’t actually care about what happened to Kirk, and have no problem with violence happening (as evidenced by all the goddamn violence they are always doing). They just want to take advantage of an opportunity to do more violence against what they perceive as the other team. They’re sociopaths with no moral framework other than self-enrichment, self-aggrandizement, and ends justifying means.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Best case scenario for planet Earth is if they find definitive proof that Kirk's assassination was jointly ordered by Putin and Netanyahu.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Don't bring the rest of us into this. This is an American issue, so far

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

    Unfortunately for the world, even though Trump has been actively sabotaging America's place in the world, we're still in the position where stupid shit like this still involves the rest of the world.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Unfortunately you're correct but so far we Australians have made it loud and clear that trumpism isn't wanted here by the majority. There are more than enough cookers here as it is.

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

    for the record, it's not just the US turning to fascism. lots of places are going that way, even if we're ahead of the curve. Australia is... less so than most, so yeah, I'll celebrate that much with you... but... please stay vigilant.

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

    You are locking down the internet though. Cultibating a masterbaterbase and connecting ip and likeness where lower level government, hackers, groups can also access everything you have done online.

    You are heading to the same place unless you get a populist reform alternative to status quo plutocracy polits of both parties to be supplanted with far right running as reform with help from the us, russia, and their constellations of super rich ideologue pricks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    We're locking down social media. I don't want my kids anywhere near it so I don't really worry about that.

    The fear mongering about it is high though but if you read the details it's not that bad. Just don't use Google or apple. Find new search engines and don't use social media. Social media is not exactly a necessity

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

    In keeping the kids off of social media you are connecting everyone's IP to their face and or ID however. Probably in a way that not only these lower level political politicians would have access to it and not just the National Security types, but that would also make it vulnerable to organized groups like hackers and foreign intelligence agencies.

    Do you really think this is about protecting the kids?

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

    All they want is an excuse to do exactly what they've always wanted to do.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    This only helps them do it faster, and with a martyr to rally behind while doing it. There's nothing good coming from this kind of violence in the current political context, even if it could be morally justified, it is strategically stupid and only serves to further empower Trumpism.

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  • If you think this event is going to meaningfully change the end-state that they’re aiming for, you’re kidding yourself.

    If anything, this’ll just make them try to speed up the progression - which paradoxically, I think may end up being a good thing, because they’ll try to do too much, too fast, and end up triggering a ton of backlash and resistance, instead of boiling the frog slowly as they were doing before.

    Not to mention, I wouldn’t be enormously shocked if this turns out to be some sort of false-flag thing, done simply to generate a casus belli against any and all Americans they don’t like.

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

    To be fair they respond to most things the left does with calls for violence. They want to commit violence over trans existence.

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

    I think that they (the right) need to look into this organisation:

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

    Oh! Oh! You mean just like when Trump tweeted a picture of Chicago exploding and said "Chicago is about to learn why it is called the Department of War"?

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

    It wasn't war when one Dem politician was killed, one was attempted. And a gubernatorial assassination was attempted?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Or how about when Nancy Pelosi's husband was beaten nearly to death with a fucking hammer.

    Anyone else remember how they reacted to that? That the guy was his gay lover? The constant mocking and wishing harm on Nancy?

    What really pisses me off is that the media just goes along with it. Every fucking time.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    This the same far-right that couldn't wear a face mask when 1,226,351 of us were dying of Covid? I am terrified, I tell you, terrified.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago

    WAR WAS HERE WHEN REPUBLICANS WERE PUTTING PEOPLE IN CAGES, SETTING BARBWIRE IN THE RIVERS, BURNING PROGRESSIVE BALLOT BOXES, FREEZING MEDICAID FUNDING.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    They’ve been getting more and more violent for 9 years, so I really don’t see how this is a change. They literally tried to overthrow the government.

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

    Are you suggesting that the GOP might lie in furtherance of an agenda?

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

    It doesn't matter, they're pushing this narrative in bad faith as an excuse to use violence against the people who they were planning to abuse anyway.

    It's just my own conspiracy, with no evidence to back it up, but I wouldn't be surprised if Kirk death was ordered by his own party.

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

    Personally, I think it is fair odds for it to be a foreign actor. Could be Venuzela, Palestine, Iran, Ukraine, Mexican cartels...there are many enemies that the Trump Regime have manufactured. It wouldn't be surprising at all if they retaliated against unprompted aggression in this fashion, if military force isn't an option.

    Considering all the things that the Trump Regime has done, the 8-Ball could be correct when saying "Yes."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Then they will forget it ever happened and just lionize Kirk and every hate filled ideal he stood for.

    *if it was a Repub. If it was a foreign shooter than...whomever this persons nationality is, if you share even a passing resemblance to the same I suggest you get out fast

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    Of course, that's all they got. What, are they going to demand bipartisan cooperation and a commitment to end gun violence? Get real. They threaten violence every time the sun rises. It's a good idea to remind them that murdering who they perceive as the American Left won't be as easy as the Nazis crushing the Jews. There will be strong resistance, and it is already starting.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    Like the little bitches weren't already out there bombing and shooting. But one professional troll cops irony and they're losing their shit

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

    Just the pedos creating a distraction from the Epstein files. GOP voted down their release yesterday.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    It wouldn’t surprise me if GOP killed their own political pawns to at least delay the Epstein files debacle and their own pedophile in chief being implicated in them.

    Probably wanting to delay it for as long as possible until the dude croaks during a live interview.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Did they forget all the right wing terrorism they’ve already been doing like attempting to kill Pelosi and nearly killing her husband among other things

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

    I don't get it, if he's such a good guy, why are they sad that he's in heaven with Jeebus? Don't they believe that's where the good people go?

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    So... The thing that they were already doing?

    OK.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Kirk wasn't even a politician, he was a talking head. And not even an A-lister like Shapiro or Jones. These guys are looking for an excuse to become violent and it didn't take much.

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

    They have no idea who the shooter was. They literally don't care. They are ready to just immediately blame the left, even if none of us had literally anything to do with it. Bunch of bloodthirsty psychopaths.

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  • At this point, I would be shocked if the far-right responded with anything but calls for violence.

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    as opposed to the calls for peace they've been doing up until now. did someone get neurolyzed this morning?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    war is here

    And they just now noticed? Quite low IQ maneuver considering it's they who started it.

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

    LoL imagine starting a civil war over a pos

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    Imagine wanting to kill/die for this creep.

    Fash are effing losers.

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