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[–] 27 points 1 year ago

But we're going to keep digging, because there's no way anyone from the right could have done it.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago*

    What the fuck is "yet" doing in a professional news hed here? Even if it were in the direct opening quote, it can be truncated. But this frames the story as a fait accompli that, oh yes, it will be found.

    Even odder is this hews to the propaganda that it can't have been one guy who was pissed, it must be left-wing groups (plural)! That's the only explanation!

    Have you ever tried to get left-wing college groups to come together? I mean, shit, you can't have vegetarians and vegans share a buffet line. There's no fucking way this was a carefully coordinated left-wing plot.

    For one thing, he escaped on foot. Assassination 098 calls for a getaway car and driver so that you don't have to wrap your rifle in a towel, throw it in the woods and hope the cops don't find it until you fucking return to the scene of the crime the next day. This is not Oceans 11, leftist edition.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    "Yet", they're going to find some eventually no matter how bullshit

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  • Well, I'm sure if they keep digging they'll make something up eventually.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Trump is just going to declare the shooter left wing and start his crack down.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Have they been to Utah?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Ties to groups, not motives.

    Even motives aren't that clear-cut, however. There's significant infighting between rival far-right influencers. They are effectively cults. It's also possible for a center-right person to see Kirk as a face of the Republican shift from conservative to fascist.

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