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[–] 96 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I dunno, for all the alt-right frothing, Charlie Kirk doesn't seem like someone anyone will think about even a month from now, let alone set up a pin board for.

He deserved what he got, but if I was making a list of worthy targets I'd probably forget to add him.

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

    Legit forgot he existed till I woke up from my nap this afternoon and the internet was on fire about the shooting and shortly there after his declaration of death.

    Was a bit surprised a few discord servers I was on was trying to spin it like this was something the left always does and gets away with. When i asked for them to give a source to that they freaked out and tried to get a mod to ban me. Good times.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, there's a rotating cast of grifters that are making the world worse but aren't really individually important in the larger fascist project. And political shootings are almost entirely from the right. The last political shooting from the left I can think of is the congressional baseball shooting nearly a decade ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I got myself banned from a discord server for daring to refuse to express sympathy for his death and calling him a Neo-Nazi instead. One of the moderators is very conservative, unsurprisingly

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Charlie Kirk doesn’t seem like someone anyone will think about even a month from now, let alone set up a pin board for.

    He was a big mouthpiece for their propaganda. My coworkers yesterday were a surprising bunch, because apparently many of their families enjoyed listening to his "debates."

    Underestimating the influence of 'influencers' is part of what got us trump in the first place.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Honestly I didn't even know who he was, but clearly he was low hanging fruit with minimal security protection. The scariest thing about that video is thousands of young people at a "University" cheering on hate.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Are you kidding? The right will make him a martyr.

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

    They made Babbit a matyr, and she rushed Capitol police during a violet mob attack on Congress, through a barricade, while cops shouted for her to stop. The cop that killed her fired a single, controlled shot. He was not firing wildly or with malice. She was ex military, and should have realized what guns drawn and warnings about deadly force meant. Bystanders next to her admitted to hearing the police warning her as she breached the barricades, but she did it anyway.

    Her mother just got a 5 million dollar settlement from the government and she got a full military burial with honors.

    They don't need an actual reason for a martyr. They will invent reasons after the fact regardless of what happens.

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