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[–] 168 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It's the only ideology that thinks Charlie Kirk is important enough to assassinate. To the left he's an annoyance but there are much bigger Charlie Kirks than Charlie Kirk. TPUSA is so far down the list of things creating fascism. To liberals he's apparently baby Jesus. To republicans he's an asset. Only right-wing accelerationists have a motive because they're the only freaks who shoot up anything and anyone thinking it will spark a civil war. He makes a good sacrificial lamb if your goal is to make right-wingers rabidly homicidal or invite a fascist crackdown, but for everyone else he's just a generic influencer and punching bag.

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  • [–] 81 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah the last time someone on the left did some adventurism in the US, it was attempting to take out the GOP majority whip. Actual high-value target.

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  • [–] 62 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I had him grouped in the meme-tier with crowder and tim pool, but after seeing all this I think he was actually a level or two above them. Probably above Shapiro but below, say, Tucker Carlson; notably Shapiro is on the decline and Kirk was apparently on the ascent.

    But yeah I think most of the left was on the same page, just thinking of him as an unremarkable media bigot who looked slightly uncanny.

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  • [–] 65 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Ben never realized his ascent had a terminal arc in the right wing world because he’s too Jewish. Dude is level capped.

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    [–] 83 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Gropyer on groyper violence. They're still going to blame us anyway, just like they blame all school shootings on trans folk.

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    [–] 76 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Every shooting should be presumed to be a right-winger, because they have, so far, been the only ones putting numbers on the board.

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    Well, if we believe in Mangione, it was a tech bro that took the various forms of utilitarianism a little too seriously and not as a pretense to say that their involvement in AI made them the most consequential people ever since trillions of future lives rely on them doing it right.

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    [+] 71 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    It's funny because Kirk hated MLK

    “MLK was awful,” Kirk said. “He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.”

    “I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I’ve thought about it,” Kirk said at America Fest. “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”

    https://archive.ph/xIqmw

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  • [–] 66 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Just saw a video of Utah's governer talking about he was praying that shooter was from another state or another country because he wanted to be able to say "We don't do that here".

    Guy gets shot in your state and your first thought is, "I hope this doesn't reflect badly on the church". That'd be one thing if you kept that to yourself. But do go and admit that on television? Damn. Never change Mormons. classic

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    [–] 61 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    So the bullets were misdirection then ig?

    Whatever who gives a shit

    New player class just dropped, cop priest

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  • [–] 89 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    mfw you sentence your own child to death because you're such a bootlicking loser

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    [–] 61 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Hating Charlie Kirk because he wasn't conservative enough sounds like something my brother would say lol

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    [–] 59 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Want to know how I knew? It's simple.

    Leftists actually obey the law, despite being the law's harshest critics.

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  • [–] 82 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    sadness two minutes after posting "Be gay Do crime" I used my blinker and looked both ways before making an unprotected left turn

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  • [–] 58 points 11 months ago

    Groyper shoots Kirk

    How can the rabid Left do this to him!

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  • [–] 54 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    the american empire will be destroyed by the american empire. Same with Israel. The tragedy is the innocent people that get caught up in the fascist death drive.

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    [–] 39 points 11 months ago (22 children)

    Call coming from inside the house!

    What’s funny is you can’t really become a leftist without understanding enough theory to realize Propaganda of the Deed is a dead end. I don’t know if I’d be bold enough to call it counter revolutionary but for a revolutionary in the modern age it should not be undertaken. This is not 1878, you can’t just shoot a mine boss, and it’s not like we’re living in a global communist utopia because that shit works. It didn’t.

    So basically when these murderjunkies pop off the odds of them actually being a leftist are slim to none. You might have a person who is dabbling in leftism or festoons themselves in hammers and sickles but that’s just some bandwagoning, really. You might have a radical liberal who is radicalized along a conventionally “left” vector like gay rights or abortion access but those aren’t really “left” opinions.

    Which leaves us with the elephant in the room: the right wing stochastic terror machine and its apparatchiks.

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    [–] 39 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I thought "if you're reading this you're gay lmao" was too vaguely homophobic South Park humor for a leftist to use

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    [–] 39 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    The Right always eats its own

    Tartar Control Hitler taking out Hitler Dry while avoiding Raspberry Hitler

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    [–] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    I tried to find any other sources that corroborate that tweet, but I couldn't and journalists like Klippenstein are also asking that in the replies. Of course It would 100% not surprise me if he was revealed to be a groyper, but on the other hand considering how incoherent some of these kids' ideologies are these days, could it be like luigi-dance(I think he had some odd stuff with like rationalism and effective altruism(?)) who also was beyond internet-pilled from the engraved bullets? I could be wrong here but for some reason I had that remembered together when reading up about him).

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    [–] 33 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Don't like that fascists are stealing our jokes when they kill each other. I don't mind them killing each other, but stay out of our joke pile.

    Assuming that what is posted here is accurate. At this point I don't know. But I do support just assuming the guy is a nazi and absolutely refusing any evidence otherwise when talking to the right.

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    [–] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I need to see more than a journalist says the Utah officials said his family said he said etc. I'm 90% sure he's a groyper and the other 10% thinks he is incoherent g*mer that doesn't know what he's saying.

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