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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Thanks for this. I didn't know who this turd was, now I have a better idea. REST IN PISS!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

LOL, warms the heart to know this disgusting nazi traitor was shot dead. Fuck the republican traitor filth.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Even better he was shot by one of his own. Just a slightly different denomination of hater.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Another example of what a utter piece of shit Kirk was. The idea that our government is flying flags at half mast and people are being fired for criticizing this blimp headed monstrosity is infuriating.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

an airforce escort for his coffin spits in the eye of every service member that's had to toil with Trump's bullshit. absolutely disgusting.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You know what really pisses me off about the paul pelosi attack? Like, really just makes me want to eat some bacon?

I have seen cop training. I know what they do. One of the favorite training methods is a projected screen (to get things to life size), with some fancy tools to track where a fake gun/taser/pepper spray is pointed, and there are two guys running the computer in the background as an officer interacts with the scenario on the screen. The computer guys can change the scenario based on what is said/done/acted. There is a scenario that usually comes up with entry into a house where one person has a crowbar and is kneeling above another person lying supine beneath him.

The cops have a training scenario for this screams internally EXACT FUCKING SCENARIO! And they are ALL taught that the correct answer is to shoot the person with the crowbar if the scenario suddenly shows him lifting the crowbar for another strike.

That dude with the hammer should have been kirked.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

What you do in a training scenario and what you do when it actually happens are two different things. Cops likely had no idea who the victim was, so them having inaction because of who it was is very unlikely

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What you do in a training scenario and what you do when it actually happens are two different things.

You're absolutely right, and that may be the case. However, it must be admitted that is is much more rare to not follow your training than to carry out what you've trained for when you train for a specific scenario. Plus, this wasn't even a split second thing. The fact that they're at the door talking to the dude for a significant period of time gave them a lot of time to do the whole 'one gun, one taser' cop thing.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Funny that you think cops don't no local vip addresses

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I was gonna say....

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The subtle difference was that Pelosi's attacker had his hands on the hammer as well as Pelosi and they were both white. It looks like they were unsure as to who the attacker was.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

To be kirked be needed to hold the opinion that it's ok for other people to die and it's just the consequence of being in a free society...

Oh. He was trying to kill someone. Yes kirked is the right term.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 5 days ago

Warning: Video clips into bodycam footage of the attack on Paul Pelosi. The blow is not on camera, it's behind a wall, but it's on the startling side for sure.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

If there is a hell, he is in it. The act of violence i condemn, but Charlie Kirk I condemn more and I will say he deserved it.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago

DePape was captured on video, hitting Paul Pelosi in the head repeatedly with a hammer. That's attempted murder. You don't bludgeon someone in the head to teach them a lesson. No Democrat, even in a cashless bail city/state would say someone like that should be freed.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Cashless bail (or even no bail at all) doesn't mean no pre-trial detention for people who really deserve it, so I'm not even sure why you'd bring it up. Of course they wouldn't free him

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Too many people think "cashless bail" means letting violent people go free.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Because the left is just awful at messaging, especially compared to the right.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Lol this is the second time a banned user's post got on the front page.

Also emojis is very uncanny somehow especially with the "banned" banner right next to the username. Like who the f uses "👉"? Cringe Youtubers? Just use bullet points lol. 350 posts in 5 days, jeez, and I thought I looked like a bot. 🤣

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago
  • Markdown makes these into bullet points
  • Bullet points are more accessible and look better
  • They're easier to type
  • Just make a hyphen on a new line
[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

See? You can't even make them show up on different lines, because that's not they're meant to be used.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago

Do you have a longer segment that mentions who he's talking about? I'd like to send this to people, but I don't it'll be as clear to them what he's talking about.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

The video shows the bodycam footage of the atttack.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I think the post has been updated with more links

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That fiendish smirk; he knew exactly that his behavior was repugnant and wrong. He was a first-class bully on an international level. Together with his wife's medieval-religious-zealot crazy talk it clearly shows how insidious religion is,^[1]^ capable of turning normal humans into psychopaths. I hope their children get out like those fortunate ones who escaped from the Westboro Baptist Church.^[2]^

  1. Turning Point USA: Charlie Kirk's beloved wife, Mrs. Erika Kirk addresses the Nation.
  2. Megan Phelps-Roper, TED: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left.

⚜︎ arscyni.cc > To consider antireligion instead of atheism.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Take the money away and this guy is just another racist shit-disturber and soon forgotten. Give them money and they will spew out garbage quicker than you can regurgitate it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They are paid off by Russia to do this. This isn't per se religion, this is sophisticated modern digital warfare. That's why he got so wealthy and is so deep in crypto - crypto is the perfect way to transfer money discretely between countries.

Like look at Sapolsky or Chomsky or other intellectuals who actually do and say things that contribute to collective knowledge for decades - they don't have millions of dollars. They say factual stuff, Charlie et al said lies - so how did he get money? He isn't even the first to say those specific lies, plenty of Christian bigots have existed. So why was he so big? Russia and foreign governments literally propped him up to be a weapon against our country. He killed a lot of people.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I'm staunchly against the Crypto Cult Science, so would you happen to have some sources on this?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“The Department’s seizure of 32 internet domains secretly deployed to spread foreign malign influence demonstrates once again that Russia remains a predominant foreign threat to our elections,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. “At Putin’s direction, Russian companies SDA, Structura, and ANO Dialog used cybersquatting, fabricated influencers, and fake profiles to covertly promote AI-generated false narratives on social media. Those narratives targeted specific American demographics and regions in a calculated effort to subvert our election. Our republic depends on elections that are free from foreign interference, and we will not rest in our efforts to expose foreign malign influence operations and protect our democracy, without fear or favor.”

The propaganda did not identify, and in fact purposefully obfuscated, the Russian government or its agents as the source of the content. The perpetrators extensively utilized “cybersquatted” domains, a method of registering a domain intended to mimic another person or company’s website (e.g., registering washingtonpost.pm to mimic washingtonpost.com), to publish Russian government messaging falsely presented as content from legitimate news media organizations. In other instances, the perpetrators sought to create their own unique media brands to promote Doppelganger content (e.g., Recent Reliable News). Among the methods Doppelganger used to drive viewership to the cybersquatted and unique media domains was the deployment of “influencers” worldwide, paid social media advertisements (in some cases created using artificial intelligence tools), and the creation of social media profiles posing as U.S. (or other non-Russian) citizens to post comments on social media platforms with links to the cybersquatted domains, all of which attempted to trick viewers into believing they were being directed to a legitimate news media outlet’s website.

As far as I can tell this has diddly squat to do with Kirk? He's been around long enough that I'm gonna need you to clear a pretty high bar of evidence to call him an entirely Russian fabrication (in fact this would suggest that he is entirely AI generated).

Another thing, why would you absolve American media organizations of their interests in a guy like Kirk? Like you said, our media has parroted the types of things that Kirk did since long before the internet age, but there's a good number of folks like him in the modern day. Are you saying they are all built from the ground up by russian crypto? Are we ignoring the interests of American corporations, billionaires, religious zealots, and their related super PACs in election meddling and dark money?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I don't know what you mean.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago

As long as it's not your country's responsibility! Good thing you have a general purpose bogeyman.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Theres plenty of evidence that Russia has been paying right wing influencers to spread misinformation. Its not a fucking bogeyman, this is reality.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago

Oooohhh and pray tell, how can you know which molecule of a tornado toppled over THAT house in particular?

It's a bogeyman, the same way Russia hysteria has been for Americans since the 1950s. You are being manipulated, that's true, but look closer to home.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

If you think Russia isn't involved in the destabilization of America, something that has been shown again and again for at LEAST the last decade or so, I've got a nice bridge to sell you mate.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

LOL please explain how. What's the mechanism? I mean besides your confirmation bias. Show me how. Brain rays? What are you even talking about?

You think your all powerful amazing empire can be destabilized (as if stability is somehow owed to you? Despite all the other empires in history that have fallen without Russia?) by what? Five gifs? A weak and disorganized country of drunks that is also somehow the greatest threat in the Big Bang?

Is anything in your country your responsibility?

This "Russia Russia Russia" stuff is like a child caught in a lie and pointing at his sibling saying "it was HIIIIM!"

Grow up. None of these brainworm ideas are the cause of your "destabilization". In any case, propaganda works both ways, and you can find just as much of it, as you say, for LEAST the last decade, or 5 or 6.

Yet somehow you were able to launch Apollo 11 during the peak of the Cold War Soviet Union, when the brain rays were stong.

Yet NOW you're uniquely destabilized.

Brain. Worms.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Your nationalism is making you stupid. This goes beyond borders.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Wow, he sure was a lot more articulate back in those days when he still had a neck.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

What foes Precious? It means the person who posted it, is now banned in the community where they posted it. Despite that. The post made my main feed.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

How . . . did he miss his head

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Did you know that snipers can and do purposely aim for the neck? So that instead of a fast painless death, the targets suffocates on their blood!

The more you know

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yules for we but not for thee.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
  1. No obviously the guy belongs in a psych ward if not prison.

  2. Lmao the Michal Jordan of insider trading deserves so much worse.

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