Been following the developments on the shooting of Charlie Kirk quite intensively from Europe these past few days. This whole thing stinks. Investigators had no idea who the shooter was, then BOOM, all of a sudden they do? Tyler Robinson goes home, tells his dad (who is former law enforcement) and he then tells a family friend???? This stinks. if the father is a former cop or whatever, he would either go full out and snitch his son to the people searching for him, or take it with him to his grave. Makes no sense, I don't buy it. Trump knew about the shooting before any media, that was on-site, reported about it? Fishy.
I dunno man, maybe its just my extreme distrust in the US but with all the radical shit that's been happening over there since Trump's reelection, I think nothing is too wild to not be considered. The american right needed someone of significance to get popped so they could use their image for martyrdom to push their ideals.
On a person note (yes, this is going to get me down voted to shit): I'm quite appalled at the sadism and joy that many people on Lemmy are taking to the killing of Kirk. I'm not getting into his politics. Yes, he was radical, i disagreed with his messaging and values and he was a piece of shit. But from a humanitarian perspective, way too many people here are making fucked up memes about the death of a young man with two young kids and a wife. You don't have to like him, you can even hate him, but leave the guy some dignity ffs. Maybe Lemmy isn't the platform of intellectuals I thought it was. This will probably be my last post. Americans are fucking insane.
*memes about the tyrannicide of a fascist.
If theyre European they obviously dont have any first hand knowledge of how drenched in blood lust the entire right wing is.
To be frank, the reason everyone on lemmy was cheering wasnt because of an insatiable blood lust or personal desire to see murders carried out in public. It was because we all recognized immediately that this was another groyper killing a prominent right winger instead of a bunch of school children.
This is a bi-weekly (meaning twice a week) occurrence in the country and for the first time the victim was someone who advocates for school shooters. We can enjoy the irony without needing to be accused of simply loving the image of his neck being split open for no apparent reason.
Also, nazi lives dont matter. We can gloat when they start killing each other for not being nazi enough.