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.
Why should it matter that he wore down some young woman until she let him have a pity-fuck that produced offspring? Ignorance of birth control is not a virtue. The best thing he did for those kids was get shot in the neck before he could really start to influence them.
Hope you find the intellectual platform you're looking for.
Why are the wives of these pieces of shit given a pass? I think it's a form of misogyny as they think women have no agency. Except for in rare cases, they know exactly who their husbands are, and still choose to live with them. In most cases, they're active supporters. Now, I do feel bad for the kids, since they had nothing to do with anything.
There's a lot of religious messaging across a variety of groups directed at women to say they need a husband to own them and a minivan full of kids to be worthwhile. Getting raised to be a man's external womb on legs (since, try as he might, he's not making babies on his own) rather than your own person has to fuck you up and, in my view, mitigates some of the responsibility.
I understand that, but the women that we're talking about are also complicit in spreading the same kind of ignorance. And they do profit from it. So, while I do understand why it happens, I just don't think that it gives them a free pass.
why do you automatically assume kirk's wife was reluctant? often bad people are not just bad in every direction but just regular people who happen to be bad, which is perhaps unintentionally how they masquerade.
Because I've seen the worm food that used to be Charlie Kirk's face. Nobody wanted to have sex with the thing attached to that.