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.
The US does not presently have the capacity to execute a convincing conspiracy.
You are correct to observe the lack of humanity. I think when a non-radicalized person sees someone they dislike (no matter how intensely) have their throat shot open in front of a crowd of people attentively focusing on him, the horror and violence shock the senses and make whatever personal and political issues one has lose a lot of their currency so that one can cope with and process the traumatic thing that just happened as a human being rather than as a partisan. But that ain't happening with the vast majority of Americans I have personally encountered (selection bias). Rather they are turning to bloodlust and hatred to help them deal with this traumatic event. And they insist this is the right way to deal with it. They cannot see the humanity of a person because of their hatred. There will be replies to this insisting that Charlie had no humanity and deserved this. Even if that is true, audience didn't deserve it, and neither did the rest of us. This is a terrible thing for everyone of all politics.