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[–] philosloppy@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm super not stoked on this event, I know that makes me a big softy or whatever but I'm not gonna be the one celebrating blood and death and mayhem regardless of who it is.....BUT Charlie Kirk ~~is~~ was one of the leading big mouths pushing political discourse to this point. He's been helping fill the tinderbox and somebody just dropped a lit match into his lap.

I just hope to God they don't try to spin this into a store-brand Reichstag Fire moment since they can't get any big reaction from the Nat'l Guard presence.

[–] ChetManly@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Just checking in to see if they caught the killer.. Nope? Good.

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago

Give Nazis the boot.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (20 children)

I just want to point out some things since everyone is assuming it was a leftist shooter:

  1. No one knows who the shooter actually is.
  2. Most leftist reactions I've seen to Kirk have been to laugh at his stupidity, not get murderously angry at him.
  3. No political message has appeared yet, like the one Luigi put on the bullets he used. Which if you're a leftist shooter, come on you gotta at least do that homage.
  4. The shooter killed him with one shot from a distance and got out without being caught.
  5. I've never met a leftist who knows how to shoot a gun, nevermind one with that level of skill. If it was a leftist, I'm surprised they couldn't catch them by now by simply arresting the one leftist who knows how to shoot at long distance.
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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Considering some of his comments over the years, I'm torn whether this is ironic, appropriate, or hilarious.

I just can't decide.

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[–] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

So yesterday was the 9/11 anniversary. There was also a school shooting on the same day this piece of human garbage was rightfully shot in the jugular. I read and scour the news every day and use Google News as an aggregator. So does my wife. You had to scroll down about 10-15 stories to even get to the school shooting, and I swear... I didn't see much coverage about 9/11 at all. Not like they usually do every year. But here we are with Charlie Kirk's stupid fucking face plastered everywhere as if he is someone to be admired. 9/11 and the aftermath of the war on terror DESTROYED this country. As far as I am concerned, the terrorists fucking won. All progress made up to that point began to faulter and collapse as the divisions between people beating the drums of war in that time and those that didn't want to necessarily go to war or a multifront full scale war grew further and further. That was the straw that broke the camel's back leading us to now, where a bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic, piece of shit like Charlie Kirk even makes the fucking headlines. What a fucking time to be alive.

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Rest in piss.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago (11 children)

This was a dumb thing. Kirk was odious, sure, but of all the people to shoot…They didn’t even take a major player off the board, and the repercussions, the retribution, will not be worth it.

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[–] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 months ago

I'd like to buy the shooter a blunt

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