Normal people don't know who Charlie Kirk is.
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To me that was the scary part.
He had an organization larger than the young republicans indoctrinating students destine for places of power more important than trades or labor in terms of politics.
And no normal person has really heard about him.
He was part of a pipeline warning kids that "the crazy liberals will cut off your genitals and make you pray to Stalin!" And then he offered them a "safe space" from a boogey man who didn't exist.
Like so much of this regimes network, he was just another nobody with a suspiciously funded org making sure educated people got the right indoctrination before going off to be political staffers or lawyers or whatever.
He is amongst the modern embodiment of the banality of evil.
This is what the money on the right wanted him to be very badly. And he had so much funding he made a little headway.
But, it was not an efficient operation. He was caught buying views and fake subscribers.
A lot of younger people know him because there are so many videos making fun of him.
I worry about Nick Fuentes more when it comes to playing this role.
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I think it's very possible this attack was coming from one of the people who used to like him, angry because of the Epstein cover up. That's where *violent* rhetoric about this guy was coming from most recently.
@futurebird Sure. But the fascist state is already moving to lionize him and make it sound like he was their Best Boy. This is Horst Wessel shit.
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Normal people don't know who Charlie Kirk is. My mom, dad, husband, neighbor are very confused why it's such a big deal.
Which is good to remember. He's never done anything notable. Didn't run for office, didn't break a big story, didn't write an important book.
So, for a lot of people this is all very confusing.
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@futurebird He got grown ass people to wear nothing but diapers. Notable.
What a career. So many memorable moments. Wow.
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I don't think this will stay in the news all that long. Unless they find the shooter and they are some kind of person the right wing can villainize.
That is possible but given the pattern of these types of shootings I think it's a little unlikely. But we shall see.
@futurebird @JamesWidman @wonkothesane It doesn't matter who the shooter is. They'll tell the stories they want to tell anyway.
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@futurebird @JamesWidman @wonkothesane It doesn't matter who the shooter is. They'll tell the stories they want to tell anyway.
@BonehouseWasps @JamesWidman @wonkothesane
Yeah. I keep forgetting that people treat this like folklore not something that is really happening. It's all a story with villains and heroes. It's a team sport with sides.
Maybe that is why the fact that Trump was shot by right wing members of his movement just can't stick in people's heads. It's not as good of a story.
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@futurebird Sure. But the fascist state is already moving to lionize him and make it sound like he was their Best Boy. This is Horst Wessel shit.
Even the ADL had a file on the guy for violent rhetoric. This is the "I don't feel safe if the pilot flying the plane is black" guy. Very racist, anti semetic, anti Arab, hated immigrants, wanted women to be put back in a box. His death doesn't erase how he choose to live his life.
It's horrible that there are so many shootings in public places. None of us should have to put up with it. Especially school children. And now it seems they can't even catch this most recent shooter.
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Some of his fans had a para-social relationship with him. He's always been propped up by right wing big money, while trying to "reach out to the youth" and trying to seem "anti-establishment"
The cognitive dissonance of a recent statement he made "I will trust my friends in the government" (on Epstein) caused many of his fans to attack him. They were VERY mad.
So, that's what I suspect. Of course I could be wrong.
I could totally be wrong. We still have no idea who this guy was or what he was on about. To some degree it doesn't matter because living with these shootings all of the time is intolerable.
A right wing fan who felt alienated.
A left wing extremist fixated on Kirk for some reason.
A person who didn't like Kirk for personal or imagined reasons not related to politics.Anyone can buy a gun, it's so easy. It's even easy to buy one and no one knows that you have it.
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I think it's very possible this attack was coming from one of the people who used to like him, angry because of the Epstein cover up. That's where *violent* rhetoric about this guy was coming from most recently.
@futurebird @jbrownesq Agreed. #charliekirk died for your right to see the #epstein files.
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@futurebird @jbrownesq Agreed. #charliekirk died for your right to see the #epstein files.
Don't try to make me like him.
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Some of his fans had a para-social relationship with him. He's always been propped up by right wing big money, while trying to "reach out to the youth" and trying to seem "anti-establishment"
The cognitive dissonance of a recent statement he made "I will trust my friends in the government" (on Epstein) caused many of his fans to attack him. They were VERY mad.
So, that's what I suspect. Of course I could be wrong.
Oh now he's "quiet" and "no one saw this coming"
I thought he was ultra-left antifa super-solider. What changed?
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Oh now he's "quiet" and "no one saw this coming"
I thought he was ultra-left antifa super-solider. What changed?
@futurebird @jbrownesq I saw it put best earlier today. The suspect turned out to be "demographically uncooperative."
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@futurebird @jbrownesq I saw it put best earlier today. The suspect turned out to be "demographically uncooperative."
I thought it was really unlikely this was left wing violence because all of the violent death threats about this guy online were coming from the right.
