• Cedar@lemmy.ml
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    “Right-wing groups have been responsible for over ten times more terror attacks than left-wing groups since 2002, according to a study conducted by the ADL. The Justice Department recently found similar numbers in its own study. It recently scrubbed that study from its website.”

    Lol.

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    Well they canceled Jimmy Kimmel for pointing out this very thing, then put on their other face and said they’re going after “hate speech”…. Right after the president tried ramping up the hate and saying it was the lefts fault. So I guess if they’re taking “hate speech” so seriously they need to take a good loooong look at themselves in the mirror

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    This sounds just as ridiculous as “Accountants can’t make $2 + $2 = $1 trillion like MAGA wants.”

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    I love how any time someone clearly has ties to the right-wing they’re a “troubled individual.”

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      I haven’t encountered many right-wingers who weren’t “troubled individuals”.

      Or at least individuals with very troubling opinions and beliefs.

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    Charlie could have been run over by a monster truck with TRUMP painted on the side with a fuck your feelings flag and the driver could have worn a maga hat and cut off sleeves shirt and the right would still try to connect it to LGBTQ+.

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      I know plenty people who want healthcare and social safetynets, but who hate brown people, and vote for far right lunatics. Having a single left-ish opinion, doesn’t mean all their beliefs fit that. We have no idea wether this person even tolerates other trans-people, or if it was just an exception for someone they love, and felt Charlie was a direct threat to that person.

      What I’m saying is, right now we have no idea why this person really did it, what his motives actually were, and what his political allignment really is.

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        if you discuss how people want to make society better, a large amount of these maga cultists will agree to many progressive, left-wing, reforms being the best way forward. However they will have a single issue that they are willing to throw that all away for. Immigration, racism, misogyny, gun ownership deregulation, etc.

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          However they will have a single issue that they are willing to throw that all away for.

          Abortion being nationally illegal, which is primarily a subset of misogyny.

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        It explains a lot about why right-wing politicians insist that the very existence of trans people in public is pornographic.

        They’re outing their own kinks in broad daylight.

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      The article mentions they can’t tie him to any left-wing groups so Trump can crack down on them.

      So the right is stuck without any group to go after since he acted independently.

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        What do you mean without any groups to go after? Obviously they’re gonna take down the terrorist cells that caused this by the name of Discord and Steam.

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      Being pro trans is neither left nor right.

      At a stretch we can label trans as being libertarian, because it’s no-one else’s fucking business.

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      He was raised, in a deep red area in a deep red state, in a right-wing, MAGA environment his whole life. That’s all he knew from the time he was born. He came from a pro gun / hunter family, deeply entrenched in that culture from what he said in his texts and how he felt responsible for his grandfather’s bolt action rifle.

      He was stewed in it, forged by it his whole life and those are the values and morality that formed him.

      If it maybe had a moment of experimentation or a particular openness at some point in his young twenties doesn’t change the facts of his upbringing and what truly formed him to take the actions he did.

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    Charlie Kirk is STILL ALIVE! These are Just Crisis ACTORS! DONT let these CriSIs Actors STEAL your freedoms!

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    The officials also voiced that it would be difficult to bring federal charges against Robinson, as Robinson allegedly committed the crime in Utah and is a resident of the Beehive State. Furthermore, Kirk was an influencer activist, and not an elected official.

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      Furthermore, Kirk was an influencer activist, and not an elected official.

      Exactly. Not an assassination. I hate that people keep calling it that.

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        I’ve never heard being elected official as a criteria for the term, the dictionary definition of assassination is

        “the premeditated act of killing someone suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person.”

        And there have been plenty of non-electoral assassinations, including those by (or of) mob figures, journalists, and many others.

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            The killer in an assassination is by definition an assassin. An assassin is not always some paid mercenary killer (this is rarely the case).

            John Wilkes Booth is an easy example. He was an actor.

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          Well, until they’re out of power you should ideally call it nothing at all and deny it ever happened. I walked past the USC campus this morning and saw kirk alive and well. I don’t know what all this hubub is about.

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        It’s still an assassination. The definition is broad enough to include the killing of any public figure by surprise attack.