Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    2 hours ago

    I fucking hate this website sometimes.

    Yeah guys, high profile assassinations and quickly escalating political violence is just a distraction from files that supposedly prove what we all already know about Trump.

    • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      16 hours ago

      It wouldn’t surprise me if GOP killed their own political pawns to at least delay the Epstein files debacle and their own pedophile in chief being implicated in them.

      Probably wanting to delay it for as long as possible until the dude croaks during a live interview.

  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    171·
    15 hours ago

    Heh remember when a black guy got elected president and certain people literally burned effigies of him?

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
      22·
      15 hours ago

      Remember when the one guy who was whiter than Trump wouldn’t go along with their coup and he had to dodge his own secret service agents in order to survive?

  • philosloppy@lemmy.world
    261·
    17 hours ago

    Kirk wasn’t even a politician, he was a talking head. And not even an A-lister like Shapiro or Jones. These guys are looking for an excuse to become violent and it didn’t take much.

  • kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
    342·
    18 hours ago

    these are the people who call for violence over corporate logos, M&Ms, and razor blades. they’re always calling for violence, and we’re always giving them the mic.

  • selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works
    303·
    20 hours ago

    …these fucking people.

    Just shut up and go away already. Just move to Russia since you like the taste of dictator balls so much.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      38·
      19 hours ago

      I think Russia has little to nothing to do with this. Just as it’s a common meme that the left is internally extremely divided, so is the right. There are so many groups, and they hate each other almost as much as they hate the left, in general.

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
        6·
        16 hours ago

        Russian trolls are everywhere. I would be more surprised if they weren’t involved. They love to feed the fire.

        • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
          9·
          16 hours ago

          100% they are. You can tell in almost every post about going after Dems. Just bots stir the fire up. These MAGA fucks fall for it everytime.

          • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
            2·
            14 hours ago

            I’m sure many of them are bots (as has been documented and proven on other platforms) but I assume they’re mixed in with the actual people that happen to agree with the bots or get swayed by the bots’ takes.

            Don’t underestimate the stupidity of the average flesh-and-blood American. (And before anyone says it, yes, I know there is stupidity elsewhere, but I happen to be an American, so I don’t feel bad about criticizing them).

            I try not to get into the habit of assuming that every braindead comment or post comes from a bot (though they may be indistinguishable). I am very aware of the bot/paid trolls issue, but I also assume there’s the possibility of at least a non-zero share of the firehose of Internet stupidity which is generated by the sausage-like appendages of someone who is very much alive that I am forced to share a country with, and that they may typing those things in earnest without irony.

            • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
              2·
              7 hours ago

              exactly. isn’t there a common saying “don’t assume malevolence where stupidity suffices as an explanation”?

              people really are just dumb, largely. it could be perfectly well that that already explains the conflicts.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    44·
    22 hours ago

    They’ve been getting more and more violent for 9 years, so I really don’t see how this is a change. They literally tried to overthrow the government.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    20 hours ago

    They start it. They egg it on. They should all go back where they came from.

    Edit: Just in case someone doesn’t get the context. I’m talking about the MAGA’s. I told two of them a month or so back to go back where they came from. They balked completely at at loss for words.

  • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
    61·
    1 day ago

    It wasn’t war when one Dem politician was killed, one was attempted. And a gubernatorial assassination was attempted?

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Or how about when Nancy Pelosi’s husband was beaten nearly to death with a fucking hammer.

      Anyone else remember how they reacted to that? That the guy was his gay lover? The constant mocking and wishing harm on Nancy?

      What really pisses me off is that the media just goes along with it. Every fucking time.

  • Alteon@lemmy.world
    24·
    24 hours ago

    They have no idea who the shooter was. They literally don’t care. They are ready to just immediately blame the left, even if none of us had literally anything to do with it. Bunch of bloodthirsty psychopaths.