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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 12 hours ago

‘This will not end here’: A scholar explains why Charlie Kirk’s killing could embolden political violence

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‘This will not end here’: A scholar explains why Charlie Kirk’s killing could embolden political violence

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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 12 hours ago
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Kirk’s killing reflects a broader political impasse in the US, where a significant percentage of the population supports political violence of some form.
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    Why are so many people so fucking allergic to doing an actual root-cause analysis?

    Orangeboi has been overtly emboldening political violence since he came down that stupid fucking golden escalator in 2015.

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    Not even the first political assassination this year.

    We’re well into the troubles now.

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    Political violence has been happening for… well, ever. If we’re talking recent history, Trump’s own attorney general from his first term testified to Congress after Jan 6 that right-wingers are nearly 2.5x more likely to be the ones doing it. And they have been.

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      Only 2.5 times more likely?

      I wonder if that is like the “unskewed” polls the Confederates were leaning on…

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    If the fascists think the time is right, they will strike. If they don’t have a reason, they‘ll fabricate one. They don’t need the death of Kirk. (Gleiwitz incident)

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    ROFL… This? Fucking this is what enables it?!?

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      Not January 6th for sure. Not Minnesota assassinations for sure. /s

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        Or Taco talking about protesters at his rallies…starting back in, what, 2015?

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    It’s already been going on

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