• Commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    Kirk’s shooter is all but forgotten now (which took like a week btw), probably facing execution which I bet was super worth it

    Kirk himself after getting Kirk’d simply got replaced in 0.1s with other rapedwinger

    all it did was create a meme for larpers to laugh at

    adventurism sure is effective huh

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      10 hours ago

      it’s become sadly far too common to see a communist claim that killing fascists isn’t worthwhile.

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      11 hours ago

      Effective at what? Pretty effective at eliminating one odious propagandist. Sure, it’s not a good alternative to revolutionary organizing, but if you’re already not going to organize… might as well get a lick.

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        10 hours ago

        Effective at accomplishing anything that’s even remotely meaningful

        Like hooray, some random 0 charisma rightwing grifter got killed, as if these are in short supply due to money such positions bring. Now the mentally vulnerable shooter kid (who more likely than not got groomed into doing it online) has thrown their life away for nothing, not even for the slight joy of having their name remembered (my theory is they weren’t hot enough) but rather just being a tool that got expended and forgotten after the single spectacle, and this is the fate of every such lone wolf shooter with delusions of grandeur

        Not to mention how this is the best case outcome for adventurism, it can be easily be used as a justification to crack down on any dissent and make everyone’s lives worse - something even anarchists of old had learned

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          Again, it’s not an “alternative” to anything. It’s an inevitable phenomenon, given the conditions. And the conditions are so bad that when a pig like Kirk gets ventilated on live stream, I’m gonna cheer. Be careful about worrying about what will or won’t give fascists justification for crackdowns-- they will crack down no matter what.

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      16 hours ago

      There’s an argument that in terms of total human suffering in the world, eating an execution for killing Kirk is a net-positive because Kirk had an abnormally large platform.

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      16 hours ago

      Pretty apt criticism tbh. Everyone likes to joke but for that week the shooter’s motivations were the world’s most fiercely contested game of hot potato. “Not ours, not ours, we condemn violence!”

      I think about that now every time somebody brings up Teh Ebic Revolution and how it’s coming any day now.