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    I am quite conflicted. On the one hand this is extraordinarily bad for American democracy, but there is a feeling in me that said democracy farce at this point.

    I also believe that this will justify further violence from the right towards lgbt/left/immigrants etc. But would that happen anyway?

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      It’s always been a farce. It’s a bourgeoise dictatorship with a “democratic” spectacle draped around it intended to placate the working class

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      Political violence is a symptom, not a cause

      We were already here. Lawmakers have already been killed. Just, no one took it seriously because the Democrats miss every moment

      And yes, they were already invading Chicago. They were already calling to arrest political opponents. They were going to do it all anyways

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      I wouldn’t say it’s bad for democracy. If anything, it reveals how damaged democracy already is in the US. At face value this isn’t any worse than students being murdered in school shootings or (democrat) politicians being murdered. Don’t get me wrong, that’s all terrible but reacting only to this event reveals that the MAGAs were only waiting for any excuse to do whatever they’re going to do now.

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      Yes, a bit of Reichstag fire vibes, huh? Here’s hoping it won’t be quite that bad, but it could happen…

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    Is this image edited or is his face really that disproportionate to his head?

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    Reminds me of a classic German leftist joke: “If the RAF was so bad, then why is Schleier dead?”

    (Wenn die RAF so schlecht war, warum ist Schleier dann tot?)

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      If you zoom in, it looks like that thing is actually a messed up comma that barely has a tail. It’s like the spork of punctuation!

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      A lot of people put a period instead of a comma in the middle of an “if, then” statement. I don’t know why.

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        Yeah, that’s what I’m referring to as well. If one sentence doesn’t make sense on its own, then it shouldn’t have a period at the end. Maybe complex sentences are too difficult for some people…

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    Man, this deservedly dead guy’s child is gonna become the 3000 year old worm retrospectively living in RFKjrs brain because that’s how dumb reality is now.

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    Don’t be violent against people you disagree with politically. That’s not going to help anything, that’s only going to validate what they’ve been saying all this time

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      Yeah! That’s how we won WW2!! We told Hitler “hey you can’t do that” and he was like “oh shit my bad i surrender!!” Lmao a fascist will never give up power willingly.

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        what kind of a fascist is going to have civil conversations with people on college campuses around the US?

        And what kind of fascist is going to advocate for the free speech rights of people he strongly disagrees with?

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          The hell you mean he argued for their free speech rights? He wanted LGBTQ+ people dead! Can’t have any speech when you’re in the grave as he’s currently finding out.

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          if you’re taking about charlie kirk with that “civil conversation” bit, those conversations were using misleading half truths to publicly debate people he disagrees with in order to convert the people around said debate to his cause. i wouldn’t call that civil… civil is healthy, truthful debate on the merits: not winning at all costs

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      Nah, I’m hoping this becomes a thing and that a couple of billionaires will be shot soon. That’d be swell.

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        yep, you’ll be in favor of it until it happens to someone you like. Then you’ll lose your shit

        see here’s the thing, I don’t want that to happen to anyone, not even the people I hate

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          People I like aren’t billionaires and billionaires aren’t people. They’re what’s wrong with humanity at this point in time. If there’s a better way of getting rid of them, I’m all for it. But I’m not seeing any billionaires put to jail…

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        what kind of a fascist is going to have civil and completely non-violent conversations with people?

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          Yeah, we all know the nazis only became fascists the day they killed their first victims. All those nazi propagandists and theorists were actually blameless because they didn’t personally assault anyone publicly, which is famously the only form of violence.

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          Historically, all of them, depending on who you might be. Everyone who was close to Pol Pot said he was a really nice guy who was great at listening and understanding, turns out that didn’t stop him from committing to a genocide.

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      So when people you disagree with politically, are kidnapping your loved ones, beating you up, killing people like you around you, you should… say: “I don’t like that…” or…

      If violence is used against you, you have a right to defend you with violence.

      I’m sorry to say, but violent people don’t care about you yelling “boo”… They just turn their attention against you, and use violence to silence you.

      It’s very impressive, that the violent people has brainwashed you to such a degree, that you let them be violent, and are willing to protect them from violence in response.

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      “Disagree with politically” is a wide brush: they are nazis and fascists. Killing one of them causes a crackdown on political opponents, killing them all doesn’t. Paradox of tolerance and all that stuff.

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      Kirk believed LGBTQ+ deserved to be stoned to death, that women should be subservient breeding cattle, blacks had insufficient brain power to be leaders in our society and that the civil rights act was a mistake, children being murdered was worthwhile so that God could grant people rights, empathy was made up woke bullshit.

      Are those the “politics” you’re referring to? If those are your “politics” you might want to buy a neckguard.

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          These are all referring to direct quotes he made over his long career of pushing fascist idealogy, it is not some secret how big of a piece of shit he was or what he was about, as much as MAGA is putting in work it make it seem so. Turning Point was a group that sought to make a modern day Hitler youth by targeting vulnerable and malleable minds by pushing this vitriol at school events.

          If you’re not just some fascist troll, which I highly doubt because the phrasing you used is identical to phrasing I’ve seen on multiple sites from people/bots trying to whitewash this nazi fuck, you should have no issue verifying the veracity of my statement.

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        everyone says stupid shit like that, until something like that happens to someone they agree with

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          Plenty liberal activists and innocent people have been killed by the work of right wing trolls; right wing politicians; lunatics; and the biggest organized crime syndicate to ever grace this planet of earth, known colloquially as “the cops.”

          Might be time for a shake up of who’s violencing who, no?

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      He just lived in the society he advocated for. He literally believed a shooting now and then was worth the right for everyone to have guns.

      You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It’s drivel. But I am, I, I — I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

      Those are his own words from 2023.

      Just because it happened to him doesn’t mean it wasn’t what he wanted. For all we know, he died blissfully knowing he received a God-given bullet.

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        I significantly doubt killing Charlie Kirk of all people is going to effect change. At least, it’s not going to be positive change.

        The right is emboldened greatly by every situation like this. Yes, they’ve just been looking for an excuse and would be horrible anyway, but this accelerates things by giving them more definitive cover.

        They’re already making shit up about evidence of “trans and leftist stuff” carved into the bullets or casings (tabloids and the WSJ have run with this) when there’s no actual proof.

        Turning Point USA will stumble for a bit while they find a new talking head capable of carrying their bullshit platform, but there’s a glut of right wing influencers (and people willing to play one for money) that will fill the gap.

        Also, he was shot in front of his kids. They’re already fucked up enough having him as a dad without seeing him catch a bullet in front of them and die.


        Look, I’ve got no tears to shed for this balloon headed ass. But this is not a victory. Even if you support the idea of using violence to achieve change, this was a piss poor target.

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          The right is emboldened greatly by every situation like this.

          Fool.

          What are they going to do? Send the military into cities and brutalize people?

          “Oh no! The fascists will froth if anyone retaliates!”

          You might as well join them.

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          Ben Shapiro cancelled an event he was going to do today. It seems to me like the moment these fascist fucks feel like they could be in danger for the hateful shit they spew they cower in fear. They are keyboard warriors that don’t realize that people can do a lot more than say hurtful things when you do that in public.

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            He cancelled one event? Holy shit the world is healed!

            You aren’t wrong that these people are cowards.

            But Luigi didn’t change health insurance. It pushed one bad move from a former United Healthcare exec back but didn’t stop it, and now there’s proposed kickbacks for AI companies whenever their AI denies medicare or medicaid coverage.

            There is so damn much broken and I understand the sheer desperation, but lone vigilantes carrying out sporadic and infrequent assassinations with poor target choices are not going to cause long term positive change.

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          When the system doesn’t work and people are desperate they take matters into their own hands. What else are you going to do?

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            Organize. Lone vigilantes carrying out incredibly sporadic assassinations against poor target choices isn’t going to make things better.

            The Nepalese didn’t overthrow their government by a couple of folks shooting a couple of folks spread out over months.

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        Surely you understand that through violence the most violent people will rise to power Thats what happened in russia that became the ussr, china that became the ccp…

        Do you want the most violent in power?

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          two bad examples. The populations of Russia and China were certainly better off after violent revolution. And of course, things got violent in 1776.

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            Objectively untrue for china from every perspective and is only briefly kinda true for russia; as serfs were freed but after Stalins takeover as the lands were took back and people were legally required to work

            And the 1776 revolution would be not comparable in any way for the violence OP called for as the upper class led that revolution!

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              So you think that revolutions are only acceptable when the rich do it? The industrialization of Russia and China were probably the largest movement of impoverished people to relative stability in human history.

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                No, the us revolution resulted in much much different issues many persisting to this day like the inherent undemocratic system your lot clings to! But the power was distributed to the point where not one person could grab for it. Not that some didn’t want to have George Washington as a king…

                Do you guys just make semi random statements? Industrialization did not raise Russian living standard at all! In the short term it decreased it and in the long term, compared to say Taiwan, progressed incomparably worse

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                  It must be so easy being an anti communist, you can just make up whatever completely baseless claims you like and apparently expect people to believe them

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                According to meriam webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/objectively) objectively is defined as: “in an objective rather than subjective or biased way : with a basis in observable facts rather than feelings or opinions”; according to which I used the word correctly!

                Kinda sad that after being called out for spouting baseless nonsense you come up with a ‘no you’ with naming your group for their support and apparently randomly picking a word you don’t understand, claiming it to be used wrongly to appear smarter… Kinda sad

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      If people are violent against you, you have the right to defend yourself. That guy constantly advocated for violence against trans people, among many other groups.

      Why a trans person have to sit and wait to be beaten up to death for some guy indoctrinated by this guy? They may chose their own life over the ones that are on a path to killing them.

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      “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

      Was that what they’ve been saying all this time?

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      I want to believe in the peaceful solution, but history tells us otherwise.

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      You can’t vote fascists out of power. The democrats are closeted fascists. Wonder why they never do anything productive even when they have a majority? It’s because they’re owned by corporations just like the republicans are, they just pretend to care about you. They’ll never actually do anything because it would hurt their corporate masters.