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  1. He's literally saying they're going to have to make the manifesto themselves and you're like "OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE I'M CONVINCED!"
  2. They're definitely going to try to fabricate a "trans ideology" motive here.
  3. Kirk called for Biden to be executed. I'm sure Enchubben will have an explanation for why that was fine, actually.
  4. The lawyers almost certainly made him do it.
  5. Most internet edgelord boys are hopelessly irony poisoned. I'm guessing he knew it was antifascist but still thought the fascism was cool as hell, enjoyed the irony of the actual fascist characters calling their victims the real fascists, and loved how confused normies would be by his use of the meme.
  6. I don't know that that's the case, because I think the average American didn't know who the hell Charlie Kirk was, but they're certainly being told by every prominent institution in this country that he was a good man. That's the problem.
  7. Seems to me Ana is happier than anyone here about Kirk's murder, as he thinks it gives him another opportunity to dunk on those he hates.
  8. Jamelle Bouie, as always, is great:
  9. I think most 4chan account names just appear as "Anonymous." It's not the same as the hacker group.
  10. You probably already saw that this is from the video game Helldivers. In Helldivers, you play basically as Starship Troopers infantry and the game world's propaganda says you're fighting for managed democracy against fascist bugs and robots, the joke being that you're obviously a fascist foot soldiers and you die all the time. You can call in airstrikes and orbital bombardments and a bunch of other stuff, and "catch this, fascist!" is something you might say before calling in an airstrike if you're kind of LARPing like you're taking it seriously. There's plenty of video game YouTube channels that make silly little videos goofing on the gameplay and that might even be a line from a specific one. Something like this: ETA: dahobbs beat me to it. It's possible that he was a groyper and personally took the "irony" of the game to align with how "ironic" he saw it that a further right fascist would kill Kirk, but more likely it's just a joke the mass shooter fandom community already memefied and by using it in the shooting he's basically referencing a reference of a reference of a reference of... etc. They do this frequently now in attacks (e.g. the shooter who shot up that Catholic school recently wrote the Loss meme on the gun). Sometimes there's some sort of alignment with alt-right shit, but usually it's just nihilistic "jokes."
  11. Meanwhile his widow is using his corpse to launch her own right ring influencer career. It’s amazing how little genuine human connection exists on the right. Everyone is simply a tool to be used and the instant you’re no longer useful you’re discarded.
  12. We've recognized that propagandists should at least sometimes be held responsible for the effects their words can have since we executed Julius Streicher at Nuremburg.
  13. Man, normal journalists are so ill-equipped to report on shit like this: That’s the Guardian, not Fox or CNN or the NY Times. They’re not looking for shit to blame on the left for no reason, but still fell for what may well have been a lie from some alt-right friend of the shooter.
  14. I uh, think I hit the nail on the head with option 2. David Brooks isn’t exactly a liberal, but I think this is probably pretty representative among liberal and centrist pundits:
  15. I think it should be noted that, while groypers are definitely something most posters here are unfamiliar with, Johnny absofuckinglutely knows who they are. He's knee deep in groyper internet and has been for years. That's why he threw his little hissy fit earlier today pretending like he didn't know exactly what those memes indicated.
  16. The shooter was a loner who spent all his time on the worst parts of the internet (probably including Texags) and never went outside to touch grass.
  17. The fascist line was a joking reference to a video game that's essentially Starship Troopers in which the characters calling their enemies fascists are the actual fascists. It's all just edgy ironic internet meme shit. He could be a groyper or he could be more of a nihilistic mass-shooter fan. Some people call this the true crime community, but that's a motherfucker to research because any googling will just find true crime podcasts and that's not the way the phrase is meant when describing the mass shooter fans. I'm leaning toward him being a true crime-type, though wouldn't be surprised if he liked groypers and bought into their rhetoric about Kirk to an extent and was partially motivated by that. There's likely a lot of overlap between the two groups.
  18. Fucking incredible. I can't believe I'm saying this, but thank god he's like this.
  19. I posted this a few years ago after the Highland Park July 4th parade shooting: I'd say it's held up pretty well.
  20. No shit? I'm stunned, truly, that 4chan got it wrong.
  21. That definitely sounds like a fucking groyper.
  22. Lol so he’s back to pretending he’s not Icono. Amazing shit.
  23. The guy who shot up the 4th of July parade in a Chicago suburb a few years ago was maga. So was the Tree of Life synagogue shooter and the guy who shot up a grocery store in Buffalo. That’s just a few of the ones I remember off tbd top of my head.
  24. This also leaves out the like dozen mass shooters between 2017 and now who have clearly been Trump supporters.
  25. I agree with this. I don't agree that that's an accurate characterization of what Kirk actually did though. He wasn't a right wing Ezra Klein, he was much closer to Joseph Goebbels. He actively encouraged harassment and threats against his political opponents and even helped organize transportation for insurrections to the capitol on January 6th. To see guys like Klein pretend otherwise is fucking bizarre.
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