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Valmy77

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  1. No. That's Adam and Eve. Seriously.
  2. Yeah. A responsible reporter would just tell us what was inscribed on the casings, not that vague shit.
  3. Yeah. I pointed that out already. If Hasan has been shot no fucking way politicians would be claiming what a great American or hero he was.
  4. I have speculated before on this board about how bad at your job you have to be in order to be fired from your job as a Democrat. I don't think there is a bottom. He is running in the Democratic Primary. Being a Democrat doesn't really distinguish himself in that field.
  5. Yeah. No shit.
  6. Kirk's body wasn't even cold before the President gleefully rushed in to do just that. What a bloodthirsty ghoul.
  7. Yeah. Frankly at this point leftwing and centrist political parties have to do this kind of thing. Why they don't have their own bot farm armies is beyond me. Or they might. It is terribly unethical, and possibly illegal, but that is the world they have to compete in.
  8. This group had been upset with Kirk for awhile, the Groypers, and part of their deal is to pretend to be far leftists in order to provoke the kind of unrest they want. I believe that is the idea. But I have no idea. Obviously the fact that the potential murder weapon has that kind of thing written on the ammo is very bad one way or the other.
  9. Building data centers that will produce few jobs.
  10. It really makes me understand the apathy and desire of Russians to be non-political. But if Russian history proves anything, being non-political and just trying to get along to get along will not save you. Eventually you are going to have to turn in your friends to the Cheka or be sent to the Ukrainian front.
  11. Rubin fooled me for a hot second. I really thought he was a leftist who just wanted to have discussions with rightwing people. LOL. What a dishonest jerk.
  12. Sometimes you get lucky.
  13. Well we don't know why he was shot, but I think even if it turned out he was killed for something else entirely I still think the term "assassination" fits. Semantic discussions are kind of absurd though.
  14. I guess. But it just might mean law enforcement is incompetent or was caught unprepared. Going up on a roof with a gun and shooting somebody and running away doesn't take some careful plan. We'll see.
  15. I mean he already gave Rush Limbaugh one. Might as well. The dignity of that award has long since been trashed.
  16. A bolt action Mauser rifle? What a weird choice. Isn't that like an antique? A German gun from WW1 and WW2?
  17. Yeah. This shit stopped being funny besides just straight up gallows humor long ago.
  18. The internet fury started being real life in 2015.
  19. Yeah he was pretty consistent saying things like this. Even decades after affirmative action ended, despite assurances that the only reason they doubted black people's competence was because of quotas...nope. They just think black people are inferior and if they have a job the assumption is something corrupt happened. This country just can't quit the racism.
  20. I don't know if that is the tone of DT thread. I don't recall posting "midterms secured." Just going by what the President and other national leaders have said. I don't put you posters in that category. Edit: Oh you mean somebody in the DT thread thought that this assassination secured the midterms for the Republicans? Well fuck.
  21. Just showing he wasn't some martyr for free speech. It was all a cynical game. We saw similar stuff at how the Fox News people really thought about things during that law suit with the Voting Machine company.
  22. If it turned out to be something personal and not political at all, that would be a positive development under the circumstances. Might not matter though, the narrative seems set. Eh it is just the hygienist. They probably won't be there long. Just nod and be silent when people say things like this.
  23. From what I can tell he was a nice enough guy behind closed doors. He was playing a character for money out in public. This situation is extremely disheartening on so many levels. First we have the reality that people are just being shot out in public. Granted that has been a thing for awhile now but damn, you know, you wonder how long public appearances by even C list celebrities are not going to be insane with security. I was only vaguely aware of Charlie Kirk before this. Every once in a while his name would come up because of some particularly terrible way he dodged a good faith point in a debate or some gross thing he said on one of his...shows or whatever he did. But it wasn't like he stood much to me in the vast sea of right wing provocateurs or just general debate bros of any variety. Anybody who is celebrating this or laughing or thinking this somehow does anything positive is delusional. He probably did not even believe half the stuff the said, he was just doing the job that got him paid and there will be plenty more willing to step into his shoes...and even if nobody does there already exist dozens more like him currently out there. I have only condolences to his wife and child and his family. What a terrible thing. From what I have seen Kirk was perfectly kind of leftists behind the scenes but then would be a jerk when doing his schtick. But Kirk himself is far from the upsetting thing here. First the narrative seems to be that he is some kind of martyr for free speech and a principled person, we don't even know why he was killed and by whom. It seems obvious to me he was performing and doing a job. You don't attack leftists publicly like he did and then be kind to them behind the scenes if you mean it. If Vaush or Hasan or some leftist equivalent got gunned down that would be upsetting but I wouldn't expect some great outpouring about what an inspirational hero he was. So that is worrisome. And the narrative seems to be that we leftists like this, that we are laughing at it, that somehow we see this as a win. I don't think that is true for anybody with half a brain, though plenty of morons online don't have half a brain. But it also is just the assumption. We have plenty of people coming in here accusing us, without even quoting anybody or challenging anything in particular, of just that. The fact that no influencer or Democratic politician of any significance is doing that is not even important, that is the narrative. That is dangerous. And on the other hand we have the President outright blaming us for it and delighted that he can use this tragedy to enact his political agenda. It is just bad all the way around. A true shit sandwich in a garbage year. I guess we could go around tone policing every post on the CR to show that we are not, in fact, laughing at this and think it is great but I don't know what different it would make. This is the narrative and it probably doesn't matter what we actually do. If we didn't laugh and celebrate it then some bot on twitter would and it would be quoted to get everybody riled up. It is hard not to feel hopeless. Anyway sorry you got negged @Macklemore, I had nothing to do with it.
  24. Well you distorted what they were doing and told them to go fuck themselves. Was that intended to be a diplomatic statement designed to generate thoughtful discussion?
  25. Well this is a sad time. I certainly hope I am not treating my fellow man badly. I just want a place to talk about these things. Good luck out there. Where is this place where everybody is kind to each other?
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