• Nougat@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    I love how some officials are already calling it a “political assassination” and everyone is talking about “political violence” when there’s not even a suspect.

    We don’t know what the shooter’s motives were, but there’s a whole bunch of people who really want this to be political.

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      I love how some officials are already calling it a “political assassination” and everyone is talking about “political violence” when there’s not even a suspect.

      It’s probably not a good idea to beat around the bush with this one. The mango in chief himself is saying this shit (TW: the link is truth dot social).

      At about 3 minutes in:

      “Radical-left violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.”

      Followed by bullshit about how great of a person Charlie Kirk was, and then

      “Charlie was the best of America and the monster who was attacking him was attacking our whole country”

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        the monster who was attacking him was attacking our whole country

        Almost got it. He wasn’t attacking the “whole” country, just MAGA. I doubt that I would have to worry about my safety with the killer. A MAGA Nazi should, though.

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          Was he though? Nobody has been arrested and charged yet so for all we know the shooter could be a jilted lover etc. might not even be a “he” for that matter

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      I mean, it’s pretty obviously political. We may not know the exact motives but the victim and timing make it clear that politics is involved in one way or another.

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      It’s pretty clear it was a political hit. It’s doubtful that his wife hired a hit man sniper to kill him because he was cheating or something.