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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Megathread: Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event

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Megathread: Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event

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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 8 months ago
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Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event
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Kirk, 31, was shot as he spoke to a crowd at a Turning Point USA event. He leaves behind a wife and two children.
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    You sure about that?

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      Could’ve been someone so far right that Kirk wasn’t good enough

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        Kirk was one of the only people defending Trump’s pedophilia outside of the White House.

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        Or someone so far down the rabbit hole that they believe the only way to get to “the next step” is to get it done themselves.

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          I’m fairly certain whoever shot Charlie will be left leaning.

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            The guy who shot trump wasn’t. We have no idea.

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              shot at trump.

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                He took out a chunk of ear, that’s getting shot in my book.

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                  His ear is fine.

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                  Shrapnel scratched his ear, not a bullet. If it was a bullet, it would not have healed that cleanly. In a peraon that old. Look at his hand. It wasn’t even shot and it looks like it’s rotting on his body.

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              This is true, so who knows.

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            It’s certainly possible, but so far the seemingly likely left motivated violence turns out to be right wing or just completely unhinged insanity.

            Before they concretely held actual power, the far right might have glossed over their differences, but now that they have actual power, the unhinged people they were tapping into are turning on them for various reasons. Turns out extremism is not conducive to a long term stable movement.

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      I hope the second part of this tweet is: “because there were so many different reasons to hate him.”

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      He’s right. Could be human decency, could be that Kirk wasn’t evil enough, could be that the Andromedans made some good points

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      To be fair charlie kirk has absolutely the most punchable face. If the sniper was just picking a person at random to shoot there’s like a 90% chance it would be kirk

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        It could be that the shooter was aiming at someone else entirely, but the bullet just got trapped by the gravitational field of Charlie Kirk’s head. Not only was it huge, but it was incredibly dense.

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      Perhaps was hate.

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      They can’t say it if they do. Orange baby might have them targeted

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        This has been a great, unifying distraction from the Epstein files

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          Only if you believe the People are that singleminded

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      Still a coward, huh?

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