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[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 445 points 2 days ago (41 children)

Finally a good guy with a gun

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (13 children)

It’s all fun and games until Republicans use this as an excuse to further enforce their fascist agendas. Just glad this happened in Utah and not Illinois or California. Blue states will likely bear the brunt of the repercussions if there are any.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 230 points 2 days ago (22 children)

They were going to no matter what because no one is willing to stop them. Now there's one less.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Were? They already are. Is there no one who remembers what happened in Minnesota a few months ago?

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I doubt he survived that, but if he did he'll be fucked for life

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago (8 children)

It’s all fun and games until Republicans use this as an excuse to further enforce their fascist agendas.

Republicans are marching National Guard soldiers into the largest cities in America on exaggerated "crime fighting" excuses. They have established an unaccountable militia with ICE hiding their identities and violating the civil rights of American citizens on exaggerated or fabricated drug/violence reasons. They've needed no legitimate excuses to do these things, yet they are actively doing them. This changes nothing on that front.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lmao, I love that person's logic. "Don't do anything to piss of the fascists, they might do something fascist."

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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

They'll make up whatever excuses they need either way so it doesn't really make a difference.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 14 points 2 days ago

They're going to do fascism no matter what! They don't care about truth. They can just make shit up if they need to rile up their supporters.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

It'll be interesting to see the contrast with the political response to this assassination compared to the Democratic Minnesota lawmaker that was assassinated a couple months ago

I get the distinct feeling conservatives won't be nearly as silent about this one

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

Except they haven't needed an excuse to date. I'm sick of this boogyman. Punch back, they haven't been pulling any punches.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

It will be like the Iraq war.

Saudi Arabia was responsible, but we're going to attack Iraq instead.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think this is a net positive, especially because the shooter was reportedly an old white guy

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

per AP:

Person taken into custody after Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah is not believed to be shooting suspect, AP source says

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

"The person was initially a suspect but then was cleared when police realized he wasn't trans"

  • I made that up, but it's probably not far from the truth
[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They've confirmed it wasn't him. The shooter was on a building 200 yards away

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dunno what you're talking about. The was with me playing the new Mario Kart game. I was in first place then I got blue shelled.

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[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago
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That's probably a net positive for odd white guys too, the bar is in hell these days.

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