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[–] tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 264 points 2 days ago (11 children)

MAGAts awfully quiet all of a sudden.

Mace went from "democrats must own this" to "Jesus save this lost individual" on cue.

Evil people, all of them.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 165 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] chrischryse@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry I’m a skeptic is there more proof with this before I rub it into my maga families face?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

So he had more fealty for the "having sex with women is gay" guy than for the "women need to get married and pop out more babies and think about a career later, if at all" guy.

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[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Already started blaming the woke college he attended.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I read that he only attended for one semester.

That must be some badass brainwashing.

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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, I read that the university that gunman went to was very right wing with every single professor being right wing and white. I am sure magat brains will do some extra special jujitsu mental gymnastics on that puppy.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

You must not have gotten the memo. All upper education is now "woke".

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[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

MAGAts awfully quiet all of a sudden.

That won’t last long.

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 132 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The last fact published by the media was that Kirk had died.

Everything since has just been hot garbage peddled by the hot garbage paddlers cabal.

Urgh. Anything for an advertisement impression.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Corporate news media? Agree.

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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 114 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If this turns out to be true, and really even if it doesn't, I'm just tired of MAGA on MAGA gang violence in the USA. Can't these people just settle their differences over a Bible or the blood of baby Jesus?

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I dont like MAGA on MAGA violence and would like it to stop but if it must continue can they at least accept that is what it is? I'm tired of the blame that everyone non-MAGA gets before the MAGA shooter inevitably gets caught.

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

But they want to exterminate all of their perceived enemies. They can't do that if their greatest enemy is themselves.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago

I'm willing to let them try

[–] don@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago

No maga cannot accept that, such is anathema to their very existence. Their entire identity is to reject, foaming at the mouth, anything that runs counter to the propaganda they’ve been brainwashed into believing is true.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Somebody pointed out to me apparently that tracksuit he dressed up in, pepe memes and such were tied into him being a Nick Fuentes fan. Apparently Fuentes and Kirk had a fued, i don't know anything about it though.

Meaning this could have just been a Fuentes follower that hated Kirk

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 20 points 2 days ago

Oh I can give you that info too

Check out the groyper wars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers

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[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 97 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

So Fuentes and Kirk had two separate conservative factions: Groypers and TPUSA, am I getting this right? They have some kind of beef with each other? Messing with rival members? Idk, kinda like gangs, if you will?

This makes it even more hilariously ironic. He died by his last two words. Who are these writers?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Counting gang violence?”

Apparently, Charlie.

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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Hubi@feddit.org 30 points 2 days ago

God I hope this is true because it would be so fucking funny

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Kirk wasn't conservative enough

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Yes, look up “Groypers” if you want more info. They’re a neo-Nazi white supremacist group that follows Nick Fuentes. They’ve had beef with Kirk, claiming that Kirk wasn’t conservative enough.

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

So I read the "trans ideology" engraving on the ammo was the manufacturer Turan printing "TRN" on it. And US officials started a rumour based on that. Great officials right there. Good training.

They should be fired, out of a canon, in to the sun.

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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 63 points 2 days ago
[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 63 points 2 days ago (24 children)

Ha ha ha ha ha you fucking dumb magats. Wasn’t brown, trans, immigrant or anything. Was white guy with a gun.

I’m going to love watching America eat itself over this.

You fucking pathetic losers blame everyone but your own red hat wearing backwater inbred selves.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

While I understand and agree America has set itself up for this, try to remember MAGAts are only slightly less than half the population (an overly aggressive half, to be sure). Us "woke" people are being forced to suffer for MAGAts' collective sins, too.

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[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just like last time, Fox News will simply drop the issue before their followers hear this, and they'll forever remember it as "trans ideologist shooter."

This has happened every previous time so it's kind of pointless to be excited about it.

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[–] romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 days ago (4 children)

LMAO even MAGA can't unite under the same goal coz they can't comprehend differences and their personalities are based on hatred

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

My two cousins who live in Florida are white supremacists and love desantis like he's the second coming of Jesus (they're just OK with trump). They naturally also hate immigrants and want everybody deported. This would be utterly unremarkable for a couple of Floridians except for the fact that they're half-Thai, the children of my white uncle and the Thai immigrant woman he brought back to the US after serving in Vietnam. My uncle was also anti-immigrant despite having married two immigrants (his second wife was from Spain and also hated immigrants lol). I just do not understand these people.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So that's why they ratted him out.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So an entire family of MAGA PedoCons, and at least one of them gets screwed up enough to start shooting up their own side? That's beautiful.

I've been saying from the beginning that the thing that will finally save us is MAGA's virtuosic incompetence. Just give them enough rope, and they'll hang themselves.

The problem is the damage they'll do until that happens.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The current rumor is that he's a groyper, AKA "MAGA is too liberal" type of guy. Nick Fuentes follower. But at this point, it's not 100% certain.

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[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago

Funny how chill Americans are with fascists these days

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tyler Robinson has previously registered as a nonpartisan voter, but according to Utah Governor Spencer Cox, he had “become more political in recent years.” Cox added that Robinson had told a family member he disliked Kirk and mentioned that Kirk was coming to Utah Valley University.

Cox shared that Robinson’s roommate had handed in incriminating Discord messages in which Tyler stated specifics about bullet engravings and details about a rifle in a hidden location. Discord, however, released a statement saying Robinson did not plan the attack on their platform or promote violence.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

His mother, another MAGA, is a licensed social worker. I feel so sorry for those people. My mother was one at a school for disabled children. Know why she was a good one? Because she is the bloodiest bleeding heart screamingly liberal empathetic person this side of planet earth.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey Chaz, what are the mass shooting stats if you don't include MAGA on MAGA shootings?

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Although MAGA figureheads have been quick to point fingers at the left for Kirk’s death, Tyler’s grandmother, Debbie Robinson, 69, [Edit: Nice] insisted that they come from a family of Trump supporters. 

She spoke with Daily Mail on Friday after news of Robinson’s arrest broke. “My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump,” Debbie told the outlet. “Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat.”

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Another MAGA murder with a spoonful of "he was a leftists" of propaganda they are trying to shove down our throats.

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[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago (21 children)
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[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I believe he was mormon. They are all far right, "not usually" violent, but far right. Hopefully just an outlier, but they are raised to be suspicious of anyone not mormon. That degree of extremism and paranoia could be problematic.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Violence and Mormons goes back to Brigham Young and the early days of the cult.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My wife was born and raised Mormon. When I first learned he was Mormon I looked at her and said blood atonement. Her whole face changed and she said, "better for one man to die, than a whole nation to perish".

So apparently this is a big part of Mormonism and how they rationalized their violent actions back in the day.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Hey cool what about the Epstein files.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

B-b-b-but Laura Loomer told me it was civil war time because the killer was a radical leftist.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago

A WHITE MAGA? That sounds like a Black Transgendered Liberal! I DO MY own RESEARCH!

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