I seem to recall in a blog post and a podcast mentioning that we’re about to see more terrorism from leftists, and there you go… Is this a bad thing? It’s fuel for the jerks. After all, Israel’s current big genocide push was inaugurated with a terrorist action by members of the oppressed people. Terrorism is often the tool of the disempowered, and the left here is more disempowered than ever. We may have fewer guns, but you know which leftists do have guns? The ones most inclined to do a terrorism.
This won’t just be leftists either. There will also be centrist terrorists and more right wingers as usual. That’ll be interesting to see. People who were fucked over by conservative policies who themselves would be favorably inclined to said policies until their face got eaten. We’ll be seeing some of those fellas exercising their oh-so-sacred second amendment rights as well.
Who pulled this trigger? Who cares? The right wing, in going full fash, has made itself an existential threat to immigrants, to lgbtqia+ people, to members of racial and religious minorities, to women who need abortions, to anybody with the wrong bumper sticker in the wrong part of red country… People feel their lives have been threatened, because they have. Some people respond to that with deadly force, because that’s what this country has told them to do.
My brother usually avoids “faces of death” type content, but he made an exception to watch the video of this one. I personally am still going to avoid it, but I see where he’s coming from. You get enough horror and enough hopelessness meted out to you from your political opposites, you take your gratification where you can fucking get it.
If the UHC motherfucker didn’t ring in hunting season, this one surely did. This will be ugly. Sorry to any decent person who is harmed as a result, truly.
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I easily found one of the MANY videos of the event and was getting ready to watch it but opted for one of those cute pet compilations instead.
I am confident I made the correct choice.
I don’t feel any need to subject myself to actual gore, I have an idea what happened, that’s enough for me.
Honestly, I’m leaning towards the idea that it was likely some far-right type, there seems to be some rifts opening betwixt different factions, and they’ve all been amping up their followers for violence.
I think things are going to get pretty bad – like you said, a lot of people are in a real bad place financially, and as the tariffs kick in, more people (esp research, healthcare, education) will be laid off as grants expire and aren’t renewed. And the foods gonna get more expensive without people to do the harvesting, processing, etc. If we have some event like another pandemic, or the AI/tech bubble bursts… I think there is going to be a lot of desperate people, with not much left to loose…
I watched a video out of morbid curiosity, mostly to see the trajectory. The shot came from directly in front of the little tent he was in, on a fairly flat trajectory, so the shooter couldn’t have been more than a couple stories off the ground. It sounded like a deer rifle.
Whoever it was spent some time planning it carefully, and is obviously familiar enough with the campus to know where they would be able to hide from the crowd while still having a line of sight on his target.
I can’t feel but it’s a just reward for fomenting hate.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
one shot! nobody else hurt. still not caught! remarkable.
Never fear! The renowned sleuth Kash Patel is on the case. I’m sure all the upper level FBI officials who dumpster forced to resign will have zero impact on the investigative effectiveness of the agency.
It’s really very noticeable how whenever some right-wing gun fondler with a long and very clear history of involvement with extreme political messaging and 17-page manifesto stuffed full of standard right-wing tropes and explicit references to the people he got them from goes out and kills a Democratic politician*, well, he’s just a lone nutjob suffering a mental health crisis and it can’t be linked to anything else, but when an unknown person kills a right-wing activist and agitator for reasons which are not yet clear, suddenly everybody’s talking about the obvious and unavoidable links between leftist rhetoric and political violence.
I’ve got to say, it’s a bit fucking rich being lectured about the dangers of extreme rhetoric by a bunch of people who have spent the last 40 years screaming about how everybody to left of Reagan is a communist satanist baby-murdering paedophile and literally possessed by demons, and then swearing it’s nothing to do with them every time somebody acted accordingly.
I DGAF about Charlie Kirk himself (as far as I’m concerned, he sowed the wind and got the inevitable), but this is not going to end well.
* Or a bunch of people at Black church, or a load of college girls, or a workers at a reproductive healthcare facility, or…
Bebe, I think it is far too soon to assume the shooter is a lefty. Both of the dudes who got close to the Tyrant Toddler with guns were RW. Kirk’s killer seems to have unusual sniper skills, probably gotten either from the military or from elite LEO training, and both those fields attract more RWs than LWs.
good comments, thx