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by nbevans 267 days ago
Regardless of whether he was grifting or not, he still didn't deserve what happened to him. Nobody apart from serious criminals or warlords deserve that. He was neither.

Why not just embarrass him in a viral stunt. Nobody even tried to do that. They leaped all the way from 0 to 11 by shooting him dead.
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IAmBroom 267 days ago
You are complaining that the mentally ill assassin did not used measured steps to redress grievances?
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gjsman-1000 267 days ago
Who is to say they were mentally ill? Major left wing streamers openly were calling for violence before it happened. TechDirt's position conveniently ignores this. Kirk being a charlatan, even if that were true, is small potatoes.

https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1966264506486853810

Edit: Downvoters, if that wasn't calls to violence, especially at the end, post it on HN on a reply. I dare you to be consistent on your vote.

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orwin 267 days ago
Look, i checked the first 20 seconds, it's called a "spun metaphor", even if poorly done. Basically, this guy (with a grating voice tbh), calls democrats to "show some gut" then "you need to be gutting them" and "shank them and let their intestine drop on stage".

It's obviously cut to look inflamatory, but be honest, do you really think he calls for democrats to _literally_ gut republicans? Or, and i don't know about eitehr this long-hair guy or the context, he was talking about a US debate democrats just lost because they showed no heart and refused to reach for the jugular after a successful initial attack, on a debate show?

Because, and again, not a native speaker, not from the US, don't know about it, i might be too charitable, it looks to be to be missing a lot of context. Was it recent? was it during the election cycle? To me its very, very suspicious that an editing like this comes out just now, it seems like a hit job.

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