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by hnuser123456 273 days ago
Oh trust me, I saw the CGPgrey video about the issues with first past the post pretty soon after it was uploaded 14 years ago, I know that it doesn't have to be two parties who have to convert all opinions into binary and pick a side. If there's ever an initiative to change that to ranked voting, I'll gladly vote for that proposal. People will have to do a lot more critical thinking if they can't just keep pointing to the same bogeyman over and over.
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slg 273 days ago
It is funny that you skipped over my criticism of you to agree with my criticism of the US government as if I didn't make a clear connection between those two. If you "know that it doesn't have to be two parties who have to convert all opinions into binary and pick a side", why did your original comment reduce this issue down to a binary? Can you admit that it is possible for someone to disagree with Kirk from the right?
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hnuser123456 273 days ago
Yes, but the casings were engraved with things like "catch, fascist", so it's pretty clear the shooter fell into leftist propaganda, which is a thing because currently, we are forced to pick from 1 of 2 parties. Perhaps he thought he would be seen like Luigi but instead he's just a weirdo.
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LastTrain 273 days ago
It is not at all clear at this moment in time that the shooter had any consistent or coherent political leanings. Do you think growing up in a conservative house he might have been exposed to more "rightist propaganda", as you would put it? He certainly grew up in gun culture, which I would guess had more to do with the sick thing he did to Kirk than having a trans roommate did.
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the_gastropod 273 days ago
"Hey, fascist, catch" with the arrows is a reference to an attack in the video game Helldivers 2.

He also inscribed a bullet with "If you read this, you are gay lmao."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/politics/tyler-robinso...

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ThrowMeAway1618 273 days ago
>Yes, but the casings were engraved with things like "catch, fascist", so it's pretty clear the shooter fell into leftist propaganda

Umm, not necessarily. Apparently, the engravings are used by right wing trolls[0][1][2], many of them who absolutely despised Charlie Kirk.

As such, let's not jump to any conclusions unless and until we have factual information.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-a-groyper...

[1] https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/115199287909601561

[2] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/639/464/1e4

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