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Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin (www.kenklippenstein.com)

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Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

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[–] sudo@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

About as politically coherent as Luigi.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We've seen it in a lot of cases of stochastic terrorism. People end up attacking a symbol that causes them distress. It can be a post office, a school, a politician, or a gay nightclub.

The problem for conservatives now is that acceptable targets have changed to senior executives and conservative commentators. What used to either be an acceptable loss or a tool of fear is now a potential existential threat that they can't quite get back control of.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Further evidence of that was Crooks would've been a school shooter but decided to do something better with his life.