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    I’m willing to bet it’s a right-winger. Some deranged psycho that bought into the right-wing conspiracy hate sphere they always use and has an axe to grind with Charlie’s flip on releasing the Epstein files.

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      It was pissrael. Hear me out, the shooter who has not been ID’d yet was found to have made the shot with a high powered rifle from 200 yards in a nearby building He had reported WAY before his death that if he “steps out of line” the pissraelis would kill him. As soon as he went hospital, tr*mp posted to “send prayers” on truth and the EXACT same minute Sketanyahu stops his bombing campaign on 7 different countries to tweet his prayers for kirk. We all know at the end of the day he was nothing but a payed propaganda shill, whether he believed all the bs he said or not.

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        I’ve sat next to dudes on a range ringing plates at 300+. They sight their iron sights to 100 yards, a 200 yard shot is just raising the rifle a little bit higher and waiting for a lull in the wind. With a scope, it’s practically point and click for anyone who spent the time practicing.

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        but there’s NO WAY a civilian was able to hit that shot from 200 yards away, you can make jokes about missing the headshot all you want,

        This is laughably incorrect. 200 yards w/ a scope isn’t an issue for myself or any hunter I know.

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          Wild ideas? lool If true, this would prolly be top 10 least wild thing’s israel have done. Russia does try and cause divides and tensions, but if you’re alluding to their involvement in this shit, afaik he didn’t say anything that would’ve angered putin, plus he prefers Novichok for his political assassinations. And they pay jobless bums all over europe to cause chaos and havoc in their respective countries, hardly at the level israel manages to do so.

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        I am struggling to see what are you going for with “Sketanyahu”. It’s the 2nd time you’ve typed it, so I know it’s not a mistake. Is it pronounced like skeet-anyahu as in “Aw skeet skeet muthafucker!”? I’ve always heard his name pronounced like Net-an-yahoo. Is sket pronounced like “net” a slur I’m not familiar with? Sket kinda makes me think about skeletons (spooky) or skittles (tasty) and I guess Halloween is coming up 🤷‍♂️

        Pissreal makes sense. It’s straightforward. You could keep it simple with Satanyahu or Naziyahu. If you wanted to draw parallels to Holocaust for the genocide he’s committing you could do NetanyAuschwitz. Not a direct comparison, but I think people would follow that train. I’ll say that I thought there’d be a more obvious play with the “yahu” part. Best I could do was Nut-and-yahoo if you want a groaner or NetanYahooSerious if you’re into 80s Australian comedy.

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          A sket is a lil bitch, a disgusting person, with no self-respect or morals and would if given the opportunity let themselves get tossed around for pennies. It’s english slang and very derogatory so I don’t use it lightly but it fits when talking about the modern day hitler ig 🤷‍♂️

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      those kids will totally get bullied by other kids showing them the video of their dad dying. that’s all I really feel bad about today.

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        Yea. About the only thing sad about this.

        Like, they are still kids, Charlie might have been a bigoted fascist but that’s far too complicated for children to fully understand; to them, he was just “Dad”.

        It is truly unfortunate for them they had the ill fate of being born to such a horrible person, but that horrid person was spreading rhetoric which has resulted in countless other children losing parents themselves. All I can hope is that those kids grow up to understand this.

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          No amount of mourning their “Dad” will ever compensate the hate he had for his daughter when he said he would allow her to give birth if raped… at age 9.

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    Is there any confirmation that the shooter was in any way a leftist, or motivated by left wing ideals? From all I know, it was some random guy who could have been a right winger who thinks Trump is centralizing the government which goes against his Ayn Rand ideology; or it could just be a loonie.

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        Sir this happened in Utah they use God’s own units.

        Since it was a rifle we use football fields. 22 football fields away.

        American football of course. We have no idea how many football pitches this might have been. 3? 200? There’s just no way to know.

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      None, here’s what we probably know

      It was probably done with a rifle at some point, shooter was on a roof, shooter ran away, that’s about what we know at this point.

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      As far as I can tell, they know absolutely nothing at this moment in time. So just you generic “the people I don’t like did it” rhetoric.

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      No. The shooter was a CIA operative sent by Bill Clinton to distract from the Epstein files. It will turn out that the “suspect” is a young black Arab Mexican man from China sent here to start a lgbtq+ revolution.

      This is a false flag to further supress any non white Christian men.

      Also I don’t know who the shooter is. But I do know we were together all day in Florida at the time.

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    We don’t even know who did it. This meme is stupid. Could’ve been another MAGA idiot getting mad at something he said.

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      Worse than stupid, it’s dangerous.

      The current fascist administration is DESPERATE to find and paint a segment of a population to not only blame this on, but also to round up and punish that segment.

      I don’t think we should be cowering in fear of the administration and their cronies, but we can’t do any good if we’re all locked up, deported to Narnia or being burnt at the stake.

      Especially bad considering that this is massively likely to be a right-wing veteran if he’s ever caught.

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        I wouldn’t say they are desperate. They already just make up shit. A true reason is better than a fake one one but so far “crime” has been good enough to slow walk things.

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      What’s funny is that historically, it’s usually a maga moron who does something violent. Even the guy who shot Trump voted Republican

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      I swear, Trump could order the military to murder every single person left on the political spectrum of Hitler tomorrow, and people would be like “Stop trying to distract from the Epstein files”.

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        I mean, we have a pedophile in the white house, and an open cover up of it. A normal person would be on trial right now, and/or already in prison. We should be making a big deal about it.

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          Sure, make a big deal about it. But everything that happens isn’t an attempt at distracting from it. That’s just distracting from the other shit.

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      I would say it’s not even to distract as much as to silence him. If you watch the event, he was talking about it 20 minutes before being shot. He was saying that other republicans needed to answer for blocking the release of said files. The fact he wasn’t letting go of the epstein case and he has one of the biggest followings of young republicans, he was a threat to whoever doesn’t want that discussed. It’s possible it could have been something else, but who knows?

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          Nothing really. Just my opinion. Kirk seemed like someone who wouldn’t be divisive in the right wing community. He parroted everything they wanted to hear.

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            I’d imagine it’s an ex-supporter though. No one is more upset than someone who feels betrayed by someone they used to trust.

            Recent flip flopping from the right wing on issues like releasing the Epstein files, and gun rights for trans people. Both seem like they have the potential to piss off members of the base.

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    Trump ordered all flags at half mast until Sunday. If I had a flagpole, I’d be racing to add an extension on to it, even if it looked like shit, to raise it higher.

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      There was no attempt. Its should be so blindingly obvious by now. This guy cries bitches and moans abt shit from the 90s, if it was real he’d still be crying about this shit today akh. He slapped his ear after the “gunshot” and in the famous photo there’s NO WOUND, his ear’s completely intact, it’s js red. You’d think after a man almost got his headtop licked off, he’d have a wound 😐 What’s more damaging, EAR CARTILAGE DOESN’T FUCKING HEAL, so yeah it was staged.

      Now onto the kirk bastard the shooter who has not been found yet btw, had made the shot from a building 200 yards away with a high-powered rifle. Now I’m no conspiracy theorist, and this is ALL purely speculation, tr*mp posted on truth his message to send prayers. At that EXACT same minute Ben Sketanyahu stopped his bombing campaign of 7 different countries to tweet his prayers for kirk.

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        200 m was the standard range distance when I was in the army and we’d usually group in at least 10 or 15 cm target with iron sights. And that was with a plain Famas.

        200m is nothing with a rifle.

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        What the hell are you talking about. 200 yards with a .308 is a totally doable shot. I dropped deer at that distance.

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          I understand that, but respectfully deer is a way bigger target than his neck and take into account he was sat under a visually obstructing gazebo tent. Considering they were estimated and likely to have been far more elevated than charlie in a nearby building, a shot like that’s not an easy one.

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            A deer is very similar in size to a human, just shaped different, and I only hunt from my elevated back porch. I’m not saying that it wasn’t a professional who did it, but it was not some super difficult shot. This could have been done by anyone that practices.

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            He almost certainly wasn’t aiming for the neck. Probably the head, or if you’re a Trump did it conspiracy person, maybe the shoulder and it was “supposed” to be a flesh wound :p

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        200 yards is pushing it with the bb guns we train kids with. 200 yards with a rifle isn’t a big deal. Kind of at the limit of iron sights. Once you’re dialed in though you can group rounds in to something about the size of a dinner plate pretty easily.

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          No, I understand he got hit in the neck and blood instantly started gushing out, essentially guaranteeing a 1 way trip to hell, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital, and stayed alive for a surprising amount of time.

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            Sometimes hospitals will endeavor to be overly optimistic, running a code for way longer than is likely to work. There’s a slim chance something pans out, even if the patient is unable to recover from a persistent vegetative stare.

            Who knows about his vitals, but he almost certainly didn’t significantly suffer, he was unconscious before he could realize what happened.

            I saw an accident where a car rolled and a passenger was ejected and his head hit the asphalt at speed, leaving skull and brain matter on the asphalt. The news reported that he was pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later.

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                Or has a cult of fanatics that is prone to conspiracy theories that will take any opportunity to imagine the medical staff deliberately let them die…

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            If you saw the video, it was clear that he was hit in the brain stem and was dead instantly from hydrostatic shock. Look at what his arms did instantly.

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            You’re only pronounced dead at the hospital AFAIK (or by a doctor or something), so even when your head just explodes, you have to wait until the ambulance makes it to the hospital to be pronounced dead. Doesn’t mean you survived until they decided that chest compressions weren’t working.

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            They also didn’t pronounce JFK dead at the scene despite half his brains being in Jackie’s lap …

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              Well yeh, but when they pronounced him dead they stated his time of death at the precise moment when his headtop went flying, which is when he died. Charlie had officially died roughly 2h after the shot, he may have been a vegetable/unconscious but still by all accounts alive.

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    i’m more than a bit skeptical that “the left” was responsible for this. I think its highly likely that this was a false flag attack.

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      given the location and the years i lived there, knowing nothing else i’d think it’s someone who thinks kirk wasn’t far right enough

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        Yah it’s more likely than not some unhinged, violent right-winger either listening to the voices telling him who’s actually a lizard person or that Charlie Kirk is actually a clone and/or involved with some Q-anon fuckery.

        BECAUSE THAT’S WHO IT ALWAYS IS.

        When you’re someone who wants to solve the world’s problems via rifles with scopes, you’re not a balanced, well-adjusted person to begin with. I’m sure there are plenty of people with left-leaning ideas who fit this bill, but we’re just talking probabilities here.

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      I fucking hate BlueAnon. Sure there’s a good chance it was someone even farther right than he was, but not everything is a false flag. Do you have literally any evidence of it being a false flag beyond “just think about it bro”?

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        The fact that the bullet casings supposedly had “transgender” wording inscribed on them is a little too convenient to not raise suspicion. Either A) whole thing was setup or B) evidence is being doctored. C) Could be all on the up and up and everything just falls into place perfectly, but how likely really?

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          I wouldn’t be surprised if evidence was being tampered with or mishandled, but there’s a lot of distance between mishandled/misleading evidence and a false flag attack. If there’s evidence of a false flag that’s one thing, but I’m gonna need more than “think about it, is everything really on the up and up?”

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      Pair up a 5090 with a 640x480 monitor and open up your copy of Quake 1. Easy 3400 fps.

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    This is MAGA propaganda to spur them on. Who really thinks it was anyone other than trump and his goons who made this happen. They probably already had the ‘shooter’ picked out and are planning the frame as we speak. It worked with Luigi so they will just keep doing it until its the US version of fell out a window.

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    I didnt like Kirk. I didn’t agree with what he had to say. But by God he was a person, and the whole left vs right thing needs to fucking stop.

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      he was a person

      He was also a prolific bigot spreading his bigotry to millions of gullible people.

      Good riddance.

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      Killing is not the best outcome, but the left versus right thing should definitely happen. The right kills way more than the left could even think about killing. The right needs to stop being a thing.