• KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol
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    I think these fascists are trying to make him their “George Floyd”. But unlike what the death of George Floyd represented (a wake-up call and a rallying chant against authoritarisnism, bigotry, institutionalized racism, and police brutality), this is a complete farse and a mockery, completely devoid of any meaning. He died for nothing except to give us some hilarious memes to laugh our asses off for no more than a week

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      My fuckwit uncle’s response to comments about George Floyd was “well turns out he was an asshole.”

      So as long as someone’s an asshole, it’s okay to extra-judicially murder them.

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      to be fair this is also a wake up call for them.

      if they fuck around, they might find out.

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      Apparently, it’s this guy.

      Family members turned him in, because even his own family doesn’t want to harbour this bigot.

      And here’s a quick synopsis:

      He’s exactly who you’d think. I, for one, am shocked /s. I guess Charlie wasn’t Nazi enough or something (according to Nick Fuentes in past statements, Charlie was a bit too ‘woke’, but we don’t know this lunatic’s motives yet, so I’m just speculating).

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        Not for nothing but we don’t know if he’s conservative or Republican at all. We know his family might be but we don’t know he is.

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          Yeah, I hoped I was clear that some of this is speculation at this point.

          Based on the photos, though….

          I get we need to be extra cautious, but some things are a pretty clear pattern. If we find out he was a leftist dude radicalised by the centrism of Lawrence O’Donnell, I’ll actually be shocked.

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    The fucking state of Virginia is calling for a moment of silence over this guy. What the hell is going on?

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      the far-right establishment behind the Trump administration is preparing to use this as the justification for the incoming Reichstagsbrandverordnung.

      They’ve got their van der Lubbe now and they’re working to get their bullshit in before Nov 2026

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      The same thing that the billionaires have been doing. Paying fealty and demonstrating loyalty in the hopes of avoiding attack or maybe even getting rewarded.

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    The last time I checked, and fuck me if I’m wrong, the NFL has several black athletes. What did kirk say about black people?

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      Calling the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a “huge mistake”

      Describing Martin Luther King Jr. as “awful” and “not a good person”

      Stated “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to think, ‘I hope he’s qualified’”

      Claimed successful Black women like Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson were “affirmative action picks” who “do not possess the cognitive capacity to be taken seriously”

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      The league only cares about black athletes to the degree that it can profit off their performance.

      Case in point: Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem – which was honestly an extremely mild form of protest – and was immediately black-balled.

      If they do care about black athletes, they clearly care about money a lot more.

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        The players are unionized, and the NFLPA has a lot of strong black voices in leadership if I recall (at least as of the last time I looked into it)… But yeah I doubt they’ll do anything unfortunately.

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      Remind me who the owners… wait, don’t. Let’s just look at a picture of the owners of the nfl.

      Then think about how ‘just’ their presentation goes. Compare the owner and the ‘peripheral’ employees. There’s a better picture that I can’t find that is often used in sociology classes, where the owner of a team is in the presence of the cheerleaders and the players, and it can’t be beat for showing that if you’re a rich man wanting slaves and concubines, owning a team is pretty much the next best thing.

      The sports associations are fucked.

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    NFL and nhl are really showing how much they dig fascism. Can’t quite tell with the mlb but the cardinals sure as shit are so fuck them

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    Got orders at work today to lower our flag to half staff in his honor. No mention of 9-11. This is a public school district :(

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    Boycott the NFL if you like American style football just watch Canadian or Australian football or even rugby they are all close enough and in some cases like Australian football I would say are better

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    every time i try to have a moment of silence for charlie kirk i end to giggling because that stupid fuck is in hell

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      Unfortunately, there is no hell. We need to make sure horrible people get their comeuppance here, on earth.

      Since it looks like he died near instantly, with no time to reflect on the damage he’d wrought, he basically escaped justice. On the plus side, he can’t do more damage. On the far larger negative side, he’s a martyr now.

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      If I believed in hell, I would do a little dance.

      I believe that when you’re dead, that’s it, you’re gone. And rightly so since that guy was a massive piece of shit and by all morality, deserved to die. And then the way he got killed? THAT makes me ACTUALLY do a little dance.

      I can’t wait for you know who… I’m gonna go into the street and do a little dance. Maybe even a big dance and have a party that lasts a week

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    To quote Marilyn Manson:

    "If you die when there’s no one watching,

    then your ratings drop and you’re forgotten.

    But if they kill you on their TV,

    You’re a martyr and a Lamb Of God. "

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    Man would I get my ass kicked once I started up my “CHARLIE KIRK’S IN HELL clap clap clapclapclap” chant during the moment of silence.