• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Okay, I admit I’m ignorant of modern internet and gaming lore.

    But what do you make of the fact that he shot a fucking fascist? That’s not a video game reference now, is it?

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I can’t make anything of it because some Mormons are more extreme right wing than the Republican party, and there’s a possibility he was attacking from that angle.

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        That’s true. I lived in Utah, so I know.

        The thing is though, I’ve never met a Mormon more extreme than that hateful kid Charlie Kirk. He wasn’t a republican, he was a full-on MAGA of the most extreme right-wing variety, so I can’t really conceive of anybody even more extreme than him who might think he didn’t go far enough to the right enough to gun him down.

        But hey, anything is possible in this nauseating world of extremist morons I guess…

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          Look up (or don’t) Groypers and Nick Fuentes. Believe it or not there was some controversy over how Kirk messaged the Epstein Files that Fuentes and his followers are drumming up. Like Flickerman posted in another comment in this post, apparently they are trying to co-opt the use of the song Bella Ciao like the right does with left-wing things that get popular. One of the bullets had that etched in it. I hadn’t heard of any of this either before today, but it is not at all out of character for fascists to infight.

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          Yep, and it all adds up to we can’t really say one way or the other based on vague memelord statements which may or may not actually be real anyway. After it’s become increasingly clear that Luigi is quite likely a patsy who had stuff planted on him, I have a hard time trusting that this is really the guy anyway or trusting any statements the media makes on him until we know more through things like court discovery.

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          If you go even further right than Charlie Kirk, they end up flipping from “yay Israel, help bring about the Book of Revelations and end the world” to “boo Israel, we hate Jews”, so as hard as it may be to believe, there is actually room for him to get hated from his right.