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  • Gotta have that correct reaction gif

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  • I had to see it for myself, and yeah, it's real. A bit misleading because of how Google calculates interest in a topic relative to the time frame requested, but real nonetheless.

    Google Trends, past 30 days, worldwide.

    If you expand the time range, the most searches were actuallt in 2021. September 2025 reached 28% of that peak, though.

  • Conservatives making things up and how their ideologies has been attacked.

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  • That's also where Trump immediately went before they even had a person of interest. They're all just spreading misinformation to set up a narrative that justifies what they wanted to do in the first place.

  • High-powered rifle recovered from Utah campus where Kirk's killer was able to blend in

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  • Even better: a bait and switch.

    "Once again, we have lost a true American patriot. Assassinated in cold blood by traitors waging WAR on not just our country, but our way of life and freedom. Our voices will not be silenced! They took one of our best and brightest, most outspoken voices of reason—for doing nothing more than daring to threaten their radical agenda. They will not take another, so help us God. Never forget 2025. Never forget Melissa Hortman."

  • The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either...

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  • They just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.

    Even if they did, anyone desperate enough for the vague promise of money isn't going to have enough of it to hire a lawyer.

  • How the tables have turned!

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  • It's not even peers sharing class interests that they care about. It's sharing the interests of their superiors to the detriment of their own, and the gullibile idea that it acktually helps themselves because they're due to also become one of wealthy. It's nothing more than class worship.

  • Fascist Rhetoric

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  • Surely, you don't mean those "leaked" internal investigation documents written under the oversight of right-wing cronies that describe the bullets as having "transgender" and "anti-fascist" writing on them aren't absolute, indisputable proof that the shooter was a radical commie? What are you, reasonable?

  • Charlie Kirk shooting latest: FBI release images of 'person of interest' in Charlie Kirk shooting

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  • Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law-enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.

    Without the actual text, for all we know, it says "we all have rights". I would be entirely unsurprised if a right-wing agency head decides that it warrants looking into left-leaning individuals, then someone leaks it to the press to start the dissemination of that narrative that it was proved to be a left-wing shooter before anyone actually caught him.

  • Charlie Kirk shooting latest: FBI release images of 'person of interest' in Charlie Kirk shooting

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  • Collaborating with fascists won't even get you your thirty pieces of silver

    30 pieces of lead look kind of like silver if you squint hard enough while bleeding out from them. Just saying. It's not like you get nothing from collaborating with fascists.

  • Charlie Kirk shooting latest: FBI release images of 'person of interest' in Charlie Kirk shooting

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  • Cartridges with "transgender and anti-fascist" writing on them were found.

    Unsurprisingly, barely any of the media is reporting that correctly.

    That's how it was described by government officials when leaked to specific news agencies and kept extremely vague. "Transgender and anti-fascist" writing could mean "we have equal rights" or "gun control is safety" for all we know, but now the narrative is out there for them finding "evidence" that the perpetrator is {insert some trigger word for groups that the right already thinks is trying to destroy them}.

  • Charlie Kirk shooting latest: FBI release images of 'person of interest' in Charlie Kirk shooting

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  • Ain't that a shame. Who could have guessed that would happen? Not the opportunistic class-traitor, that's for sure.

  • How the tables have turned!

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  • No, no. You misunderstand. Cancel culture is when the left does it. When conservatives do it, it's just getting justice.

  • “THIS IS WAR”: Some right-wing figures call for retribution following Kirk killing

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  • Many people like guns because of the media they consume but have never touched or shot one.

  • “THIS IS WAR”: Some right-wing figures call for retribution following Kirk killing

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  • Not a snowball's chance in hell, unfortunately. These people are incapable of believing that their own side would do anything bad. It causes too much cognitive disonance, going against the narrative they built up about themselves being the victims and not the perpetrators.

    They will just, yet again, claim that the shooter was secretly a Democrat or brainwashed by woke liberal Democrats.

  • “THIS IS WAR”: Some right-wing figures call for retribution following Kirk killing

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  • I love how some officials are already calling it a "political assassination" and everyone is talking about "political violence" when there's not even a suspect.

    It's probably not a good idea to beat around the bush with this one. The mango in chief himself is saying this shit (TW: the link is truth dot social).

    At about 3 minutes in:

    "Radical-left violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives."

    Followed by bullshit about how great of a person Charlie Kirk was, and then

    "Charlie was the best of America and the monster who was attacking him was attacking our whole country"

  • Collage of Right Wingers calling for violence post-Kirk shooting

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  • Ew, there's an Elon in the bottom-right corner trying to be relevant. He knows he was exiled from the Republican Party and lost most of his standing with the right for going against Trump, right?

  • Republicans increasingly say Trump has been played by Putin

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  • You're probably right.

    I would like to think that the majority of his supporters—the Q-ultists LARPing as investigators, "discovering" the evidence for themselves that king Donald was secretly trying to bust an undercover pedophile ring of elites that drank babies like juice boxes for immortality; the voters for the party about "family values" and "protecting the children"; and the disenfranchised people who bought into his rhetoric about "draining the swamp"—would turn on him with irrefutable proof that he's a child-fucker...

    But again, you're probably right. Even without the opportunity to deny the evidence as fake, they would still back him. Fucking shameful, that we've come to the point of having 1 in every 4 voting-aged citizen practicing blind faith in a false shepherd and obeying the party when it tells you to not believe the evidence of your eyes and ears.

  • House Republicans ‘so goddamn sick of being asked’ about Trump’s Epstein card

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  • They blamed the freeze on windmill farms, for fucks sake.

    They would fit right in with Don Quixote. Or the other way around. It doesn't really matter which way, actually—both of those options are a bad look.

  • Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at campus event in Utah, says President Trump

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  • Certainly, they will be taking full advantage of the situation to strategically strip people of their rights and hurt anyone that doesn't fit in their world order. This specific situation is going to unleash an even bigger wave of authoritarianism, and you won't find me arguing otherwise.

    I suppose it was just a bit of an unexpected of a tone shift, going from a joking sarcastic comment to your reply that is dead serious about the actual consequences we're staring at.

  • Senate Republicans barely defeat effort by Democrats to force release of Epstein files

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  • Of course. The need for Epstein's clients generous donors to help fund the 2028 campaign is "greater than ever now."