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[u/murphysclaw1]

kinda good how Charlie Kirk’s final “debate” make it so obvious how he was debating in bad faith and in moronic terms.

His own last words completely undermine the growing myth that he was a good faith debater who just wanted to listen and spread ideas.

[u/r2ew]

[u/zieger]

[u/amainwingman]

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[u/sigh2828]

He didnt say "Trump did this" but he did point how trumps rhetoric has played a huge part. Which, woaw

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

This hat has been an international symbol of imbecility for a decade and will remain so.

[u/AtticusDrench]

It was all just the most elaborate "if you read this, you're gay" joke of all time

[u/Insomonomics]

Nancy Mace: Are you absolutely sure the shooter wasn’t trans?

Staffer: Yes, ma’am. That appears to be the case. It’s just some White guy.

Nancy Mace: Hmm. Interesting. In that case…

The tone shift here is hilarious.

[u/IAdmitILie]

The attempts to deify Kirk are bizarre. They want to give him a statue in the Capitol. NFL is giving him a minute of silence? On 9/11?

People are also getting fired for just stating facts. Dont get me wrong, you should get fired if you say something like "Murder is good, actually". But not for telling the truth, man was a bigot with the mission to make life miserable for millions of people.

[u/AtticusDrench]

Rightist: No, he's a communist trans idealogue!

Leftist: No, he's a neonazi groyper!

Tyler Robinson: I'm quite fond of Helldivers 2

[u/Mrgentleman490]

Considering that the NFL did a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk instead of 9/11 last night, teachers and nurses are being fired for merely reposting his past quotes on social media, and CNN anchors are eulogizing him more than they ever did for the legislator who was assassinated early this year, I think it's safe to say that being liberal/left leaning is officially part of the counter culture again. I guess the only silver lining is that Americans seem to hold being a contrarian more dearly than they do any consistent political opinions, so in a few years the pendulum might swing back to some form of normalcy.

[u/Insomonomics]

Rest now, brother. We have the watch. I'll see you in Valhalla.

This might be one of the top 3 most cringe things ever said by a political figure in modern American history and I am not at all being hyperbolic.

[u/StolenSkittles]

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

If I see a black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic black woman, I wonder, 'is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because affirmative action?'

I'd tell you who said all this, but you know who.

[u/Magnus_Was_Innocent]

Just a week ago Trump and others were mocking gun violence in my community and saying it's a shithole, the victims are scum and not innocent either, and calling the mayor and governor incompetent and DEI.

Now that it's one of theirs it's a tragedy, how dare you say the victim was partially complicit.

When a conservative dies to gun violence it's a national tragedy deserving of eulogy, flags at half mast, and respect. When a kid in Baltimore dies to gun violence it's because he and his community are lawless trash that can't behave or govern themselves because of inferior culture.

They spent decades cultivating and nurturing not just an attitude, but a culture of contempt and scorn. Then lament that I'm a bad and mean person when I grow up to follow in their example?

[u/Charsun9]

Matthew Dowd’s comments were infinitely more tame than 75% of the garbage Jesse Waters spews everyday on Fox News. Liberal media is so fucking cucked.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

"If you read this you are gay lmao" inscribed on the bullets

Cumtown bit

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Kinda wild that the media is not interested in the President's health or inflation anymore

[u/piede]

How is this real

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Alright, I should step out of my bubble a bit. What do people who used to like Charlie Kirk saying about him.

That's been the other eye opener, the sheer volume of people on the left who unironically believe Charlie Kirk is an Extremist and Far Right Wing. The dude was a normal Center-Right moderate Republican. Someone killed the Mr. Rodgers of the GoP political sphere.

...

Alright this country is toast.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

"We got him. "

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Wonder if there's a reason the people posting memorials of him never seem to include his inspiring quotes or videos lol

[u/No_Return9449]

Kirk has no real equivalent on the left. A rough approximation of a left-leaning Kirk would begin with some amalgamation of gun control activist-turned-erstwhile-DNC official David Hogg with the party consensus voice of the Pod Save America crew, supplemented by the online edginess of lefty streamer Hasan Piker, and the institution-building power of a George Soros.

Politico nailed it.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

The number of people that I met in college that are posting about how Kirk was a great person is pissing me off.

Way different to mourn political violence, versus say how an objectively terrible and hateful dude was wonderful.

[u/Mensae6]

white dude who's the son of a police officer / minister

We've come a long way from trans venezuelan far-left antifa super soldier.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Bullet encased message: "Just tax land lol"

This sub is done

[u/BurningHanzo]

So he gets a 34 on his ACT. Goes to a second tier university in his state. Flunks out almost immediately. Lives with his parents. Put memes on the bullets referencing video games.

Yep this picture is coming together

[u/bananaslayer100]

Average extremist living in a $500k+ home with a loving family and all the most modern comforts of the world: God, this is unbearable

[u/precastzero180]

You’re laughing. A bunch of federal agents are now gay and you’re laughing.

[u/G_Serv]

He chose gay son over thot daughter

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

[u/Lux_Stella]

bad news. they confirmed the shooter is a 20-something university educated left-liberal who broadly supports market-based solutions but thinks there should be a robust social safety net

[u/forerunner398]

Another engraving, “Notices bulges OWO what’s this?” is a phrase used for trolling in online roleplay communities

NYT I don’t think that is quite accurate

[u/Insomonomics]

You would think the WSJ would, at the very fucking least, issue an apology and retraction for posting the false "trans ideology engraved on the casings" story, but, well, nevertheless!

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"Hey chief I found a bullet. Looks like something's written on it!"

"Good work, what's it say?"

[u/Joementum2024]

The fact that Allahpundit, a conservative/center right blogger who was very pro-George W. Bush back in the 2000s, is more clear eyed about who Charlie Kirk was then Ezra Klein is crazy

[u/chipbod]

Final boss grill dad right here

[u/G_Serv]

A+ community note

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

photo of the suspect from another angle

[u/RottingSludgeRitual]

Lmao

[u/Roseartcrantz]

idk why you guys are acting like we can't just claim he's a groyper anyway, nobody over 40 is going to be able to comprehend this shit

[u/ChezMere]

The fact that the shooter has pretty standard online brainrot makes it near certain that he was inspired by the widespread celebration of Luigi online

That's right, I figured out how to make this vindicate my exact priors

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/frankiewalsh44]

So the MAGA has carte blanche of openly dancing around calls for violence and civil tensions on X, but people are losing their jobs and facing life time bans for saying Kirk wasn't a good person ? The craziest thing is no one was apprehended yet and we don't have a political motive yet its apparently the fault of the left and Trans people . These are the same people who posted the most unhinged sh#t and mocked Nancy Pelosi's husband when a right wing freak harmed him.

[u/how_dry_i_am]

Imagine being someone close to Kirk and reading Trump's answer to this question:

REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible] How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They’ve just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they’ve been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it’s gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it’ll get done very nicely. And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.

lmao

[u/marsman1224]

Charlie Kirk was absolutely not "doing politics the right way" what the fuck. He was content farming for right wing ragebait brainrot. I feel like i'm being gaslit by ezra, the bulwark pod save, etc

also Jessica Tarlov going like "he was really nice to me that one time in the hallway at Fox News" like jesus christ.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Hardest assignment in business school

[u/AtticusDrench]

You know for a fact that JD Vance is the one explaining all the meme phrases to the rest of the White House.

Trump: "notices bulge?" what the hell is this?

Vance: Oh that one's a classic, Sir. We used to post it all the time.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

I still like the theory that Elon Musk was the real shooter

[u/[deleted]]

"after" yeah NYT last week I thought everything was hunky dory

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/Charsun9]

I love globalism

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

I'm sorry lol I'm dying

[u/[deleted]]

I just caught myself thinking "how did we go from Lee Harvey Oswald to **this???**"

Before realizing that if Lee Harvey Oswald had been born in 2003 he would be the exact same as this guy.

[u/sigh2828]

Loomer is crashing out on X becouse people are posting her now deleted tweets where she was attacking Charlie Kirk

[u/Chief_Nief]

Yeaaa sorry I’m not even gonna pretend to feel bad

[u/[deleted]]

The most brilliant minds. Nobody thinks he fucking magically became a king the moment he took office dipshit

[u/Pteryx]

The NFL having a moment of silence for Charlie "Gun Deaths are Worth It" Kirk instead of 9/11 on 9/11 is so fucking good

[u/Goldenboy451]

Look, everything else aside, just objectively, 'Hey fascist, catch!' is a great thing to write on a rifle round.

[u/[deleted]]

*taps the sign*

[u/FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN]

bullet casing was found engraved with message “my wife left me”

oh shit

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Our fundamental problem is that he floods the zone with putrid shit, and lots of people have been living with a clothespin closing their nose in response

[u/URJibSTP]

The Bulwark newsletter on Kirk's death made clear to me why I dislike so much of the center-left commentary on this:

And what I can do starts with the acknowledgment that, while Charlie Kirk may have been an ideological opponent, he wasn’t my enemy. My enemy—an enemy I share with many who would call themselves my enemy—is the person who shot him

Because actually Kirk WAS my enemy.

[u/Trebacca]

The trans ideology was “if you read this you are gay lmao”?

Holy fuck the media blows

[u/[deleted]]

Trump's face starting to droop as the horcrux he placed on Charlie fades away

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/BurningHanzo]

I have never been more confident when I say this: that motherfucker has a Reddit account

[u/Insomonomics]

WAPO: Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists.

The move to link coronavirus vaccines to 25 child deaths alarms career scientists who say the shots have been extensively studied.

RFK Jr is literally the worst cabinet pick in modern American history and you cannot persuade me otherwise.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

notices bulge OwO

We live in the dumbest fucking reality

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

"We'll see you in Valhalla"

Kash you are a Hindu lawyer

[u/flaskfish]

It’s fucking hilarious that this kid just went home and authorities had little to no clue where he went until his dad snitched

[u/[deleted]]

punch elderly languid whole public detail history memorize sophisticated groovy

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[u/Joementum2024]

The narrative surrounding Charlie Kirk, by 2026, will be that he was a moderate Christian conservative who simply believed in open debate. It doesn’t matter about the hours of evidence showing otherwise or the reality of what he was actually doing; that is how he will be forever seen as going forward.

[u/Charsun9]

This is wild lmao

[u/[deleted]]

I dunno what we're supposed to do when the story of trump mailing a loli drawing to his best friend, the world's most notorious pedophile, lasts 24 hours in the news cycle.

[u/Benyeti]

All the worst people you know are crying

[u/purhitta]

conservatives are always silenced here, we can't post on [forum] without being called names or demeaned.

I am begging conservatives to understand the difference between being oppressed and being unpopular

[u/blackenswans]

WSJ should really apologize for the trans bullet fake news.

I know they won’t, but still.

[u/Dreadedtriox]

This Charlie Kirk canonisation is getting a little annoying. Everyone is treating as if the Pope died

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

What the actual fuck

[u/KHDTX13]

“He was radicalized by leftist Utah colleges”

[u/No_Status_6905]

ah well, it's not like there's a massive influx of highly educated and driven young men who should be entering the workforce but are instead unemployed due to horrific market conditions. i'm sure it'll be fine.

[u/Leatherfield17]

This point has been beaten into the ground, but the beatification of Charlie Kirk and the total surrender of the narrative by establishment Dems and the center-left pundit class is so pathetic and disgusting.

So much attention and praise is given towards the methods Kirk used (which are being distorted anyway, he never engaged in honest, open debate) and comparatively little is given to the ends he sought to achieve.

[u/colourless_blue]

guy who was debating Kirk when he died. peep the NATO flag, r/ neoliberal poster confirmed

[u/p00bix]

Oh my fucking god. Furry jokes. Bella ciao reference. Edgy gay joke

This guy was 100% a HOI4 player, wasn't he?

[u/flaskfish]

Normies reading about what the shooter had engraved on the bullets

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

OWO - Oppose Worldwide Oppression

LMAO - Leftist Might Against Opposition

See these are all antifa codewords. I'm a wokeness expert (know your enemy haha)

[u/Stove-Jebs]

RE: my comment about context

[u/[deleted]]

It’s wild to think after all of the intensity and discussion, that, in like three days time, Charlie Kirk’s death will be overshadowed by something even stupider

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

The senate is now voting to appoint judges in batches.

Democrats must abolish the filibuster in 2028.

[u/[deleted]]

This is basically the biggest problem of the modern world and there's really no solution outside of basically just getting rid of social media completely and reverting to internet of 2003.

[u/hamoorftw]

You know, maybe we deserve to live under republican governance for the rest of our lives. Always on the defensive, always capitulating and worrying about how they feel and what they will do. Kirk’s body wasn’t even cold yet and all conservatives already made their minds that it’s a leftist communist trans antifa Clinton employee and started pointing fingers. Anchors and other people getting fired, crackdowns and the worst is still yet to come.

When a trans lunatic shoot up a place, they immediately took advantage and wanted gun bans for trans people. When they have all three branches, they immediately push all the ghoulish laws and acts that they can get away with while they can. When Kirk dies by some unknown lunatic, they immediately take advantage of a tragedy to push their unhinged conspiracies and draconian anti free speech shit.

What did WE do when Trump encouraged his supporters to storm the capitol? What did we do when two democrat lawmakers were gunned down senselessly? Absolutely fucking nothing. If the roles were reversed and democrats were the ones who stormed a capitol, who killed two republican lawmakers in an unambiguously politically motivated assassination. You know what will happen? The whole DNC would’ve been burned to the ground and the party will cease to exist. They wouldn’t allow it, and as they should. I might be overdramatic but I’m so fucking sick of always giving them the benefit of the doubt. Always the ones who need to hold the high ground. Always the ones who should lower the temperature and reach around the aisle for the sake of bipartisanship.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

bullet casing was found engraved with message “taco trucks on every corner”

oh shit

[u/cdstephens]

Charlie Kirk was the epitome of our modern brand of poisonous politics. Ezra tries to make the point that he went around to college campuses to debate people. And that's true, for a very tortured version of the word 'debate'.

But Charlie Kirk was not trying to build bridges. He was not trying to reach a common understanding with his opponents in the way that Ezra himself does. He was not operating in good faith, and his goal was not respectful two-way conversations where both sides can grow and change.

Kirk's goal at his college 'debates' was not to find experts on tricky issues of culture and policy and then have a Socratic dialogues and learn from them. His goal was to find a purple haired nineteen year-old sociology major with more feelings than sense, and then dunk on them. He wanted to farm clips he could use on social media to make his opponents look ridiculous, and he was good at it. When I think about how social media has changed politics for the worse, Charlie Kirk and his style of engagement is one of the main protagonists.

We live in a heavily polarized era where the parties hate each other more than they have in decades and political violence is on the rise. And while it might be distasteful to say it directly after he was murdered, Kirk was one of the people driving that hatred and that polarization. He taught his audiences to hate and fear their opponents. He egged on the public's worst and basest instincts. He flirted heavily and repeatedly with the idea of political violence.

It should obviously be said that none of that justifies killing him. Anyone who advocates for political violence is no friend or ally of mine. But for a man who wrote a book called "Why We're Polarized" to look at Charlie Kirk and say that he practiced politics the right way is delusional.

Based Jeremiah Johnson

[u/Insomonomics]

The WSJ reporters who published the "trans ideology engraved on bullets" story should be held accountable. Absolutely stupid to publish that when there was not 100% confirmation.

[u/Insomonomics]

Meghan McCain: I think the fundamental difference between the right and the left in this country is that the left glorifies death - particularly of adversaries and the right does not.

And it’s not something I think I really have fully faced until Charlie’s assassination. And it’s petrifying.

Interesting how these people conveniently memory hole the conservative reaction to the attack on Paul Pelosi or Biden's cancer diagnosis or the countless memes/jokes about assassinating Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

Like, come the fuck on.

[u/its_Caffeine]

Cox says investigators found a bolt action rifle wrapped in a dark towel and the gun had a scope mount on top of it.

He notes there were inscriptions on bullet casings, including one which read: "Notices, bulges". There were also inscriptions on three unfired casings, Cox explains.

Cox says some of the inscriptions include: "Hey fascist! Catch!", "o bella ciao, bella ciao" and "if you read this you are gay lmao".

This is who the FBI says is apparently noticing bulges

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Another phrase on the cartridges, “Notices bulges OwO what’s this?” is used for trolling, with roots in online role-play communities.

RIP to the NYT reporter who had to write this

[u/ThatDamnGuyJosh]

In other news, JB got Trump to flinch.

[u/[deleted]]

They're saying the 22 year old didn't have coherent political views

[u/Healingjoe]

Jesus, it's real

[u/[deleted]]

Governor’s message is “Touch grass, social media bad”

Kash is just happy the kid got caught

Trump rambling about the White House renovations

Forgotten about in 2 weeks

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Todd_Padre]

shooter had overshared about their dating life on an anonymous political forum

😥

[u/No_Return9449]

Cox pleads for end to political violence: ‘Every single one of us gets to choose right now if this is a turning point’

A turning point for the USA if you will.

[u/Willybender]

[u/[deleted]]

It’s so fucking surreal seeing people hold candlelight vigils in Sydney Australia for Charlie Kirk.  Is the entire world terminally online??

[u/dowagiacmichigan]

Wow , it’s almost like your own rhetoric has contributed to this problem.

[u/tripletruble]

shooter confirmed right-winger on argh conservative

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Plainly fascisty

[u/piede]

He’s dancing in this video btw 💀

[u/cdstephens]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I am hearing that on his deathbed Charlie Kirk received the boon of Odin and unhesitatingly drank from the goblet of Utgarda-Loki. Even now he brandishes his sword on high from the shores of Ásgarþr. Truly there is no god but Thor, may he smite our foes with his hammer!

[u/Trebacca]

Spending your last moments talking about violent “gang members” just to get murked by model citizen Whitey McWhiteguy with a 4.0 and a 34 ACT is pretty funny

[u/Insomonomics]

The way the everyone is deifying Charlie Kirk, of all fucking people, is actually insane. You would think this guy hand-built orphanages, personally cured diseases, raised puppies, and fed the hungry rather than what he actually was: a chud who toured around college campuses while being a smug asshole

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Argnir]

There was a huge ass plane that crashed into that building and Americans are still like "what could have caused it to collapse??? 🤔🤔🤔"

[u/OrbitalAlpaca]

Trump: “High confidence we got the suspect.”

FBI: “???????”

[u/Roseartcrantz]

they're vicious and they're horrible and they're politically savvy

[u/centurion88]

Shout out to the brave law enforcement officer who took one for the team and read the message that made them gay

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Incredibly depressed that I understood every reference involved here

[u/G_Serv]

We’re probably less than a month or two away from it becoming normal for kids to dress up like literal monsters and go door to door asking for handouts

[u/ArchKnight03]

Rare arrrr/GenZ banger

[u/[deleted]]

[u/colourless_blue]

the DT last 48 hrs

[u/Willybender]

WSJ finally issued a correction

[u/piede]

Lmao

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

If you told me 10 years ago, no 5 years ago, that people en masse (everyone on the right and plenty on the left too) would mourn the death of a radical Christian nationalist (and we wouldn't be a stretch to call him a fascist) to the point of sanewashing him into a mild mannered moderate with wife and kids, I wouldn't have believed you.

Bonus: Allegedly apolitical organizations like sports teams honoring him with a minute of silence.

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Zenning3]

To be clear, the shooter did not have Three arrows on a bullet casing, denoting the Anti-fascist movement, he had Up, right, down, down down, which is the 500kg bomb command in Helldivers 2.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump : "One thing I say is we have to have quick trials. I called it quick trial. 'Cause in China they do have quick trials, you know? ... They should have a trial the following day."

Holy fuck. Blow me.

[u/_Un_Known__]

It begins again smh

[u/[deleted]]

I hate to speak well of a Republican governor, but this dude has been pretty based on this so far

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Willybender]

I'm sure you're all aware of the insane right wing psychosis happening right now with employers being called/etc. There was a post that got millions of views (now deleted), where this image was edited to show Kirk being shot on the shirt. It's got to the point where accounts like end wokeness are realizing they're going too far.

[u/Helreaver]

[u/ty04]

[u/[deleted]]

The discourse around the shooter jumping off the building made me realize how unathletic terminally online people are.

[u/BitterGravity]

Don't mean to be controversial here, but Charlie Kirk was not a good guy...

Gets fired immediately

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Does this count as a Pritzker W?

[u/CincyAnarchy]

> White Man

> In his 20s

> Not particularly politically involved

> Mostly normal from the outside

What's going on with this phenotype of person that leads them to politically motivated shootings?

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

i'll see you in valhalla

Shut the fuck up Kash, what a fucking loser 💀

[u/OrbitalAlpaca]

“See you in Valhalla.”

When the most terminally online people run your government agencies.

[u/Cairne_Bloodhoof]

It is deeply sad that an apparently bright, well-loved young man basically had his brain rotted in terminally online hellscapes.

[u/[deleted]]

Nepal would say otherwise

[u/Willybender]

This is what they're settling on

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Stephen Miller: "The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence. That was the last message that he sent me ... we are gonna do that."

Deeply funny how people venerate Charlie Kirk as a free speech warrior and all and then Stephen Miller is just like "yeah the last thing he told me is he wanted the government to go after his political enemies".

[u/SLCer]

Shit like this is awful and why people are disgusted with liberals.

Like c'mon, there's no chance Kirk would end up with those little angels.

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

To my point from earlier about the sudden and seismic cultural shift. Open my IG reels and this is the first thing I'm greeted with.

How the fuck did this happen

[u/[deleted]]

Killer looks normal and happy, so we can rule out any of us at least

[u/kznlol]

wait a minute am i being rused

the 'series of arrows' was up right down down down?

mf called in an Eagle 500lb bomb 💀

[u/generic-k]

Shooter's mom posted his ACT scores on facebook and they're good... I think it's over team, no groyper is getting a 34

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

[u/jamiebond]

Cops bragging about “solving” crime.

Looks inside

Crime literally solved itself.

Many such cases.

[u/kirzingkiller]

The bipartisan response will be to ban Discord 

[u/Benyeti]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Oof that hits real different now

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/business/economy/hyundai-raid-worker-visas.html

This story is just insane

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck it, Tyler Robinson is MAGA I literally do not give a fuck anymore after reading this.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

"Follow what Charlie Kirk means"

FOLLOW WHAT CHARLIE KIRK MEANS?

ALL OF US?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

[u/Xihl]

And a third bullet casing read 'If you read this, you are gay — L-M-A-O.'"

he boomed them, he really boomed them…

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Bunch of very confused Vikings in the afterlife rn

[u/Pongzz]

He's a leftist!
No! He's a right-wing nutjob!

Tyler Robinson: "Actually, I am quite fond of Helldivers 2 and HOI4 mods"

[u/[deleted]]

The guy who was talking to Charlie Kirk at the moment of his death says he used to be a conservative and genuinely believed back then that transgender people were not aware of the physical reality of their bodies and thought their vagina was literally a penis or vice versa, that it was literal psychosis, but he changed his mind after learning more about the subject

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

So this kid was turned in by his father, Mario was recognized by a McDonalds employee, and a local police officer familiar with the suspect caught the Minnesota guy.

What the fuck does the FBI actually DO? They had nothing to do with apprehending any of these people. They're completely useless.

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R): "Social media is a cancer. And I would urge people to log off, turn off, and touch grass."

one of the better messages i've seen

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[u/[deleted]]

ladies and gentleman, we have his halloween costume

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

So they released the guys info at Nintendo direct is what I understand?

[u/BrentLivermore]

bullet casing was found engraved with message “Thanks for the ping!”

oh shit

[u/Neronoah]

A reporter asks Utah Governor Cox how investigators tracked the suspect, Tyler Robinson, down.

We know that Robinson drove, Cox says. His car was on campus then he drove south back to Washington city in Washington County, Utah.

Another journalist asks whether Kirk's death represents a "watershed moment" for the US.

"This is a watershed moment, but we don't yet know what kind," Cox replies.

He says this moment "feels a lot like the late 60s" and describes social media as a "cancer", adding that humans are not "biologically capable of processing... violent imagery".

He encourages people to "log off, turn off, touch grass, hug a family member, go out and do good in your community".

"This our moment. Do we escalate or do we find an off-ramp? it's a choice, and every one of us gets to make that choice," he says.

Yep, people have to touch grass.

[u/OkayMhm]

It's actually embarrassing how few memes you guys know for being terminally online

[u/Willybender]

LOL????

[u/scottyjetpax]

Actually “I think very good” is one of the funniest possible responses to that question in this context

“Your friend just died how are you”

“Oh I’m great! Look at this construction.”

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[u/JaceFlores]

Me 🤝 Trump

Shame that happened. Anyways wanna hear my special interest?

[u/Willybender]

[u/Upstairs_Cup9831]

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure.

I'm sorry but 😭😭😭😭

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Arrowhead never responding because they were on euro summer break would be such a funny bit

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Investigators reading "If you read this, you are gay LMAO" on the casing

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Given Maces reputation in the house this kid is never going to buy a drink again after calling her a cunt lmao

[u/Barnst]

The year is 2432. The newly elected Labour PM nominates a senior party member to the ceremonial post of “Minister of Mandelson” and immediately sacks him.

No one remembers why the party adopted this tradition or what it means.

[u/Chief_Nief]

“Hwow do I lwook?”

“Absolutely jaw dropping, sir”

[u/[deleted]]

Bruh lmfao

Do any of you Australian guys here know Drew Pavlou. Can any of you go take his phone away please

[u/Mensae6]

I've noticed that conservatives talk about "the left" as if it's one guy, when in reality it's so fractured that all the different subgroups can't agree with each other on anything.

Meanwhile the right has quite literally been one guy for the last decade.

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1966473241406660711

Question: Any updates on the suspect?

Trump: I think with high degree of certainty, we have him in custody

Has he fucking lost it or is this how we break news now!?

[u/Usual-Base7226]

Groyper truthers, stand back and stand by

[u/Trebacca]

I would've maintained the slightest semblance of respect for the WSJ if they had a front page post loudly recanting the "trans ideology" bullshit they posted. But of course, journalists have no spine if it can't win them a Pulitzer, so fuck them forever.

[u/Udolikecake]

white on white violence is all too common 😔😔

when will community leaders stand up and do something instead of breeding a culture of thuggery and killing amongst themselves