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Cake day: July 1st, 2025

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  • As far as demographics, they are pretty similar but most shooters have that in common here. Their methods are pretty much identical. Both climbed on a roof and shot. This shooter’s accuracy is a lot more neck than nick. Both in trump areas. Most recent one is more competent to since he shot and fled successfully. I would say unclear motivations aren’t that surprising for essentially kids who are shooting someone knowing they might die or lose their freedom. Also keep in mind government agencies are going to be selective in what they release since they are trying to prosecute in the future. Press outlets also are going to as well to cater to their audience and get clicks.


  • AndiHutch ( AndiHutch@lemmy.zip ) OPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.ca•Curious
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    The engravings in the bullets could be interpreted that way, but I have read from people more familiar with the groypers and how they operate that they love co-opting seemingly antifa messages and using them ironically as a dogwhistle. They are generally very online gamers who lurk in games like Helldiver’s 2 and use it as a nazi bar.

    So the messages on the bullets seem innocent and left-coded to normal people but to someone sufficiently steeped in the shit-stew of ‘groyper culture’, they would essentially act as a sign, that one of their own people did it. It is very similar to an inside joke that kids have or things like skibidi toilet. By putting those particular in-group inside jokes on the bullet, the shooter was signalling to Nick Fuentes’s Groypers(essentially a gang) that he put the hit in on Kirk and TPUSA. So it seems to me like from this group context one could deduce that Kirk got killed by gang violence.

    Kirk’s last words were literally ‘gang violence’. Coincidence? I think not.

    Edit:grammar mistake


  • AndiHutch ( AndiHutch@lemmy.zip ) OPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.ca•Curious
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    I stole this meme from somewhere else, and I think it actually is kinda misleading. Here’s what actually happened in brief:

    July 2025:

    Kirk said the Epstein Files should be released.

    August 2025:

    Trump told Kirk to shut up about the Epstein Files. (He did)

    September:

    A groyper follower killed Kirk.

    A possible motive is that Fuentes and the groypers really hated Kirk becuase he was a Trump Lackey who was covering for Trump with the Epstein Files. Possibly they also hated him because he wasn’t enough of a Jew-hater.

    Edit: Oops meant to put this as a top level, oh well.




  • 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.





  • As I learned the other day, if it wasn’t for undocumented immigrants paying taxes but not getting benefits, social security would be in a much worse financial situation.

    Every working undocumented immigrant detained is one step closer to financial ruin for future grandpas and grandmas. When immigrants work jobs, they pay in, but since they are here illegally, they can’t access the benefits from working. And it sure as heck ain’t cheap to round them up and detain them either. It’s too bad the media and politicians only pretend to care about the cost if the policy is something that actually helps people.