I’m going to challenge you all, right here, right now. Put down the thought of what’s right, what’s wrong, how people should be reacting, ect. I’m an apathetic bastard and I really could care less either way.
What I have noticed though is there’s a LOT of divide on this one, more than usual. Lemmy’s pretty homogenous but go outside to Facebook, Instagram, reddit, any of the mainstream places, hell, even talking about it with friends or family, you get some really differing views and people seem ready to discard longtime relationships over it. Hell, I’ve seen it happen 3 times now so far.
°So what do you think, take off the politics hat for a second and put on the sociology hat. Take a breath, and examine your surroundings.
°How does what’s going on make you feel, sad? Angry? Scared, tired or relieved?
°What do you think this says about which direction our society is going, have you got any predictions? Any old timers who have been through near societal collapses before want to throw in their perspective?
I’m genuinely interested in what you all think
Since when are radicalized far left antifa supporters “republicans”?
You poor poor summer child who said he is far left? You don’t have to be a person on the left to hate fascist. In America we had a tradition of killing fascist it didn’t matter what side you were on, but I guess you forgot that.
The little groyper killed another republican. You are eating your own while we stare at you shaking our head. Oh well.
Republicans on Republican crime is interesting to watch. Let me know when a “lefty” kills another “lefty”.
Lol.
His friends did. His parents did. Literally everything we have found out about him does.
I see “groyper” is the word-of-the-week among the far left that you all just discovered to try and pretend your side wasn’t responsible for this vile, reprehensible act. You’re all sick in the head.
The statements from his friend have been retracted.
At this point, there is not enough conclusive evidence to determine the shooter’s beliefs. A lot of the evidence is contradictory and keeps getting retracted and overturned.
I personally don’t find the groyper narrative all that convincing, it seems like wishful thinking, but I don’t think it can be entirely ruled out yet.
Those of us who are politically active been aware of the movement for years. It’s absolutely not some new term.
It’s not like this kind of violence is exclusive to the left. While left-wing violence is real and shouldn’t be ignored, the claim that all violence is left-wing is simply not true.
The same day that Kirk was killed, a mass shooting happened in Colorado. The shooter was a neo-nazi. Charlie Kirk has been credited in at least one shooter’s manifesto.
Every time a far-right guy commits a mass shooting, your side claims that the shooter is a “lone wolf”. Why does this act of violence not get the same treatment?
Why is every single conservative mass shooting not related to the conservative media ecosystem?
Folks like Tucker Carlson, Libs of Tiktok, Matt Walsh, spread rhetoric far more violent than anything I’ve seen people on the left say in response this shooting.
People like that constantly dehumanize others. They openly call for minorities to be removed from society.
The tendencies you talk about are in no way exclusive to the left.
(To be clear, I do not condone the killing. It should not have happened. It’s sad that violence has been normalized in this country to this point)
Lol his dad just came out showing his ties to the maga movement lol.
Maga the party of no responsibility and protectors of pedos. Lol
I wonder who will be next of maga when maga attacks. Lol
Edit: breaking news he was passionate about neo-nazi stuff.
Not all republicans are neo-nazis but all neo-nazis are republican.