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Whoa, no way?!? Color me surprised when 85% of mass shootings are right wing Trump extremists.
It's higher than 85%. The data shows it's 95-100% depending on the year. 2022 saw 100% of mass shootings were done by Republicans.
We can do better:
"Make Liberals Cry Again" shirt from 2019.
This is the shirt, in black not camo:
Definitely a leftie, this guy.
I don’t even see this as political, it looks religious. He hated mormons by the sound of it. I’ve always said that if Christians got their wish and everyone on earth that wasnt Christian was gone, they would just begin to hate and kill each other over whatever difference they find next. All the evangelists kill everyone else, they’ll then go on to start killing each other over the color of their hair or whatever. Christianity was born as a persecuted religion so they’re always trying to kill someone and play the victim.
It's just Sneeches with weapons for all time. If it's not religion, it's race. If it's just white supremacists left, they'd wipe out the redheads first and then the blond-brunette wars will start.
I don’t even see this as political, it looks religious.
It's almost impossible to tease these things apart, most especially within the radical right. They accuse another Abrahamic religion of not being able to separate church from state, and pretending to be scared of "Shariah Law" and then proceed to trying to enact xtian Shariah Law here.
we've already had a thousand years of Christians killing each other over whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Godhead with the Father or from the Father.
It's purely defensive for people to point to the politics of the shooter, I think. I agree you have the motivations pegged here correctly with religion, but Democrats are going to be wary of any shooter being used to justify authoritarian police state shit. Republicans are desperately going to try to paint us as violent, regardless of the facts. Look at what they are trying to say about the MN school shooter and how Kirks shooter was immediately assumed to be left wing before we even knew anything at all.
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So this is a “mental health crisis” shooting, and not a “we need to round up the leftists” shooting. Got it.
Nah, this news will never make it to MAGA. They're already saying that this was "another" radical leftist.
It doesn't matter what happens anymore. Americas oligarchs spent several decades consolidating media ownership and constructing an alternative "conservative cinematic universe" where reality is entirely irrelevant.
The base has been indoctrinated with the fascist mental illness by their propaganda machine, and I mean that literally. Conservatives are now a mentally ill population, and de-programming them in any meaningful way is essentially impossible.
Whatever happens from now on, it will always be <insert any nazi scapegoat's> fault in their eyes, forevermore.
Because leftists drive bigass pickups with giant American flags and a gun rack.
Well good. Let them spin this. Then they can start second guessing eachother.
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No, this is a "Closeted Leftist makes a false flag attack" shooting. And if that doesn't work, it's a "Look at what those violent leftists made me do!" Shooting.
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No it's another attack on Christianity in America. That's the line. Never mind they don't care about mormons
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Remember back when we could all agree that people who murder other people were likely mentally unwell and didn't immediately look to see who they voted for. Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
It's because the right is desperate to throw off the well earned shade that they cause the vast majority of gun-related violence. It's almost as if conservatives, who are obsessed on only have their world view validated through the the news, get violent when the world doesn't agree with them.
One of my favorite quotes I’ve seen brought up “you don’t have to be evil/crazy to kill someone. You just have to believe you’re right.” - Yoko Taro
Not that it’s an excuse for anything. This also smells of religion. And people kill in the name of religion all the time.
You say that like you think religious belief isn't a form of mental illness.
I don’t believe it is. I think that’s rather reductive considering how much it’s impacted human culture over history.
I should have clarified.
Fanatical religious belief is virtually indistinguishable from mental illness to my eyes.
A White Veteran with a Trump sign? This sounds like a RADICAL TRANS LEFTIST!
-CNN!
Right wingers: 
I'm sure they'll find bullet casings with ANTIFA messages written on them (suspiciously in Kash Patel's handwriting)
Did they ever release photos of the casings from Kirk’s shooting? Cuz I don’t believe that part for a second.
Which turn out to be the manufacturer's trademark after a serious investigation.
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Can't help but wonder if he thought he was avenging Charlie Kirk by killing a bunch of Mormons.
I have read his ex was LDS and he held hate for them.
Ahh I felt the domestic violence vibes from the description of the scenario. Scorched earth against the ex makes sense.
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There's no mystery here. During the 2024 campaign Trump promised the militias a race war - he didn't deliver because war puts oligarch wealth at risk. Now magas' are taking things in their own hands. That's why Tyler Robinson killed Charlie Kirk: he was trying to kick start the civil war. Trump is desperately trying to appear war like for his base, while protecting his money.
Appearing warlike, inciting violence with rhetoric, and all the while saying "I deserve multiple Nobel prizes for peace!"
I get the reasoning for it, but this mad dash to "prove" a shooting is the other side's fault turns my stomach.
All shootings are the fault of the side that allows crazy people access to guns.
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Meanwhile in a totally separate reality: https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1ntf95i/mormon_church_shooter_identified_as_42yearold/
They get so close to putting the pieces together. One commenter said they were pro-union, because people can't make as much money as they used to ("a janitor in the '60s could support a family, vacations, etc" to paraphrase the commenter). Kind of missing that unions and pro-worker efforts are a big part of why society had gotten to that point of wages, job security, etc.
I looked at a random idiot's profile in that thread saying "we should be focusing on thoughts and prayers, not placing blame on politics etc...". Obviously a few days ago he was blaming "radical leftists". Shocked Pikachu face
Link it
Yes, yes, yes but we need to wait for kash’s magic marker to show us the way…
Does the reality even matter anymore?
Pop quiz: can you guys remember the last 20 major US shootings?
I can't. I certainly don't know their outcomes.
Folks will internalize the first wild rumor they heard (indirectly) from Twitter or CNN or whatever before attention moves to the next shooting, and that's the impression that lasts.
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