‘This will not end here’: A scholar explains why Charlie Kirk’s killing could embolden political violence
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ROFL... This? Fucking this is what enables it?!?
Not January 6th for sure. Not Minnesota assassinations for sure. /s
Or Taco talking about protesters at his rallies...starting back in, what, 2015?
Political violence has been happening for... well, ever. If we're talking recent history, Trump's own
attorney generalchosen FBI Director from his first term testified to Congress after Jan 6 that right-wingers are nearly 2.5x more likely to be the ones doing it. And they have been.EDIT: I later remembered that I gave the wrong job title to Christopher Wray. My memory has never been great, and it's getting worse as I age. sigh
Only 2.5 times more likely?
I wonder if that is like the "unskewed" polls the Confederates were leaning on...
Not even the first political assassination this year.
We're well into the troubles now.
If the fascists think the time is right, they will strike. If they don’t have a reason, they‘ll fabricate one. They don’t need the death of Kirk. (Gleiwitz incident)
Why are so many people so fucking allergic to doing an actual root-cause analysis?
Orangeboi has been overtly emboldening political violence since he came down that stupid fucking golden escalator in 2015.