[PinkLucy]

As for the LGBTQ/trans messages, apparently what everyone is getting their panties in a bunch about is the inscription on the last unfired casing at the bottom of the magazine that says:
if you read this you are gay LMAO

But wait, there's more! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15091869/Charlie-Kirk-assassination-updates-killer.html

 

[Full Metal Junkie]

I get that kirk is a rotten bastard, but why ruin your life killing the guy..?

The suspect is 22 years old. That is a very impressionable age. People engaged in political discussions at that age tend to have a propensity for categorical, absolute and idealistic thinking. Certainly, thinking back to myself at 22 years of age, I was a lot more radical as to what I considered to be acceptable means to an end. Not that I would have ever resorted to political violence, but hypothetically speaking I would not have seen a big deal with someone resorting to murder as a means to fight absolute evil and injustice. Thinking about issues with nuance and moderation comes later in life, imho.

they're gonna twist everything and anything they can to fit their narrative, they'll make this guy out to be some crazy leftist 100%

I mean, the other casing inscription reads "Hey fascists! Catch!", which gives them plenty of ammunition to label him AntiFa (pun intended)

 

[zang]

I mean, the other casing inscription reads "Hey fascists! Catch!", which gives them plenty of ammunition to label him AntiFa (pun intended)

What MAGA and modern conservatism (outside of nationalist groups) doesn’t seem to ever clue into is that if you’re virulently anti-anti-fascist, by default that makes you pro fascist.

 

[Full Metal Junkie]

What MAGA and modern conservatism (outside of nationalist groups) doesn’t seem to ever clue into is that if you’re virulently anti-anti-fascist, by default that makes you pro fascist.

Yeah, but hey, there are a lot simpler concepts MAGA can't seem to grasp. I think the double negation in the anti-anti-Fa, coupled with the need to expand fa into fascist, is beyond their mental computational abilities.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

I am AntiFa and I most certainly don’t agree with the alleged assassin’s methods.

 

[txlseries4]

As for the LGBTQ/trans messages, apparently what everyone is getting their panties in a bunch about is the inscription on the last unfired casing at the bottom of the magazine that says:
if you read this you are gay LMAO

I thought you wrote this as a joke but then I read it in an article from The BBC lol (link)

 

[picard102]

Charlie was assassinated answering a question about transgender shooters and we now know that the cartridges in the rifle used by the shooter had transgender messages engraved in them.

So which of the engravings were "transgender messages"? Seems like your comment was "an egregious misrepresentation".

Are you "so sickened by how low the bar is for journalism" now, over this "lie that was spun by unscrupulous news outlets"?

 

[afransen]

So wait, leftists shouldn't dislike the indiscriminate killing of children (and the general populace) because Hamas is anti LGBT+? Or that because they're anti-murdering civilians that they're unaware of what Hamas is actually like? WTF?!

Stop with the false equivalency BS.

Also Palestinians ≠ Hamas. This kind of othering is part of the problem.

I think if you check the public opinion polling, Palestinians, like most majority Muslim populations are rabidly anti LGBT. Facts are facts. It's not just Hamas.

 

[picard102]

I think if you check the public opinion polling, Palestinians, like most majority Muslim populations are rabidly anti LGBT. Facts are facts. It's not just Hamas.

Oh, well when you put it that way genocide is okay. /s

Do you have polling on how anti LGBT Israelis are, or is this just data you have on Palestinians?

Gay marriage is illegal in Israel still and Israel blackmails queer Palestinians. Israel has killed more queer Palestinians than anyone else.

 

[gabe]

Oh, well when you put it that way genocide is okay. /s

Do you have polling on how anti LGBT Israelis are, or is this just data you have on Palestinians?

Israel is a safe space for Palestinians in the LGBT community. It's the ONLY country in the Middle East that provides equal protection under the law for all its citizens; no matter race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Israel embraces LGBT people and allows them to live freely. Tel Aviv even has Pride Parades!

 

[afransen]

Oh, well when you put it that way genocide is okay. /s

Do you have polling on how anti LGBT Israelis are, or is this just data you have on Palestinians?

Since you asked, here you go:

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/PG_2020.06.25_Global-Views-Homosexuality_FINAL.pdf

Compare Israel to the majority Muslim countries like Indonesia, Lebanon, Tunisia.

As I understand it, homosexual activity is illegal in Palestine. Not so in Israel.

 

[PinkLucy]

Let's get back to President Trump's America.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

With the White House's new patio, there is no need to mow the lawn.

Unlike the days when they used sheep to "mow" the lawn, and fertilize as well.

 

[guavadelic]

As social media algorithms target young men more and more with extreme content, I think violence like this will become more common unfortunately. The U.S. government at this point almost exists to protect the tech lobby, to the point of bullying any governments who dare to introduce any form of tech regulation and alienating allies.

The reporting about the suspect makes it clear he was terminally online.

 

[nfitz]

I mean, the other casing inscription reads "Hey fascists! Catch!", which gives them plenty of ammunition to label him AntiFa (pun intended)

And yet there's increasingly plausible reporting that the shooter was a hard-core white nationalist, and the motive was that Kirk wasn't right-wing enough - despite his racist White Replacement conspiracy theories.

So what's further right-wing than fascism?

I'm not sure I believe it yet. My head is just completely blown.

Though it would be relief to find out that this is closer to an attack by the right, one something being too far left, than a migrant or Democrat shooting someone on the far-right.

If true, hopefully this should calm everyone down - a lot.

An interesting article from earlier this week, from before the shooting. Will this become very relevant?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/nick-fuentes-trump.html