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For those who don't find "far-right" to be an applicable descriptor with what is known currently, I acknowledge that the meme creator could have been more precise with their word choice. However, I feel the difference is academic:

We can replace “far right” with the easily verified “not leftist” without changing the meme whatsoever, primarily because the meme is about Nancy Mace and her mercurial, disingenuous opinion, not (directly) about the shooter.

Edit - I modified it, though I still find it to be a distinction without a difference - alt version for those who prefer (whoops missed one first time)

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 114 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nice that they have so clearly broadcasted their double standards

It demonstrates that rational people should not attempt to compromise with these cultists and prioritise blocking and removal. They are not reliable or consistent.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nobody moral (who believed, at the very least, in the virtue of honesty) or rational ever gave them anything but the middle finger. But America was cooked from the get go, and with a national ethos similar to that of a greedy, unstable rapist, Trump, MAGA and everything we're seeing now were inevitable.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I was just thinking about how i often fail to remember that this country was founded on the genocide of its prior inhabitants. We are the descendants of those responsible for that genocide. There is plenty of toxicity that got passed along the generations leading us here and it doesn't seem likely it's gonna go away.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yep. And it goes back further. The religious freedom the Puritans wanted was essentially to be able to be more authoritarian.

The puritans[2] who settled New England in 1630 were not coming to America to promote religious freedom for all, but to achieve for themselves a freedom from the church and civil officials in England who had prevented them from pursuing their faith as they believed God wanted them to. The settlement of Massachusetts presented the colonists with their first opportunity to decide what views and actions were acceptable and to prohibit what was not.

Edited to add - in case this wasn't blunt enough, just like conservatives have been for my entire life; the freedom they want on any given axis is actually the freedom to control others on that same axis.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

There was a comedian that once said "remember, America is a country that was founded by people that were too uptight for England."

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[–] nozone@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wasn't he a Mormon? Didn't he already find Jesus Christ? It didn't seem to make a difference at all...

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Mormons aren't Christians, at least according to those Christians who hate Mormons. They might believe in Jesus Christ but they didn't find him. This might seem like a distinction without a difference but only because it is.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] klu9@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Took me longer than I care to admit 😅

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

sorry for my lack of red circles

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[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ypu are mistaken as to how that argument goes.

The idea is that Christianity is a separate faith from Judaism because they have an entirely different set of texts and a different view of the relationship with God and what is expected of the faithful.

Islam is a separate faith of Christianity and Judaism as it too has additional texts and a different perspective on God than what Judaism and Christianity has (which again differ themselves).

Thus LDS is a different faith because it has a wholly new set of texts, it has a radically different view of the relationship with God than every other Abrahamic faith, and we have a lot of evidence that suggests Joseph Smith was outright fabricating everything. That's a critical difference and suggests it should be seen as something else following the same standards applied to all otherAbrahamic faiths.

[–] livejamie@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say "wholly new set," more like "additional set."

The KJB is a foundation of their theology and taught in all their churches.

And yeah, he was making everything up; that's how you start any religion. :)

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All of Smith’s texts are wholly new fabricated by him.

The fact is we don’t have the quantity of evidence for the fabrication of most faiths to the extent we have for LDS.

[–] livejamie@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

True, it's relatively new compared to the others.

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[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (36 children)

They found him at a 7/11 in Missouri, and then they get their own planet when they die. They’re like the Scientologists of Christianity. Which I think was L Ron Hubbard’s point.

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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (10 children)

He doesn’t know the right Jesus. There are too many Jesus’s and everyone thinks their Jesus is the right one.

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So when they finally caught the shooter, I exclaimed "oh thank god he's white" and did a fist pump.

Everyone in the office break room turned, looked at me, noted that I'm brown and then just nodded safely. A couple dudes smiled in solidarity.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago

Didn't we already know that from the released footage.

I suspected he would be right wing as well, after all they're the ones with all of the guns and both people who tried to assassinate trump were right wing, which is why the republicans immediately stopped to talking about them, and trump stopped wearing his stupid bed sheet of a bandage.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bring back? Isn’t Utah one of the fuckwit medieval states (I mean the whole country is rotten but still) that still has bloodlust punishment?

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And yet, a fascist was still eradicated! Are you trying to tell me murdering murderers doesn't prevent murders?
Who knew!?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Man creates state.
State creates monster.
Man kills monster.
State kills man.

-Thus Spoke Magathustra

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[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The far-right stuff isn't proven yet. He just seems terminally online.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 week ago

Bare minimum he was a maga kid in a maga family, and that's the reason for her change of tone. None of the other stuff is relevant to the point here.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Right. I see people here, who I share a lot of the same views with, as doing the same as the extreme right and just running with whatever is trending and not actually looking for the truth.

We can’t trust anything that is said by the media until we learn the actual full details.

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 10 points 1 week ago

Nothing is proven yet for anything, even that he was the shooter.

That said - these are all very specific references for a very specific community, even down to his Halloween costumes.

I'd be absolutely shocked if he held any belief that hinted toward the actual left.

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[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's a groyper, who is arguing he's not far right ?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know it's bad enough that we have Nazis again for some reason. But worst of all they are now super duper cringe. I bet actual Nazis refuse to hang out with them because they're so embarrassing.

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[–] elvith@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, that’s NOT what he’d want. He’d want us to bail him out: https://xcancel.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1587127536122732544

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[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m just wondering if the TPUSA folks are gonna get even with Nick Fuentes or if they are going to let the groypers get away with it like the little bitches they are.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

Him being killed by gang violence right after saying "including gang violence" is just the cherry on top.

[–] brambc@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-suspect-is-a-gun-loving-trump-supporter/ This explained pretty well what the references are. The Bella ciao etc. were used ironically, but I’m not seeing this being reported anywhere else.

They will let Fuentes get away with it an just deny the truth.

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not that hypocrisy carries any weight on the right, but for those who are keeping score.

For a fascist, overt hypocrisy is a sign of strength.

The sheep are bound by their previous statements. The lions do whatever they want.

When you accuse a fascist if hypocrisy, you are giving them a big, big compliment.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Is there some kind of “online discourse” about using the term far right instead of non left? That’s ridiculous.

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone else finds the casing engraving situation to be a bit strange?

From a CNN article:

Officials who spoke during a news conference Friday did not address whether the inscriptions included references to trans people, but none of the writings they described appear to have any connection to that community. One law enforcement source told CNN that some of the markings instead appear to be a reference to video games.

Seems to me like they have no idea what they mean? Why have they not shared the actual engravings? They did that for the not-Luigi shooting, so I wonder what's different.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Anyone else finds the casing engraving situation to be a bit strange?

This is the best explanation I've seen (and I do think the engravings are shared out there somewhere)

I'm not steeped in internet culture enough to have known all this Groyper stuff before, though I'd heard the term. However, this has the ring of truth to me, and is consistent with other Groyper descriptions I've seen.

This is the explanation I'm seeing most often outside mainstream media where they are too busy running around trying to analyze it and speak truthfully about his life without getting fired.

More or less the same point but with more information here: https://www.tiktok.com/@aidanetcetera/video/7549640789652032790

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do we have any evidence of his political views from a named source that is verified to have been in close contact with him before the shooting?

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Is that a requirement for a meme about Nancy Mace's abrupt about-face? It seems a bit rigorous for a community where we share mostly regurgitated memes and screenshots.

I feel pretty satisfied. The viewer can make up their own mind, or find their own sources.

Edit: We can replace "far right" with the easily verified "not leftist" without changing the meme whatsoever, primarily because the meme is about Nancy Mace and her mercurial, disingenuous opinion, not (directly) about the shooter.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

I think we should be careful promoting any claims as to why he killed Kirk. The narrative surrounding the Columbine school shooting was that the killers were loner loser nerds who were bullied and acting in revenge. The FBI profile released years later suggested they were bullies, weren't popular nor unpopular and one of the killers likely had ASPD and would have potentially killed people in other situations.

We should be very careful how we promote the views of people involved in this crime until we know why he did it.

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[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just when you think the US Congress could stoop no lower than Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace steps up to the plate and hits it way out of the park.

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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bring back? Do you currently not have the death penalty? That’s blowing my mind. I had no idea that was abolished in the US.

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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think she was expecting a brown person to be the shooter and then she saw the news.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago

They were very sure that it could only be one of the millions of people in groups that were explicitly targeted by Kirk. Given how broadly he spread his hate, they had pretty good odds.

She rolled the dice and lost on her kneejerk reaction, and is surely lacking in enough self awareness to even have noticed, let alone feel any shame about it, I'm sure.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

Christofascism in a nutshell 🤷

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