• Gloomy@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Wouldn’t the bullet that called Kirk a fascist be an indicator of a possible left position held by the shooter?

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      22 hours ago

      Magats like to throw insults, but very often it is evident that they do not understand what the words they use, actually mean. “Fascist”, “Communist”, “Socialist” are all examples of “insults” I’ve been called by obvious magats. I don’t think they understand what TDS is either, even though they all have terminal cases of it. In general, I don’t think magats understand much of anything at all.

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      1 day ago

      I mean, anybody can throw the word “fascism” out there and a wide variety of people purport to hate fascism so shrugs maybe but probably not.

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        22 hours ago

        Yeah, but quoting an antifascist song and writing “hey fascist, catch” on your bullets is one of those things that feels suggestive of the rarer lefty shooter. There was also something initially reported as pro-trans symbolism, but it didn’t sound like a trans symbol I’d seen before.

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        1 day ago

        True, but i still don’t see how it can’t be a game reference and a label applied to Kirk. I don’t see how somebody, who is right wing themselves, would use this. But it makes perfect sense if the shooter was left.