Imagine how cold it is to be turned in by your own father, sure the shooting was wrong and should of never happened at all, but damn, by your own daddy! (That and the kid is also facing capital punishment execution. )
The shot wasn’t that difficult anyway. Children make shots like that.
@Artimas
It was a pretty long distance from the rooftop to where Charlie was sitting just barely off the ground, not a shot a simple amateur could pull off without mere extreme luck.
“Ben Shapiro will be taking over Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point organization.”
If one of my sons did something insane like that, they’d have a lot more to deal with from me than me simply turning them in.
Lots of misinformation out there, but I’ve seen several claims that his family were into guns. As @Ichthus77 link noted, his father is in law enforcement so there were probably at least guns around his whole life, and I’ve seen posts from his mom’s social media showing him at the shooting range.
Also seeing more speculative chatter about connections to ‘groypers’/Nick Fuentes. Apparently the messages on the bullet casings that are being described as ‘antifacist’ are also used in groyper subcultures.
Again, lots of bullshit out there, but there’s a noticeable hush from the retribution/scorched-earth crowd since he was identified.
I swear to you as i lie here and type these words in agonizing pain that before i saw that gif i was gonna explain how Captain Kirk had the Shapiro syndrome, a medical condition that makes you more intelligent than Podcasters and college kids but not smart enough to survive a real philosopher, so you spend your life surrounded by imbeciles who you constantly pwn with your opinions so you begin feeling like a boss. You adopt that cocky entitled chess playing dork intellectual thing where you’re always the sharpest in the room and are being bothered by all the questions your audience is asking you. Too good for this stupid argument, etc.
We’re psychically connected astrologically bro because we are both Cap/Tigers born on the same fuckin day. You are EXACTLY one cycle behind me, the next gen of Cap/Tigers, bro.
It really isn’t that difficult of a shot. People in the gun community are saying it’s not that difficult either, I owned guns before and would go shooting, with a scope and type of rifle on a clear day like that, with elevation, not too hard of a shot. He was probably aiming for the chest and got him in the side of the neck instead. At least that’s what is speculated within the shooting community.
He wasn’t moving or anything, just sitting there still, makes it even easier of a shot.
So… a groyper is an alt-right… white nationalist… anti-fascist… that shoots people who aren’t extreme enough‽ Help me understand.
Something like that. Their use of the word “fascism” appears to be some combination of irony and in-group slang – they often use ‘fascist’ to refer to Jews.
But they don’t like Kirk, they’ve got a history of beefing with him and his fans, and it seems to have dialed up recently because of Kirk’s about-face on Epstein.
Still speculative, though. And unless the shooter issues a statement or something, there’s a good chance we never get a complete explanation of his politics.
He by definition can’t be anti fascist because he literally just committed one of the acts that the umbrella word that Fascism is defined by..
Suppression of Opposition:
Political opposition is actively and forcibly suppressed, often through violence and intimidation
So if anything, he is a closeted becoming fascist, without even knowing it.
His family put out a statement that even though of his conservative republican upbringing he turned against it for leftist politics.
Of course what holds up for leftist politics in this nation is stupid identity bullshit and nothing of actual substance, meaning he is a neoliberal democrat.
I hate Ben Shapiro with a passion, that slimy little dwarf weasel. That guy is everything that is wrong with this nation.
I read the autobiography of the 14th Dalai Lama which is both a historical doco and a spiritual guide, and tells of his escape from Tibet to India.
Excerpt from the Preface of My Land and My People.
When the Chinese Communist armies marched into Tibet in 1950 and occupied the eastern part of it, I and my people found ourselves in a helpless and almost hopeless situation. We appealed to several of the leading nations of the world, and to the United Nations, to intervene on our behalf, but our pleas for help were rejected. It was many centuries since Tibet had been a military power, for we believe in the path of peace and have tried to follow it ever since the wisdom of Lord Buddha was brought to our country from India over a thousand years ago; and since our national life was devoted to our religion, our material resources were very small. So, denied the help of other nations, we were soon overwhelmed by the armed might of China. We sent a delegation to Peking, in the hope of making an honorable treaty, but it was coerced by threats into signing away our sovereignty. Our govemment never ratified the agreement which was forced on us; but it was clear to all of us that if we rejected it, more bloodshed and destruction would inevitably follow. To save my people from worse disaster, I and my govemment tried to abide by 6 PREFACE the agreement, unjust though it was; but the Chinese broke every promise they had made in it. The grim tragedy which followed in Tibet has been told in great detail in the reports of the International Commission of Jurists. In this book, I have tried to give a more personal account of our life in Tibet, and of the sad events which for the present have brought it to an end. I have also mentioned some Principles of Buddhism, and the religious course from suffering to the path of happiness; for nobody can understand Tibet without some understanding of our religion. I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of nonviolence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute and infallible, and was practised in our own time by the Indian saint and leader Mahatma Gandhi
The Dalai Lama celebrated his 90th birthday this year in July.
Yeah, the Dalai Lama is a cool dude, I have massive respect for him even though it’s not the same school of Buddhist thought I follow.
I am more into the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese schools of Buddhism myself.
The invasion of Tibet is bit of a complicated subject that I can’t cover in one post alone tonight. Nonetheless, Tibetan Buddhism is very unique and is a historical treasure that has been around for a long time in history.
It’s clear seeing the family he came from he was no stranger utilizing firearms and rifles, so there’s that.
They’re more like Catholic or Christian republicans who want the government to have more power influencing society the way they want it to be with fascist libertarian capitalist ideals. Nick Fuentes is a mental retard much like Ben Shapiro is.
White nationalism is obviously controversial, I have my own views on that subject and I could talk it about it for endless hours. What’s ironic is that many white nationalists are capitalists where economic capitalism is the very thing that is creating the environment that they hate. Fascist capitalism is the enemy of white nationalism and the white nationalists seem to be the last people to realize this in that ironically not many of them can see who the real political enemy is. White nationalists align themselves with the very things that destroys white nationalism ironically.
The whole nuclear family that ultra conservatives want in this nation for instance is not possible with the current economic capitalist system we have and yet they keep voting for it over and over again.
Well, Zionist Jews are religious political fascists themselves, nonetheless, Nick Fuentes and others probably would be more accurately described as Christian fascists themselves. They think the west is falling into moral nihilism and decadence because the population is turning away from God. They also view economic capitalism as a godly system where anybody who is socialist, communist, or Marxist is aligned against the very values of God.
The Joel Osteen ideology of Christianity where the wealthy are blessed by God’s favor where if you’re poor it’s because you have lived a life of sin turning away against God. That sort of religious sentimentality is pervasive in conservative republican religious spaces everywhere.
Political assassination isn’t unique to political fascism, everybody of all political stripes does it.
It’s rumored he was a part of ANTIFA however, and their connections to the F.B.I. or C.I.A. in this nation is very interesting which is why they have never been absolved by the federal authorities here despite being behind numerous violent attacks over the years.
They claim to be anarchist communists, yet they support things like Israel and the democratic political party. A fake anarchist communism group more likely as a false front.