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misanthrope

(9,387 posts)
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:31 PM Sep 2025

Here's a couple of mainstream outlets telling the truth

ABC News

As voices across the political spectrum call to lower the temperature following the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, many in the MAGA world are mourning his loss, with some enraged and escalating their rhetoric online.

Across social media, some of the most popular voices in the pro-Trump movement are calling for a crackdown on Democrats and for the Trump administration to take action in the aftermath of the killing.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/charlie-kirks-killing-maga-world-185738694.html


NBC News

A stew of hypertoxic rhetoric has surged through social media and American discourse after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, inflaming a political environment that was already deeply polarized.

The most concerning messages, experts told NBC News, are proclamations from far-right activists, Republican politicians and conservative influencers about a coming civil war and the need for retribution or payback against the left for Kirk’s killing. The phrase “civil war” has spiked on social media and in Google searches.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/toxic-rhetoric-proliferates-charlie-kirk-killing-rcna230687?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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Here's a couple of mainstream outlets telling the truth (Original Post) misanthrope Sep 2025 OP
Well, the gutter mouths will reveal themselves out in the open w/ their proclamations before too long, revealing SWBTATTReg Sep 2025 #1
Kick BlueWaveNeverEnd Sep 2025 #2
I swear, sometimes I can't help but suspect that the U.S. is coming apart at the seams. calimary Sep 2025 #3
THE LEFT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT Jimvanhise Sep 2025 #4
Got a link to real news? WarGamer Sep 2025 #5
So if you have the accurate info...let's see it. Brenda Sep 2025 #7
It's all over, I don't need to post it. WarGamer Sep 2025 #9
What is all over? Brenda Sep 2025 #12
YOu'd be right if one source or two were reporting something. WarGamer Sep 2025 #14
I reckon the truth canetoad Sep 2025 #19
The only way this family or anyone near them will see any succor is in the arms of the right AZJonnie Sep 2025 #22
Pay no attention. Kingofalldems Sep 2025 #17
Look up fuentes. DiverDave Sep 2025 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author WarGamer Sep 2025 #10
Oh, please. DiverDave Sep 2025 #18
Yep. David Shuster made a little-noticed post on X the other day... keep_left Sep 2025 #21
Saunter up to Just Jerome Sep 2025 #6
Why and what for is the crackdown on Democrats? Brenda Sep 2025 #11
there IS no bar for straight white repukes Skittles Sep 2025 #13
Ding Fuckin Ding Skittles! Brenda Sep 2025 #16
Lower the Temperature? BidenRocks Sep 2025 #15
Retribution for the killing of Kirk would be aimed at Fuentes and the Groypers, right? Martin Eden Sep 2025 #20

SWBTATTReg

(26,073 posts)
1. Well, the gutter mouths will reveal themselves out in the open w/ their proclamations before too long, revealing
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:41 PM
Sep 2025

just how toxic they really are to everyone else. Loud mouths always crave an audience, not realizing just how damaging it will be to them.

calimary

(89,121 posts)
3. I swear, sometimes I can't help but suspect that the U.S. is coming apart at the seams.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:47 PM
Sep 2025

WHAT “United” States of America???

I hate having to say or post it. What’s even harder to accept is how disunited our country is.

Jimvanhise

(566 posts)
4. THE LEFT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:48 PM
Sep 2025

Charlie Kirk was not only killed by a conservative political opponent, but by someone who thought that Kirk wasn't extreme enough. It is the right eating their own. What do they say about that?

Brenda

(1,936 posts)
7. So if you have the accurate info...let's see it.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:53 PM
Sep 2025

Real news. What is that? What the President of the United States says?

What the Governor of Utah says?

Has there been a trial?

WarGamer

(18,256 posts)
9. It's all over, I don't need to post it.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:57 PM
Sep 2025

But the groyper/Fuentes/to the right of CK thing is BS.

Brenda

(1,936 posts)
12. What is all over?
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 06:07 PM
Sep 2025

So basically you are saying that the MSM is in agreement and therefore there is no other real story?

Wow, within 4 days you have determined that any right wing associations are BS.

That is pretty much the opposite of what any real detective would say or do.

WarGamer

(18,256 posts)
14. YOu'd be right if one source or two were reporting something.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 06:14 PM
Sep 2025

Last edited Sun Sep 14, 2025, 07:22 PM - Edit history (1)

But they have quotes from the killers family, they have quotes from the "rommates" family, they have the discord messages post shooting...

canetoad

(20,276 posts)
19. I reckon the truth
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 07:19 PM
Sep 2025

Will sit somewhere in the middle of the opposing BS that's being touted, when it eventually comes out.

AZJonnie

(2,889 posts)
22. The only way this family or anyone near them will see any succor is in the arms of the right
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 02:39 AM
Sep 2025

Not to mention, they're far right to begin with. The last thing any of these associated people want to do at this point is paint TR as "one of them". And I'm sure all they're getting from Trump's FBI is encouragement to come with ANY way they can paint the kid as a "leftist".

What are these post shooting Discord messages supposedly saying, and what's the source?

I'm not saying you're wrong or anything but everything should be taken w/a grain of salt. Literally nobody who's supplying any sort of evidence want's Tyler to appear right-wing, esp. not an extremist RWNJ, from the family to the investigators. I'm just saying.

DiverDave

(5,219 posts)
8. Look up fuentes.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:56 PM
Sep 2025

The shooter followed him. Fuentes hated kirk.
But, I suspect you knew that.

Response to DiverDave (Reply #8)

keep_left

(3,167 posts)
21. Yep. David Shuster made a little-noticed post on X the other day...
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:34 PM
Sep 2025

...about the shooter's admiration for Fuentes/Groyper ideology. It made the rounds (including here), but I forgot to bookmark it. I found the OP by Shuster (from 9/12) this afternoon.

According to Utah officials + police interviews with his family, Tyler Robinson hated Charlie Kirk because Kirk wasn't conservative enough. (Robinson reportedly admired Nick Fuentes). GOPer's now scrubbing X posts about dems faster than DOJ erases Trump name in Epstein files.



https://democraticunderground.com/100220640234#post75
https://democraticunderground.com/100220636185#post71

Just Jerome

(437 posts)
6. Saunter up to
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:52 PM
Sep 2025

the edge of actual journalism and bat their eyes while barely touching their toe to the line.

Brenda

(1,936 posts)
11. Why and what for is the crackdown on Democrats?
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:59 PM
Sep 2025

You mean like people talking and writing words about how Stephen Miller talks in Nazi language?

How about a crackdown on Radical Republican Right Wing violence issued daily by known terrorist organizations like the Neo Nazi's, the Oath Keepers and well, the words of all those social media, radio, right wing TV shows who advocate for VIOLENCE?

Skittles

(169,740 posts)
13. there IS no bar for straight white repukes
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 06:13 PM
Sep 2025

they can try to OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT and be pardoned for it

BidenRocks

(2,814 posts)
15. Lower the Temperature?
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 06:14 PM
Sep 2025

Now is the time to put hate and racism, etc. on BLAST!

Too Soon? Fuck you!

Our children deserve better than being indoctrinated by the likes of Charlie Kirk!

Prove Me Wrong

M'Kay!

Martin Eden

(15,381 posts)
20. Retribution for the killing of Kirk would be aimed at Fuentes and the Groypers, right?
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 08:41 PM
Sep 2025

I mean, they have to know by this time "the Left" had nothing to do with the assassination.

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