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[–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I held my nose and went and had a look over on r/conservative to check the vibe, and boy-howdy do those people live in a separate universe.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Why would I do this to me?!?!

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I dont think they're buying the spin. The maga folks i know arent.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't you worry, they just need 2 more nights of fox news in their veins and they'll be right back.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Didn't even need that long. Right-wing outlets (Fox, Daily Mail) are now posting articles about "sources" (which they do not elaborate on) confirming to them that shooter's roommate was his "transgender partner".


    The Daily Mail tries very hard to imply a romantic partnership in the first few paragraphs despite no evidence of such, then go on to clarify they don't know the relationship details after priming the reader.

    Charlie Kirk shooting suspect 'was living with transgender partner who handed over texts about assassination plot to the police'

    The partner – who shared a three-bedroom apartment with Robinson in Utah – is said to be 'fully co-operating' with the FBI.

    The room-mate is understood to have handed over text messages allegedly sent by Robinson after the killing, apparently saying where to retrieve the rifle used in the assassination after it was left in a wooded area.

    A source told Fox News: 'The shooter was living with a transgender man who was transitioning from male to female.

    'The status of their relationship isn't known. They were friends who enjoyed playing video games together.


    Fox, as usual, doesn't give a shit about waiting for more evidence and just says what they think would get the most engagement:

    Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin lived with transgender partner who is now cooperating with FBI: Officials

    Bureau officials confirmed that Tyler Robinson, 22, was in a "romantic relationship" with the unnamed person, who is a male transitioning to a female, and that they shared an apartment in Saint George, Utah. Those FBI officials told Fox News Digital that Robinson's partner is fully cooperating with the FBI's investigation.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Fox, as usual, doesn’t give a shit about waiting for more evidence and just says what they think would get the most engagement

    Not even that. They know the first message people hear gets stuck in people's heads, even when contradicted and retracted afterwards. If you want to set a narrative, get the message out there first disregarding any facts, especially when you can use some weasel words to dress it up to avoid any legal consequences.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    bluemaga running in right behind them 😁

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is bluemaga a version of the American Democratic Party with similar christo-fascist values and aspirations?

    I think I understand....but don't want to assume, so please extrapolate...

    This is the first I've heard of this.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Bluemaga refers to the Bluedog dems who take their marching orders from the DNC the same way regular maga take theirs from Trump.

    They're the libs who were telling us to shut up and pledge to vote blue in the month following Oct 7th, instead of joining us to tell the dems to stop facilitating a genocide. In 2020 they celebrated how the dems were going to stop Trump's moronic border policy, and in 2024, they celebrated how Biden and Kamala secured the border.

    A subset of BluMaga are BluAnon, they believe Biden was drugged before the debate he did poorly in, that Trump staged his own assassination, and dozens of other wacky conspiracies to explain away the dems sucking shit without accepting that they're both malicious and incompetent.

    The term has been floating around since 2020, but I really noticed the weird reverse loyalty thing going on in 2016 when saying "hey, Hillary might not win, or at least is going to do much worse with this "america is already great you're doing better than ever"" messaging would get you attacked and insulted.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    Spent an hour explaining to my dad that Nick Fuentes was not a leftist. He had a lot of trouble accepting it and refused to accept that it was not trans people.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Looks more likely to be confirmed in the other direction. His parents are maga people, but it's looking pretty likely that the shooter isn't.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, there isn't enough evidence to definitively prove it either way, and much of the evidence out there is tenuous or based on anonymous sources or tweets.

    I agree that the claim he's on the left is more plausible.

    I don't think we'll know for sure unless he says something.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is the civil war we all want.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You love to see it folks

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  • [+] -25 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I love how it's impossible to tell if you're a republican trying to smear the left or a centrist democrat trying to smear the left.

    The anti-trans hate in the last paragraph doesn't remove any ambiguity.

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