• potoo22@lemmy.world
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    It’s just speculation. No real motive has been determined. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-12/what-we-know-about-the-suspected-killer-of-charlie-kirk

    LA Times wrote this less than 15 minutes ago:

    Investigators are still looking through evidence and trying to determine a motive in the slaying.

    The only things in writing are the words etched into the bullets, and those are mixed. He wrote an anti-fascist statement on a bullet casing and other text on others, but nothing to indicate he had liberal or conservative ideologies. If anything, he appeared to be mostly mad at the whole system.

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      Honestly with this administration, I have a difficult time believing any evidence they provide. The head of the FBI is a fucking podcaster who was able to lie profusely to the point that he caught Trump’s attention. That must take a lot of lying.

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        22 hours ago

        They say the truth can’t get it’s pants on before a lie made it around the world, but I love Lemmy cause mfers come with sources within minutes or hours

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        18 hours ago

        When I first heard about the three arrows, I thought it was a reference to the iron front. This is so much lamer.

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        18 hours ago

        How do you get more explicitly anti-fascist than ‘Hey fascist catch (a bomb)’ and bella ciao?

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          In the game where that code is from, you play as a human soldier fighting for a starship troopers-esque over the top obviously fascist but played for laughs Super Earth Government, and they routinely call the bug aliens fascist while calling in bombing runs on them.

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          “Notices bulges OwO what’s this?” is used within the groypers to make fun of furries, as well as when they are (ugh I hate that I’m about to say this word) “transvestigating”, which is when they “investigate” whether someone is trans or not. Also see “If you read this, you are gay LMAO”

          Bella ciao is also used ironically within the groypers.

          If it was the only thing there… Sure. Its not though, its one of several things, which all have one very specific context - groypers.

          Context is always important.

          Edit: Forgot to add - with Helldivers 2, the joke is you’ve got fascists dropping bombs while saying they are dropping bombs on fascists. Again, a meme reference for groypers.

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            80 years as one of the most recognizable anti fascist anthems vs some random Spotify playlist. Surely he referenced it because it carries the same weight as ASTRO - Slowed Opium Remix.

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              I’d like to raise a few points:

              1. Conservatives are media illiterate.
              2. Deeply online groypers live under 16 layers of irony at all times.
              3. Fascists love pretending that they’re actually heroes fighting the real fascists who want to give people free bread. To a lot of Americans, communist and fascist are the same word.

              I can’t tell you if bella ciao is a popular alt-right meme because I don’t hang out with them, but I can tell you it’s far from impossible.

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        To be fair, my own granny died thinking I was still a card carrying Republican. Sometimes you don’t tell Grandma you are a godless liberal. The old folks don’t really need to know everything. Christmas gets kinda awkward if you do.

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          I am almost 70 grannies and such are long gone. I get to be a godless liberal with no side eye.