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This might be the clearest example of “making a martyr out of him” in recent memory.
I heard this phrase in movies and books growing up. People would say “nah we can’t kill him, that would just make a martyr out of him.” And I would always think come on, is that really going to stop someone from killing a rebel or agitator or whatever?
Well, we saw a second rate YT political influencer elevated to “13th disciple in Valhalla” status just by being shot. So I guess there’s your answer.
meh, it’s still great he’s dead and in the most ironic way possible. this “martyr” stuff was always worrying about nothing. do you really think any of them (except Candice Owens i think?) cared at all that he is dead? nope they only saw his corpse as a means to climb higher. just like the random car jacking of some nobody was justification to have the national guard lock down two cities. if they don’t have an excuse they would find one anyway.
I mean… Is he more annoying? I just see his wife and “friends” jumping onto his corpse to cash in within minutes
It’s a very clear reminder of who these people are
Previously he was easy to ignore. I didn’t even know who he was until I googled it after he died. Now that The Cult of the Mango Mussolini has decided to make it a thing, you can’t get away from it.
Imagine wanting to deify such a horrible person.
Well, I’d rarely run into his content, but he was very, very widely boosted on short form video platforms
You might have been able to ignore him directly, but the indirect influence he had is unavoidable
“Strike me down and I’ll become more annoying than you can possibly imagine”
come on, at least make his face the correct size…
You think it will be the same for Trump? Worth it still.
Let’s find out!
Worse, he’s now annoying outside the US. Bunch of right-wingers who two weeks ago didn’t know he existed feeling personally under attack.
The other concerning thing is like with most terrorist organizations when you take out a leader someone more radicalized will take there spot.
yeah but they’re well within “diminishing returns” territory on how much worse they can get
Definitely yes I’m very optimistic that whoever replaces him will be stupider and worse.
I didn’t even know who this asshole was, until he got shot.
Same. It even took me a while to notice that he had been shot, because all I could think was “who is that guy and who photoshopped his face to 50% size in ALL these pictures of him?” Eventually I slowed down and read the articles in my feed and realized that is just how he truly looked.
Vaguely, and only because toilet paper USA existed on Reddit.
Turning him into the new ‘Murican Yesus
Hat take: He isn’t even dead. The whole thing was staged. Just look at the crowds at his funeral … can you imagine to manage an event that huge in just a couple of days?
Benadryl is not your friend dude
Weird version of the Streisand Effect
It’s the ultimate defense. Make people not want to kill anyone else.
I mean they’ve played a bit of a stupid game with this one
All the wacko gun nuts are on the right, just like the shooter
They’ve demonstrated that if a right wing gun nut shoots a high profile right wing personality, the establishment will blame & target left wing people whilst making excuses and “prayers” for the shooter.
Strategically speaking they have to be really really banking on that guy being the only crazy guy out there with a gun.
I’m ahead of the game. If you go far enough left you get your guns back.
Oh don’t worry I’m aware there are armed responsible leftists
I’ve just not read of any going on an automatic rifle rampage against kids, so I assume the wackos are predominantly on the other side of the divide
It’s John Economos, from Peacemaker!
He was completely obscured by bigger assholes for quite a while now.
A high bar
