• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It was not a Charlie Kirk meme?

    It was an image macro of a Trump quote dismissing a school shooting. Not to be overly pedantic, but this is an easily verifiable “fact of the matter”.

    This is the post:

    But even snopes seems to get it wrong. And I guess in context with the text posted as part of the image post I suppose you could read into it as being Charlie Kirk related, but its… just posting it at the time of the shooting to highlight the callous nature of Trump doesn’t make it a Charlie Kirk meme?

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        4 months ago

        From the reporting I’ve seen on it so far, its not at all clear to me that any one even reported this/ brought this to police attention in the role of ‘citizen’. From what I can tell in the interview, the sherrif(s?) either were actively monitoring the thread, and/ or were aware of the thread from personal interaction and then chose to intervene?

        The whole thing should be getting FAR more press than it actually is. Its utterly baffling to try and figure out what these Sherrifs think the basis of arrest actually was.

        That all being said, civil liberties are an afterthought in the face of state violence. There should be riots over this.

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    4 months ago

    UK style thought police now coming to a US State near you. The silver lining is that we can now hook up a battery to Orwell’s spinning corpse for unlimited free energy.