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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago (6 children)

this is basically all due to some imaginary change of heart on kirk's part and the resultant conspiracies, right? what a bunch of fucking dweebs

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

right-wingers are going to be making up a bunch of conspiracy theories no matter what, so it's better that the target is Israel and not random trans people.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The target is, in large part, Jews rather than Israel, as can be seen in the "coverage" from one of the biggest proponents of this line, Candace Owens.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Interesting they're trying the "woke right" counternarrative

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That, and "israel" instantly stating "WE DIDN'T DO IT :^)" before the body was cold

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Pissrael benefits from planting the 'we did it' conspiracy seed: it can make people believe the Mossad is all powerful thereby scaring public figures into not speaking against them, and by increasing anti-Semitism in the US and elsewhere abroad which can make Jewish people feel unsafe to whit pissrael offers themselves as a (not actually)safe haven for them to move to increasing there tax base and conscription pool.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

When does a corpse turn cold?

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's driven by convection, so it depends on the heat of the corpse relative to the heat of the surrounding environment, along with the physical condition of the body itself. Assuming an average male body mass, 98.6 degrees F internal temperature, a room temperature of 75 degrees F, and a basically intact corpse wearing light clothing, I looked it up and algor mortis takes about 22 hours to complete. This also assumes normal humidity and no wind.

[–] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Usually after the IOF extracts the reproductive material from fallen male combatants

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Kirk was pretty cold in life, so his death probably instead warmed him up for a few seconds

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Heat is stored in the balls

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

His neck definitely got pretty warm for a few seconds at least

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

idk, it's just a saying

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

OK but their videos saying they definitely didn't kill Kirk has a lot of people asking questions already answered by their videos.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

i need a way to not believe either side

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

He said something critical of Israel shortly before he died and then got sniped solidly. Lord help me I forget what the clip was - but I think a change of heart is a good way to describe it in form. In magnitude it might be too much because I didn't exactly see him decrying the evils of genocide.

The conspiracies were from things like having that old guy claim to have done it, finding a rifle that the guy wasn't seen leaving the roof with, and shit like that. Israel's involvement as a scapegoat came from antisemitism, Netenyahu immediately speaking on it, Netty claiming it wasn't Israel, and Israel's history of doing shit.

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nethanyu held 3 speeches reiterating it wasnt him. Bgood on you to fight his battle...

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

i actually think china had him killed, because right before it happened he made a video talking about how china strayed from the true path of marxism and has been corrupted by capitalism since the dengist reforms