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For those who don't find "far-right" to be an applicable descriptor with what is known currently, I acknowledge that the meme creator could have been more precise with their word choice. However, I feel the difference is academic:

We can replace “far right” with the easily verified “not leftist” without changing the meme whatsoever, primarily because the meme is about Nancy Mace and her mercurial, disingenuous opinion, not (directly) about the shooter.

Edit - I modified it, though I still find it to be a distinction without a difference - alt version for those who prefer (whoops missed one first time)

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 65 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So when they finally caught the shooter, I exclaimed "oh thank god he's white" and did a fist pump.

Everyone in the office break room turned, looked at me, noted that I'm brown and then just nodded safely. A couple dudes smiled in solidarity.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 6 days ago

Didn't we already know that from the released footage.

I suspected he would be right wing as well, after all they're the ones with all of the guns and both people who tried to assassinate trump were right wing, which is why the republicans immediately stopped to talking about them, and trump stopped wearing his stupid bed sheet of a bandage.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He's a groyper, who is arguing he's not far right ?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You know it's bad enough that we have Nazis again for some reason. But worst of all they are now super duper cringe. I bet actual Nazis refuse to hang out with them because they're so embarrassing.

Original nazis were pretty damn cringe too.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Anyone else finds the casing engraving situation to be a bit strange?

From a CNN article:

Officials who spoke during a news conference Friday did not address whether the inscriptions included references to trans people, but none of the writings they described appear to have any connection to that community. One law enforcement source told CNN that some of the markings instead appear to be a reference to video games.

Seems to me like they have no idea what they mean? Why have they not shared the actual engravings? They did that for the not-Luigi shooting, so I wonder what's different.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Anyone else finds the casing engraving situation to be a bit strange?

This is the best explanation I've seen (and I do think the engravings are shared out there somewhere)

I'm not steeped in internet culture enough to have known all this Groyper stuff before, though I'd heard the term. However, this has the ring of truth to me, and is consistent with other Groyper descriptions I've seen.

This is the explanation I'm seeing most often outside mainstream media where they are too busy running around trying to analyze it and speak truthfully about his life without getting fired.

More or less the same point but with more information here: https://www.tiktok.com/@aidanetcetera/video/7549640789652032790

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bring back? Do you currently not have the death penalty? That’s blowing my mind. I had no idea that was abolished in the US.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

This is one of those weird right-wing talking points that can be easily disproved. I think this disingenuous discourse contributes to Fox News viewers' perception that crime in the US is out of control when it's actually at its lowest in decades in most cities.

The US does have capital punishment as a federal penalty, but it is not commonly used. There are particular "aggravating" factors to a federal murder charge that can make it eligible for the death penalty.

Capital sentences are far more likely punishments at the state level, and a little more than half of the states still use the death penalty.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Is there some kind of “online discourse” about using the term far right instead of non left? That’s ridiculous.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think some people feel that it's overused. The trouble is that does seem to be how the world works now. You have the left wing politicians, and then you have the far right. Nobody seems to be just moderately right anymore.

So you see a lot of online comments that are accurately describing people as far right to this, and far right that, and it makes it look like the term is overused. But the truth is, the far right are just overly present.

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

You have the left wing politicians

All 4 of them

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[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Just when you think the US Congress could stoop no lower than Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace steps up to the plate and hits it way out of the park.

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[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do we have any evidence of his political views from a named source that is verified to have been in close contact with him before the shooting?

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

Is that a requirement for a meme about Nancy Mace's abrupt about-face? It seems a bit rigorous for a community where we share mostly regurgitated memes and screenshots.

I feel pretty satisfied. The viewer can make up their own mind, or find their own sources.

Edit: We can replace "far right" with the easily verified "not leftist" without changing the meme whatsoever, primarily because the meme is about Nancy Mace and her mercurial, disingenuous opinion, not (directly) about the shooter.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago

I think we should be careful promoting any claims as to why he killed Kirk. The narrative surrounding the Columbine school shooting was that the killers were loner loser nerds who were bullied and acting in revenge. The FBI profile released years later suggested they were bullies, weren't popular nor unpopular and one of the killers likely had ASPD and would have potentially killed people in other situations.

We should be very careful how we promote the views of people involved in this crime until we know why he did it.

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago
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