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tulipsandroses

(7,944 posts)
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 07:13 PM Sep 10

Why is it assumed that the shooter is left wing? Maybe, but Nick Fuentes has been shit talking Kirk and others

I posted this recently
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220573453

Not accusing Fuentes of anything but he said more than a mouthful here - He has a following of nutty folks..

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Why is it assumed that the shooter is left wing? Maybe, but Nick Fuentes has been shit talking Kirk and others (Original Post) tulipsandroses Sep 10 OP
Read this & ask yourself who had motive SheltieLover Sep 10 #1
I hate that I've had to put on my tin foil hat so many times for several incidents over the last 9 months tulipsandroses Sep 10 #6
Yup & this is another SheltieLover Sep 10 #7
Even the Big Balls carjacking makes me go hmmm - how convenient tulipsandroses Sep 10 #8
Absolutely! Same here. SheltieLover Sep 10 #9
Well said . . . Journeyman Sep 10 #12
because, then how can we stand on a box and preach on da principals we have. Nimble_Idea Sep 10 #2
All those clowns have been trying to get a bigger slice Klarkashton Sep 10 #3
I think you will find that the majority of people making that assumption have RockRaven Sep 10 #4
The US public has been propagandized markodochartaigh Sep 10 #5
K&R UTUSN Sep 10 #10
He kicked Nick Fuentes out of TPUSA. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 10 #11

tulipsandroses

(7,944 posts)
6. I hate that I've had to put on my tin foil hat so many times for several incidents over the last 9 months
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 07:37 PM
Sep 10

There are some high profile killings that have made me go hmmm.

tulipsandroses

(7,944 posts)
8. Even the Big Balls carjacking makes me go hmmm - how convenient
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 07:48 PM
Sep 10

Now we will spend the next 2 weeks talking about this instead of justice for the Epstein victims.
I have nothing to say about Kirk other than I wish a better world for his children than what he wanted for them.

Journeyman

(15,386 posts)
12. Well said . . .
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 08:57 PM
Sep 10
I have nothing to say about Kirk other than I wish a better world for his children than what he wanted for them.

RockRaven

(18,028 posts)
4. I think you will find that the majority of people making that assumption have
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 07:17 PM
Sep 10

an agenda and a stake in it being so.

markodochartaigh

(4,091 posts)
5. The US public has been propagandized
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 07:23 PM
Sep 10

into seeing only a left vs. right dichotomy. It is part of what forms the zeitgeist bubble that most people, even the one third who can't be bothered to vote, live in.

Any facts that contradict the bubble, like the two right-wingers who tried to assassinate Trump or the fact that unemployment and recessions are worse under Republicans, just bounce off the bubble.

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