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Finally, one of the crackpot theories about the Charlie Kirk murder makes some crazy sence, An earlier DU thread mentioned the Groypers in connection to the shooting and I didn't get that connected right away, but now I think I understand it. The DU thread that ties the shooter to the Groypers is at:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20633669
A trip to Wikipedia lays out the Groyper War with Charlie Kirk clearly. I had forgotten about that somehow. See it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers
The identified shooter has been linked to the Groyper movement. If you put it all together, after reading the two links above, you'll see the connection clearly. Tyler Robinson apparently was a self-described Groyper, and you can find the reference to that in the first link.
Nick Fuentes and the Groypers have been at war with Charlie Kirk for a long time. They don't consider Kirk to be far enough right, and his success in drawing crowds has fared better than Fuentes has.
This truly could be an instance of the right fighting the farther right for domination of the extreme right of the Republican Party. Perhaps Tyler Robinson took the opportunity of Kirk's appearance in Utah to take action.
Makes the most sense of anything I've heard. Go check the links.

maxsolomon
(37,337 posts)Red herrings?
Groypers consider Kirk a Fascist but they're not?
yardwork
(67,943 posts)It's really hard to tell. These people play act on the internet with symbols and memes. They think it's a big game.
I think that it's difficult to understand how childish and unserious they are. We try to make sense of something that is deliberately nonsense.
OneGrassRoot
(23,821 posts)This administration is losing control of their own youth base, because they're fighting amongst themselves in ways that make no sense to people not familiar with Fuentes, Kirk, Groypers, edgelord, how important memes are in their world and so forth.
It does seem like nonsense but it's cloaking dark, dangerous shit.
Wicked Blue
(8,218 posts)I suspect we're not getting details because Traitor and his evil minions are wracking their tiny minds trying to figure out a way to morph Robinson into a lefty liberal.
Don't you love the smell of fascists fighting each other?
underpants
(192,816 posts)DEI is Nazi.
Anything not far right enough (they are waaaasy far right) is Nazi.
Kirk, following along with the ever changing MAGA creed, supported Israel = Nazi to Groypers.
Celerity
(51,891 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao
"Bella ciao" (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbɛlla ˈtʃaːo]) is an Italian song dedicated to the partisans of the Italian resistance, who fought against the occupying troops of Nazi Germany and the collaborationist Fascist forces during the liberation of Italy.
"Bella Ciao" (Goodbye, Beautiful) is an Italian workers' song that gained popularity for association with the Anti-Fascist partisans of the Committee for National Liberation (Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, CLN). It was first written in the late 1800s and sung by striking farmers in Northern Italy, but modern lyrics dedicated to the Partisans became popular in the 20th century, effectively transforming it into an anti-fascist anthem, even if it does not find its actual roots in the Italian Civil War. These days it is one of the most popular anti-fascist songs of all time, if not the most popular. Performed here by my favourite choir, the Trieste Partisan Choir (Traki partizanski pevski zbor / Coro partigiano Triestino).
yardwork
(67,943 posts)As I said, there's a lot of play acting and foolishness among these people.
Just because they adopt a meme or slogan or song doesn't mean they understand what it means or aren't using it in a double-triple ironic way.
We just don't know. And we probably won't ever know because TrumpCo can't be trusted.
vanlassie
(6,103 posts)Nt
darkstar
(5,710 posts)But see this as well as for recent appropriation by alt right:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220634618
róisín_dubh
(12,118 posts):My Italian best mate would have a stroke if she read that literal fascists were using this song or iterations of it in any way to defend their beliefs.
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still-prayin4rain
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Johnny2X2X
(23,367 posts)They claim DEI is fascism. They claim all sorts of things are fascism. And in this case Robinson might have considered Kirk fascist for supporting Israel.
But it could just be stuff he etched on his ammo from a video game too.
Not everything means something, but Robinson appears to be from the Alt Right.
LeftInTX
(33,694 posts)"DEI is fascist. Obama is fascist. Seat belts are fascist, Speed limits are fascist"
If they don't like it, they call it fascist.
LymphocyteLover
(8,707 posts)mwmisses4289
(2,135 posts)and had nothing to do with whatever nonsense the rwnjs were spouting.
radical noodle
(10,396 posts)the others were on the casings, at least that's the way I understood it.
littlemissmartypants
(29,614 posts)They were mocking the furry lifestyle and related to a video game. Some things are straight-forward others tongue-in-cheek. Engraved/messages on ammunition is a standard war time tradition. So not really unique or unusual.
IbogaProject
(4,932 posts)So until we see any pictures of these alleged ingravings. And we can judge the killer by his own actions in total not follow where the media jumped with nothing else to talk about.
mcar
(45,291 posts)and not one Republican will ever apologize for ginning up even more violence with their false claims.
Now they will transition to: lone wolf, disturbed "kid," violent video games, etc. etc.
StarryNite
(11,820 posts)B.See
(6,432 posts)any liberal in his right mind wanting to turn one of these NUTJOBS into a martyr, anyway.
Especially seeing as how CERTAIN MAGAS are doing a pretty damn good job of shooting their OWN selves in the foot.
Drum
(10,421 posts)Nick Fuentes: A White Nationalist Problem for the Right
For years, conservatives hoped that the notorious white nationalist would go away. Instead, Mr. Fuentes has gained more traction, even while opposing the president.
Excerpt:
Until a month or two ago, Nicholas J. Fuentes was regarded by right-wing influencers as a mosquito-like interloper whose lifeblood was attention. Ignore his openly racist and sexist rants, their thinking went, and Mr. Fuentes would eventually flitter off into oblivion.
But today an entirely different consensus has emerged on the right. The footprint of the oratorically proficient late-night streaming show host has not dwindled in the least, with his tens if not hundreds of thousands of alienated young male conservatives followers known as Groypers, a nickname derived from an alt-right meme. If anything, his anti-Israel, anti-immigrant, anti-transgender and anti-civil-rights views seem to have gained new currency during the second Trump administration.
There is now growing alarm among leading conservatives about Mr. Fuentes, who routinely tests the cultlike devotion of his young male fans by savaging their patriarchal figure, President Trump, for not being right-wing enough. In the process, he has emerged as one of the loudest voices on the right to turn on the president.
When I was a teenager, I thought he was a Caesar-like figure who was going to save Western civilization, Mr. Fuentes, 27, said in an interview. Now I view him as incompetent, corrupt and compromised.
Gift Link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/nick-fuentes-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU8.Sk6g.xqlqF0t9tadk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Pretty amazing timing, no?
usonian
(20,313 posts)I was friends with a conservative fellow. I helped him compose and print a resume.
He later joined the Marines, and somewhere along the line, worked for a weapons lab.
Oddly, we agreed about Nixon, from opposite points of view.
You know my reasons. He considered Nixon a fuckup, for not pushing the right wing agenda forcefully enough.
I don't think he enumerated the failures. I just vividly remember "fuckup".
Freethinker65
(11,201 posts)He might say that stuff about Trump now, but actually he was originally for Rubio. Then went to Iowa to check out the campaigning and caucuses, was going to switch to Cruz but said he witnessed a speaking in tongues event that was batshit insane. Didn't know who to support after that. Like many, I don't think he ever expected the nominee to be Trump. No contact with the guy since HS. Always was an opportunist tho.
Mosby
(19,014 posts)Sent some of them over the edge.
underpants
(192,816 posts)Thanks Mineral Man.
littlemissmartypants
(29,614 posts)kimbutgar
(25,962 posts)Wow, the Fox propaganda and the reich media must be twisting themselves into pretzels defending him!
Ive been reading g the Drudge Report lately and he really hates the orange pedo felon and hes reporting via the Wall Street journal the guy was registered as non partisan.
herding cats
(19,799 posts)They didn't say he'd become a leftist at any point. They just tossed the childish engravings out and basically said you make the connection. Then Trump and his band of merry minions screamed it's all on the leftist/liberals.
Let's be honest if they had anything solidly linking him to the left they'd be screaming it from the rooftops. That they're not speaks volumes and does open up a possibility of him being a Groyper. His family were definitely RWers.
Botany
(75,254 posts)Gyropers image
The Groyper movement has been described as white nationalist, homophobic, nativist, fascist, sexist, antisemitic, and an attempt to rebrand the declining alt-right movement. Wiki
So the shooter wasnt trans, he wasnt a liberal, but he was raised in a gun loving Republican home.
MineralMan
(149,746 posts)Botany
(75,254 posts)
.. support for Israel. Mental illness, fringe views, a Republican, and a Christian Gun Toting
and thanx to our sick gun culture and he could get a rifle no problems.
malaise
(288,846 posts)Rec
MineralMan
(149,746 posts)underpants
(192,816 posts)It was too much of a coordinated attack on X and even Facebook. No influencer one upping the next either as is the norm.
Someone recognized the language and the projection was on - Look over there!
SunSeeker
(56,612 posts)Bluetus
(1,512 posts)Anybody can post a picture of Fuentes.
SunSeeker
(56,612 posts)Listen to the actual video. The quote by the Fuentes Updates account post is not quite accurate.
Link to tweet
Cha
(314,213 posts)got that name.. now I know.. Yuck!
"Kirk is a bigger enemy than AOC".
Kirk's parents raised a sniper.

The Perfect Storm.
FarPoint
(14,196 posts)We must keep this information from getting buried.....they will not like owning this.
FrankTC
(251 posts)If Kirk's murder can be said to have its amusing aspect (admittedly, it can't), this would have to be it: The RWNJs who have been slavering for liberal blood, yowling about how progressives, with their three-syllable words, have promoted a culture of violence and death, now find that Tyler cultist is one of theirs: A far-out cultist for whom not even Charlie cultist was cultist enough. The farce is strong with this one.
Initech
(106,242 posts)And the biggest social media shit casters are in the world's biggest circular firing squad and circle jerk with each other, you can bet the extremists are plotting against each other. People say MAGA are like we're living in Idiocracy. I say it's more like we're living in Game Of Thrones.
Initech
(106,242 posts)
Sneederbunk
(16,669 posts)littlemissmartypants
(29,614 posts)Deep State Witch
(12,182 posts)For White Supremacists.
FakeNoose
(38,561 posts)We need to offset the screaming MAGA-cultists who are blaming "the Left" and the Dems for the murder of Charlie Kirk.
There HAD TO BE a better explanation and I think you've found it!
MineralMan
(149,746 posts)The information was already out there.
diane in sf
(4,184 posts)And as usual the murderer is another young male incel type. Right winger incels do most of the political murdering in this country.
MineralMan
(149,746 posts)So it always goes.
Justice matters.
(8,848 posts)Another young idiot life wasted by the hate industrial complex, violent video games addicts and dark-web stupidity.
MineralMan
(149,746 posts)Justice matters.
(8,848 posts)But he was not. Thousands like him. It's a big problem with the education system at the moment. Who is to blame? Better: What can be done about it?
Charlotteville was forgotten fast.
rubbersole
(10,468 posts)...you've passed the "mentally ill" stage and have a kool-ade IV drip straight into your brain. And there are thousands of these incel fuckwads out there armed and itching to go. Thankfully we have the FBI to protect the country. Oh, wait.
Sneederbunk
(16,669 posts)Apparently, to Fuentes, CK was Ernst Rohm.
MiHale
(12,136 posts)Eating their own. This could turn real ugly.
Jilly_in_VA
(12,977 posts)Turf wars.
Joinfortmill
(18,885 posts)littlemissmartypants
(29,614 posts)ananda
(33,060 posts)If so, his security sure was lax.
MineralMan
(149,746 posts)Thank goodness.
ananda
(33,060 posts)If he did know, he was a special brand of stoopid.
And if he didn't know, he was still a special brand of stoopid.
W_HAMILTON
(9,521 posts)Wiz Imp
(6,967 posts)In your opinion grok what do these symbols track his political beliefs in?
This crowd positions itself as hyper-patriotic, pro-Trump conservatives who see mainstream Republicans like Charlie Kirk as sellouts or "fake conservatives" infected by globalism, liberalism, or even fascism-lite. The "bulges OWO" bit is a crude, mocking nod to transphobic memes that originated on Tumblr but got co-opted by right-wing trolls to "spot" trans people in crowdspure Groyper-style bigotry. "Bella Ciao" flips an anti-fascist WWII partisan song into ironic ammo for ridiculing leftists, while tying into their beef with "fascist" establishment figures like Kirk (whom Fuentes has repeatedly trashed). The "gay" taunt is straight-up homophobic bait, emblematic of the group's anti-LGBTQ venom. And "Catch this fascist"? That's a direct shot at Kirk, framing the attack as purging a traitor from the right.
Overall, it's not antifa or trans activismit's the toxic underbelly of the MAGA ecosystem, where online radicalization turns personal grievances into violence against perceived ideological impurities. Robinson's Republican registration and Trump donations fit the profile: a young guy steeped in gun culture and pandemic-era echo chambers, lashing out at "the enemy within" on his own side. Tragic, but a reminder that extremism doesn't care about party linesit just amplifies hate.
spanone
(140,114 posts)Deep State Witch
(12,182 posts)For White Supremacists.
Bookreadingliberal53
(114 posts)Nick Fuentes had Thanksgiving dinner with Donald Trump at Mar A Lago back in 2022.
BigmanPigman
(53,691 posts)I didn't fully understand the details but now I do. This makes sense!
Maybe they'll do us a favor and just kill each other.
Justice matters.
(8,848 posts)Thank you from Canada!
Nimble_Idea
(2,821 posts)