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arrow74@lemmy.zip 6 days agoAllegedly the guy who shot Charlie Kirk was a right extremist who’s take was Kirk was too moderate.
So far I think it’s a bet gain for democracy though.
It’s an interesting hypothesis
plyth@feddit.org 6 days ago
Wasn’t that assumed because of the family, but he actually turned left?
en.wikipedia.org/…/Assassination_of_Charlie_Kirk
arrow74@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Fair enough.
This does not support my hypothesis
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 days ago
My hypothesis is that the reason we’ve been seeing a lot of significant assassination attempts come from people who had been far right but are recently disillusioned or having a leftward turn is that the right has been priming and training itself for political violence for years (since about Ruby Ridge and Waco) and been engaged in the behavior they’re justifying their training and rhetoric by saying they need to violently stop governments from acting this way. So you have people ready to do violence, prepared to stop overreaching or totalitarian governments, and when these people stop being blinded by the propaganda, they start to see that behavior in their party and the ones who were actually ready to do violence do it.