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JT45242

(3,709 posts)
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 07:18 AM Sep 13

Random thought about Kirk's killer

It hit me in the shower that he told his father that he did it because he had eliminated a fake MAGA anticipating that his father would praise him and be impressed.

MAGA family... kids drifted to Fuentes style MAGAworld and the son thinks this will gain the approval and respect of his father. But father is appalled because he is only Nazi-light...all the hatred and racism but doesn't want to admit he's a Nazi. So dad turns him in.

I've known a lot of Mormon kids who did crazy shit to try to win the respect and love of their cold fathers.

Curious if anyone else has drifted there.

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marble falls

(69,045 posts)
4. He's not living rent free in my brain. The useless shit has been evicted. Screw him. Let the MAGA fetishcize ...
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 08:20 AM
Sep 13

... the little prick. The only one he needs to haunt is TACO. That forgotten named jerk was shot by ultraMAGAS who thought what's his name wasn't MAGA enough. Maybe the message is: TACO isn't MAGA enough.

Crunchy Frog

(28,143 posts)
6. He's not living rent free in my brain either, but this is being treated like a Reichstag fire,
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 08:26 AM
Sep 13

and the possible consequences of that do live rent free in my brain.

And they're doing everything that they possibly can to turn the killer into a "radical leftist" irrespective of the reality of the situation.

marble falls

(69,045 posts)
7. And I refuse to let him become Horst Wessel. The difference is the prick I can't even remember his name ...
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 08:32 AM
Sep 13

... isn't the Reichstag. Wouldn't the Reichstag be the equivalent of the Capital Building? You seem to be giving that dead weasel a little too much gravitas.

That forgotten prick is dead to me and good riddance to bad rubbish.

Crunchy Frog

(28,143 posts)
8. Nothing to do with him. Everything to do with Trump and his minions, and how they plan to take advantage
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 08:39 AM
Sep 13

of the situation to advance their fascist agenda.

I don't personally have any control over whether he gets turned into a Horst Wessel or a Sergei Kirov.

But maybe it will just blow over. Only time and coming events will actually tell.

marble falls

(69,045 posts)
9. And I refuse to play into their corpse fetishizing. Let them have their little cult, acknowledging it ...
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:10 AM
Sep 13

... gives it credence to the suckers.

When they sing the Horst Wessel, I'll be singing la Marseillaise

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Renew Deal

(84,560 posts)
3. I think that's a stretch.
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 08:13 AM
Sep 13

I don’t think it was this political. I think he did it because he could, for the internet, and to give meaning to his life. I also think he was unserious as a person and didn’t really understand the gravity.

marble falls

(69,045 posts)
5. Agreed. I think he was every bit as shallow as the what's his name he shot and the rest of the MAGAts.
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 08:23 AM
Sep 13

Irish_Dem

(77,126 posts)
10. Yes he could have told his father, hoping for approval and praise.
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:43 AM
Sep 13

He learned the hard way that all the MAGA bravado and threats are pure bullshit.
And will cost you life in prison.

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