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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

same sl0bslack author has this piece (complete with punchy LLMisms)

https://thecycle.substack.com/p/please-stop-trying-to-murder-trump

Before his murder, Kirk was influential, sure. After his murder, he became something much bigger. A symbol. A martyr. Turning Point exploded with energy, attention, emotional intensity, and recruitment after his death. In death, Kirk became more powerful than he was alive. Now multiply that effect by a million and attach it to Donald Trump.

Uh didn't I recently read how TPUSA has basically imploded just half a year since this dipshit got his head blown off (sorry "destroyed at a debate")? Everyone with eyes to see could tell that the right jumped on this as a Reichstag fire analog, prepared to usher in a new consensus, but it fizzled out after a couple of weeks (unfortunately not before a number of people lost their jobs)

Trump is sui generis. He's not a person universally beloved. He's a deeply polarizing chaos agent who has twisted the right into his weird image, but the point is, that image is incoherent and changes with his moods daily. There's no Trump ideology other than what's in his Truth social feed at the moment.

Would he being assassinated bring peace and order to the land? No. Would it usher in a new thousand year Republican age? Also no. Would it be bad. Yes, but not as bad as this pseudo-leftist believes.

Also it goes without saying, don't assassinate people.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

At least the retiree who was jailed for 37 days for posting a meme has gotten a settlement:

https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-after-first-amendment

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

kirk's mentor died from covid before, but kirk was face of this org so it had to end this way. i think that fuentes tried to do entryism there with low degree of success. i only got reminded of this dipshit once after he died, 2w ago, nobody cares at this point about his org, it's a spent force