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[Dacvak]

What's that t-shirt?

It looks like it's a bald eagle flying in front of the US flag. Just doing a brief look online, I can't find that design anywhere. But I'm sure someone out there will recognize it and post the shirt in high res soon.

 

[John Bilbo]

 

[cormack12]

 

[th4tguy]

This is going to be another qannon conspiracy nut, isn't it....

 

[th4tguy]

No, the shooter used a bolt-action rifle.

When was that info released?

Nevermind, found it.

 

[Trilobit]

What's that t-shirt?

Probably polyester.

 

[Neander]

Exclusive | Gun recovered in Charlie Kirk assassination revealed — and ammo bore pro-trans, anti-fascist messages: sources

A rifle recovered in the hunt for Charlie Kirk’s assassin contained ammo engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology,” according to preliminary reports from law enforceme…

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[th4tguy]

Told ya. Millenial..

The shooter is described as college age. That isn't Millenial

 

[DragoonKain]

If that is the individual, they definitely came prepared, with glasses to conceal eyes and hat to conceal hairstyle. Trying to tell where that photo came from. Doesn't look like from CCTV, it looks like from another person on a stairwell. Hard to tell though.

 

[daffyduck]

I really don't care what some bearded dude wrote (or didn't write) 2000 years ago. If you still believe in the magic man living in the skies during the year 2025, well, I guess good for you. Keep doing it, but don't try to force others to also live in the same way.

How is speaking about it "forcing"?

 

[Kacho]

The shooter is described as college age. That isn't Millenial

A 29-year-old is a millennial and could easily pass as a college student at a glance.

 

[Madflavor]

A 29-year-old is a millennial and could easily pass as a college student at a glance.

Sure. I don't care if it's Gen Z or Millenial, but the person in that photo could very easily be under the age of 29.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

It feels like MLK Jr. assassination. Maybe CIA is involved.

Or something like JFK or Butler. There was clearly a professional sniper involved that will probably happen to be someone who used to be average etc. We never learnt the truth about Butler anyway. There is clearly something that service services are able to do to produce such killers.

 

[FullMetalx117]

Collective sigh of relief for all sides - dude looks like a normal genz student, possible immigrant but looks american made. don't see any obvious islam affiliations. At first the shirt would imply person is heavily right oriented, which must've freaked them out a little. But he's young so the boomers have an out there too

 

[Madonis]

I hope they can find and arrest this person so that the actual motives and details of the event aren't buried or become conspiracy theory fodder.

 

[Madflavor]

In another display of ResetEra's collective double digit IQ, the majority of them are assuming the shooter is now MAGA based on the shirt he's wearing. Not thinking for a moment that it could possibly be someone trying to blend in and keep a low profile at a right wing gathering.

 

[MarV0]

Yeah, Kirk was not a good person. His murder was abhorrent and unforgivable, of course. That goes without saying from any rational person. But I'm also not going to pretend he was some standup guy.

There was yet another school shooting yesterday, and I'm frankly infinitely more distraught about that.

Here's what Charlie Kirk stood for:

• Anti gay rights, anti gay marriage

• Said that most people are rightfully scared when the plane they're on is flown by a black pilot
• Taylor Swift should reject feminism, adopt conservative lifestyle as a loyal housewife
• No retirement allowed, people should work forever
• Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states
• British Empires Colonialism was a great thing
• The guy who assaulted Paul Pelosi should be let free
• American secularism should be abolished, no more religious freedom
• Multiple black politicians "stole white people's spots"
• MLK Jr was "an awful person"
• The Great Replacement Theory is reality
• Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID
• Guns deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendment
• Women's natural place is under their husband's control
• Parents should prevent their daughters from taking birth control
• George Floyd had it coming, the Jan 6th protestors didn't
• The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake"
• Madani winning in NY is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11
• Muslims only come to America to destabilize Western Civilization
• Palestine "doesn't exist" and those who support it are like the KKK

So a perfectly normal moderate.

 

[Madflavor]

So a perfectly normal moderate.

Call me Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs, but I don't think being Anti Gay Rights is a "moderate" view.

 

[12Goblins]

I hope they can find and arrest this person so that the actual motives and details of the event aren't buried or become conspiracy theory fodder.

glancing resetera this morning I learned that Charlie Kirk set up an assassination attempt on himself that was botched and accidently killed him. Cheers

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Probably polyester.

Plastic is terrible for your skin. I only own one piece of polyester clothing, swim shorts.

 

[12Goblins]

So a perfectly normal moderate.

you can call him a perfectly normal conservative, but not a moderate lol

 

[miller152]

How is speaking about it "forcing"?

I mean advocating for a federal blanket abortion ban is kinda that.

 

[calico]

We saying male or female for the person in the photo? As in their actual sex.

 

[GymWolf]

sharing Grummz because he screenshotted it

Is it me or the first part of his message is grammatically incorrect?

Imagine being upset that the the architect of the insurrection attempt, an active covid and election denier, and climate change denier getting shot.

Wouldn't "got shot" or got killed be more correct than getting shot for how the phrase is formulated?

Honest question.

 

[Roni]

In another display of ResetEra's collective double digit IQ, the majority of them are assuming the shooter is now MAGA based on the shirt he's wearing. Not thinking for a moment that it could possibly be someone trying to blend in and keep a low profile at a right wing gathering.

Man, this has all the signs of a false flag hit.

High profile target; professional hit, yet absolutely ridiculous evidence being left around to be found by police; washes the media clean of a topic the administration has been trying to get rid of.

I personally don't think MAGA did it, in the sense a Trump supporter did it, but absolutely believe this was a government hit.

 

[daffyduck]

Apache Attack helicopter?

 

[Vestal]

We saying male or female for the person in the photo? As in their actual sex.

If I had to profile? Skinny, male, mid twenties with average height given that photo.

The ballcap does look rather odd fitting though.

 

[reinking]

I am afraid we are reaching a terrible boiling point

My only comment for something being tweeted like this is it is not what the "left" wanted. It is what both sides want. This country (the world?) is currently fucked. I have all but stopped following politics because I have watched some of my real life friends from both sides lose their minds over the stupidest stuff. Even people that claim to be open-minded do not really listen to the other points of view. It just becomes the one who can stick to their argument the longest and shout the loudest. I think the biggest problem is, and the real root of it all, is we live in a headline/tweet society. Nobody actually reads details anymore. They just regurgitate talking points from the side they have aligned with. At this point, I am praying for aliens or angels to show up to give us a new enemy to point our rage at. Having a common and bigger enemy seems to be the only way we really work together.


edit - full disclosure, I am on the side of the angels if they show up.

 

[FullMetalx117]

Man, this has all the signs of a false flag hit.

High profile target; professional hit, yet absolutely ridiculous evidence being left around to be found by police; washes the media clean of a topic the administration has been trying to get rid of.

I personally don't think MAGA did it, in the sense a Trump supporter did it, but absolutely believe this was a government hit.

Yeah...they succeeded in the base no longer being upset about the epstein files. They probably wont bring it up for a few years now

 

[EviLore]

We saying male or female for the person in the photo? As in their actual sex.

Safe to assume that the political assassin sniper is a biological male.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

I like to think we've come far from the days of cheering public executions - then I see crowds celebrating the shooting of a man for exercising his First Amendment rights. It's within your right to react however you choose, thanks to that same Amendment, but it's still sad to watch. Celebrating a man's death for using the very freedom that defines this country shows just how far we've slipped.

 

[graywolf323]

glancing resetera this morning I learned that Charlie Kirk set up an assassination attempt on himself that was botched and accidently killed him. Cheers

I had a 'friend' who I thought was just a normal typical leftist claim that Trump had Kirk killed in order to distract from the Epstein scandal

 

[EviLore]

I had a 'friend' who I thought was just a normal typical leftist claim that Trump had Kirk killed in order to distract from the Epstein scandal

News and social media activity has largely already moved away from it, doesn't follow logically.

 

[Boo Who?]

Is it me or the first part of his message is grammatically incorrect?

Imagine being upset that the the architect of the insurrection attempt, an active covid and election denier, and climate change denier getting shot.

Wouldn't "got shot" or got killed be more correct than getting shot for how the phrase is formulated?

Honest question.

I hate that one of my two hobbies has become such a cesspool. At this point, I'm only going to be buying games made in Asia and Eastern Europe.

 

[calico]

Honest question.

'about the' instead of 'that the' would fix it. What you said works too.

As to the point he is making, anyone instrumental in restricting abortion to any significant degree is likely going to be hundreds or thousands ahead in 'lives saved' vs 'deaths caused', and that number will grow with every passing generation. That's some legacy.

 

[spookyfish]

News and social media activity has largely already moved away from it, doesn't follow logically.

I'm thinking logic isn't many people's strong suit, tho--from QAnon to BluAnon.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

I like to think we've come far from the days of cheering public executions - then I see crowds celebrating the shooting of a man for exercising his First Amendment rights. It's within your right to react however you choose, thanks to that same Amendment, but it's still sad to watch. Celebrating a man's death for using the very freedom that defines this country shows just how far we've slipped.

There were people cheering as it unfolded, not fearing for their lives but happy with what they saw.

The reply Tweet has the man celebrating

 

[Trilobit]

His nose looks like it is weirdly far from his lips, unless the photo is skewed somehow. He should be quite recognizable to people otherwise.

 

[Days like these...]

It feels like MLK Jr. assassination. Maybe CIA is

Man, this has all the signs of a false flag hit.

High profile target; professional hit, yet absolutely ridiculous evidence being left around to be found by police; washes the media clean of a topic the administration has been trying to get rid of.

I personally don't think MAGA did it, in the sense a Trump supporter did it, but absolutely believe this was a government hit.

I read a different take questioning who or what states would benefit the most from further division in America and you know what they have a point.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

I know, and it is dumb af. These people are as stupid as flat-earthers but much worse, because they try to, and have, forced their beliefs on everybody else with statewide blanket abortion bans.

I really hope one day humanity advances enough to stop believing in some magic man living above the clouds.

Infanticide (post-birth abortion) was the norm prior to the dawn of Christianity which promptly stamped it out of the Roman empire and gradually everywhere else the religion spread.

The intrinsic value of each life is primarily a Christian invention.

 

[cormack12]

 

[vpance]

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[hououinkyouma00]

In another display of ResetEra's collective double digit IQ, the majority of them are assuming the shooter is now MAGA based on the shirt he's wearing. Not thinking for a moment that it could possibly be someone trying to blend in and keep a low profile at a right wing gathering.

Also there has never once been a left leaning person that has ever served in the military literally ever. NO LIBERAL VETERANS HAVE EVER EXISTED.

 

[Kacho]

I think the professional hit narrative isn't true. He's either a good marksman, or a lucky shot. He left behind a trail of evidence. That's not professional.

 

[AutomaticPrince]

professional hit

Doesn't seem professional

Scoped long rifle from an elevated firing position, prone supported, 140 yards, on a stationary target in the open..90% of GAF can make that shot. Also, his shot was off and just happened to fail successfully. Noone would aim for the neck, too narrow of a target. They would go center mass or head.

I wouldn't be surprised if we have a full ID of the guy by the end of the day at the very least. They're currently piecing together his every movement. Unless they cant pull prints off that rifle or its untraceable, leaving it behind is a mistake.

 

[paolo11]

In another display of ResetEra's collective double digit IQ, the majority of them are assuming the shooter is now MAGA based on the shirt he's wearing. Not thinking for a moment that it could possibly be someone trying to blend in and keep a low profile at a right wing gathering.

Don't be surprised. They way I observed, that's their MO so they can wash their hand clean like Pontius Pilate

 

[Kacho]

140 yards

That's all? I thought it was 400. Guess that was fake news. Then yes, very easy shot to make for just about anyone.

 

[Draugoth]

People using AI like Grok and ChatGPT to identify the shooter like it's some kind of Blade Runner Enhance software is absolutely hilarious to me. Reminds me of the 'Don't fuck with Cats' documentary where people downrailed investigations. Even 4chan thinks it's stupid.

 

[IDKFA]

Call me Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs, but I don't think being Anti Gay Rights is a "moderate" view.

Did he really believe that gay people should be treated as second class citizens? Serious question as well.

 

[12Goblins]

Wonder if it could be a groyper.. I think Nick fuentes and CK had beef for a while now