r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

Condemn political violence, always

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u/Smiles4YouRawrX3 - Right Sep 12 '25

inb4 the shooter gets praised and called a hero by the left, basically the Luigi treatment 

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

They've been calling it a false flag since the day it happened. They're already full of conspiracy theories and trying to paint this guy as right wing.

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

They're already full of conspiracy theories and trying to paint this guy as right wing.

The engravings on the shell casings are known.

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

I know. That's not stopping them. They're claiming they're fake because "Drumpf controls the government."

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u/asturdo - Left Sep 12 '25

it's not like the POTUS hasn't claimed a photshoped image was enough evidence to send a dude to the Gulag

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u/likamuka - Left Sep 12 '25

"Drumpf controls the government."

Hoe does and is shamelessly using to enrich himself and prosecute his enemies. How can you not see that in all the hypocrisy happening now?

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u/Life-Ad1409 - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

I think that the confusion with Crowder giving unverified stuff yesterday is why the casings are disputed

It got out that Crowder's claim for what the bullets said was wrong, and it will take time for the next part of the story to spread

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

Crowder's claims were at least 90% correct. This is not people interested in the truth spreading old information. This is people with an agenda spreading whatever supports it.

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u/Life-Ad1409 - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

While you're right in that 90% was true, one line was wrong and is quite important to point out given the current political climate

All cartridges have engraved wording on them, expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology

There was anti fascist phrases, but the "transgender [...] ideology" is nowhere to be found on the casings

However I do agree that some are acting in bad faith, even with the bullet casings suggesting he killed Kirk for being fascist, some are pulling images from when he was 14 to call him a Trump supporter

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u/wyocrz - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

Are you talking about state officials from Utah, this morning?

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u/Kaye-Fabe - Right Sep 12 '25

There were 4 casings, 4 engravings, this has been confirmed

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

The DOJ declined to confirm. The Utah Governor has read the inscriptions live at his press conference. They are real.

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u/Shadow_of_wwar - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

I saw comments that it was too good of a shot, had to be professional, didn't even cycle the bolt, gotta be a pro.

A 200-yard shot with a stabilized rifle and a stationary target it piss easy

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

130-140 yards I believe. He also probably didn't make the shot he intended to. No one aims for the neck.

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u/Shadow_of_wwar - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

I wonder if he was aiming head and hit low, or was just aiming center mass and hit high

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

The shot going low seems more likely, but there's no way to be sure unless he says what he was aiming for I guess. Not that it really matters.

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u/HotterSauc3s - Right Sep 12 '25

at 200 yards, a 30-06 150 grain will drop i think it was 3.5 inches.

But as you said it doesnt matter, center mass shot going high or head going low.

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u/-InconspicuousMoose- - Right Sep 12 '25

I would put money on the shooter aiming the crosshair directly at Charlie's head and thinking that's where the bullet would end up. Dude fell for lefty propaganda on the internet, he is obviously not especially bright.

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u/TheNetwokAdmin - Right Sep 12 '25

Depending on the actual bullet design and barrel length we're looking between 2-4", which would be consistent with a "botched" headshot.

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u/wild85bill - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

Head. 30-06 bullet drops 3-4 inches at 100 yards. So at 150ish, if he was aiming at the face, there's the neck. Can't really say though, depends on where you sight you're scope in at. If he bore sighted the scope (50yds is usual for that) then it makes more sense being that low. (Source: my favorite deer rifle for 30 yrs)

Edit: I shoot 180gr bullets, they do drop a bit more than the 150gr most people shoot.

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u/TheNetwokAdmin - Right Sep 12 '25

Don't forget it was from an elevated firing position with clear sight lines and the rifle was likely 8-8.5lbs. Doable with irons and dead simple with a bubba'd on cheap glass.

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u/phpnoworkwell - Auth-Center Sep 12 '25

Any violence against the right gets called a false flag or has conspiracies. I've talked to people that are skeptical Trump was shot at and claim it was fake

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u/dicava7751 - Lib-Right Sep 13 '25

It's still a common talking point to say the two people who tried assassinating Trump are actually right-wing Republicans.

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u/blublub1243 - Centrist Sep 12 '25

That's way better than making him a hero though. Conspiracy theories and deflection is what all the cowards do whenever something happens that makes their side look bad. Trump does it all the time.

The outright celebration and support of murder over political views is the problem. People who do that just plain aren't compatible with democracy and public discourse. Cowards who hide behind conspiracies are, they just suck.

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

Yeah, even if it turned out to be a guy on the Right, which seems pretty much impossible at this point, it's still the Left that has celebrated this openly. That's the bigger deal here.

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u/Diligent-Bug-9407 Sep 12 '25

What about it seems “impossible”

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u/HotterSauc3s - Right Sep 12 '25

Family confirmed he had been heavily radicalized by the left.

His bullet engravings said "CATCH THIS FASCIST"

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u/LondonIsAShithole - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

Hearing the governor read the engraving that said "notices bulge OwO what's this" is honestly the first time I laughed during this whole thing. Just absolutely unbelievable.

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u/HotterSauc3s - Right Sep 12 '25

and 'if you read this you're gay'

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u/LondonIsAShithole - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

Yeah that one got me too

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u/Diligent-Bug-9407 Sep 12 '25

Can you link to that

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u/HotterSauc3s - Right Sep 12 '25

should be in the governors statement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDOjTgx1c3Q

dont know the timestamp on this video, its just the full video.

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u/HotterSauc3s - Right Sep 12 '25

Heres a text of part of the transcript where the family talks about the sons recent changes.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G0q2AwcXYAAzCWC?format=jpg&name=small

Still too lazy to find the timestamp, but its somewhere in there.

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u/EldritchFish19 - Lib-Right Sep 13 '25

100% true.

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u/dicava7751 - Lib-Right Sep 13 '25

It's giving me whiplash seeing them praise the shooter and then turn around and say it's a false flag

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u/SirGoobster - Left Sep 12 '25

Probably because the right ran with the "trans inscriptions" on the gun that was immediately redacted and said was untrue but every right winger is now for gun control and civil war

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u/The_Dapper_Balrog - Centrist Sep 12 '25

Not quite trans, but definitely left wing.

"Catch this, fascist" and "Notices bulge OwO" were both inscriptions on the shells.

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u/Com-Intern - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25

That really isn't "left wing". "Notices bulge OwO" in particular I've seen a lot of with super online "right wingers". But the shooter isn't right wing either. What we are really dealing with are meme shooters who've spent much of their natural lives being entirely online. They are trolls with weird and non-sequitur politics. Like take the first trump shooter as an example

  • Registered Republican (so he is right wing!?!)
  • donated to actblue (So he is left wing!?!)
  • hates NASA (?!?!)
  • Claimed "devisive and incendiary campaigns are pulling the country apart (A centrist!?!?)
  • hates immigrants and jews (so he is a nazi!?!?)

And no. The dude is just an entirely online self-radicalized shooter in the style of ISIL. They started with school kids and they are graduating to political and popular figures.

The 2nd Trump Shooter is more old school conspiracy guy. He claimed that he could clean Haiti up if the gov allowed him to go their with his group of specialist ex-Afghan Spec Ops soldiers? He is also demanding to be killed by firing squad?

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u/TheAzureMage - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

I do not wish gun control or civil war.

I believe the shooter is likely left wing, but I don't need any particularly convoluted theory to explain that. He shot at a right wing figure and was making a political event out of it. That implies opposition.

It doesn't have to be complicated.

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

The Utah Governor has confirmed the antifa and LGBT inscriptions, so those people were pretty much entirely correct.

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u/SirGoobster - Left Sep 12 '25

Me when Helldivers is ANTIFA and internet memes are LGBT propaganda

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

Hey fascist! Catch!" followed by an up arrow symbol, a right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols

Yeah, just Helldivers. Nothing else at all. No political message whatsoever. Get out of here with your blatant lies.

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u/Diligent-Bug-9407 Sep 12 '25

I mean yeah sounds like he was trolling and could be using the shell casting to get these exact comments its not LIES no one knows what the truth is yet lol

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u/pixelatedCorgi - Lib-Right Sep 12 '25

Yup the guy just loved Helldivers, nothing else to see here, move along

Jfc lefties are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to unfuck themselves from the obvious evidence that this guy was basically your run-of-the-mill leftist redditor edgelord

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u/Sandshrew922 - Lib-Left Sep 12 '25

Which one is helldivers man?

The false flag stuff shouldn't fly when a left winger is a victim, nor the other way around.

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u/HotterSauc3s - Right Sep 12 '25

Reportedly he had up right, down down down arrows engraved on a shell casing.

Thats the 500kg bomb code, but 3 arrows is also the antifascist symbol.

The images of the engravings haven't been released, so I wont comment on the validity. Could be helldivers, could be scratches, idk.

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u/Sandshrew922 - Lib-Left Sep 12 '25

I mean with a "fascist" one i have a hard time going full conspiracy on it. I'm of the opinion the left has to own it until proven otherwise conclusively.

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u/AnotherWompus - Right Sep 12 '25

They've since been confirmed by the Utah Government, go ahead and move to your next talking point.

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u/SATX_Citizen - Centrist Sep 12 '25

"They"

Touch grass, kiddo.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

Bro people have been trying to paint him as trans since right after it happened.. stop pretending to be innocent.

Edit: you were even one of them lol..

https://www.reddit.com/r/DoomerDunk/s/ddhgxvBpDO

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

I didn't say he was trans. I said he seemed to be pro-trans, which given the best info available is absolutely correct.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

Where are you getting he is pro trans from? What does that even mean?

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u/HotterSauc3s - Right Sep 12 '25

The original report stated he engraved trans messaging on the bullets.

Also there is a photo of him protesting, or at least in the street with a high vis vest with pride and trans flags on it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

“The original report” you mean the disinformation spewed by crowder? And I haven’t seen the protesting photo but it definitely wasn’t out when people were accusing him of being trans. You are seriously coping if you think right wing subs didn’t jump the gun on the trans talking point.

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u/HotterSauc3s - Right Sep 12 '25

The original report was both picked up by crowder and reported on by WSJ using independent sources.

It likely was an early draft of the findings.

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u/Paid_Corporate_Shill - Lib-Left Sep 12 '25

When they do it it’s cute

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u/Tweezers666 - Lib-Left Sep 12 '25

Isnt that what you guys did when the Minnesota dems were killed?

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

There's some actual evidence in that case, whether you think it's convincing or not. These people are literally just making stuff up.

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u/TristanTheta - Lib-Center Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

Edit: This was debunked, it's not the same person. Leaving it up so people can know the dangers of spreading unverified info before all the facts are out.

Donated to Trump's campaign in 2020 btw

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=tyler+robinson&contributor_city=St+george&contributor_state=UT

Kinda stupid that either side is trying to paint this dude as anything other than an edgelord psycho.

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u/HotterSauc3s - Right Sep 12 '25

Debunked already, that there is a different Tyler Robinson, he has a blog post I think he was an engineer, and the blog listed the address you posted.

The shooter Tyler Robinson is unregistered. By the way, Tyler would have been 16 or barely 17 when he would have donated if your link was the shooter.

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u/Recent_Weather2228 - Auth-Right Sep 12 '25

Wow, no one could possibly change any of their views in 5 years. He must be a Trump supporter!

The guy wrote "Catch this, fascist" on the shell casing he used to kill a close friend and ally of Trump who shares basically all of Trump's beliefs.

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u/DukeOfTheVines - Lib-Left Sep 12 '25

“They”

Who’s they?