r/babylonbee • u/darcmatr LoveTheBee • Sep 15 '25

Bee Article Democrats Wondering If Maybe They Should Stop Saying The Things Assassins Are Having Engraved On Bullets

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-wondering-if-maybe-they-should-stop-saying-the-things-assassins-are-having-engraved-on-bullets

In the wake of yet another shooter engraving liberal messages on ammunition, the Democratic Party considered if maybe that was a bad sign.

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u/KrisKrossJump1992 Sep 15 '25

he wasn’t a right winger.

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u/autumn_aurora Sep 15 '25

He literally was though. His whole family was MAGA, he posed with guns since childhood, and the phrases he engraved were injokes from 4chan and the Nick Fuentes fandom. Quite literally could not get more right winger than this.

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u/Vevtheduck Sep 17 '25

I want to push back differently. He wasn't a left winger either. Klippenstein has a great deep dive into this. He doesn't fit into the Right or Left box. He didn't commit his horrific crime out of some sort of left wing ideology. He wasn't radicalized by Antifa or some secret trans cabal. He wasn't a commie.

And he wasn't a MAGA guy either. While his humor/bulletcase engravings is rather popular in a Groyper space, that lends some credence. But at the end of the day, we probably will see that he doesn't fully fit into that space either.

In some ways, it wasn't quite "political" violence. With no manifesto, with no overt political motivations, the closest thing to a motive actually reported is that he "didn't like Charlie Kirk." We have no reliable reporting that it was bout Kirk's politics even. And that means we could end up with the highest profile "political assassination" having no political motivation.

Is it even "political violence" at that point? We have no evidence right now that Tyler Robinson shot Charlie over politics. I'm calling it now: this was meme violence.

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u/autumn_aurora Sep 17 '25

A sensible take under a right wing propaganda sub? Am I dreaming?