• redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I thought the kid killed him over dropping the Epstein files and being fascist? Unfortunate he killed himself next week and we’ll never know for sure.

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      3 days ago

      I stole this meme from somewhere else, and I think it actually is kinda misleading. Here’s what actually happened in brief:

      July 2025:

      Kirk said the Epstein Files should be released.

      August 2025:

      Trump told Kirk to shut up about the Epstein Files. (He did)

      September:

      A groyper follower killed Kirk.

      A possible motive is that Fuentes and the groypers really hated Kirk becuase he was a Trump Lackey who was covering for Trump with the Epstein Files. Possibly they also hated him because he wasn’t enough of a Jew-hater.

      Edit: Oops meant to put this as a top level, oh well.

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      2 days ago

      The engravings in the bullets could be interpreted that way, but I have read from people more familiar with the groypers and how they operate that they love co-opting seemingly antifa messages and using them ironically as a dogwhistle. They are generally very online gamers who lurk in games like Helldiver’s 2 and use it as a nazi bar.

      So the messages on the bullets seem innocent and left-coded to normal people but to someone sufficiently steeped in the shit-stew of ‘groyper culture’, they would essentially act as a sign, that one of their own people did it. It is very similar to an inside joke that kids have or things like skibidi toilet. By putting those particular in-group inside jokes on the bullet, the shooter was signalling to Nick Fuentes’s Groypers(essentially a gang) that he put the hit in on Kirk and TPUSA. So it seems to me like from this group context one could deduce that Kirk got killed by gang violence.

      Kirk’s last words were literally ‘gang violence’. Coincidence? I think not.

      Edit:grammar mistake