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some people have been discovering their empathy for all beings (selectively applied to pro-Trump Republicans only) and i think that's so beautiful ️

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far right german newspapers are seething over me not being super duper sad about kirk's passing

Beethoven was only 29 when he composed his first symphony, Yuri Gagarin was only 27 years old when he became the first man in space, Marey Shelly was only 18 years old when she wrote Frankenstein, and Tyler Robinson was only 22 when

Huge respect to the father of Tyler Robinson for trying to consult with a pastor on what to do, but instead of giving advice or something the pastor immediately ratted them out to the cops.

Given the fact there's now good reasons to believe the (alleged, but himself confessed) assassin of Charlie Kirk was a right wing gun nut, to whom Kirk was not right wing enough, makes me feel more valid in my cynical criticism of Kirk and his passing.

He died not just as a result of the world he created, but specifically through the hands of a person he radicalized, utilizing gun “rights” Kirk defended day and night.

If life was a screenplay, this would be an on the nose plot point that the writers inserted to spread their own political beliefs. Yet it isn't, this is real life, and these are the real consequences of your words.

Before 1933 the Nazi's only official crime was speech. Afterwards, they legalized anything that speech justified. Remember that.

A far right media outlet told people to mass report my posts on Instagram, many of them were removed without any notice or ability to appeal.

When a story of mine was deleted and Instagram notified me so I could appeal, it was almost immediately reinstated.

Whatever you think of my posts, I should at least be told they were wrong or against the community guidelines. Instagram happily told me that. If a post on Mastodon is moderated, a user on Mastodon is immediately notified and can appeal. This process can sometimes be intransparent depending on the moderator, but it's a hell of a lot better than having some AI algorithm delete your posts for being mass reported and then gaslighting you that they never existed.

I've been told by a couple of big accounts it sometimes takes days or weeks for you to be able to appeal a decision and there doesn't seem to be any reason for why this happens. Certain AI automated decisions cannot be appealed.

Now that the assassin is confirmed to be a Nick Fuentes fan right winger, nobody cares about Kirk anymore and the golden age of newly discovered Republican empathy has abruptly come to an end.

@ErikUden What you said doesn't seem to go with what ntv reports on this - Tyler Robertson was not right-wing:

Als Tatwaffe stellten die Ermittler bereits kurz nach dem Anschlag ein Repetiergewehr vom Typ Mauser Modell 98 mit Zielfernrohr sicher. Auf den am Tatort gefundenen Patronenhülsen seien Botschaften eingraviert gewesen. Dazu gehörten: "Was ist das"; "Oh, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Ciao"; "Wenn du das liest, bist du schwul"; sowie "Hey Faschist, fang!".

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Attentat-auf-Charlie-Kirk-Was-ueber-Tyler-Robinson-bekannt-ist-article26029437.html

@das_menschy Es stimmt das er das auf die Patronen geschrieben hat, aber das war er selbst, kann auch Absicht gewesen sein um abzulenken. Der Fakt das er hunderte an Euro an MAGA gespendet hat, öffentlich an der Seite von Nick Fuentes stand usw. bestehen dennoch. Glaube nicht das er Antifaschist war!

Now that the assassin is confirmed to be a Nick Fuentes fan right winger, nobody cares about Kirk anymore and the golden age of newly discovered Republican empathy has abruptly come to an end.

we need to tackle white on white gang violence for everyone's safety in our nation

Free speech is back

No more cancelation due to being too woke for the conservative elites

On a real note, though: Instagram didn't notify me of my post's deletion up until one hour ago where they told me they reviewed it and allowed it back online. This makes me believe one thing: it was automatically taken down, due to the number of reports or something of that kind, and a special system activated where an Instagram employee needed to confirm it going back online. Automated, or third party. Something that isn't Instagram or one of its representatives / employees per se. An automated algorithm. Very very thankful for Mastodon automatically telling you when something happened. The work of our moderators can be intransparent, yes! However, never so intransparent that the platform doesn't even have control over what post is deleted. #PissGate

remember how they told us that North Korea was such a horrible dictatorship for if the people didn't mourn some random guy's death correctly they'd face consequences? yeah...

in the united states of america, you will lose your job if you don't cry about the passing of the president's favorite youtuber

Jimmy Kimmel Live has been indefinitely terminated as a show due to Kimmel's statements regarding the Kirk shooting.

“The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

“This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish [...]”

— Source: BBC, 2025.09.18

The first is a correct analysis of the Republican instrumentalization of Kirk's death, the second is poking fun at Trump for his terrible eulogy.

They are instrumentalizing this assassination, and they will go around on a killing spree, justifying the restructuring of universities, media, human (especially trans) rights, and basic government principles in his name.