• darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    Hasan getting whacked would be a huge blunder for the fascist because they flourish by posing as the victims. Kirk got whacked by a groyper yet they’re able to blame this on the radical left because it’s a plausible reality that he could have gotten killed by the radical left, they can pretend to be in the high ground by preaching the no place for political violence choir.

    Not really? The fascists and liberal media have no shame or intellectual consistency. They would highlight what Hasan said about 9/11, claim he advocated for violence, point to pictures of him streaming with a gun in frame, frame him as a radical America hating, white man hating commie and say though violence isn’t the answer it’s totally understandable why some sweet normal, not at al political killer covered in 1488 and swastika tats would be driven by Hasan’s HATE SPEECH into killing him in a fit of passion. (That or they cast it as a senseless killing in the vein of school shooters and nothing to see here folks) They’d slander him like this, cast it like this, and immediately bury his death in the same way they bury and stop talking about school shooting victims within 24 hours.

    In a bourgeois press owned reactionary society like the US there is no need for consistency, naked hypocrisy buried under cherry picking, half truths, omissions, and slander buries the truth and pushes forward the desired narrative framing.

    At most a few liberals while condemning Hasan in their first breath will call for more gun control and less political violence to which the right will respond with a middle finger and outraged screaming about Charlie Kirk and attempted assassinations on Trump before veering into talking about “violent protestors from the left” who target the “brave” ICE and local police proving the left is the truly violent one. The then cowed liberals will fall bashfully silent and apologize the next day for undermining the tragedy of Charlie Kirk’s death.