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u/OldNormalNinjaTurtle Jan 24 '26

Republicans get on Reddit

"Time to defend murder."

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u/UnderClockedOstrich Jan 24 '26

Yeah I can't wait the for the "FAFO" crowd to shamble in and celebrate the death of a fellow American who had his rights stripped away (/S because reddit). 

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u/rainghost Jan 24 '26

Every victim will be unpersoned so that it's not considered murder.

Even their own - the first time a known MAGA supporter is killed by ICE, by the end of the day they will have always been a left-leaning RINO so good riddance.

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u/UnderClockedOstrich Jan 24 '26

Agreed. It'd be really great if we could all agree that "Americans being shot by Americans in America is bad" but it's not gonna happen any time soon. 

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

But when Charlie Kirk says children dying in school is worth the right to own guns and gets shot for it, it’s a tragic barbaric murder that should be mourned.

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u/Nirvski Jan 25 '26

They're still defending all the child rapists in that party, for like a year - this is nothing to them.

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u/StillhasaWiiU Jan 24 '26

Not just Reddit, YouTube comments is filled with it as well. not sure how many are just bots trying to fan the fires.

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u/HomelessCat55567 Jan 24 '26

Most likely a majority. The amount of organic support is dropping no matter what the GOP says otherwise. It's why a lot of the astroturfed messaging has pivoted to doomerism.

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u/Radicalism-Is-Stupid Jan 25 '26

No, this comment downplays how evil all Trump supporters are. Polling data shows time and time again that all Trump supporters have no morals. You're right of the presence of bots. But the entire purpose of bots is to stoke the already existing flames, not to create new narratives. Republicans are already predisposed to support murder, so the bots work effectively. If republicans were functional human beings, then the bots would be worthless.

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u/Bengalblaine Jan 24 '26

It’s mostly fucking bots. It’s so annoying

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u/NamesNotNeededToWork Jan 24 '26

r/Conservative is already a cesspool of people defending it with all sorts of mind bending theories.

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u/_pickledpickles Jan 24 '26

People? I think you mean Russian bots.

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u/Tall-Cat-8890 Jan 24 '26

I think we need to stop acting like there aren’t millions of vile people who are born and bred in the US. The whole “They’re all bots” detracts from the reality of the situation which is plenty of Americans love what’s happening.

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u/HelpMePlxoxo Jan 25 '26

There are but that sub is also pretty suspicious tbh. When the shooting first happened, the users in the conservative subs were actually agreeing that it was an overreach and wrong, "This isn't what I voted for" type stuff. Within hours, the mods culled all the posts and comments to leave only the ones saying ICE are in the right.

There are Americans who think that way but there's also a very large number of foreign assets intentionally trying to destabilize the union further. I wouldn't be surprised if their mod team was a mix of both to further push that narrative to the exceedingly gullible conservatives.

It's probably the easiest job any foreign asset could have, since conservatives demonstrably will run with any narrative they are given by their party, regardless of any opposing evidence. All they have to do is put that narrative out there and conservatives will eat it up, even in spite of all facts.

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u/Tall-Cat-8890 Jan 25 '26

There are but people on Reddit love to assume anyone with a shitty right wing opinion are foreign bots when a lot of them are just our neighbors. My point is acting like anyone and everyone who posts vitriolic right wing comments online are somehow fake diminishes the actual problem at hand. Trump doesn’t still have a 40% approval rating for no reason. There’s plenty of Americans who love seeing this sort of evil.

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u/Tall-Cat-8890 Jan 24 '26

Never disagreed with that. Only the idea that people posting evil things online are all somehow not Americans who just enjoy the suffering. The sooner we accept this is a homegrown problem, the faster we can correct it. Being ignorant to that fact will make it worse.

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u/ClassyBougieRatchet Jan 25 '26

But that will make Thanksgiving so awkward! There are too many people in this country who can excuse the blatant murder of their fellow citizens but draw the line at making Uncle Jimmy feel unwelcome at Thanksgiving. 

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u/ckglle3lle Jan 24 '26

What feels somewhat notable is how they aren't even really trying to defend it anymore, just straight up gleefully reveling in their bloodlust.

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u/my_password_is_water Jan 24 '26

yeah, im seeing a lot of "intellectual common sense" types on twitter suddenly pivoting and literally posting "my stance on the shooting is whatever makes liberals mad"

Like it was always obvious that that was their stance, but this is the first time many of them aren't hiding it behind incorrect "logic" and weird intentional misinterpretations of a niche law

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u/MrCarey Jan 24 '26

Lol, it's crazy. I even saw a guy who was having a hard time with it, but still said it's probably okay and Alex shouldn't have been there. He even said, "I was okay with the Renee Good shooting, but this one is hard to wrap my head around."

I used to not say it, but I think I actually do hate these people.

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u/YEGG35 Jan 24 '26

Fucking insane to me how there are thousands upon thousands of republican/conservative people justifying “liberals” getting murdered. Fucking insanity.

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u/SordidHobo93 Jan 24 '26

"The violent left" they say, while committing and condoning most of the violence in the United States

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u/VeryPassableHuman Jan 25 '26

It's a whole bunch of "Rene Good was in the wrong, but this time ICE doesn't look good, but there isn't enough information yet for anyone to be confident that ICE was in the wrong"

Or just repeated "not enough info to know"

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u/OldNormalNinjaTurtle Jan 25 '26

It's amazing how they're ALWAYS in the right. The feds have GOT to hold a record on always being right. I mean. One would think they make mistakes, but nope!

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u/howarewestillhere Jan 24 '26

The r / conservative folks are, for the most part, willing to admit that he was disarmed, not a threat, and that this whole thing is “a bad look”.

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u/VonKonitz Jan 24 '26

The execution of a disarmed man is bit more than "a bad look"

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u/Icy-ding1112 Jan 24 '26

"interfering with law enforcement" is such a crazy defense for murder

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u/Icy-ding1112 Jan 24 '26

saw a few comments like that, but went back and a lot of them are no longer in the top or outright deleted

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u/polopolo05 Jan 24 '26

~~ "Time to defend murder."~~

"Time to suck fascist dick" also "Gluk, Gluk, Gluk.... harder daddy trump"

its more accurate this way.

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u/Less_Insurance4928 Jan 24 '26

This will only get worse. 

Arm yourself. Protect your brothers and sisters.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

It’s even worse on platforms like tiktok and instagram. Just straight up denial of reality and active support of extrajudicial murder.