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Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.'s avatar

Andy I was thinking about your reporting on antifa and trantifa. I was really hoping you would be wrong. But you aren’t wrong.

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Jana's avatar

Governor Cox is a true leader, unlike with despicable people trying to justify the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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Cushman's avatar

Thanks, Andy. This is good information. I have heard that Charlie Kirk was hated by Antifa, same as you, and that there are many hate filled messages by Antifa about Charlie Kirk on line. Is this true?

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Andy Ngo's avatar

Yes. They have repeatedly violently attacked his events and students who are part of TPUSA. See my prior story, “The Assassination of Charlie Kirk.”

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Carole Hart's avatar

Sadly, I don't think the FBI have figured this out yet.

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Charles Casaburi's avatar

Maybe it’s because they don’t want to figure it out. Remember a member of the secret service said Kirk “deserved “ it

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Charles Casaburi's avatar

You have plenty of personal experience with this . It has to be scary but that’s what America is becoming. It’s only a matter of time before there is an exchange of fire between some radical leftist organization & a right wing group & that could be the trigger. Before the firing on fort Sumter almost no one on either side of the slavery divide thought an actual civil war was possible

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ScholasticNomad's avatar

I have no love for Antifa, but I can pretty definitively say that the “Hey Facist! Catch! ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️” is referencing a Helldivers 2 meme. For context, in Helldivers 2 your character can type in codes on an arrow pad to call in many unique types of explosive ordinance on your enemies. ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ is the specific code for the Eagle 500kg bomb, which is the single LARGEST explosion you can call in, basically a mini-nuke. On Helldivers 2 discord and Reddit, it’s common to respond with ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ to anything that you don’t like as a sign of comedic overreaction (finding a spider on your floor, etc). It also fits in with the other bullets, where all but one of the messages being common internet memes (Bella ciao being the exception) Very sad to see it used in relation to this hideous act.

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working rich's avatar

Unfortunately, it is a very nice and catchy song. The political meaning of the song before the current American misuse was similar to “ Yankee Doodle Dandy.”

There was a political origin but was just a fun song.

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Richard Hinman's avatar

Assassinating a friend of President Trump may have been a mistake for Antifa.

Trump may come down hard on them.

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