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    Fuentes is known for his white supremacist, misogynistic, homophobic and antisemitic views that he promotes on his podcast. Despite those views, he was famously invited, alongside controversial rapper Kanye West, to dinner with President Donald Trump in 2022.

    There is no reported evidence that Fuentes was involved in Kirk’s death. Fuentes did ask his followers to pray for Kirk’s soul on Wednesday following his death.

    It’s an abdication of duty to not have the added context, when mentioning his homophobia, of that time he accidentally streamed gay porn and then blamed…Hezbollah? If I’m remembering that part correctly? Hilarious, but should also be permanently part of the description of who he is, along with the whole invited to the White House thing.

    He also said “liking girls is gay.” Dudes def gay. Didn’t he have a little boyfriend/pet with him everywhere for a while?

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    "Tell us the plan. How will the government stop this from ever happening again? Where is the leadership?”

    Yes, Nick Fuentes. How will the government stop shootings at…

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    …schools, from ever happening again?

    Never thought I’d find an ally in him on that.

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    I don’t know much about these Gropers or whatever but if all the attention on this angle pushes them to a MAGA gang war, I’ll need to pick up some more popcorn. It’s guiltless because, as we all know, gang violence doesn’t count.

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        Whatever it takes to make my dream of a “MAGA gang war” news broadcast supercut happen. I want to hear it in different voices out of different faces until the words lose all meaning like the “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy” thing from about a century ago in 2018.

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          What it takes is being a billionaire with monopolistic control of the media.

          At least that’s how ‘the “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy” thing’ happened, anyway: it was ordered by a single entity who had the power to dictate what all those “separate” news stations must say.

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      Just don’t get microwave popcorn because the bags tend to be coated with PFAs which get into the butter, then your bloodstream. Always make popcorn the old fashioned way, or buy pre-puffed.

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          Oh no, trans fats. The biggest issue is manufacturing safety standards, nobody in the 21st century should be exposed to potentially harmful compounds on an industrial scale.

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        Also the oil that they use is artificial butter flavored and it causes brain cancer. Like you probably will not get it from eating it but the people that work in the food processing of it will get brain cancer if they breathe in or whatever too much of it. So small amounts might not be great for you either. The Pfas is a bigger concern though.

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            I do know about microwavable, but you can buy a little pan and do stove top and use the real butter or whatever oil you choose, coconut oil would be good.

            There are other contraptions, I am trying to remember how they work.

            Once you had that contraption, you could pop any grain really, barley, wheat, Rye, a mix. Matter of fact I think I’m going to get a stove top popper and start to do that.

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              Most grains won’t pop. They need a pretty specific water content and shell strength to build the internal pressure just right. Sorghum and amaranth are the two non-corn poppers I know of. Many grains will “puff” but you need extra pressure to make them look like breakfast cereal.

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          There’s an old science fiction short story where the aliens come to eat us and an old farmer volunteers to be the sacrificial victim, and the aliens all die because of the built-up insecticides in his system.

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          I know you’re joking, but the butter in microwave popcorn bags tends to have a much bigger dosage than water does. This is due to getting heated up, and the butter being the right kind of fat to absorb pfas from the bag.

          It’s a perfect storm for delivering PFAs into you… Which makes sense because PFAs weren’t really known about when microwave popcorn was invented.

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      Yeah, but make sure you show the proper amounts of politically correct mourning and contrition in between your bites of popcorn, I guess.

      It’s apparently now a criminal offense not to support Nazis in this country.

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    So, all the Republicans are going to direct all their ire at this guy, right?

    The ones screaming to go after millions of Democrats in this country because a random podcaster caught a bullet, and so therefore, it must be that “Democrats are at war with us”? Now that they know it’s one of their own, they will apply the same standard to those on the right, that are targeting right-wing podcasters?

    I mean, just following their own logic earlier this week…

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      Nah they will just pretend he was radicalized by the left and keep on their original plan. In the news it has not reported that he was a Nick Fuentes follower, they still have it up in the air in the guardian but have mostly been suggesting it was a radical leftist, and even this morning some politician was quoted as saying he was from a good family but he got radicalized left in college.

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      Hes an easy target. Open nazi, been caught with trans porn, latino, lives in his mom’s basement…

      The only worry is that his supporters are all but exclusively exactly the profile of someone who does mass shootings or political assassination in this day and age.

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        Wait what?

        He is Latino? He got caught with trans porn? Huh. That is not very Nazi leader like. Seeing as they do not like Latinos or trans.

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          Nazis are not known for being all that bright. I mean, look at the leader of the “Proud Boys”.

          His own people would be coming for him in the end state of their stupid fantasies…

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            Yeah plus I think the founder of The Proud boys stuck something up his ass on video supposedly to own the libs? I did not have the stomach to watch the video but multiple sources have confirmed it, not sure how that owns the libs but whatever.

            Seems like something the Nazis would not approve of so it is kind of odd, but we already knew they are all bad faith and their followers dumb.

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    I actually love that this cunt is making headlines from the death of another cunt.

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    Fuentes has been sending his followers to antagonize Kirk for years…

    Because they think MAGA should use violence instead of words, and Kirk isn’t extreme enough for them.

    He’s not being “framed”, it’s just all the information coming it out makes it look like this is just more maga on maga violence.

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    “Look, guys, by pointing out all these things that I did, you’re making me look like I’m guilty as hell.”

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    What’s this? The homophobic incel neo-nazi who streamed his gay porn and then claimed it was mossad is denying something?

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      Fuentes? Someone else just said something about him getting caught with trans porn is that this same story you were referring to? How did he stream this gay and or transporn and get caught?

      I do not know who he thinks he is kidding with the mossad comment, Israel is allied with the Nazis against their common foes, the left and non-fascists.

      As evidenced by netanyahu’s son tweeting in support of the Charlottesville Nazis against antifa that stood up to them.

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    Is there any chance this and the Colorado school shooting that occurred during the same time are connected? Strikes me as very odd that there is very little information being dropped on that one, except for the fact that the 16-year-old was radicalized by an online “white supremacist” group.

    What if these were synchronized for a reason and both were groypers?

    Also, why is there no wikipedia entry for that event at all? It also makes sense that Fuentes – in an extremely unusual act of restraint – was calling on his followers during his show to tone down the rhetoric and don’t exact revenge. He knows something, doesn’t he?

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      What if these were synchronized for a reason and both were groypers?

      That’s an interesting idea, but I think it isn’t in the news because school shootings have become so common that nobody (except you) thinks it’s anything but random coincidence.

      Ditto for why there’s no Wikipedia entry: it fails the “notability” requirement.

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        Nobody is a strong word when one has to immediately contradict that in parentheses. That two identical right-wing extremist events occur simultaneously, both of whom appear to have been radicalized by online right-wing disinformation ops — that doesn’t seem beyond the realm of probability let alone possibility. I am also entertaining it; I didn’t say I believe it as fact.

        Especially when we know for a fact that far-right extremist violence is the number-one domestic terrorist threat, and that both currently have links to antisemitic ideological groups.

        How I wish it failed the “notability” requirement; and yet every other single mass-shooting incident has an entry. So why would you come to think this when this an anomalous outlier?

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    Is there any actual evidence this guy was even a groyper at this point? The evidence I saw was pretty unconvincing.