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You’re being disingenuous of course but the reality is that politically motivated killers kill people they don’t agree with.

You may be underestimating how much the Nick Fuentes aligned segment of the far-right hates the Charlie Kirk aligned segment of the far right. The recent split over the Epstein files coverup has exacerbated this.

The sine qua non of “groyperism” as it’s come to be known is total ineffectuality if not self defeatism as a political stance. How many groyper shootings have we had now? Fuentes is permitted to do his thing, unlike others who have been taken down (thank goodness!) for what seem to me to be very clear reasons.

But politically-motivated assassinations in the US are very rare, and almost exclusively lone actors (not part of a movement).

The assassination attempts (whether successful or failed) on prominent political figures in this country have almost all been carried out by people with personal reasons to want to kill them, not politically motivated killers killing people they don't agree with.

Two right-wingers can disagree with one another to pretty extreme degrees.

This is like thinking Christian-on-Christian violence over religion is implausible and claiming someone suggesting it’s in-fact plausible is being “disingenuous”—surely it can only be someone from a different faith entirely.

In what way do you think I'm being disingenuous?

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