• racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    he didn’t call the attacker a patriot. He called anyone who would bail the attacker a patriot (and apparently to have a talk with the attacker and then uncover some conspiracy or something?)

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      1 day ago

      If he really believed there was a conspiracy and that this suspect would reveal it then why would he think they’d be released on bail at all?

      It was really a low key attempt to get a guy out of jail for doing something he liked without dealing with the backlash from doing it himself.

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        22 hours ago

        I don’t even want to try to comprehend what these kind of people are thinking/are up to.

        but doesn’t mean we should tell lies about them either. Was just correcting a small mistake i saw. It’s not because they’re lying everytime they open their mount that we can’t just be truthful :).

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      2 days ago

      My bad, in the article he does specify that whoever bails him out is a patriot, but I remember him on a livestream saying that Paul Pelosi deserved it, because the conspiracy theory he wanted to talk to the attacker about is the one where he’s Paul Pelosi’s secret boyfriend. The rights pushed a lot of homophobic narratives about the attack at the time.

      I wish I could link you to a source, but unfortunately Google and other searches for anything related to Kirk is pulling up the breaking news about his death and sensationalist reactions to it. If you want to try to find it yourself, it should be in media from end of 2022/beginning of 2023.