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98 sats \ 7 replies \ @Signal312 OP 4h \ parent \ on: Anyone else going down the rabbit hole on the Charlie Kirk Assassination? news
I just listened to Dave Smith's recent podcast on the Charlie Kirk assassination.
And I thought it was really interesting - not because he's accusing Israel. No, it's because he's specifically NOT accusing Israel, and he's bashing other people who ARE accusing Israel. And saying, "there's no evidence", etc.
But if your base position is that it's bad to speculate, that you shouldn't postulate that there might be other people who wanted Charlie Kirk dead - then of course you'll never find any evidence. You won't even look.
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55 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 4h
Yes, I thought Smith went a little overboard. Perhaps the lady doth protest too much? On the hand, it was early and there was no evidence.
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41 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 4h
This has always been Dave's attitude towards conspiracy theories and it's about the same as mine:
Would they do it? Yes, they're monsters
Could they do it? Almost certainly
Did they do it? Let's see the evidence
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 4h
Agreed. The Hedges episode guy was talking about all sorts of Mossad stuff. Planting bugs in the White House. 9-11. The Aldo Moro kidnapping. Clearly he has an agenda. Max Blumenthal: https://youtu.be/Uf7zr5Thz64?si=YSppigqYOMwiUqsR
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 4h
Yeah, Clint's latest episode got into a lot of that too. But, again, there's no disagreement that they're bad actors. Being bad actors isn't evidence that they did a particular bad thing.
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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 OP 4h
Oh, so you heard this podcast too? Smith actually said something like, "I know people are going to say that they got to me already". I was definitely thinking that was the case, just from the tone.
Also it wasn't that early, I don't think - wasn't it just yesterday?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 4h
I thought I watched it a few days ago, bit I could be wrong. I have to admit I thought that too. It would only be human nature if you have a family and just saw what happened.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 OP 4h
And apparently it was BECAUSE Charlie Kirk hosted a debate between Dave Smith (anti zionist) and another guy, who was a complete zionist, that Israel was very, very upset with him, and apparently he was sent some messages that could be seen as threatening.
It would be interesting to hear what Tucker Carlson says on this issue - apparently Charlie Kirk showed him the messages.
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