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Kirk Assassination, Propaganda of the Deed, and Luigi (anarchist.nexus)
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According to AP, there were messages engraved on the casings in the Kirk shooting. They read:

  • One read, “hey fascist! catch!” with an up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols. 
  • Another one read: “oh bella ciao bella ciao bella ciao ciao ciao,” Cox said. 
  • The third fired casing read: “if you read this you are gay lmao.”

My first thought is. Whoever killed Kirk was clearly inspired by Luigi. The writing on the casings just like Luigi did. The timing. It just makes sense.

Does this mean Luigi’s propaganda of the deed was successful? I think so. In any case, I wonder if this means there is more to come.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Does this mean Luigi’s propaganda of the deed was successful?

Luigi's action was successful - and a lot of that success had to do with the fact that Luigi was not seen by the public as an overt political actor... merely somebody screwed over by Big Healthcare Inc.

Overt attempts to "rinse and repeat" this as a PotD "process" is going to backfire and come crashing down to earth hard.

Besides... reading those messages engraved into the casings I have to wonder if the shooter hadn't gotten it into their head to do a "false flag" op all by their lonesome - they are pretty damn cringy.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago

Engraving one with "if you read this, your gay lmao" does suggest they are just being edgy.

Wouldnt suprise me if they made a greentext just before.