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Comcast Executives Warn Workers to Not Say the Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk

48 points by mdhb 1y ago

cosmicgadget 1y ago
No mention of how common this is. Anyone know?
- trod1234 1y ago
  Fairly common from what I hear, its gone completely Orwellian or Maoist, depending on your perspective. Bad people pretending to be good doing bad things to torture people based on the bad people's false accusations and coercive evil behavior. I can't imagine a world where any rational person believes that depriving people of their professions/jobs through false accusation and targeted Zersetzung-style gangstalking (i.e. criminal harassment) is a good thing. Cancel culture has always been based in identity politics, which are the anti-thesis of American principles, anyone with half a brain knows where that came from historically. The moment you can't communicate for fear of reprisals as a result of someone else twisting your words out of context is the moment society begins its slow march to complete collapse and eventual annihilation/extinction. Its a small but objective indicator. By the time the slow-witted realize this, its often too late to pull back from the maelstrom, and the loudspeaker/algorithm/technology gives them privileged position to drive the boat straight into the center, and keep doing this drowning out the sane voices that want to survive and have a future. When there is no ability to communicate, there can be no basis for non-violent conflict resolution, no shared context, and its been known for quite awhile that isolation drives people insane. A spiraled loop of madness. People are often quite blind when it comes to how communication specifically impacts their psychological state, and thus are powerless to alter or control their heading. The science inflicted on them to induce towards automata is beyond their ken or ability to react. Sad state of affairs overall.
- elmerfud 1y ago
  This isn't something that used to need to be said. The really sad fact is that they even had to remind people that you shouldn't victim blame.
  - cosmicgadget 1y ago
    Did it? Is Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh too beneath mainstream? How about Fox News pundits after Paul Pelosi was attacked? I don't think this is new.
    - lawlessone 1y ago
      Sounds like it's the American equivalent of the British knighting people.
  - mdhb 1y ago
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    - SpicyUme 1y ago
      Interesting to look back at yesterday's comments here and in other online spaces. People like jumping to the conclusions they've prepared for themselves.
      - zahlman 1y ago
        The comment you're replying to is not from yesterday, and it's factually incorrect.
    - zahlman 1y ago
      > a straight white 22 year old RWNJ I had to look up this acronym. Apparently it stands for "right-wing nut job". I genuinely don't understand how you came to this conclusion.
      - zahlman 1y ago
        As an update: GP was flagged and killed, and there is now compelling evidence that the shooter was indeed not a "RWNJ": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269539
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OhMeadhbh 1y ago
When irony is outlawed, only outlaws will be ironic.
- general1465 1y ago
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Bender 1y ago
Some game developers are getting attention too [1]. 4chan anons are also archiving, doxxing, reporting to employeers. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprAK933Fdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprAK933Fdg [video][20 mins][2,460,090 views]
ChrisArchitect 1y ago
Source instead of 404: Comcast Execs Criticize Fired MSNBC Contributor Matthew Dowd’s Comments About Charlie Kirk Following Shooting as ‘Unacceptable and Insensitive’: ‘We Need to Do Better’ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/comcast-execs-criticize-msnbc-matthew-dowd-charlie-kirk-shooting-memo-1236516014/ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/comcast-execs-criticize-msn...
Yeul 1y ago
After a high profile political assassination in the Netherlands (and this time it was a confirmed radical leftist) all mainstream politicians immediately banded together to keep democracy and the rule of law intact. Instinctively the media and politics knew that the nation was on a knife's edge. It was rally around the flag time. When I compare that to how Trump and Fox behaves it doesn't bode well.
metalman 1y ago
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- zahlman 1y ago
  >the shooter is a MAGA republican who cosplays as Trump,and Charlies last words were a racist dog whistle All of this is factually incorrect. Unless you interpret a Hallowe'en costume (i.e., something that comes with the message that this is a scary person not to be idolized) as "cosplay" (https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/tyler-robinsons-chilling-donald-trump-halloween-costume-revealed/ar-AA1MqSuu https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/tyler-robinsons-chill...), the primary suspect (out of respect to the justice system, I must continue to admit the possibility that they got the wrong guy, until the trial has concluded) did nothing of the sort. (Aside from which, he would have been 14 at the time.) Apparently some people are circulating images of him in a MAGA shirt, but these are photoshopped (https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/09/fact-check-tyler-robinson-was-not-wearing-a-trump-shirt-in-photo-the-original-image-of-Kirk-shooting-suspect-was-edited.html https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/09/fact-check-tyler-...). There were Antifa slogans and memes on the bullets and the shooter targeted a conservative, and he is known to have opposed Kirk ideologically (https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/hey-fascist-catch-messages-written-on-bullet-casings-in-charlie-kirk-shooting/3823256/ https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/hey-fascist-catch-messages-w...). He is very obviously not a "MAGA Republican". Charlie Kirk's last words were to ask for a clarification, arguably in a pointed way, intended to imply that gang violence should be counted as mass shooting when it otherwise meets the definition. Even if you take a logical leap based on the statistics showing that the perpetrators of such violence are generally non-white, there is nothing racist about pointing this out. The statistics are what they are, and saying so does not attribute the conduct to non-white people in general. If claims like this are made off-limits then it becomes impossible to discuss a real problem that results in many deaths.
  - krispyfi 1y ago
    Calling the markings on the casings, "antifa" is premature, in my opinion. The arrows are a Helldivers II reference. "Bella Ciao" appears in Far Cry 6 and is featured on a Groyper Spotify playlist. (The suspect cosplayed as a Groyper meme, and Groypers hate Charlie Kirk, so it adds up.) UwU is a reference to furries. My guess is he's a terminally-online gamer/channer/Groyper and he was trying to troll news organizations into broadcasting his spicy memes. But this is just my guess, and until we get more evidence, my guess is worth about as much as your "antifa" theory, i.e., zilch.

48 points by mdhb 1y ago

cosmicgadget 1y ago

No mention of how common this is. Anyone know?

trod1234 1y ago
Fairly common from what I hear, its gone completely Orwellian or Maoist, depending on your perspective. Bad people pretending to be good doing bad things to torture people based on the bad people's false accusations and coercive evil behavior. I can't imagine a world where any rational person believes that depriving people of their professions/jobs through false accusation and targeted Zersetzung-style gangstalking (i.e. criminal harassment) is a good thing. Cancel culture has always been based in identity politics, which are the anti-thesis of American principles, anyone with half a brain knows where that came from historically. The moment you can't communicate for fear of reprisals as a result of someone else twisting your words out of context is the moment society begins its slow march to complete collapse and eventual annihilation/extinction. Its a small but objective indicator. By the time the slow-witted realize this, its often too late to pull back from the maelstrom, and the loudspeaker/algorithm/technology gives them privileged position to drive the boat straight into the center, and keep doing this drowning out the sane voices that want to survive and have a future. When there is no ability to communicate, there can be no basis for non-violent conflict resolution, no shared context, and its been known for quite awhile that isolation drives people insane. A spiraled loop of madness. People are often quite blind when it comes to how communication specifically impacts their psychological state, and thus are powerless to alter or control their heading. The science inflicted on them to induce towards automata is beyond their ken or ability to react. Sad state of affairs overall.
elmerfud 1y ago
This isn't something that used to need to be said. The really sad fact is that they even had to remind people that you shouldn't victim blame.
- cosmicgadget 1y ago
  Did it? Is Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh too beneath mainstream? How about Fox News pundits after Paul Pelosi was attacked? I don't think this is new.
  - lawlessone 1y ago
    Sounds like it's the American equivalent of the British knighting people.
- mdhb 1y ago
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  - SpicyUme 1y ago
    Interesting to look back at yesterday's comments here and in other online spaces. People like jumping to the conclusions they've prepared for themselves.
    - zahlman 1y ago
      The comment you're replying to is not from yesterday, and it's factually incorrect.
  - zahlman 1y ago
    > a straight white 22 year old RWNJ I had to look up this acronym. Apparently it stands for "right-wing nut job". I genuinely don't understand how you came to this conclusion.
    - zahlman 1y ago
      As an update: GP was flagged and killed, and there is now compelling evidence that the shooter was indeed not a "RWNJ": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269539
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OhMeadhbh 1y ago

When irony is outlawed, only outlaws will be ironic.

general1465 1y ago
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Bender 1y ago

Some game developers are getting attention too [1]. 4chan anons are also archiving, doxxing, reporting to employeers. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprAK933Fdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprAK933Fdg [video][20 mins][2,460,090 views]

ChrisArchitect 1y ago

Source instead of 404: Comcast Execs Criticize Fired MSNBC Contributor Matthew Dowd’s Comments About Charlie Kirk Following Shooting as ‘Unacceptable and Insensitive’: ‘We Need to Do Better’ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/comcast-execs-criticize-msnbc-matthew-dowd-charlie-kirk-shooting-memo-1236516014/ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/comcast-execs-criticize-msn...

Yeul 1y ago

After a high profile political assassination in the Netherlands (and this time it was a confirmed radical leftist) all mainstream politicians immediately banded together to keep democracy and the rule of law intact. Instinctively the media and politics knew that the nation was on a knife's edge. It was rally around the flag time. When I compare that to how Trump and Fox behaves it doesn't bode well.

metalman 1y ago

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zahlman 1y ago
>the shooter is a MAGA republican who cosplays as Trump,and Charlies last words were a racist dog whistle All of this is factually incorrect. Unless you interpret a Hallowe'en costume (i.e., something that comes with the message that this is a scary person not to be idolized) as "cosplay" (https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/tyler-robinsons-chilling-donald-trump-halloween-costume-revealed/ar-AA1MqSuu https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/tyler-robinsons-chill...), the primary suspect (out of respect to the justice system, I must continue to admit the possibility that they got the wrong guy, until the trial has concluded) did nothing of the sort. (Aside from which, he would have been 14 at the time.) Apparently some people are circulating images of him in a MAGA shirt, but these are photoshopped (https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/09/fact-check-tyler-robinson-was-not-wearing-a-trump-shirt-in-photo-the-original-image-of-Kirk-shooting-suspect-was-edited.html https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/09/fact-check-tyler-...). There were Antifa slogans and memes on the bullets and the shooter targeted a conservative, and he is known to have opposed Kirk ideologically (https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/hey-fascist-catch-messages-written-on-bullet-casings-in-charlie-kirk-shooting/3823256/ https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/hey-fascist-catch-messages-w...). He is very obviously not a "MAGA Republican". Charlie Kirk's last words were to ask for a clarification, arguably in a pointed way, intended to imply that gang violence should be counted as mass shooting when it otherwise meets the definition. Even if you take a logical leap based on the statistics showing that the perpetrators of such violence are generally non-white, there is nothing racist about pointing this out. The statistics are what they are, and saying so does not attribute the conduct to non-white people in general. If claims like this are made off-limits then it becomes impossible to discuss a real problem that results in many deaths.
- krispyfi 1y ago
  Calling the markings on the casings, "antifa" is premature, in my opinion. The arrows are a Helldivers II reference. "Bella Ciao" appears in Far Cry 6 and is featured on a Groyper Spotify playlist. (The suspect cosplayed as a Groyper meme, and Groypers hate Charlie Kirk, so it adds up.) UwU is a reference to furries. My guess is he's a terminally-online gamer/channer/Groyper and he was trying to troll news organizations into broadcasting his spicy memes. But this is just my guess, and until we get more evidence, my guess is worth about as much as your "antifa" theory, i.e., zilch.