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“Real Time” host Bill Maher asked<\/a> an internet culture researcher Friday about memes to understand how people get “inspired to kill.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Memes, or “historical documents” with various interpretations, were engraved on the shell casings of late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk\u2019s suspected assassin, “Real Time” guest Aidan Walker said.<\/p>\n

Kirk\u2019s accused killer<\/a> etched gamer-inspired and antifascist messaging on his casings, including, “Hey, fascist! Catch!” and a reference to a World War II anthem.<\/p>\n

MAHER BLASTS HOLLYWOOD LIBERALS FOR NOT ACKNOWLEDGING CHARLIE KIRK’S ASSASSINATION AT THE EMMYS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“But [memes] take on new meanings, I mean this is part of why people get inspired to kill,” Maher said. “Because they get insulted by them, right? They get hurt by them. They have a meaning that a lot of us older people are not getting, correct?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The discussion came in the wake of Wednesday\u2019s deadly shooting at a Dallas I.C.E. facility, where one detainee was killed, and two others were wounded before the shooter took his own life. The gunman reportedly left behind a bullet casing inscribed with the phrase “anti-ICE.”<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was almost “murdering ironically,” Maher considered.\u00a0<\/p>\n

MAHER SAYS COMPARING TRUMP TO HITLER MUST END, WARNS IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR KILLERS TO JUSTIFY ASSASSINATIONS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“I mean, that\u2019s a place society has never been,” Maher continued. “Yes, young men are bad and fumbling to get women to agree to what they want to do. But it was never like this. We never had the term incel<\/a> [involuntarily celibate].”\u00a0<\/p>\n

A lot of memes can also be ironic, Walker explained.<\/p>\n

“In a way it\u2019s a little bit like dog whistle\u2026they\u2019re so layered in, you know, I don\u2019t really mean this, but you can put this sort of anti-social or hateful idea behind that,” he described.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old researcher attributed problematic anti-social behavior to not just an affordability crisis but a “crisis of meaning.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

MANGIONE, CATHOLIC CHURCH SHOOTER, CHARLIE KIRK SHOOTER, ICE SHOOTER ALL USED ENGRAVED BULLETS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“You have a lot of especially young people who don\u2019t see a future for themselves, who feel lonely, who feel alienated,” he discussed. “And they congregate in these online spaces sort of outside of the mainstream where they feel like that online world is more important than their real world.”<\/p>\n

Walker went on to share “the way out” that he says gives him hope.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s giving people those social bonds\u2026 giving everybody the shot at dignity and the shot at being seen in our culture,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Republicans like Vice President JD Vance<\/a> blame “left-wing political radicalization”\u00a0<\/strong>for recent\u00a0<\/strong>violence, Maher didn\u2019t mince words in his closing monologue for those arguing the Left is “more approving” of it:<\/p>\n

“You keep saying the Left is more approving of political violence \u2013 well who do you think that\u2019s going to be aimed at?” Maher asked. “I know it feels exhilarating to make the liberals cry their liberal tears after they made you feel disrespected and looked down on flown over and called the nutty ones. But come on, I thought you were the tough guys. Get over it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-explores-connection-between-internet-memes-recent-political-violence <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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