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[–] [M] 34 points 1 year ago

FYI - links to the gore video will be removed if it is not properly marked as NSFW/NSFL.

Yes, it's bad. This is not like the Trump "maybe it was faked with razor blades" kind of thing.

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    [–] 77 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    I abhor violence and I don’t want this to ever be considered normal or acceptable. Once again, we need actual gun regulation in this country.

    That being said, fuck that guy in particular. He, his ideology, and the causes he advocates for are monstrous and no amount of violence against him should be used to wash any of that away. Make no mistake, his political ideology has helped build the society that is making this kind of horror more commonplace. Let’s not forget, the society that HE is helping to build is largely accepting of gun violence toward children, not to mention many others.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This fucker was lying about trans people, saying they are more likely than white men to commit mass shootings, right before he was shot.

    He was perpetrating politcal violence against a marginalized minority when political violence silenced him. I don't think this is a good situation (overall as a nation and a society) but this is very much a live by the sword die by the sword moment.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don't abhor it. It's the only language some people understand and we've been placated and lied to since forever that "it doesn't solve anything"

    If it doesn't solve anything then why do we have armies?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It’s funny that violence is fine when the US government is assassinating an iranian general., but is abhorent and deplorable when someone assassinates a propagandist who helped destroy american democracy. It’s like the US has a standard, but it’s like, doubled in some way…

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    [–] 51 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The irony of him talking about shootings in America and then the shot rings out.

    That is just…a little too convenient?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yes. I’m aware. I’m saying the shot timing based on what he was talking about literally right then. Was the whole thing/talk about shootings? Was it a very crazy coincidence? Was the asker and shooter a plant?

    We will find out in time. It’s just very weird timing.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Quote from the guy:

    The Second Amendment is not about hunting. I love hunting. The Second Amendment is not even about personal defense. That is important. The Second Amendment is there, God forbid, so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government.

    So does this count as defense against a tyrannical government? Given that he's a propagandist / mouthpiece for the current said government causing harm to countless humans right now.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    That's not even true. The reason for the second amendment is clearly spelled out in the amendment itself. The part that everyone seems to ignore.

    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State...

    It was intended as a way for us to have an army available on short notice without having to maintain a standing army.

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago*

    https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113

    Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago

    Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person I guess? He's super pro gun and "taking things in your own hands", so I guess he got what he was asking for.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    The only good nazi...

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Over 30 minutes since it happened and not a single post on Reddit’s r/politics…. Censorship much?

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My non-mod opinion on this:

    Trump is posting Kirk is dead.

    Not going to celebrate, just noting:

    "I can't stand the word 'empathy', I think it's a made up New Age term." - Charlie Kirk

    https://youtu.be/qO8GGZ418T8

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    May the gods judge him fairly in accordance with the life he lived. I bear no further ill will towards him and wish him well in his coming journey. I'm grateful he has stopped hurting people and only wish it had happened differently

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Authoritarians use shit like this as fuel to crack down harder.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Thoughts and prayers.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Another trump style "shooting" now they send Soldiers to Utah

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Is the prick dead or not? This article seems more like it wants to fellate republicans who are posting their literal thoughts and prayers for their scumbag friend.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    There is no negotiating with fascists.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I saw an unironic comment on one of the outlets reporting the shooting, and it was "All the liberal violence has got to end".

    I mean....WTAF? No one even knows who the shooter is yet, do they? And how many instances are there of liberal violence?

    I bet that same dipstick thinks that J6, the Proud Boys, The 3%ers, the Oathkeepers, and all the other right-wing domestic terrorist groups, are all fine, too....

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What’s near the neck? The head? The chest? Trachea?

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "Utah Valley University spokeswoman Ellen Treanor has confirmed to the New York Times that Charlie Kirk was struck by a gunman positioned in the Losee Center, a building approximately 200 yards from the event site."

    Unlike Mr.Kirk, I'm in favor of much stronger gun control, but that was quite an accurate shot, harmed nobody else, and well timed for context. Unlike the idiots trying to shoot Trump and either killing another person or not even getting a shot off

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Ya know I've been saying for years the best way to remove Republican influence is to put the propagandists to the sword. Thusly I am not only fully okay with this, I fucken support it.

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