I'm not sorry. Seeing someone who spread so much hate and bigotry and weaponized disinformation get his clock cleaned was absolutely fine by me.

I have empathy for lots of people even if we don't always agree, but not for people like Charlie Kirk.

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

Charlie Kirk died while doing what he loved:

Being a horrible horrible person, and a blight on humanity.

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    [–] 95 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "Y'all are all about 'shoot Nazis, kill Nazis' until a Nazi dies. Then it's 'Oh but that Nazi had a family.' Fuck off."

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    [–] 67 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Well, I don't wish ill on anybody. But when it does happen to some people, schadenfreude can be enjoyable.

    Rest in piss Charlie.

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

    Like someone else said, Kirk getting shot in the throat, in a school, possibly by a republican, while ranting about minorities, gang violence and trans people, is peak irony

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I hope this was a turning point for this country

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

    All the pearl clutching from people who openly support a man "Who could shoot someone on 5th ave and not lose a single vote."

    I'd call them hypocrites but they're too busy praying in public to hear me.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    It's absolutely okay to feel relief when you experience the death of an abusive person.

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

    YouTube randomly gave me this:

    Yes, I would like for him to be next if that's what they're saying.

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

    My only empathy is for the students at the school who probably thought they were about to be victims as well, thinking maybe they were about to experience a mass shooting. Kirk spewed vile hatred non stop, said that gun deaths were needed for us to have our 2nd amendment right, so he did die from what he preached.

    I feel for the students in Colorado who just hours after did become victim to a school shooting, the Democratic officials in Minnesota who the media have forgotten about after their assassination.

    Does that make me a bad person? I don't really give a shit. There's one less toxic commentator/grifter out there saying demeaning shit about minorities and my trans homies, one less voice calling for their deaths. If the left had a version of Kirk that was assassinated, they'd be saying the exact fucking thing.

    I worry about what the repercussions will be for the country.

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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    charlie kirk sucked ass. but i don't see his extremely public assassination having many positive consequences

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    First positive influence: his psychotic ass is gone. Second: Republicans finally have a hint of fear, knowing there are actual consequences.

    They bet on there being no credible resistance.

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

    Second: Republicans finally have a hint of fear, knowing there are actual consequences.

    you're assuming they weren't the ones to do it to create a false-flag event to consolidate magats.

    the only fear I have yet to see is from the Democrats. the Republicans are using this as an opportunity to further their agendas.

    mark my words. there will be a national political registry before there's a national gun registry.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right wingers: how can you celebrate a murder?

    Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what makes you cheer.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    He was a monster. Without the Fourth Reich to prop him up, he would be just one random evil douchebag.

    The world is a marginally better place with him gone. Well until they use it as pretext for carpet bombing blue cities.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    It's so fucking hard for me to even begin to disagree with you. I want to feel empathy for this human being but for fuck's sake... you can feel the irony and hypocrisy...

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    My only disappointment is a shot to the carotid artery means he likely had no time to process the karmic irony of his death.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    People need to stop celebrating the shooter! I'm absolutely disgusted and ashamed by their actions. Charlie Kirk was doing nothing but sitting there giving a speech. This was in the middle of the day, there were clear skys and the sun was shining directly on Charlie, as if he was chosen to deliver an important message. Than the shooter shot him. I'll say it as it is, nothing was between Charlie and the shooter that warranted this.

    So how could the shooter miss the shot at Charlie Kirk's large ass head and hit him in neck instead! Embarrassing, do better on the next fascist.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    As far as I'm concerned it was the same as watching footage of a Nazi's neck exploding.

    And I'll always take joy in that.

    The only good fascist is a dead fascist.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Him making an incredibly racist statement only for the universe's immediate rebuttal to be "we're taking your blood back" was pretty funny.

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

    I'm mostly just tired of the same people that might take time off to go piss on Biden's grave having the gall to demand that we be respectful of this chud.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Yeah its wild - normally i click off of these type of videos, but i felt less than nothing for him but damn that's alot of blood

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

    I've seen this sentiment around a bit, and while I'm not going to tell people their feelings are wrong (I did not like the guy and while I would have preferred something else happen to him over murder, he did help support the set of circumstances that made his assassination possible), I find it confusing enough that it makes me question if either my brain works differently around this or if I'm misunderstanding what feeling empathy actually refers to, because to me, it doesn't seem "voluntary" like that.

    Like, for me, if something unpleasant happens to someone, I can't really help but to start imagining it and going over what it might be like to be in or around that position and getting emotionally worked up, pretty much automatically. It doesn't really even matter if I'm glad the guy is gone at some level or hated them, my brain gets the immediate gut twist of "damn, that seems like a horrible experience" all the same. Like, it could be someone as heinous as literal Hitler, and even then if some documentary gets into the details of his end my first gut reaction is likely to be a sense of discomfort and something like "it would really suck to wake up one day as someone that's done all that and brought themselves to such a position, imagine what would be going through your head in that situation".

    I haven't watched the video as I don't handle blood and gore and such well, and I don't mean this as some kind of judgement or assertion of virtue, it's just a bit confusing to me when people say things like "I have no empathy for guys like that" or "you shouldn't feel empathy for fascists because they don't deserve it" and I'm like, okay, but how? Does your brain just let you decide not do that? Mine seems to just do it automatically regardless of if it feels appropriate or not.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Feel your feelings. Do what's right for you. Nobody else makes that decision for you.

    I've spent the last eight years infiltrating white supremacists on social media. I have seen people like Charlie and what their conversation is like when they're among their own and the masks are off. That's why I don't feel bad for him, I have seen their true faces.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    I laughed, and I fucking hate the fascists for being so vile that that was my reaction.

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

    Was as entertaining as watching ketchup coming out of the bottle.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I got more of a cold sense of "you reap what you sow" justice. If you go around slapping people in the face don't be shocked if you get your ass kicked one day.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Hey just looked at his wikipedia page and whats funny to me is there is very little about his actual life. Its like hes a caricature and nothing more. It makes me think of animes where people are caught up with spirits and stop being human. In this case the spirit is the movement that does not care for his humanity.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Of course it did, the world is better than it was before it.

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

    Watched it and I'm happy too.

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