Let me put this in a simple way. His death should not be celebrated but you shouldn't mourn for him as well.
Just go "phew, that's one less bigot" & move on
Hm i felt very happy for a day. Great success!
That’s exactly how I feel. One less bigot on earth
I think you are downplaying his role though. And it is critical to understand this in order to understand why people are actually kind of happy he died. He is not just a bigot, he is a person with a very large sphere of influence who uses this influence to turn people into bigotry or make people who are already bigots more extreme bigots. Overall it is a really huge benefit for society, orders of magnitudes more than just a single isolated bigot.
My reaction was just: "it sucks to suck".
I watched the video, shrugged my shoulders, and moved on to watch Casual Geographic. At least that is fun.
Honestly, I didn't feel much from seeing Kirk die. He is just one many conservatives, that I would simply like to turn into dust. They sometimes fill me with anger, but...it isn't much of a feeling, most days. I want to get on with life.
And then people post shit like this here: "Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting
As if it's not 'normal' people not giving a fuck about some hate spreading dead nazi.
I think those bots are also on Charlie's side, like pushing an antileft agenda, because they want us to have a civil war to damage our country.
I'm surprised we didn't get a condolence tweet from Putin too.
Charlie Kirk died while doing what he loved:
Being a horrible horrible person, and a blight on humanity.
He died in the midst of what he loved: a school shooting.
"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."
Well, I don't wish ill on anybody. But when it does happen to some people, schadenfreude can be enjoyable.
Rest in piss Charlie.
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
"Because Charlie Kirk spent so much of his life advocating for gun violence, Kirk’s murder was both tragic and ironic. He was killed by the very thing he loved. It would be like if Donald Trump were child-raped to death."
I wish ill on people who do evil shit. I also wish they'd see the error of their ways and make amends. They don't tend to though. Watching Charlie get so neatly picked off like a clay pigeon in a shooting gallery as he was about to spew more horseshit was highly satisfying.
I hope this was a turning point for this country
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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