Billy Joel was finally wrong: not only the good die young.

Here’s the frustration and why this should not be celebrated:

Charlie Kirk spent years dehumanizing people, making lives measurably worse, and profiting from hatred. The cosmic irony of him being shot while calling trans people dangerous and minimizing gun violence feels like the universe delivering a punchline he wrote himself. There’s a cathartic release in seeing someone who seemed untouchable suddenly silenced by the very violence he dismissed.

But that catharsis is blinding, vile, and destructive. Every celebration post, every "rest in piss" meme, every "fucked around and found out" joke is already being screenshot and weaponized. The worst people imaginable, those eager to exploit violence, are being handed exactly what they want: supposed proof that “they were right,” justification for crackdowns, and, most dangerously, a martyr whose blood sanctifies every awful thing he stood for.

Celebration may feel like a dunk on fascism, but in reality it accelerates it. It may feel like strength, but it exposes a movement so strategically bankrupt that it mistakes emotional satisfaction for political victory. Kirk alive was one influencer among many; Kirk dead is a rallying cry that will outlive us all.

The rage at what he represented is justified. But celebrating his death guarantees those very ideas will flourish. American democracy is dying, and a gravedigger falling into the hole is no victory when it only deepens the grave.

His ideas needed to be defeated. Instead, they’ve been immortalized.

I wouldn't say he was murdered. He considered himself to be a culture warrior and when a warrior falls in battle, even if it's a most pointless battle standing on the wrong side of history, it's generally not considered murder.

No empathy for this scum <3

Stupid fuckers on Australian news are going with the 'conservative activist' shit.

Nazi pig got put down like the animal he was. Activism is for the oppressed against their oppressors.

In the end, he did get one vaccine shot.

The anti-life one.

More people like him should get their shots. Hey, it's a matter of public health!

I'm not celebrating, it's just a routine champagne toast. I do it every time a fascist dies of unnatural causes.

I have seen so many right wingers post something along the lines of "leftists are so psychotic for being happy he was killed, we should kill all leftists in response!"

"Some gun deaths are worth in order to have the second amendment"

I hope he had couple minutes to reflect on this before he died.

So we're just practicing what Charlie preached by not giving a single fuck that he died by a shooting.

He is right, empathy is a dangerous feeling. Sometimes, it is better to feel it, and still toss it aside when it apply to assholes

the problem is that he was wrong; Empathy is a good thing. You are embodying his shitty ideology by not having empathy. That doesn't mean you gotta suddenly like the guy or not call out his shitty ideology, but don't let yourself get dragged down into the septic tank and get covered in the shit.

I'll gladly die on this hill, get at me nerds

God works in mysterious ways.

"A few gun deaths are worth it to protect the God given rights of women and LGBTQ+." - Charlie Kirk