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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

trump is honoring him with a military procession, to distract from epstein. people said he was killed over, because he was pining for epstein files to be released. Kirk did more harm than good, but MSMS seems to try to sanewash him.

[–] blueamigafan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well gonna be interesting to see what south park does

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 14 points 2 days ago (14 children)

I mean, I wouldn't say "don't celebrate it" but just because someone else is a piece of shit isn't a blank check for you* to be a piece of shit.

*Collective "you"

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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Did he actually say that? That literally what genuine psychopaths say.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I had to look it up. The full context is:

So the new communications strategy for Democrats, now that their polling advantage is collapsing in every single state… collapsing in Ohio. It's collapsing even in Arizona. It is now a race where Blake Masters is in striking distance. Kari Lake is doing very, very well. The new communications strategy is not to do what Bill Clinton used to do, where he would say, "I feel your pain." Instead, it is to say, "You're actually not in pain." So let's just, little, very short clip. Bill Clinton in the 1990s. It was all about empathy and sympathy. I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage. But, it is very effective when it comes to politics. Sympathy, I prefer more than empathy. That's a separate topic for a different time.

Later on Twitter:

The same people who lecture you about 'empathy' have none for the soldiers discharged for the jab, the children mutilated by Big Medicine, or the lives devastated by fentanyl pouring over the border. Spare me your fake outrage, your fake science, and your fake moral superiority.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote/

It's not as bad as the out-of-context quote, but I'm having trouble even wrapping my head around it. I guess the argument is something like:

How can you claim to have empathy when you actively ignore or dismiss the pain of these specific groups? Your empathy is not real; it's a political weapon. Fake outrage, fake science, and fake moral superiority used to win arguments and elections.

He's not wrong about (many) Democrats. But even setting vaccine denialism aside, the core of favoring 'sympathy over empathy' is kind of unavoidable. It feels like tankie whataboutism: 'Democrat's empathy is fake, therefore, more distanced sympathy is our justified approach'

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh hell yeah. I'm cracking open a bottle of wine for celebration. So well deserved.

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[–] lukaro@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

I'm not going to celebrate, I simply don't care that karma struck him so hard.

[–] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

Thoughts and prayers, lmao

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Comical to me how many people in soooooo many posts about this just HAVE to go out of their way to note they aren't celebrating or some blah blah about any human dying.

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