I'm against political violence but as Kirk would say about a raped woman that was wearing a short skirt "what did he expect?"
Dude literally died for what he believed in. We should be happy for him.
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Dude literally died for what he believed in. We should be happy for him.
More than that, it's "worth it to have the cost" of everyone owning guns, so that we can have some fascist pricks die every so often.
I don't agree with the political violence (unless you're fighting back against it) but everyone in America that isn't a maga cult member should look at investing in more guns and gun handling training.
I'm paraphrasing his quote on gun violence.
In a way, he's right -- this death? Worth it. Totally. I just wish it didn't come at the cost of many schoolchildren and other innocents before (and after) him.
So then, how do you reduce? Very simple. People say, oh, Charlie, how do you stop school shootings? I don't know. How did we stop shootings at baseball games? Because we have armed guards outside of baseball games. That's why. How did we stop all the shootings at airports? We have armed guards outside of airports. How do we stop all the shootings at banks? We have armed guards outside of banks. How did we stop all the shootings at gun shows?
Turns out those police officers and security couldn't keep Charlie Kirk alive.
On the other hand, in a sick and twisted way, this all does lend credence to the whole "good guy with a gun" idea. you can't tell me that microphone in his hand isn't a weapon, and you sure as shit can't tell me Charlie Kirk was a good guy.
In other words, this was justifiable self-defense, that sniper protected those college kids from a cognitohazard.
I just watched the Behind the Bastards episode on the zyzzians and my brain immediately that Kirk was gonna start spouting off about Rokus Basilisk.
Ahh ok. I gotcha
Work for the world you want to live in, prepare for the world you already live in.
I didn't expect this shit to happen in my life time (a phrase uttered by many, no doubt) but here we are.
Yeah, we ain't even rock bottom yet...
Like, it's past recommending "guns".
Everybody should legit be getting ARs/AKs and plated vests these days.
It doesn't take a lot of range time to get competent. Both platforms are very simple.
He meant school children, not himself.
Every thread I see a new shit take from this dude. It’s like a nesting doll of poo.
Man really left a garbage legacy.
The time for being "against political violence" as a general concept is long passed.
One side has violence against anyone but themselves as their only policy. Fascism doesn't surrender to reasoned argument, law or elections.
It's certainly on the very limit of when it should be used but for whatever it means, Kirk was just a hateful person. As far as I'm aware he didn't actually murder anyone but in the current climate, what did he expect?
He was certainly influential enough on the wrong side of the wrong topics that putting some lost lives on him wouldn't be remiss.
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He didn't directly murder people, but the ideas and beliefs he spread did. I mean, at the very least his Covid conspiracy theories were killing people.
Charlie Kirk was political the same way the Ku Klux Klan is political.
He was a walking advertisement for allowing hate to flow through people. Like I said: what did he expect?
Believed gun deaths were a good thing, didn't believe in empathy. My joy that he's gone is right in line with his beliefs!
A win win for everyone
Was never elected nor held office so never a politician, just a hate monger.
he was a propagandist
I haven’t been this elated since Luigi.
We need more good news like this more frequently
I think it's entirely possible to simultaneously be horrified by his murder, feel deep sympathy for his family, and be glad he's no longer in the world.
Right there with you. His wife I don't worry too much about, she knew what she was getting but his kids didn't choose this.
Right there with ya. Truly sucks for him and the family but I’m glad he isn’t spreading his hateful, racist, misogynist shit anymore. It’s a shame he didn’t stop earlier.
He was a propagandist.
Most politics is propagandist as it works to suggest we shouldn't lead ourselves, but need representatives, and that we need to support and work for the gamified tokens (money) of the nation.
I love how they titled the article as a direct retort to the NYC’s fucking idiotic platforming of a fascist sympathizer.
It's impossible to be against violence and say anything good about that two bit hateful grifter.
That is perfectly the point. I am against violence and Kirk was a piece of shit who we should feel free to condemn for the harm he was causing right up to his last moments.
Klein's fawning whitewashing of Kirk's dishonest tactics is, if we are being exceptionally charitable, naïve.
Kirk was a radical right-wing extremist. Groomed though he may have been (well, that hair was terrible), he just spewed hate speech.
A few hours before this article was published Jason Koebler at 404 Media published something remarkably similar:
https://www.404media.co/charlie-kirk-was-not-practicing-politics-the-right-way/
It's riffing off an article Ezra Klein wrote with the headline "Kirk was practicing politics the right way". Klein wrote this because his brain is full of cheese.
Fuck, where's the byline? I get if they are afraid to publish under their real name but gimmie more from this author, I want to see if I agree with them in other articles.
Weird, I see the byline as David Corn, their Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief.
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Ezra Klein sucks. Has always sucked, will always suck.
He's so confusing. Sometimes he'll say something and I'll think he's based, but most of the time it's awful.
It certainly isn't consistent, that's for sure.
Oh my god!!!! He was a psychopath!!!!
I love that psychopath is included in this article.
Of course, the main purpose of posts by Russian trolls is to incite arguments among different groups or ideologies: conservatives versus liberals, pro-life versus pro choice, pro-immigrant groups versus border wall enthusiasts, etc. Researchers say as outrageous as much of this content appears to be, Americans can’t help but to click.
After analyzing over 2,500 of these Russian posts, researchers discovered they generated clickthrough rates as much as nine times higher than the norm in digital advertising campaigns. In a rather poor reflection of human nature, it seems that controversy, lies, and fear mongering do very much equal clicks.
Interestingly, ads that used flat out racist language didn’t do well, but posts that were threatening or contained verbiage like “terrorist,” “sissy,” “idiot,” and “psychopath” did do very well. Ads that invoked fear and anger performed the best, according to the research team.
You should gander through my post history before levying accusations.
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So? What the hell is your point?
That in using the word psychopath in their argumentative comment, they got you to click the link just like the Russians... Maybe
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