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  • Republicans warn against mocking Kirk's death, threaten dire consequences
  • At least 15 people fired or suspended for allegedly disrespecting Kirk's memory
  • Online campaigns directed by Republicans continue to target Kirk's critics online

WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - After the fatal shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, U.S. Republicans have a warning for Americans: Mourn him respectfully or suffer the consequences.

Over the past several days, Democratic and Republican leaders have widely condemned the murder of Kirk, a 31-year-old activist and Trump world celebrity known for his hard-right views and pugnacious debating style.

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[–] teft@piefed.social 234 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Nah. Fuck your feelings. Rest in piss, shithead.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Wherever his grave will be, it will become a public toilet.

And a dance floor. The logistics might be a challenge but we'll manage.

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[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

If you mourn a nazi you are a nazi.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 176 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

That's not a "warning," that's a threat.

It is just and righteous to threaten them in kind and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 95 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Facts. This “they go low, we go high” stuff got us stuck with fascism. It’s time to start swinging.

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[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 101 points 1 day ago

Mourn him properly or else

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[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Who do these people think they are?

Our lords and masters, literally.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

They think they are everyone's betters. They have God on their side y'know.

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 65 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I will not morn the death of a piece of human shit.

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 50 points 1 day ago

Yeah, so here's the thing: I don't take orders from you.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cancel culture run amok /s

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Hypocrites gonna hypocrite.

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago
[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)
  1. Publish every single business that fires employees over this.

  2. Create a centralized repository of those businesses

  3. ?????

  4. Destroy profit

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, "mourning", that's exactly what I'm doing.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me too. He went so fast he didn’t know what was happening.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those frames immediately after impact keep replaying in my head and it makes me feel uncomfortable in public spaces. It's so difficult to hide my erection.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I do not condone murder. I don’t even support a death penalty. But I do not and will not mourn terrorists, nor will I tolerate the whitewashing, sanewashing, or saintwashing of that hateful, monstrous person. Who dedicated their life to spreading fear and suffering and damnation among his fellow man.

I am a staunch atheist, but since Kirk frequently masqueraded as a Christian, I’ll leave you all with this:

Matthew 23:13-15

Tap for spoilerYou will suffer, you politicians and preachers. Hypocrites! Because you have shut people out from the kingdom of heaven you will never enter, just as you have stopped others from entering.

You will suffer, you politicians and preachers. Hypocrites! You would rob a widow of everything she has left, while verbosely pretending to pray; therefore, your punishment will be unimaginable.

You will suffer, you politicians and preachers. Hypocrites! You would travel any distance over land or sea to win one convert; and when you have one, you make them twice the child of damnation that you are.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kirk did not deserve to be killed.

I won’t mourn him and no one else should because Kirk and many others like him on the right have been pouring gas on the fire that is violence in the US.

Had Hasan Piker or any other left wing commentator been shot, Charlie Kirk would have been crowd funding to get the shooter out on bail.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’m sorry, I just don’t have the empathy to mourn Charlie Kirk. It would sully his memory.

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.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 31 points 1 day ago

Kirk was a piece of shit. Everyone defending him at the very least is shit stained by association

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago
[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago
[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Someone on this construction site didn’t get the memo

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago

I'm not American. Let me teabag his grave for all of you who can't afford the risk.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 27 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I think they are right. Everyone should mourn him properly.

And there is no way more proper than respecting his own wishes and acting like he encouraged to do.

So let's gladly accept his death as the neccessary and justified cost for free gun ownership, don't politicize his death, don't show any empathy for him who preached violence and reaped exactly what he sowed, and start collecting money for the legal representation of the guy who shot him.

Did I miss anything?

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Prepare to have your whole future professional aspirations ruined if you are sick enough to celebrate his death,” said conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, a prominent ally of President Donald Trump and one of several far-right figures who are organizing digital campaigns on X, the social media site, to ferret out and publicly shame Kirk’s critics.

Laura Loomer and Kirk's assassin were both Groypers. Nick Fuentes backed Loomer for congress, and she was shit-talking Kirk over his Epstien stance last month. She's more culpable than anyone she's whining about.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 26 points 12 hours ago

Republicans honor the memory of Charlie Kirk by doing… _checks notes _…”snowflake liberal cancel culture”

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 25 points 13 hours ago

I'll say this about Charlie Kirk: while inconsistent, at some point he wanted the Epstein files released. Let's mourn him properly. Let's get those files. Do it for Charlie™.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Or what? You'll kill Ben Shapiro or Nick Fuentes next? You don't have the balls!

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[–] lumpybag@reddthat.com 22 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Release the Epstein files, it’s what Charlie wanted

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

What a bunch of snowflakes

[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 21 points 1 day ago

Fuck charlie kirk may he rest in piss

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

I dropped a big turd earlier today and it made me think of Charlie. I hope that suffices.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck. Charlie. Kirk.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I'll be waiting for ya, snowflakes.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Charlie Kirk was a racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, quite honestly not that intelligent piece of shit and the universe is better off now that he's been assasinated by a member of his own group in a totally ironic way due to his calls for political violence folding back on him.

Come at me Republicans, I stand by my stance of pointing out Kirk is a POS even after his death. Besides I'm just doing what Charlie would have wanted anyways, shown him and his family no empathy because empathy is a made up term.

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[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 19 points 17 hours ago

I'm honoring the dead you fucking pissants, he said he doesn't believe in empathy

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Will they do the same when Obama dies? Yeah I doubt it

[–] Dionysus@leminal.space 16 points 1 day ago

Response: Go fuck yourselves you fascist fucks.

Over the past two days in my Project Zomboid server, we have been referring to neck injuries as "getting Kirked".

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

Who?

9/10/2025 Already Forgot

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cracks fingers

Time to start logging into my Xitter, ND and FB alts again LMAO

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Dude I logged into my Facebook yesterday for the first time in a long time.

First I found out an old friend from highschool of mine unalived, coming up on the first anniversary of the event. Not close...we were on the football team together one year, we hung out a bit for a few years after I graduated, but honestly I think I've seen him once in the past 20 years.

But then on top of that, I see so many people writing words of praise and support for Kirk. People that I thought were friends, but honestly, I dont think I want to associate with them anymore.

Lemme clear something...any death is a tragedy, there are better ways, etc etc.

But, to use their words against them, he was asking for it.

This guy is the Christo-Fascist version of Joseph Goebbels, and his death is being treated like MLK's..

Prominent conservative talking head and one of the big people behind MAGA, Turning Point, and a big proponent of all the associated propaganda. He would sit on Vance's couch while they take turns sucking Thiel's dick.

I guess Nazis would've mourned Goebbels if he were assassinated

Thiel, for those that don't know, is basically the New World Order. Legit everything that conservative conspiracy theorists have been scared of for decades, and they are lapping it up.

And I get this funny feeling that Kirk is going to become this generations Franz Ferdinand. Not the singer. Part of me even thinks this was intended to spark a civil war, and the internet rage machine is just working as designed. And probably even arranged by a dickhead like Thiel.

I'm not saying he deserved to be assassinated. I'm saying that he doesn't deserve mourning. He has committed his life and legacy to turning back decades, if not centuries, of societal progress. Fuck. Him.

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