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He didn't deserve to be killed, but he was an asshole.

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[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago

he did deserve it lol

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 64 points 1 day ago

He deserved it. And you are not helping society by adding that dumb little quip that he didn’t.

Please keep that shit to yourself.

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago

that nazi trash got what he deserved

[–] hector@lemmy.today 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hell of a guy. Such a shame we are bereft of his seducing the nation's dumb assholes to be tools of the plutocracy in the r party restarting feudalism right as global warming fucks everything.

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 14 points 1 day ago

That’s where he is…. Hell.

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s where he is…. Hell.

[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You posted twice.

I'm glad. Got to upvote you twice

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 day ago

Must have been a network issue. But thanks! ☺️

[–] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Abortions 😡 Starving children 😎

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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is the one thing I've seen that has made me feel he deserved it.

This from the forced birth party. Miserable fucks, dead set on creating more miserable fucks.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Just want to say I hate the captions on this video. I got no audio and can’t read this.

[–] mcbenavides85@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago

One less shitty millionaire.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The obesity problem will also be solved by providing healthy nutritional meals. Not just the cheap food that all parents can afford.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the fact that shit food is cheapest in america is so profoundly insane

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

It sounds like the kind of outcome capitalism would produce though, no?

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Wow that whole 'we don't have a child starvation problem, we have a child obesity problem' as evidence it doesn't exist.... that's just evil genius levels for political soundbites.

Evil because they are two side of the same coin! And genius deflection because one has physical evidence we all see everyday. Americans are fat and the media publishes articles of how our kids are fat, not how they are hungry. And if you may see that hungry kid you won't know they are hungry if you don't know them.

Frankly his first reply "get a job" is his real truth though.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He did deserve to be killed though.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"It sure is hot down here" - Charlie Kirk

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (6 children)

No OP he did deserve it, as all Nazis do.

Now if we want to talk about anyone not deserving something it's all the poor sods who saw it happen. It's not pleasant watching someone die infront of you let alone violently.

Watching death sucks. Y'all remember that Russian invader who died in the shallow creek? Now that's a death I wouldn't even wish on Kirk.

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[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (23 children)

Making sure children are fed should be like step #1 of society

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Not a pro-eugenics society.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This guy was like the proverbial forked tongue, like what the christians would describe in their fantasyland as a devil or demon that really speaks to you and leads you down an evil path using words you secretly want to hear. Kirk talking was always full of subtle dog whistles, sometimes not so subtle, always leading the willing listener to justify their hatreds and myopic views. Framing questions as accusations, dodging actually answering questions, butwhataboutism, etc. A snake oil salesman for willing buyers. I’m not in the least religious, but the most vocal on the right are the spitting image of the nefarious smooth-talking baddies christians are always so worried about.

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[–] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Abortions 😡 Gunning,Starving,Grooming children 😎

Think of the psychopaths, what will they do if there isn't enough children to abuse? What will they doooo? /s

Tough love calling a kid dumb to his face in front of his peers yeah?

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The government shouldn't help its people? The government should instead help weapons, communications companies, large estate companies, and banks? The wealthy can't afford it I guess, so we have to prioritize their needs over the voting populace? GTFO out with that elitist nonsense. Same old rhetoric, it's handouts, the poor are poor by choice or laziness, not due to cost of living, food, education, etc.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The government should instead help weapons, communications companies, large estate companies, and banks?

Yes, this is how monarchies operated through human history. The goal is to go back to that. To undo the efforts of enlightenment thinkers and revolutionaries that gave us societies with individual rights, popular sovereignty and seperation of powers.

Many that hold power and wealth want to turn back the clock to a time before systems held either in check.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, I agree with the sentiment here but why is this political commentator not wearing a shirt.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't mind 👀 Respectfully

I guess there is a market for softcore political commentary after all.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 7 points 1 day ago

So, there were posts reference a list of grievances against Charlie, and every one I bookmarked is gone. WTF is going on?

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I wonder how Tucker Carlson is doing these days, I sure hope nothing bad happens to him.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

White America is not going to gaslight me into feeling sorry for an open white nationalist and Nazi getting quickscoped.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

I don’t condone violence but to argue that Kirk was anything other than a sociopath douche canoe is a fallacy. Yes don’t celebrate his murder but at the same time don’t try to make him a martyr and a decent person. He was neither.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Death is too good for the people who deserve it the most.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He just wanted the children to be thinner so that they could more easily hide under their desks during school shooting. Seems more reasonable a solution than gun control, don't you think?

[–] sploder@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Charlie Kirk did not give a single fuck about children, especially the ones taken away by gun violence in particular imo

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

I've said it before, I'll say it again. I only feel bad for the kids.

They didn't choose their father. They didn't choose to be born. They will 100% at some point, see up close and personal footage of their father being killed in broad daylight, in full color, digitally perfect quality, preserved by the Internet, forever.

They will see that footage someday, if not already.

That's why I feel for those kids. I feel bad for them in spite of what their father said or believed. Specifically to spite him, I will feel sympathy for his kids.

His wife can get fucked. She volunteered for this. She knew what she was getting into, she knew the man that she married, and not only married him, but stayed married to him through all of this dumb, insane, and toxic shit that he was spewing.

She had a fucking choice and she chose to stay where she was. The only way my opinion on that could change is if her husband was an abuser. I have no doubt that he could have been, right now there's no allegations of that. If she's the victim of domestic abuse, then leaving would not have been as straight forward as it might seem.

In all other circumstances, she can get wrecked for standing by him while he said and did what he said and did.

I have zero empathy or sympathy for the man himself. Guy was toxic, and he was shot and killed by someone equally, or more toxic. One goes in the ground, one goes in a cell. Both are out of our society, hopefully forever. Fuck both of them.

The more I see about Kirk, or his killer, the more I fucking hate both of them.

I still feel bad for those kids.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

Anyone that is against free school lunches for kids is a heartless corporate shill and has likely earned a bullet.

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