RaskolnikovsAxe

This is exactly the time to spread Charlie Kirk's videos and messages far and wide. There is no better way to celebrate the man than to let the world hear his message. It is his legacy. It was his life's work.

And the Democrats in Congress should write up the "Charlie Kirk Sensible Gun Reform Bill" with background checks and red flag laws. That's it. Surely this is the time, in the face of senseless death, to honour Charlie by bringing this bill forward.

Everything Charlie said in his life made it clear that he would have admonished us for caring about his death, and he would have defended the necessity of it. This is his legacy.

If you spend your life saying hateful and morally reprehensible shit you don't get to enjoy a posthumous rewrite that is entirely at odds with your life's work.

It's unfortunate that someone died and it is a disaster for the division and incipient collapse of US society. This doesn't mean Charlie was a good person, or that he will be missed, or that we should care about his particular death versus many others.

I would have preferred the last three years of his miserable life spent in a maximum security prison, but as it seems like the law doesn't exist in the US anymore I will accept a series of strokes leading to shitting himself and collapsing on a stage in public. I'm okay with that trade.

Kash Patel talking about how the FBI and the federal government drove this thing to completion, but, although he perpetually looks as if he has, that dumb fucker clearly couldn't drive his thumb up his arse.

This administration is a joke.

Hey, be respectful. This man really put his neck out for his beliefs. He offered himself as tribute to the 2nd amendment, and we should admire his conviction. The proper way to celebrate would be to honour his wishes and show zero empathy. It's the least we can do for him.

It's a rare man that has the courage to rationalize senseless violence in defense of unrestricted access to deadly weapons, and it is even rarer to literally make that the hill you die on. He showed us all by example how you truly live your creed.

I believe you would be correct if the roles were reversed. For our sake we should be thankful they are not.

I don't want to be overly optimistic, but if we can find a way to heal our country and make a positive change in our politics, I'm all for it.

The difference here is that the Liberals are not the Democrats. They will stand up and push back. If Poilievre makes it about needless opposition, they will just work with the other parties and keep going. They don't need him.

But yes, I can appreciate what you say. It seems clear that the Republicans and those like them have only ever paid lip service to good faith and respectful dialogue, and they've never done anything but take advantage of anyone who offers them goodwill. I can see this starting in western Canada, and I do believe Poilievre is cut from the same cloth. But I think Carney has a strategic advantage here and it doesn't disadvantage him to at least try to create a better environment. Hard liners won't change, but Canada seems to have softer support in the centre and they generally prefer civil politics.

If the Liberals take electoral reform it will be yet another massive Conservative fumble.

It would be by far the funniest funniest thing.

Yeah that's fair. He's not above politicking, in fact I'm sure his decisions weigh many factors, politics being one of them.

On the topic, I hope that the left doesn't build a personality cult around him. He's not particularly charismatic, he's just a technocrat with skills that can help us. Let the man do his job without deifying him. We don't need more populism right now, we need experts... and we sure don't need celebrity politicians.

I'm not religious, but I feel like this is somehow extra super duper disrespectful. Religious folk are not known for their tolerance of false or satirical iconography.

But I guess he's insulting Catholics so it's probably totally cool with his evangelical base. Oh who am I kidding, he could make AI scat porn with their Lord and Saviour and they'd find a passage in the Bible that supports it.