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I'm not sorry. Seeing someone who spread so much hate and bigotry and weaponized disinformation get his clock cleaned was absolutely fine by me.

I have empathy for lots of people even if we don't always agree, but not for people like Charlie Kirk.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can never actually rejoice in it. I avoided the video and my wife sprung it on me and like other things like this I berated her (she knows I don't like reality gore and prefer printed news). I made comments because its a bit hard not to with mister a few killings here and there are the price you pay for gun freedom.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I'm with you, soldiers came back from war with PTSD just from seeing a dude get smoked, I don't need to watch that shit, much less take glee in watching it.

I accept that with him gone, the movement I disagree with has been kneecapped, but damn, watching what people say is one of the most gruesome shootings...

And all us millennials who said "man I watched such dark shit on early internet", and then to still watch Charlie get one tapped... Don't need that image rumblin round in the noggin.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

I mean I get people feelings. My thing is several things happened I don't like. An person died. It was an extrajudicial killing. It happened while peacefully publicly speaking. However I can't say a good man died. The things people say online is also peaceful public speaking in the sense its comparable to the public speaking of the guy who died. By his own standards he called for not having empathy, accepting gun deaths as the price of the second amendment, and having families and children be witness to executions. So I get it. Its not how I want things done but I get the online sentiment. Don't want to see it though rather read about it. I mean I feel that way with most news but if I do want to witness video Its not see horrible things.

And all us millennials who said “man I watched such dark shit on early internet”,

I feel like, as Millennials, we never had to go far out of our way to witness something fucked up. We're the generation that saw people jumping out the windows of the twin towers from our classroom televisions.

I consider that to have been gruesome and disturbing enough. I don't need to see something this visceral.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Here's why I feel the way I do. Because he said shit like this.

Here's the full article with all the things he has said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs

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

Guessing the WMBA one was about Brittney Griner, who nobody liked, but you can see how he capitalized on that to push his agenda. Seriously, we traded someone who willing went to Russia for the war criminal that Lord of War was based off of.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get why someone would but again I can't really rejoice. A human died, a man died, a man was assasinated while publically speaking. I can say that and I don't like that. I can't say a good man died though, that is for sure.

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

It's absolutely fine you feel that way. You feel what you feel.