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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

I keep reading people complaining about how people are taking these quotes out of context.
So went to the source, and I see them in context.

They are actually worse in context.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I thought there were no good Nazis, but he just proved me wrong.

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 points 6 hours ago

Oscar Schindler.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 6 hours ago

I keep seeing this photo of Charlie Kirk and I keep thinking "There's no way that's Charlie Kirk".

[–] Cattail@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I can't help to think Kirk was being insincere and pandering in this quote. He was just responding to what Clinton was saying

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My dad was team horse de-wormer back in covid. Don't talk to him much.

Mom now says the he was a christian and he did everything right.

Guess sometimes parents can suck too

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Is water a horse thirst quencher?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

trump is honoring him with a military procession, to distract from epstein. people said he was killed over, because he was pining for epstein files to be released. Kirk did more harm than good, but MSMS seems to try to sanewash him.

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 36 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I had someone try to tell me I was stooping to his level with my dark humor memes.

I told them, I can't do that because I'm not 6ft under.

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[–] Katrisia@lemmy.today 31 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

He had shitty opinions, we know. I won't follow them. I will have empathy and I will not celebrate his death. Still, I think the world's population improved with one less hateful person around.

[–] NIB@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

The more we normalize assassinations, the worse the world becomes. America is slightly more fucked today, not because this guy died, but because extrajudicial assassinations are not cool. This only accelerates the collapse of american society and rule of law.

Some tankies/accelerationists want this, but they are mostly clueless kids.

[–] Kaerkob@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Just to add, assassinations are not cool whether they're extrajudicial or not.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

He had shitty opinions

I think we should stop saying this.

He was killed for his actions, not his opinions. His audience members are the ones who kill for opinions.

Discussing his personal opinions feels like a bit of a republican both sidesing talking point, honestly. I mean, if one side can kill the other just for having conservative opinions, then certainly they can fight back and kill people just for having blue hair and using the "wrong" bathroom!

It was the same with talk radio hosts decades ago. People would argue whether Limbaugh or Hannity really believe all the BS or if they just do it for ratings.

I only remember caring about that distinction when I was still immersed in the conservatism I was born into.

edit: added many word was not there

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[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 26 points 23 hours ago (15 children)

Here’s the frustration and why this should not be celebrated:

Charlie Kirk spent years dehumanizing people, making lives measurably worse, and profiting from hatred. The cosmic irony of him being shot while calling trans people dangerous and minimizing gun violence feels like the universe delivering a punchline he wrote himself. There’s a cathartic release in seeing someone who seemed untouchable suddenly silenced by the very violence he dismissed.

But that catharsis is blinding, vile, and destructive. Every celebration post, every "rest in piss" meme, every "fucked around and found out" joke is already being screenshot and weaponized. The worst people imaginable, those eager to exploit violence, are being handed exactly what they want: supposed proof that “they were right,” justification for crackdowns, and, most dangerously, a martyr whose blood sanctifies every awful thing he stood for.

Celebration may feel like a dunk on fascism, but in reality it accelerates it. It may feel like strength, but it exposes a movement so strategically bankrupt that it mistakes emotional satisfaction for political victory. Kirk alive was one influencer among many; Kirk dead is a rallying cry that will outlive us all.

The rage at what he represented is justified. But celebrating his death guarantees those very ideas will flourish. American democracy is dying, and a gravedigger falling into the hole is no victory when it only deepens the grave.

His ideas needed to be defeated. Instead, they’ve been immortalized.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

I am happy to read at least one sane voice amongst the sea of people who don't understand that we are doing exactly what they are accusing us of doing by celebrating his death. I honestly am taken aback by the amount of people who think this is good.

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ohhh! I love Starship Troopers! The book, not so much, but the movie I adore.

Let's dig into your choice to respond with this scene.

That's the moment where Verhoeven shows us 'Federation Victory'! The good guys have won! They've captured the Brain Bug! It's afraid! Humanity wins!

Except what's actually happening is fascists celebrating the torture of a sentient being. One that extracted human minds just as they'll now extract from its mind; each side justifying their horrors by pointing to the other's. All while convincing themselves they're heroes.

The Federation doesn't attempt communication or diplomacy. They literally probe its brain for intel while cheering its terror. The troops cheering 'It's afraid!' aren't the good guys. They're Verhoeven's mirror showing us how righteousness becomes the very tyranny it claims to fight.

NPH's character literally becomes a full SS-uniformed intelligence officer who feeds his best friends into an endless meat grinder. The bugs were defending their home. The Federation manufactured its own eternal enemy. And everyone cheering becomes complicit in forever war.

You've sent me a scene about people so drunk on their enemy's fear that they can't see they've become the monsters.

So either you're agreeing that celebrating suffering makes us indistinguishable from what we oppose, or you've accidentally proven my point by quoting the villains as heroes.

Either way, I couldn't have picked a better metaphor myself.

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Or I used a well-known movie scene to poke at historically violent people using violence to score political points. Noting hypocrisy in a group is not to stoop to their level.

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

They were gonna do it, anyway. They were just waiting for an excuse. Any excuse. In a world as big and complex as ours, probability would have provided them with some pretext sooner or later. As we can see, they don't know anything about the shooter, or his ideology. It's just an excuse. If the world didn't provide them one, they'd manufacture it. Walking around on eggshells and trying to avoid giving them one was never tenable.

[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

You're right that they manufacture pretexts, but there's a crucial difference between forced fabrications and genuine ammunition. When they have to invent threats, their propaganda requires constant maintenance and reality-bending. When we hand them actual violence to point to, we transform their lies into prophecies. Yes, probability ensures incidents will occur, but the question is whether we contribute to that probability or work against it. "They'll do it anyway" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that absolves us of strategic thinking. I say, let us not make the Fascist's job easier.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

He wasn't just a racist he was a fucking Nazi.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

I'll sleep ever so slightly better now.

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