Fuck all this "let's not celebrate the gruesome murder of a political opponent" bullshit, the man was a stochastic terrorist. Let's dunk on the douchebag and piss on his grave together. I hope more fascists like him get it through the neck
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"Looks like he took a left-leaning stance in the end after all" lmao!
I don't feel bad for a categorically horrible human being whose life's work was dedicated to sowing hate, ignorance, and suffering into the fabric of society. He nurtured the political environment that lead to his own death and his absence will be a net positive for society.
Hitting the neck instead of the head was especially impressive with this guy.
This guy's grave isn't the one Im waiting to piss on.
Do you know what happens when there are two teams, and one plays by the rules, while the other embraces barbarism?
The barbarians will win and beat the others to death.
Then they'll proceed to beat each other to death because they're barbarians
I would have, wholeheartedly, invited and welcomed change in a man like Charlie Kirk. If he were to have changed his ways, changed his words — he might have been able to start a chain reaction of others realizing it's ok to admit you're wrong.
I have empathy for Kirk. In his final moments he probably felt unbridled fear, for himself, his kids, and the world he helped create. One of my worst fears, ironically, is dying where the only thing I feel is fear.
I am also happy he is dead. Blind empathy is a worthless trait.
Assuming we're talking about genuine empathy rather than performative fake empathy:
- He did not live his life in terror, so there is no suffering to empathise with there. In fact empathy tells me he was a self-centered selfish asshole of the worst kind, emotions I can feel through empathy but not which I generally had by myself (though I have been thus once or twice and nowadays regret it).
- He seemed to have died quickly, painlessly and probably without even knowing what happenned to him. If that was so, there was no actual suffering to empathise with there - we went to sleep confused in seconds from blood loss and never woke up.
- Dead people have no feelings so there is nothing to empathise with in a corpse: empathy with a corpse is only really about empathy with how the live human felt when dying.
Somebody living in poverty will suffer a lot more in a week than this guy did his whole life, including when he died and after his dead he was beyond all suffering.
The only people in this whom my heart goes to are his family, and I bet at least his children are better off since the guy was a Psychopath or Sociopath so I'm actually thorn between feeling pain for them and actually being happy for them - it really depends what kind of dad he was and my expectation isn't that he was a good one. Similary for his wife.
Also he was wealthy, obtained through ill means and spreading suffering. His wife and children will be well cared for and will want for nothing.
Fair point. I'm more concerned with people celebrating this like it's some victory when in reality, such reactions only okay the same thing to be done to leftist commentators
The same thing has been happening to left leaning people in the USA for decades, arguably more.
I suppose such reactions are the product of this kind of thing happening to this kind of person feeling a lot like Karma, or Natural Justice, especially when the Legal kind of Justice isn't actually Just, not even close.
I suspect people would celebrate this a lot less if they felt that Legal Justice worked and equally made people accountable for their actions.
This guy has been instrumental in indirectly making a lot of people suffer, in some cases to quite extreme levels, so the glee of many when he paid the ultimate price for it is understandable.
True, Empathy has nothing to do with such reactions.
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MSM is sanewashing him, so they don't get the blame for promoting him, also it's damage control
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