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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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[–] mikesizachrist@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Yeah its wild - normally i click off of these type of videos, but i felt less than nothing for him but damn that's alot of blood

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day ago (13 children)

charlie kirk sucked ass. but i don't see his extremely public assassination having many positive consequences

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 14 points 1 day ago

I can think of one.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 63 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, I don't wish ill on anybody. But when it does happen to some people, schadenfreude can be enjoyable.

Rest in piss Charlie.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Like someone else said, Kirk getting shot in the throat, in a school, possibly by a republican, while ranting about minorities, gang violence and trans people, is peak irony

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 78 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Because Charlie Kirk spent so much of his life advocating for gun violence, Kirk’s murder was both tragic and ironic. He was killed by the very thing he loved. It would be like if Donald Trump were child-raped to death."

  • Steve Hofsetter
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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I wish ill on people who do evil shit. I also wish they'd see the error of their ways and make amends. They don't tend to though. Watching Charlie get so neatly picked off like a clay pigeon in a shooting gallery as he was about to spew more horseshit was highly satisfying.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope this was a turning point for this country

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

SHOTS FIRED. Hahahaha.

It's absolutely okay to feel relief when you experience the death of an abusive person.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All the pearl clutching from people who openly support a man "Who could shoot someone on 5th ave and not lose a single vote."

I'd call them hypocrites but they're too busy praying in public to hear me.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Their messaging is also weirdly contrived. They almost never do the same for deaths of innocent people, they consider them statistics rather than people. But then a bad guy meets a bad fate, and they bring out their alts accounts to tell you “yOu gUyS aRe eViL.”

Irony is lost on some people.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's great that he's dead.

It's not so great that he was murdered.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It's karmic he was gunned down.

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[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

People need to stop celebrating the shooter! I'm absolutely disgusted and ashamed by their actions. Charlie Kirk was doing nothing but sitting there giving a speech. This was in the middle of the day, there were clear skys and the sun was shining directly on Charlie, as if he was chosen to deliver an important message. Than the shooter shot him. I'll say it as it is, nothing was between Charlie and the shooter that warranted this.

So how could the shooter miss the shot at Charlie Kirk's large ass head and hit him in neck instead! Embarrassing, do better on the next fascist.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Skulls are thick. A bullet hitting at an angle could potentially ricochet off.

Ain't nothing ricocheting off a neck.

Shooter knew exactly what he was doing.

He was doing a scientific experiment to see if his head was swollen with blood or gas

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Died like a lil bitch is what he did. Didn't even put up a fight, just went out like a light.

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[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

My only empathy is for the students at the school who probably thought they were about to be victims as well, thinking maybe they were about to experience a mass shooting. Kirk spewed vile hatred non stop, said that gun deaths were needed for us to have our 2nd amendment right, so he did die from what he preached.

I feel for the students in Colorado who just hours after did become victim to a school shooting, the Democratic officials in Minnesota who the media have forgotten about after their assassination.

Does that make me a bad person? I don't really give a shit. There's one less toxic commentator/grifter out there saying demeaning shit about minorities and my trans homies, one less voice calling for their deaths. If the left had a version of Kirk that was assassinated, they'd be saying the exact fucking thing.

I worry about what the repercussions will be for the country.

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

I dont feel bad for them. We have over sheltered the country. We dont want people see videos of what happens. We dont show them the photos. "Its too graphic". Good. See it. Look at the reality. Maybe if more peoole did that we would have less wars, less rhetoric. Its all a big game because we dont confront peoole with the dark reality.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't want anyone watching to have trauma symptoms, sadly they're going to, but even if they support him I don't want that for them.

But watching him about to open his big mouth and say more pro gun shit and then get picked off like a clay pigeon in a shooting gallery? 10/10.

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[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago (8 children)

My only disappointment is a shot to the carotid artery means he likely had no time to process the karmic irony of his death.

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

Based on his body posture right after it looks like he got reset to factory default settings. I think his brain stem got damanged. It was probably lights out immediately

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Of course it did, the world is better than it was before it.

[–] Default_Defect@anarchist.nexus 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm mostly just tired of the same people that might take time off to go piss on Biden's grave having the gall to demand that we be respectful of this chud.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

These are people who hung effigies of Obama being lynched outside their homes.

What's to feel bad about? He said himself victims of gun violence were acceptable.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Don't forget the tailgate images of Biden tied up.

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I've seen this sentiment around a bit, and while I'm not going to tell people their feelings are wrong (I did not like the guy and while I would have preferred something else happen to him over murder, he did help support the set of circumstances that made his assassination possible), I find it confusing enough that it makes me question if either my brain works differently around this or if I'm misunderstanding what feeling empathy actually refers to, because to me, it doesn't seem "voluntary" like that.

Like, for me, if something unpleasant happens to someone, I can't really help but to start imagining it and going over what it might be like to be in or around that position and getting emotionally worked up, pretty much automatically. It doesn't really even matter if I'm glad the guy is gone at some level or hated them, my brain gets the immediate gut twist of "damn, that seems like a horrible experience" all the same. Like, it could be someone as heinous as literal Hitler, and even then if some documentary gets into the details of his end my first gut reaction is likely to be a sense of discomfort and something like "it would really suck to wake up one day as someone that's done all that and brought themselves to such a position, imagine what would be going through your head in that situation".

I haven't watched the video as I don't handle blood and gore and such well, and I don't mean this as some kind of judgement or assertion of virtue, it's just a bit confusing to me when people say things like "I have no empathy for guys like that" or "you shouldn't feel empathy for fascists because they don't deserve it" and I'm like, okay, but how? Does your brain just let you decide not do that? Mine seems to just do it automatically regardless of if it feels appropriate or not.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Because of justice (or perceived justice). Just like if you see an old man knocked out by a angry 30 year old, you'd feel badly for the man, except if that 30 year old just caught the old guy molesting your kid, then your sympathy ends.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Feel your feelings. Do what's right for you. Nobody else makes that decision for you.

I've spent the last eight years infiltrating white supremacists on social media. I have seen people like Charlie and what their conversation is like when they're among their own and the masks are off. That's why I don't feel bad for him, I have seen their true faces.

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