Last tweet “play certain games, win certain prizes”
Honesly an editor would reject this copy as hackneyed shash
Only posthumous award he should get is the Darwin award.
Unfortunately he procreated.
Fortunately there’s a lot more bullets where that came from
In cannot be disputed that he did indeed get proven wrong.
But I am not concerned about him being shot, I don’t care.
Just for curiosity, is there a video of this? Everyone describes it as sooooo funny. I’m feeling left out.
Duckduckgo, search “theync charlie kirk” and you will probably find it easily enough. To everyone else don’t be surprised at what you see given that you are searching for it.
If the elementary school children need to deal with it, we should be able to stomach it too.
I feel like’re getting so detached from one of the most basic and true parts of human life, thanks to algorithms and advertisers: death.
Most of us don’t have a real sense of what it means to actually get shot, bombed, starved, or whatever else. Pictures and videos have been scrubbed from the “mainstream” internet, and if you’re reading this you’re most likely privileged enough to be living in a “civilised country” and not see it on a regular basis, especially the gory kind. In my opinion /r/watchpeopledie was a great service to the internet. It was a very real memento mori, a sobering moment of breaking out of the everyday numbness that really burned into your brain - shit does happen. In boring, unexpected, quick, violent ways. It really gave a new meaning to “live your life like every day could be your last” for me.
Maybe, if people actually imagined what their child could see looking at their dead best friend laying on the ground next to them, they would take gun control more seriously. Instead they’re getting terror drills, armed drones and a school ready to be turned into a battlefield.
More people should see the results of Israeli actions. I don’t care if you support Palestine or not, but how the fuck could you support Israel?
After you said kids should be forced to watch public executions live and on tv and then you are publicly executed in front of your kids live on tv.
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 sky’s and the sun was shining directly on Charlie, as if he was chosen to deliver an important message. Than the shooter shot at 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.
Seriously though, nice shot.
If it makes you feel any better a shot to the throat probably means he had time to realize what was happening to him before he died, possibly long enough to realize the poetry of the situation. That realization was also likely accompanied by unimaginable pain. A shot to the head would have been instant and essentially painless.
Jokes on you, he died nearly instantly.
The nearly makes all the difference
Unfortunately it was likely his carotid artery. His brain would have lost the blood to think before he realized he was shot.
The brain still has oxygen for a little while. Even if it’s just 2-3 seconds, that’s wayy more than it takes for it to register what’s happening
Not gonna lie, you had us in the first half.
One could also complain about the fascists “level”. The shooter could have gone for a higher ranking fascist to gain more points/credibility.
Indeed, it’s a target rich environment. They just need to get out more enjoy the nice weather.
I dunno, seemed pretty grim and gory to me? Head explosion wouldn’t make much of a difference outside of memeworthyness. Fountain of blood was fully acceptable. Sniped an artery.
Imagine if it was a few inches to the left instead.
Oh, we don’t need to
Goddammit you got me. I was mad at you for two sentences … then laughed. Noice.
Sometimes the Universe just gets it 100% right. Chefs kiss.
it’s a sign from God.
If God saved Trump in Butler, what does that say about Charlie Kirk?
Oh right, the same old tired answer: God’s Plan. The unfortunate cop-out that explains why God is capable of being responsible for everything good while absolving him of responsibility for everything negative.
as a devout atheist, thoughts and prayers.
I’mma pray for the god
I personally know (knew?) someone with a Wikipedia article about dying in the street after doing a ton of blow, naked, covered in Vaseline, running away from prostitutes… And even this might top that in terms of most hilarious death.
#Leopardsatemygigantichead
Also, please extrapolate, if it’s not too painful to recall more details. Vaseline Crime Scene is the name of my upcoming podcast.
To be fair, his death was way after me and my family knew him, but he did have a cocaine problem. Look up Herb Abrams; also I misspoke, it was baby oil.
Mr. Electric has an interesting wiki. Thank you for sharing.
I once met a man who fell through a roof of a restaurant & then covered himself in ketchup and mustard. He awoke to the police finding him swaddled in a blanket of insulation.
Also a good story, lol. And no worries, this was ages ago!
They should have engraved “Q.E.D” on the bullet
He should have printed copies of Trump’s letter to Epstein on the shells, that way not even the justice department could look at them for evidence.
It’s got nothing on clown slaughter, but yes it is very funny
RIP Charlie Kirk. May you rest in peace.
You misspelled piss.
That man would celebrate my death if I were murdered for being trans and the world is an objectively better place without him. Rest in piss, may his followers get fucked.
You should neither celebrate, nor mourn that guy.
This is very ironic, but not at all funny. While the irony may be satisfying, it isn’t going to improve things appreciably and reveling in it is not a healthy thing to do.
If you laugh at someone getting shot because they supported gun violence, then you have just lowered yourself to their level and now everyone is just back to tribal violence.
This isn’t even potentially as beneficial as the killing of someone like Brian Thompson, because you can at least make the argument that it might make CEOs think twice before systematically exploiting people for profit. As ironic as it may be, this is not going to move the needle in a positive direction or change anyone’s mind for the better.
It’s the same as with the CEO. Sure, if we could otherwise force these fucks to stop persecuting people and generally making everything worse for the entire world, I’d prefer that. But I still feel nothing but joy at anyone whos a “close trump ally” dying.
Because “close trump ally” reads the same to me as “close hitler ally”.
You cannot persuade fascists not to be fascists, the only language they know is this. As much as it saddens me that this is the way it has to be, the same logic applies to Kirk as to the CEO, it might make fascists think twice before systematically dismantling democracy and promoting hatred against minorities.
The same logic does not apply because their motivations are different. The CEO is motivated by greed and the facist is motivated by hate.
If you are motivated by greed and selfishness in spite of the suffering of others, and you see there is a risk of losing everything because you were too exploitive, then it is in your own selfish interest to avoid that outcome.
If you are motivated by hate, then seeing someone with your ideology get shot is going to make you even more hateful and even give you the confidence that you were right all along and your hate is justified.
I’m pretty sure Kirk was also motivated by greed. Fuck’em.
You have to have a storm if you want flowers.
Will this coming storm be [a] death-struggle or the birth-pangs of a new and better age?
Shit I guess we’re about to find out
shut up oh my god with this lib shit. don’t clutch them pearls so hard.
no, laughing at a horrible person dying the way he wanted others to die every day is not lowering yourself to his level where he laughed at minorities and political opponents being shot and advocated for more of it.
and you’re wrong, the circumstances make it objectively funny. this is how you’d kill someone in a movie like Airplane, without the graphic imagery. people laughing at this aren’t necessarily saying it’s good that this kind of thing happens, or it should happen more; charlie kirk did. his last word was “violence”. maybe he shouldn’t have been advocating for gun violence with a massive head and neck that are hard to miss.
Which direction does the funny punch, though? Up, down, sideways?
in this case, way up. he was an advisor to the president. had massive role in his election, and has been advocating for death, destruction and genocide. there aren’t too many more instances where you can punch higher up than this.
way up
Not sure: up implies power, usually political or economic class. He was an influential, right-wing activist promoting objectionable views. More like a cheerleader than commander.
The only power he seemed to exercise was the power of any activist (to express their views) who lacks political office.
If we swap their political views, would any funny there be punching up?
he’d had foster friess’ backing since he was 18-19. also was mentored by bill montgomery. Toilet Paper USA didn’t just come from nowhere. he was handpicked. saying he had any activist’s power is like saying musk donating to a campaign is just like anyone’s contribution. now musk being the rizzless fucking idiot still managed to fuck it up but that doesn’t mean he’s on equal grounds as anyone.
You do you. I cannot change your mind.
I will not laugh though, because I look at myself and I see the same potential for evil in myself. I can see how I could become a Hitler or a Pol Pot and orchestrate horrific things while convincing myself I am right. Laughing at the death of a man who espoused violence and shunned empathy isn’t going to complete that transformation, but it is a step in that direction.
P.S. I originally posted a meme, but I thought it was too glib for this conversation.
I get your point but it feels like just a spin on the paradox of tolerance.
My enemy in this case is laughing at something they support happening to someone they don’t support.
I am (not really) laughing at something i don’t support that happend to someone who does supports that thing.
The thing here being, far too easy acces to firearms and the inevitable deaths resulting from it.
I also feel like its more a dopamine approval of the general karma of the situation then it is a literal celebration of lost life.
I’m not advocating tolerance. The key difference is laughing at someone’s death isn’t just an expression of disapproval, it is a devaluation of human life in general. It isn’t a question of being justified in laughing at their demise because they laughed at horrible things; the very act of laughing degrades yourself.
Let me put it another way: Epstein and his accomplices deserved to be gang raped by all of us in prison. Should we run a train on them? No! Because that defiles us as much as it does them.
The fear in every hateful right influencer douchebag due to this killing will help me sleep soundly at night.
Yeah, they start “Isn’t it utterly heeelarious that…” and proceed to spell out something grim and morbid.
Fuck the fascists for making us feel schadenfreude.
the reason people are celebrating (even though we dont even know the shooter’s reason) is because they feel like they have no other course of action other than violence. The right has been fine with violence for a while (see jan 6, the senator that was assinated, kyle rittenhouse, etc…) and now the left is getting more comfortable with it. This will not end well for anyone. I dont agree with the man, he said some vile shit and demonized the “other” to gain political power but anyone celebrating this fails so see the devastation resorting to violence will cause. Some people on the right are already calling for revenge killing. Were at a point of no return and anyone who sees this as a good thing is a fucking idiot.
Some people on the right are already calling for revenge killing.
I think a lot of us have known this is what it would come to. In 2016 in Trump’s first presidential run, even before the election took place, the writing was already on the wall - this will not end peacefully.
The cult was fully developed by then. They were already fueled by anger and revenge. Then Covid threw in a curveball, but I guess things are back on track now. The fascist tools were always going to call for violence against “the left” (I’d even argue that they’d been calling for violence all along, just less overtly.) There’s nothing we could have done to stop that - fascists gonna fasc.
I don’t know about you, but to me it just feels like the other shoe is finally dropping. It merely took 9 years to get here.
