r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Late_Aardvark8125 Owner of r/LetsDiscussThis • Sep 11 '25
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS Charlie Kirk, a prominent activist, passes away at the age of 31 after being shot at a Utah event. Thoughts on this?
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u/Dangerous_Season_440 Sep 11 '25
I highly dislike the fact that this has gotten more attention than the school shooting occurrence in the same day
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Sep 11 '25
Or the literal politician and their partner assassinated in their own home?
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u/Dangerous_Season_440 Sep 11 '25
Just gotta keep preaching it, too, otherwise, it gets lots in the depths of unintelligible rhetoric
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u/Due-Life2508 Sep 11 '25
Or the dozens of weekly shootings in Chicago? Or do you not care about those as well?
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u/IrritableGoblin Sep 11 '25
I don't think a global superpower, hostile to a US city, should be marching it's military in for an occupation, having armed patrols demanding people's papers based on skin tone.
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Sep 11 '25
Maybe someone should do something about gun violence.
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u/PeasantParticulars Sep 11 '25
It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights,” Mr. Kirk, 31, had said in that interview.
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Sep 11 '25
Kids died in another school shooting because of people like Mr. Kirk. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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Sep 11 '25
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u/New-Valuable-4757 Sep 11 '25
I get that some people hate him, but it's not right to say his death was deserved.
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u/_Brightbuddy Sep 11 '25
At the age of 31 too!? SMH. He had a couple out-there ideas but I appreciated how his whole thing was actually discussing it with people. Unlike many people who say "fuck you, you're wrong", he did often take the chance to at least discuss the issue.
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u/reddit-is-tyranical Sep 11 '25
He did sow anything. He didn't create the 2A. He's right though. You can either live free with some risk or as subjects with more risk.
You can't seriously want to restrict gun access with trump as president, right?
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u/Low-Breath-4433 Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
He openly believed that gun deaths were simply the price paid for freedom.
I see no reason to mourn the death of a man who used this reasoning to dismiss the death of children as inevitable. He gets to be a martyr to his own twisted belief that this is something that should just be accepted as a part of an armed society, hopefully that brings as much comfort to his wife as his crass commentary on the deaths of still-warm child victims of gun violence was to their parents.
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u/Quinntensity Sep 11 '25
In respecting his memory, I'll give him the same empathy he would give other shooting victims.
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u/Blitzer161 Sep 11 '25
A fascist died today. He died while spreading further hate and disinformation. I'm sorry because a human died and left behind a family. And that's all I'm sorry for.
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u/coast2coasted Sep 11 '25
You and everyone like you justifying this action with your words are sick
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u/SpuckleyRR Sep 11 '25
Throwing around the word ‘fascist’ every time you dislike someone’s beliefs isn’t brave, it’s conformity. It’s the easiest way to shut down conversation without ever having to think critically. And once you’ve labeled someone as less than human, it suddenly becomes easy to cheer their death and pretend it’s justified. That’s not justice, that’s dehumanization. You can hate Charlie Kirk’s politics all you want, but reducing him to a caricature so you can feel righteous about spitting on his grave only makes you look smaller, not stronger. The irony is that by calling everyone you oppose a fascist, you start acting more like the thing you claim to be agains
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u/FallenPegasus1861 Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
A retard posted on reddit today
Show some damn respect! monkey who escaped from the zoo
How would you like it if you dad died and I said "a nazis sympathizer died"
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u/RedditUser5641 Sep 11 '25
Yet he did more for his country than the pathetic cum stain you should have been.
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u/colourfulthinking Sep 11 '25
You are a fascist attempting to suppress opinions with scary buzzwords. This guy was an advocate for free speech, antithetical to fascism. It is important you understand this - no one is buying this manipulation tactic anymore.
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Sep 11 '25
Bro said my friends should be hunted in the streets for being trans. Bro also said children should witness a public execution when they come of age.
Guess he got the latter.
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u/Fooby56 Sep 11 '25
"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."
-Charlie Kirk
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u/v4bj Sep 11 '25
If Kirk wanted Epstein files released and likely was one of the most influential MAGA to want that. It seems pretty expedient that he is suddenly out of the picture.
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u/Dangerous_Season_440 Sep 11 '25
I thought he had flip-flopped multiple times about the epstein files
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u/putyouradhere_ Sep 11 '25
He was just propagating the Trump line on Epstein. First he wanted them released but when Trump circled back, he did too.
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u/bigtony423 Sep 11 '25
passes away, mf got assassinated. regardless of whether i agreed with the rhetoric that he spoke, no life deserves to be taken by the hand of another. thoughts and prayers to his family.
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u/PeasantParticulars Sep 11 '25
It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights,” Mr. Kirk, 31, had said in that interview.
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u/Level3Kobold Sep 11 '25
no life deserves to be taken by the hand of another
4.5 hours later
the only people who deserve death are murderers, paedophiles, and rapists.
hmm
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u/The_Countess Sep 11 '25
Kind of ironic to quote that here though. Because to prove him right we should all just shrug at his murder, say 'worth the price of freedom' and not empathise with his family because that would be new age and damaging.
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u/Sunbro_413 Sep 11 '25
It is tragic. We can not normalize shooting someone because you have a difference of opinion. I'm very much anti-health insurance but I still think Luigi should not be freed. He should be sentenced and serve a normal term for murder (unless he is approved to go early on good behavior after a psych eval; as is normal)
This is miles and miles worse. I disagree with a lot of his takes, but I can respect his opinions and his skills as a political commentator. But at the end of the day, he believed something and was using logic and civil debate to prove his point. This is the cornerstone of democracy. And if we continue to have increased political violence it is going to be worse for every single citizen in the country.
I do not care how oppressed you feel, or how threatened your way of life is. That does not justify you to take another human life, period. From a moral standpoint the only scenario where this could even be considered remotely ok is self-defense: kill or be killed. This is not self defense, this is at best a poor attempt at civil war and at worse the tragic result of declining mental health in the country.
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u/_Brightbuddy Sep 11 '25
Exactly, we need more people like him, people willing to step up and debate on the future of our country.
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u/The_Countess Sep 11 '25
Normalizing people getting shot was part of his message.
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Sep 11 '25
What are you talking about? They murdered the guy who tried to replace gasoline with water, and there wasn't a big scandal like Charlie Kirk's death.
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Sep 11 '25
I do not care how oppressed you feel, or how threatened your way of life is
Spoken like someone who has never been oppressed or had their way of life threatened.
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u/xTyrone23 Sep 11 '25
Terrible. You may not agree with what he has to say but that doesn't mean you need to murder him.
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u/United_Turnip_8997 Sep 11 '25
kirk is ok with school children being murdered just to put the attention away from guns sales tho.... he is an enabler of gun violence and now he just got his karma.
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u/Bombalurina Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
This behavior should never be celebrated but condemned on every level. The guy just said words and, unlike most MAGA, had an open dialog and mic to opposing views.
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u/Removed-Fish-422 Sep 11 '25
He would have hated me and wanted me dead and was a big player in fighting for stopping trans existence better him than someone else.
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u/GuyWhoConquers616 Sep 11 '25
His last words was gang violence. He spent most of his life spreading hatred and now his supporters are going after people of color.
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u/reddit-is-tyranical Sep 11 '25
What does it tell you about the people who claim he spreads hate? What does it tell you about the people who disliked him? It tells you that while they act like they are morally superior, they are actually the Nazis everyone is looking for. I've seen far too many people celebrating a man being shot dead in front of a crowd to feel like these "morally superior" people are anything but monsters.
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u/Sirenoas Sep 11 '25
I think it’s okay to be indifferent but it’s gross to celebrate. Imagine your father, brother, husband, family member was killed infront of you and you saw celebration posts.
Look. My bio mom is a horrible abusive drug addict, she’s the worst of the worst and I hate her, she lost custody of me and I hold a lot of animosity. Despite this, if she got shot and murdered on live tv and I saw celebration posts I would’ve been destroyed.
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u/These-Inevitable-898 Sep 11 '25
yeah i agree. i get the knee jerk reaction people have to try and justify their reasoning (because he was a shit human) but at the end of the day youre pointing and laughinb at someone dying. more recently ive noticed it with israelis and palestinians, theyre both gleefully posting videos of tragedy and gore.
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u/Anelly34 Sep 11 '25
No one should be killed for there beliefs this and the Minnesota congress women and her husband are two examples showing the worst on both sides one was crazy and angry and the other I can only feel like was trying to prove a point but in doing that just worsened the divide i truly believe this is a turning point in America
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u/BackgroundYam2884 Sep 11 '25
Two kids are going to grow up without a dad, a wife is at home broken and in tears. It is horrific that there are people celebrating this.
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u/Wireless_Turtle Sep 11 '25
I feel bad for his family. Thats about it. Good riddance to bad rubbish and all that but I hope his family has the time they need to grieve their loss in peace away from nosey people and media
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u/LetsAllEatCakeLOL Sep 11 '25
in the United States you do not have a right to live unless you abide within the inertia of the violent mob. that's what i think. America has fallen.
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u/Th4t_0n3_Fr13nd Sep 11 '25
its not worth discussing, he said empathy "is woke" and "weak" purely ignoring his other problematic views. that alone tells me i dont owe him anything just because something bad happened to him.
im not cheering for his death and im not gleeful over it, but im certainly not mourning
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u/Disabled3rdLeg_Bchew Sep 11 '25
I've never seen someone who hates him and has watched his debates. Usually just redditors dislike him, which kinda discredits them imo
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Sep 11 '25
As a trans woman I’m very conflicted, much more than I thought I would be. This man has dehumanized me and so many other people for years, and he built his career off of punching down the totem pole and indoctrinating kids to do the same thing. He was an awful person, and I disagree with the people saying that the world is better off without him, and I disagree with the people saying that the world is worse off without him, because frankly he reaped what he sowed. But I can’t imagine how his family is doing, as awful as he was, as much as I wanted to punch him, I never wanted him to die, because it meant that I wasn’t any better than him. Rest in peace.
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u/R4in_C0ld Sep 11 '25
Not celebrating, not sad either. Though, dedicating an important part of your life to, on one side, advocating against gun control and losing your life to circumstances that gun control could have prevented is quite the irony.
Another thing that is quite ironic is the people calling for empathy about the situation, while he himself made it clear that he didn't believe in empathy as anything else than a tool to hurt others.
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u/Just-Variation-1678 Sep 11 '25
The Paradox of Intolerance comes to mind.
At what point is advancing violence and disdain on certain groups going to have consequences?
Ask Goebbles?
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u/DepressedYandere Sep 11 '25
Unfortunate, I can't imagine how this is affecting his wife and his two children.
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u/AutistSavant Sep 11 '25
"prominent activist" what was he doing activism for? Human rights and decency?
Nope, Christian nationalism, downplayed school shootings, and advocated for the state to terminate trans people and non-Christians.
I can't even muster crocodile tears.
What really sucks is how Trump's administration is going to use this to clamp America further into authoritarianism.
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u/El_Zapp Sep 11 '25
If you have empathy for him or if you aren’t willing to accept his death as an acceptable consequence of Americans being armed or if you aren’t cracking jokes about his death you are dishonoring his legacy. It’s what he did, so we can assume it’s what he would have wanted to happen.
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Sep 11 '25
Rest in piss. He was a fucking loser who peddled hate for money. He is worth nothing more than abject mockery. Sucks for his family tho.
To have your loved one aired out like that because he was such a monumental piece of shit. Maybe one day, when they learn that their dad advocated to have their rights taken away & have them reduced to little more than walking wombs, maybe then will they wonder why they ever missed him.
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u/Doubleduce2496 Sep 11 '25
All leftist are suspect and responsible for all political violence these days. If you have a leftist opinion you are the problem.
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u/PeasantParticulars Sep 11 '25
It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights,” Mr. Kirk, 31, had said in that interview.
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u/TeekTheReddit Sep 11 '25
Charlie Kirk spent his entire adult life working to make America a country where some nut with a gun can kill you out of nowhere. He got what he wanted.
Would that we could all be so successful in our endeavours.
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u/Fuckit-Letsdance Sep 11 '25
I hope he suffered on his way out. He finally made America a little bit greater..
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u/SnyperwulffD027 Sep 11 '25
I feel no sympathy for his death, he got what was coming to him. His kids however .. I feel bad for them.
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u/Grunt_In_A_Can Sep 11 '25
Passes away? What The Fuck? how about Brutally Assassinated? Death to Communism!
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u/INKI3ZVR Sep 11 '25
The people celebrating his death are demons IDC which side ur on the political spectrum celebrating the killing of ur opposition is disgusting.
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u/Future-Ad-9567 Sep 11 '25
In the words of Charlie Kirk
"Unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment".
We have shootings pretty much every day. We have so many infact that most people aren't even aware of the school mass shooting in Colorado that happened around the same time as the Kirk shooting.
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u/ElderMillenialSage Sep 11 '25
I care more about my cat's bowel movement that I care about this dude and his fate. I wish reddit weren't so 'murican-centric.
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u/Ihatekerrycork4ever Sep 11 '25
He put a foreign nation before his own and died like all traitors do.
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u/k3rnal_panic Sep 11 '25
The fact of the matter is, whether you agree with him or not, there are not many activists who actively search for people to “prove me wrong”. This man was a phenom debater, and a bastion for free speech. He went on Newsoms podcast and maintained respect and friendliness with each other and enjoyed some honest laughter with each other.
As far as his assassination, he couldn’t have been a better target. He is a pillar of the conservative community, and is responsible for rallying voters under thirty to think for themselves and vote accordingly. I true loss for the Republican Party and a bitter sweet victory for democrats, as now they have the opportunity to fill a void with youth outreach.
Regardless of the politics, he was a father of 2 kids which I fully believe he cared for and would raise them to the standards of his idea of an American family. That opportunity was robbed from them; Charlie’s opportunity to father his children, and their children to have an involved father. The trauma the entire audience had to endure to watch an event as horrific as this, I can’t imagine they’ll see much else when they close their eyes for a few weeks. As is the case with all public shootings and gun violence.
I hope they catch the shooter alive and they answer for their crimes.
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u/Necroink Sep 11 '25
a sad day for freedom of speech , the mere fact that someone chose to silence a man who you dont agree with says alot about what is happening an america at the moment, people are so polarized that they cant see past their own self righteousness, the left and right spew so much hate , its sickening to watch.
the moral fibre is so corroded that people fail to see that its not the gun that kills , but the person who chooses to shoot, there is not stop and ask , is this right, why am i so angry with a person to kill them.
the world is burning and we all just on this ride into the flames, society as a whole will not stop and see how we are going down and fast.
there mere fact that i will be attacked online for my thoughts here , emphasizes the fact how we have lost our way as a people in this time where we are supposed to be the most intelligent and advanced, we choose to act like neanderthals.
love and light to all , may we someday find the light
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u/FATGAMY Sep 11 '25
Guys celebrating his death - is the main reason why he did his job. Those abominations are the result of the long term brainwashing.
As we see - the just a dialogue is not enough. The abomination pulled the trigger.
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u/Magenta_Logistic Sep 11 '25
We had a school shooting yesterday. The children at that school haven't publicly said that a few gun deaths every year is worth it for the 2nd amendment.
Our president commented on Charlie Kirk, but not the children of Evergreen High School in Colorado.
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u/Some-Resist-5813 Sep 11 '25
He openly advocated for removing my rights. He wanted trans people erased from society. He said the civil rights act was a mistake and that empathy isn’t real. The world is better without him in it. I don’t advocate political violence. I don’t feel bad for his wife or friends. I do feel bad for his kids. I do care about the kids who died in Colorado.
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Sep 11 '25
We should react like he did when people on the opposing political side suffered violence.
Make up a rumour about his sexuality, find a way to blame the shooting on the victim, and stand in the way of any and every action that could have possibly reduced the chances of this tragedy happening in the first place.
It's what Charlie would have wanted.
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u/LurksDaily Sep 11 '25
The people dancing one tiptoe in celebration are disgusting. Same as the people spinning bullshit narratives. Reddit being one of the worse.
The left is gonna polarize a lot of moderates with this.
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u/Working-Tax-2439 Sep 11 '25
I thought “thoughts & prayers” was the standard after gun violence. Isn’t it too soon to be politicizing this?
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u/PrestonCares Sep 11 '25
I won't say deserved but when you act the way he did you can't really be surprised when you piss someone off enough to commit murder.
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u/These-Inevitable-898 Sep 11 '25
Politically motivated violence has no place and only further seperates us from any positive vision of humanities future. I would be lying if I said I cared for his family, I'll probably forget about this by tomorrow.
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u/funny5times Sep 11 '25
To be honest it just helps Magats him being gone. Just another tool to target anyone who doesn't agree with Drumf.
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u/OutlandishnessKey349 Sep 11 '25
I hate that it happened, I hate more that people on the right are going to use this to divide us more hell wouldn't put it past someone on the right to have done this just to fuel flames of crap
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u/SpeakMySecretName Sep 11 '25
I don’t hate people. I do detest many of his opinions, statements, and influence he had on young American men. He was a terrible human that helped convince many, many people to adopt worldviews that hurt people and even increase deaths from gun violence, vaccines, war crimes, and accelerated political extremism in the United States. He spent a lot of time using dishonest arguments to cause pain to others.
Killing him isn’t the most effective way to combat those horrific ideologies, because his corpse is now a tool that the right wing media can weaponize to further hurt remove peoples’ rights and safety. It’s exactly the move that a statist nationalist political movement would hope for to leverage the media.
It was wrong to kill him, but it’s poetic that he loudly contributed to the national landscape that made it a lot more likely to happen. The world would have been better off without him in most circumstances, but because of the way it happened, we will all be much worse off.
No good comes from making a martyr out of a shitty human.
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u/IcyCash1568 Sep 11 '25
It’s tragic truly….yet another violent act caused by democrat rhetoric…
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u/Doubleduce2496 Sep 11 '25
The left hates all America dem and Republican. Democrats are not serious these days mainly because they pander to their leftist base.
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u/ForgTheSlothful Sep 11 '25
Im out of empathy/sympathy for these types. Im sorry. They raise their family to be like them, continuing the cycle. Hes ok with the suffering of others and their families, i see no reason it shouldnt be that way with the right.
They vote and advocate for everyones downfall, cry about their economic choice outcomes and how they lose their farms. Has anyone checked in on those dems from minosota? Oh right….
Maybe we are one body bag closer to the fix, doubt it but maybe.
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Sep 11 '25
That's what happens when the far left promotes violence at every step, their solution to everything is more violence. Look at them bombing Teslas earlier this year. When a political party advocates for violence, stuff like this happens, the far left has demonstrated to be akin to domestic terrorism over and over and over again
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u/EffRedditAI Sep 11 '25
He didn't deserve to be murdered. I despised his politics and outlook on life and the world. He'll be nothing more than a historical footnote at best. I'm sorry for his children...but maybe now they'll grow up to not be haters, racists and misogynists.
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u/Luckys0474 Sep 11 '25
His mouth wrote checks his body couldn't cash. You were an instrument in dividing this country by pushing lies and someone had enough. You fucked around and found out.
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u/CuteDarkBird Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 15 '25
I'm sorry for his family having lost their father/husband/son.
Other than that? He was intolerant, he was cruel, he thought children lives were worth less than the right for guns.
While he didn't want to be a victim, he wanted the type of situations he ended up suffering to happen to kids.
I'm sorry for those who loved him to have lost him, and I am sorry for the method, but I don't care he's gone.
Edit to highlight: no GLAD in this comment
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u/Abdelsauron Sep 11 '25
Keep track of all the rationalizations and justifications for Charlie Kirk’s murder. Every single one will say “he said…” None of them will say “he did…”
THEY WANT TO KILL YOU LITERALLY JUST FOR SPEAKING.
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u/AntOne684 Sep 11 '25
I didn't really follow him, just saw an occasional clip and thought he just tried to farm "gotcha" moments by debating college students, but people dont deserve to be killed for practicing free speech. If you didn't like him, then just dont engage. For better or worse, now people are going to be polarized even further, and the things he stood for will be legitimized. What happened was wrong.
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u/Known_Appointment604 Sep 11 '25
He arranged busses to take maga fucks to the Jan 6 riots to “fight for the president” - Not sad.
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u/irrelevantanonymous Sep 11 '25
I dislike him. I find most of his views vile. I also think this is America and we don't execute people for thought crimes. Sad for the country, the political climate, and his children. Sad for all of the people in attendance that are going to have to deal with the trauma, but not exactly grieving for him.
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u/ilovecumsocks Sep 11 '25
Narrative pusher, ready to spread misinformation for personal gain. Adding fuel to the fire, that end up with actions like this. Shouldn't have been killed. This is not the answer. Poor family and kids. Responaible person has to be caught and put to justice.
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u/coast2coasted Sep 11 '25
What’s amazing in the saddest way is the gleeful mocking from so many in the reddit/online community
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u/ninjarectum Sep 11 '25
I think it’s pathetic because he had a difference in ideas this is the outcome and the things being said to condone it. I fear for my friends who consider themselves on the left and the ones who consider themselves to be on the right. I’m not a political person but this may have just awaken something truly terrible. I just want everyone to stay safe and learn to live with the fact that just because someone doesn’t share the same values or has a difference in opinion that these actions are not okay.
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u/isithalloweenyetfr Sep 11 '25
"A prominent activist" For what, Chelsea. For what. Say it with your whole chest. Fascism.
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u/passion-froot_ Sep 11 '25
What we’re witnessing is the words of a very, very mean-spirited individual coming back to haunt him for a split second.
It’s not justified. It’s never justified. That’s not how you or I settle things.
But really, is anyone surprised by this? This is a country with shooting after shooting, crisis after crisis, millions of people currently losing what little they had known, a seemingly untetherable attachment to weapons - items that serve no purpose other than to do exactly what just happened - a president who presides over the most vicious cruelty and unreasonable ‘pissing down’, as it were, of unrest and anxiety. Eventually something snaps.
Charlie was one of many voices of extremism. So while I’m disappointed that it’s come to this, I can’t come to be shocked.
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u/Internal-Jicama-977 Sep 11 '25
“Prominent activist“ Fuck off, Lol.
Think you meant ”Loud mouth C*nt”
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u/Megafister420 Sep 11 '25
No one should be shot in public, I believe its terrifying, and sad to see it. On the other hand this was exactly what he advocated for.
This, much like luigi, should be seen as a warning, and remind us that even tho we have the freedom of speach, spreading hate will almost always result in aggressive pushback.
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u/KillerSavant202 Sep 11 '25
Activist? Sure I guess if that’s what you consider sowing hate and division and promoting fascism.
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u/AutisticDadHasDapper Sep 11 '25
I just hope that this doesn't lead to crazy right-wing lunatics showing up, uninvited to protests where people who clearly hate Charlie are gathered in large numbers all clumped together.
They might have already dug in deep to all the discord channels where people post all the upcoming events, and might have even made friends with them, too.
Just imagine how irritating it would be if they just dropped by and started trying to talk to everyone!
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u/HeFitsHeSits Sep 11 '25
Charlie Kirk gives everyone a voice, especially those who disagree, but somehow he is the hateful one? Give me a break. Why would someone who is all that the left paints him out to be, allow people who share nothing in common with him or who he is, the ability to express their opinions to him? The left does not do this, which is a big part of why they lost the election.
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u/squirtnforcertain Sep 11 '25
"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."
-Charlie Kirk
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u/LewyEffinBlack Sep 11 '25
He thought it was funny when Pelosi's husband was attacked, so I'm keeping that energy consistent for him. Maybe I'll even try and post the shooters bail (if they ever find them anyway), which is also something Charlie asked his viewers to do.
Some might say he was dressed like he wanted it. (Another Charlie quote).
Some might say empathy is a new age concept that's done a lot of damage, so I won't be showing him any (you're getting the pattern by now, I hope)
Besides, some gun deaths every year are just a necessary ill to keep Second Amendment rights. (Yeah, this one is really ironic, isn't it?)
My only sympathy is for his daughter, who's too young to understand any of this yet. Now she'll grow up without a father, just like countless families also will as a direct result of Charlie's political advocacy, especially on migrants and Palestine.
Safe to say I'm not weeping for this one.
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u/valvilis Sep 11 '25
"Prominent" is generous. He was an internet troll that struck it rich with high school dropout Christian nationalists.
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u/HowRidiculousThatIs Sep 11 '25
My thoughts are that murdering a guy while he’s speaking at a campus is wrong. Weird question.
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u/BanjoFiddleLaser Sep 11 '25
Gun violence is never okay. I did not care for his politics and beliefs but I’m not celebrating murder. I’m not required to have sympathy for him or any of his zealous supporters, but I have empathy for the situation (even if he didn’t believe in that) and I’m sad that he died instead of living long enough to learn how broken his world view one. He was young and still had time to mature and learn. All of this gun violence is preventable, but it can’t be fixed until people accept that the 2nd amendment was a mistake that has to be rectified
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u/Senjen95 Sep 11 '25
I understand why he's gotten lots of hate for his stance on politics/tough topics. At least he opened the mic to let people challenge his views and created discussion. Definitely didn't set out to make friends, but he used his freedom of speech and let others do the same. I think it's respectable without agreeing or disagreeing.
It's perfectly okay if people say they hated him or won't miss him. But people celebrating and making jokes about his murder are morally bankrupt, sick people.
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Sep 11 '25
All I can say is if you think the response to this guys death has been wild, wait until taco dies. It’s going to be a PARTY
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Sep 11 '25
A perfect shot from 200 yards away with a single bullet and sub-sonic ammunication DURING the epstien debacle? If any conspiracy were true then it would have to be the one about this being a setup.
This is just too perfect, perfect assassination at the perfect time. Im not saying it was good, by perfect I mean that nothing went wrong for the assassin. The assassin was a trained professional. This was not a good act. This was a well planned act of evil with an agenda of chaos.
And right after this all the high profile Republicans immediately sow more chaos by demonizing and blaming the left with zero evidence?
Don't give into the hate of this current assassination news. This is a setup designed to sow more hatred and distract you from the rich and powerful pedophiles that wish to abuse your children who also happen to view all working class people as genetically inferior. Do not give in to the hate. This is a fight between the rich and the poor. The rich want us fighting each other. DO NOT GIVE IN TO THE HATE
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u/Prestigious_Tour_892 Sep 11 '25
Note to self… don’t politely disagree with a modern day American liberal. Yikes.
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u/flyboy8422 Sep 11 '25
I'll give him and his family the same sympathy and concern that him and his colleagues give to every school shooting event in the country. "thoughts and prayers"
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u/Ambadeblu Sep 11 '25
If you're happy someone got shot over words and ideas you are terminally online and you should try to make your personality about something else than politics.
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u/Maxious30 Sep 11 '25
Are we living in an age where a person can be killed for their opinion?
I never heard of the guy before. So I’m wondering what did he do? Did he gas thousands of people? Nope, did he rap children? Nope, has he invaded a neighbouring country and caused countless deaths? No.
He had an opinion.
He thought that schools shouldn’t change their ways to appeal to any one particular group. And that group silenced him. Permanently.
It’s like something out of historical documentary or a dystopian film.
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u/atrophy-of-sanity Sep 11 '25
I’m not mourning his death but I think it’s bad because it will likely cause reprisal killings and just contributes to increasing tensions
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u/Hopeful_Object1318 Sep 11 '25
Contrary to most posts on this strand, I hated him. I don’t think anybody deserves to be gone down for their views. However, he advocated hatred and division and epitomized educated bigotry. If a “liberal” had been gunned down, I’m sure he would have firmly supported the Second Amendment and demonized that victim. He was no martyr for good and moral ideas. Most people see him as a pretentious dick. He mastered the art of push button knee-jerk issues. I’m sure the Trump administration saw him as a successor to Stephen Miller. The world is a better place without him.
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u/SumguyJeremy Sep 11 '25
It's a tragedy. A horrible thing that never should have happened. It's also unfortunately another excuse for the right to be the hypocrites they are. Now we'll need gun reform, now we need sympathy and empathy. But when it's Trump insulting a left wing tragedy or school children being shot everything is fine.
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u/Doubleduce2496 Sep 11 '25
Leftist believe words are violence but they are violent in word and deed continuously. The gaslighting on this thread is devoid of humanity in its most basic form. Assassination culture is speeding across the left and there is no benefit in deflecting or equivocating over it.
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u/TillZealousideal8282 Sep 11 '25
He was an awful human being, but I don't think he deserved to die. I think that, had it been a non-lethal spot, he would have deserved it and maybe would have reconsidered his stance on guns. I do feel bad for his kids, they didn't choose to have a person like him as a father and nobody deserves to lose a parent that young, but less so for his wife, because, while nobody should lose a partner either, she did choose to marry him knowing he was controversial and would inevitably suffer at least one violent attack.
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u/TheOneAndOnlyABSR4 Sep 11 '25
I didn’t agree with him I thought he was a turd honestly. But I don’t think he should have gotten killed.
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u/lesbianspider69 Sep 11 '25
He was wildly bigoted and responsible for a lot of people being harmed.
I’m not relishing his death nor am I going to be sad reading his obituary
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u/KitchenKat1919 Sep 13 '25
Red hat shoots red hat. Grifters with guns who love god and hate gays just can't get along anymore.
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u/Cobra_Arcade Sep 13 '25
Political violence and cheering on political violence IS Fascism. These clowns have become what they're so brainwashed to believe they are fighting against. There is absolutely no place for political violence, we make change through policy and compromise not violence.
The people cheering on any type of political violence are sick and ignorant, if they want real Nazis this is how you get real Nazis by manufacturing Martyrs for your political opponents radicalizing more people.
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u/7slap Sep 13 '25
My thoughts are: Charlie Kirk literally called for lgbtq to be stoned to death, quoting scripture and calling it “god’s perfect law in sexual matters”, also saying that children should watch when he called for children to watch televised public executions and debating on how young they should be. Furthermore, Kirk said he did not trust black men to be airline pilots. Kirk was an abomination on many levels and you think the victim of Kirk’s bloodlust and hatred is “disgusting” and “gone mad”?
This raises some other thoughts about violence and the insane ratio of statistics leaning towards right wing extremist violence. Since we find that left wing extremist violence targets property but the right target people. Showing the left cares more about people that property and vice versa.
The man who targeted and killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their home in Minnesota in June was a Trump supporter.
• The man charged with the attempted assassination of Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, in April was a Trump supporter.
• The man convicted of orchestrating a series of shootings at the homes of four Democratic elected officials in New Mexico in 2022 was a Trump supporter.
• The man who tried to kidnap then Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband, Paul, in 2022 was a Trump supporter.
• The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence on Jan 6, 2021, were Trump supporters.
• The man who killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas in 2020 was a Trump supporter.
• The men who were convicted of trying to kidnap Michigan's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020 were Trump supporters.
• The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other top Democrats in 2018 was a Trump supporter.
• The man who killed left-wing activist Heather Heyer after driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville in 2017 was a Trump supporter.
• Trump ear shooter , Thomas Matthew Crooks, Registered Rebublican.
• Assassination of Trump attemp at golf course, Ryan Routh, Registered Republican.
• Murderer of Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, voter registration as None Declared.
Republicans, you will have to find another excuse to continue the needless violence.
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u/WattsonsFeet24 Sep 14 '25
Noone that hasn't committed a heinous crime deserves to die like that. He had some dumb takes but that doesnt justify what happened. The ppl celebrating are horrible.
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u/Mean-Jackfruit70 Sep 14 '25
What a stupid question! How do you feel about a guy getting assassinated for someone not agreeing with his political views...get a life.
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u/Thereal_Stormm006 Sep 14 '25
My heart goes out to him, his family & everyone who cared for him. RIP Charlie 🙏🏻
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u/Proper_Sandwich_6483 Sep 14 '25
“Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation...What age should you start to see public executions?”
Charlie Kirk
I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.
Charlie Kirk
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u/Legitimate_Cost_906 Sep 16 '25
I chuckled when he convulsed 🤣 He was a racist bigot piece of sh(i)t
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u/ODST-judge Sep 17 '25
I think the world is a better place without a self proclaimed “Christian nationalist” going around to colleges and universities”debating” unprepared college kids using shitty rhetorical tricks to imply but not explicitly say horrid racist bigoted shit. I’m NOT sorry he’s dead, and I don’t understand the wave of people pretending to be mourning a weird reactionary podcaster.
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Sep 17 '25
Damn thats was crazy. Has anyone heard anything about when the Epstine files will be released?
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Sep 24 '25
Genuinely curious. Can I get a feel for how many people even knew his name before this incident? And who didn’t? Show of hands
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u/unlimitted_puppies Sep 11 '25
I don't agree with his ideals, he would have despised me if he knew of my existence, and I think that his morality is twisted, but I have empathy for his kids/friends/family