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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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[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Let me put this in a simple way. His death should not be celebrated but you shouldn't mourn for him as well.

Just go "phew, that's one less bigot" & move on

[–] Xed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That’s exactly how I feel. One less bigot on earth

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

I think you are downplaying his role though. And it is critical to understand this to understand why people are actually kind of happy he died. He is not just a bigot, he is a person with a very large sphere of influence which uses this influence to turn people into bigotry or make people who are already bigots more extreme bigots. Overall it is a really huge benefit for society, orders of magnitudes more than just a single isolated bigot.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

I watched the video, shrugged my shoulders, and moved on to watch Casual Geographic. At least that is fun.

Honestly, I didn't feel much from seeing Kirk die. He is just one many conservatives, that I would simply like to turn into dust. They sometimes fill me with anger, but...it isn't much of a feeling, most days. I want to get on with life.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 hours ago

My reaction was just: "it sucks to suck".

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago

Him making an incredibly racist statement only for the universe's immediate rebuttal to be "we're taking your blood back" was pretty funny.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

I got more of a cold sense of "you reap what you sow" justice. If you go around slapping people in the face don't be shocked if you get your ass kicked one day.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And then people post shit like this here: "Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

www.thedailybeast.com"

As if it's not 'normal' people not giving a fuck about some hate spreading dead nazi.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think those bots are also on Charlie's side, like pushing an antileft agenda, because they want us to have a civil war to damage our country.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 36 minutes ago

I'm surprised we didn't get a condolence tweet from Putin too.

[–] Jinarched@lemmy.ca 14 points 19 hours ago

I won't lie, when I saw the front row video I felt bad for a second, but that's inherent empathy. That shit didn't last long when I remembered who was shot. While I am not overjoyed by his assassination, all I can think of is that it was much deserved. I am glad he won't spread hate anymore.

I try to keep it for myself, but I will not let people pretend he was a great guy. He was a piece of shit.

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

He was a monster. Without the Fourth Reich to prop him up, he would be just one random evil douchebag.

The world is a marginally better place with him gone. Well until they use it as pretext for carpet bombing blue cities.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

they should bomb blue MAGA cities if they exist

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They were always going to. Fuck em.

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 18 hours ago

They would either have their moment or manufacture it. I'm sadly aware of that.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 23 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Right wingers: how can you celebrate a murder?

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what makes you cheer.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

You can see it written on their RV's.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

It doesn’t change them, but it is kinda fun to put together compilations of right wingers celebrating when decent people are murdered.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 25 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

YouTube randomly gave me this:

Yes, I would like for him to be next if that's what they're saying.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 21 hours ago

Oh can we have this for christmas? Please please please please please please

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 points 21 hours ago

Can we get some witches to put a curse on him too?

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think you should be feeling some of the utter glee that I'm seeing some people espouse. You can find it funny, you can feel indifferent, even a little glad that such a dickhead isn't in the world anymore, but some of the stuff that people are saying on social media (using their full name and photo like an idiot) is a little disconcerting. I don't think it's healthy.

I couldn't give a shit about Kirk personally or his family, but I've seen friends turn to extreme levels of sadistic joy, watching the video again and again, and trying to get me to watch it, pretending to have a party about it.

...I dunno, that doesn't seem like a mentally healthy thing to be doing.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

No, celebrating it makes you not much better morally and emotionally. A sense of justice though? I can see that.

[–] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 10 points 21 hours ago

Ngl it was honestly pretty beautiful and poetic

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

I laughed, and I fucking hate the fascists for being so vile that that was my reaction.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

As far as I'm concerned it was the same as watching footage of a Nazi's neck exploding.

And I'll always take joy in that.

The only good fascist is a dead fascist.

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

Nice. Let's not lose focus on getting those Epstein files.

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