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Charlie Kirk is a Racist (www.youtube.com)
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[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As you all know by now, on September 10th, Charlie Kirk was murdered on a college campus in Utah. While I've always vehemently disagreed with Kirk on 95% of issues, and while I stand by everything I said about him in this video, he didn't deserve to die. Nobody deserves to be murdered or physically harmed because of their words and beliefs.

When I found out he was shot, I had the misfortune of seeing the video. It was the worst thing I've ever seen. I had to stop doing homework. I couldn't pay attention in class. It shook me to my core. It affected me a lot more than the Trump shooting, and not just because this time someone had actually died. The President of the United States will always be a target. If the President actually gets shot, it's shocking and horrifying, but it usually means that the Secret Service just had a bad day. But when a political commentator, an internet celebrity who held no public office, is murdered in cold blood, something is deeply wrong with your country.

My thoughts are with Charlie and his family.

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[โ€“] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Yeah, are we really at the point where we need to be murdering pieces of shit? I don't want the judicial system to do it, and I definitely don't want "vigilantes" to be doing it.

I definitely recognize the irony of the context in this situation though. He literally stood on the platform of "We need to accept that some people will die so that we can have our guns". He put his life where his mouth was...not that he ever expected to be the one to sacrifice his life.

I guess shooting nerf guns or silly string at him wouldn't have gotten the same message across.