I keep reading people complaining about how people are taking these quotes out of context.
So went to the source, and I see them in context.
They are actually worse in context.
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I keep reading people complaining about how people are taking these quotes out of context.
So went to the source, and I see them in context.
They are actually worse in context.
Ding dong the witch is dead? It's hardly unusual to celebrate deaths of some public figures. Especially ones that are disliked by large numbers of people.
My dad was team horse de-wormer back in covid. Don't talk to him much.
Mom now says the he was a christian and he did everything right.
Guess sometimes parents can suck too
I keep seeing this photo of Charlie Kirk and I keep thinking "There's no way that's Charlie Kirk".
Hey! It's Charlie Kirk!
I had someone try to tell me I was stooping to his level with my dark humor memes.
I told them, I can't do that because I'm not 6ft under.
He had shitty opinions, we know. I won't follow them. I will have empathy and I will not celebrate his death. Still, I think the world's population improved with one less hateful person around.
I will have empathy
How dare you dishonor his memory.
You can celebrate his death without celebration his murder. I'm not from the us so what I think doesn't matter, but I think both things can be true "good thing he is dead, his killer should get proper punishment, if everyone takes justice into their own hands we lose every semblance of a functional society"
The more we normalize assassinations, the worse the world becomes. America is slightly more fucked today, not because this guy died, but because extrajudicial assassinations are not cool. This only accelerates the collapse of american society and rule of law.
Some tankies/accelerationists want this, but they are mostly clueless kids.
trump is honoring him with a military procession, to distract from epstein. people said he was killed over, because he was pining for epstein files to be released. Kirk did more harm than good, but MSMS seems to try to sanewash him.
Here’s the frustration and why this should not be celebrated:
Charlie Kirk spent years dehumanizing people, making lives measurably worse, and profiting from hatred. The cosmic irony of him being shot while calling trans people dangerous and minimizing gun violence feels like the universe delivering a punchline he wrote himself. There’s a cathartic release in seeing someone who seemed untouchable suddenly silenced by the very violence he dismissed.
But that catharsis is blinding, vile, and destructive. Every celebration post, every "rest in piss" meme, every "fucked around and found out" joke is already being screenshot and weaponized. The worst people imaginable, those eager to exploit violence, are being handed exactly what they want: supposed proof that “they were right,” justification for crackdowns, and, most dangerously, a martyr whose blood sanctifies every awful thing he stood for.
Celebration may feel like a dunk on fascism, but in reality it accelerates it. It may feel like strength, but it exposes a movement so strategically bankrupt that it mistakes emotional satisfaction for political victory. Kirk alive was one influencer among many; Kirk dead is a rallying cry that will outlive us all.
The rage at what he represented is justified. But celebrating his death guarantees those very ideas will flourish. American democracy is dying, and a gravedigger falling into the hole is no victory when it only deepens the grave.
His ideas needed to be defeated. Instead, they’ve been immortalized.
I am happy to read at least one sane voice amongst the sea of people who don't understand that we are doing exactly what they are accusing us of doing by celebrating his death. I honestly am taken aback by the amount of people who think this is good.
Yeah, worried about this and the punishment doesn't fit the crime, and too much room for his death to be weaponized, like you say.
Would have much rather him taken a few to the vest from a handgun from a pissed off obviously MAGA person. Give him some pain and a good scare to have him realize personally just how risky the hornet's nest is that he is stirring. Something that might be a close enough call for others to see without becoming a rallying cry and a clear link to the violence of the rhetoric without a chance to blame 'the other'.
Omg thanks for this. Far too many people are jumping on the 'celebrate his death because he was an awful person' bandwagon. No, the best thing the left can do at the moment is just to have as little reaction as possible. The right was already attacking us and every 'lmao kirk died, rest in piss bozo' comment and post just gives them more ammunition. It's not fair, but at the moment they have the power and we do not. We need to demonstrate to the masses that we are the better people, because that's how we're going to get mass support and that's how we're going to get the right-wing fascists in power voted out.
I appreciate your level-headedness, and I definitely get where you're coming from, but I need to point out the big gaping blindspot in your argument: the crackdowns and the facism are already here, and they've pretty much demonstrated they don't particularly care for or wait for justification.
Do you see why arguing "you're giving them ammo and justification" rings very hollow at this particular point in time?
Yup. I totally understand why it rings hollow and why "feels good" that a Nazi died.
Authoritarianism isn't waiting for permission. Absolutely.
But there's a difference between "they don't need justification" and "justification doesn't matter." Yes, Trump was always going to crack down on dissent. But Kirk's assassination transforms that from "Trump's authoritarian overreach" into "necessary response to political violence." It shifts the narrative from aggression to self-defense. Did Goebbels need Wessel after his death in 1930? No, but it sure as shit worked to mobilize the base.
My point is that we, the true patriots upholding actual freedom, lose here. We all lose here and its frustrating that so many people are caught up in the cosmic justice that they can't see that this is EXACTLY what they want.
The "feels good that a Nazi died" impulse is human. But politics isn't about feelings, it's about power. And right now, people celebrating are ensuring that the worst people in America are about to get a lot more of it, wrapped in the flag and carrying Kirk's picture.