He was shot in the neck and is presumably dead, as a staggering loss of blood was reportedly observed.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    https://youtu.be/JFGQdvYIJ0M

    https://youtu.be/RBgtdq3vuqg

    https://delawareblack.com/charlie-kirk-on-race-key-statements-and-controversies/

    Get wrecked white supremacist fascist, advocate for gun violence and against empathy means you shouldn’t be surprised when someone takes you up on that bet.

    “I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - G M Gilbert

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        He did support gun violence, wasn’t his whole motif the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, and armed guards in schools to prevent mass shootings? That’s clearly advocating for gun violence to avoid the obvious solution of better gun control regulations. He was willing to accept violent gun deaths in support of his 2a position.

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        “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” - Karl Popper

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          There is a difference between not tolerating intolerance and actively calling for the killing of / celebrating the death of an intolerant person.

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    This only aged like milk if he was a hypocrite. Otherwise it was a sacrifice that he was willing to make and he led by example.

    Someone wrote that he was wearing armor and had 8 body guards which suggests that he knew about the threat. So unlike others, he was willing to take the risk.

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      People are likely projecting their own insincerity. They assume people have political positions strictly because it benefits them, typically because that’s the only reason they themselves take a political position. The concept of having principles is absolutely foreign.

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      I think it’s time to stop being so nice about it. People like him encourage cruelty and violence. I think it’s time to stop treating them with empathy until they learn his to be civil human beings again.

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          Tolerance is not an absolute principle, it’s just a social contract. People who breach it aren’t protected by it; end of paradox.

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            Nono, it’s not a paradox for where it starts, but for where it ends. OFC we shouldn’t tolerate hateful disruptors. Though once a war turns hot, it can be very difficult to tell who is the true agressor. Especially when both sides are calling each other all sorts of nasty things. To an ignorant, both sides can look the same, and there are a lot of ignorant people.

            It’s not a paradox for the principles it describes, but the reality it creates. Calling it a paradox is a stark warning to avoid becoming the intolerant and to never lose the context of who is doing what and what for. If you boil it down to, “don’t start none, won’t be none”, then you’ve already lost the context.

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      I am. It’s a reality of humanity. Most of us would like peace myself included. But to have peace, you have to be able to defend it. You can’t be passive. It’s kind of the idea of why you would have military, people ready and willing to fight to preserve the peace from those that end peace.

      My great-grandfather wasn’t exactly sad when he helped take down the Nazis. And I’m not going to be particularly sad when taking down a neo-Nazi. Sorry, they like to be called maga now.

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        We must be intolerant of intolerance. Things tend to fall apart when we tolerate intolerance.

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        im a fucking coward nobody keyboard warrior on the internet, I’m just glad there’s heroes out there willing to fight for what is right.

    • Sadly, violence is definitely coming… soon. Mamdani better keep his head low tomorrow … 9/11… I’m extremely worried of a significant violent event tomorrow focused around/near Mamdani.

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      I feel like it’s cruel but this should be posterized and waved around his funeral. Maybe the people dressed in black will understand the concept of empathy then, violence really does seem to be the only language a fascist understands.

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        These ass hats tried to make empathy a bad word to give license for them to be evil. But they will lash out and cry when other ppl don’t show them empathy. Fuck 'em.

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          Elon Musk cried like a little bitch when people burned his teslas and protested his ass for being a nazi… and he did that right after saying that empathy is wrong.

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    So many things I want to say, but won’t because it’ll probably get me banned…

    So…

    Thoughts and prayers!

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        nah, the mods over at /news are going ban happy if anybody says anything resembling approval of the outcome of this event

        pretty pathetic considering the community and instance rules weren’t broken

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            I guess they just got pissy at me when I called them out on it because they removed one of my comments that wasn’t even as “bad” as a bunch of others I see over there now

            so they’re just pissy little cunts, I guess

            “finally some good news jfc maybe we’re not cooked???” is what they removed as “praising/promoting violence”, which is (1) inaccurate, and (2) not even against the rules of the instance or community

            then I called them out on deleting anti-Nazi comments and they got butthurt

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      You reap what you sow, and this dipshit sowed a whole bunch of hate and now he suffered his concequences. Bye bye default Mii Character, you were a shit stains shit stain.

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      Join my anti-prayer circle! Meant to undo all the praying the Christians aren’t doing, but claimed to do. We’ll do nothing and succeed.

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      Butterfly kisses on that pretty neck.

      America… Legal modern Mafia… he was a fed pawn that got taken out by other pawns of feds.

      This is what it looks like when Americans stage a coup…

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    Seems like he probably deserved it. Probably more than those kids killed in schools yesterday and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and the days before and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and

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    He was shot in the neck and is presumably dead, as a staggering loss of blood was reportedly observed.

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    My coworker showed me the video. Then proceeded to tell me that he’s been watching Kirk since last year and that it was probably a “transgender” that shot him. My coworker is Mexican. Also several other coworkers stated that they enjoy the things that he used to say.

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      The most respectful thing we can do is honor his beliefs:

      “I think it’s worth it. I think 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.” - Charlie Kirk

      "“I think empathy is a made up New Age term that has done a lot of damage” - Charlie Kirk

      “Guns save lives” - Charlie Kirk

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      You’re DISGUSTING! SOMEONE was Murdered with a GUN! HAVE SOME RESPECT!

      We’re talking about Charlie Kirk and NOT the School Shootings right? I NEED to make sure I’m on the Right Topic!

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    Saw the video and ya… he won’t be walking that one off. Medical science has come a long way but that’s testing the limits.

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      I can’t find video since everything is flooded with news people talking about it and won’t show the actual footage. Got a link?

      Edit: found one on mastodon. It’s extremely NSFL. Do not watch if even remotely squeamish. I fucking hate that motherfucker and it was still pretty tough to watch. Very lights-out.

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        The video is all over the internet. Up close, from far away. It’s snuff. CNN played it. It’s everywhere.

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        I saved it, not sure where to post without it getting taken down tho…

        Edit: If anyone wants to see it and can’t find it, message and I can send a link. I don’t want to post it here as it’s probably against the rules. just be forewarned, it is NSFL and shows a lot of blood squirting.

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          That wasn’t squirting. That was a gusher. I doubt he even knew what happened. His hands instantly clenched. Immediate access to the machine elves.

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            It’s too bad that he just suddenly appeared in hell(*) looking around like Confused Travolta. It would have been more just if his brain had had a minute or two to process that after spending his life promoting guns, he was killed by a gun.

            (* Yeah, hell doesn’t exist, but he thought it did)