If that was true, that trend wouldn’t exist in the first place. At least one person had to legitimately hate or at least exaggerate disliking the word for that idea to spread, so it stands to reason that more than one person organically disliked the word independently. That’s not even considering outliers like folks with synesthesia who may perceive the way the word sounds much differently than most do.

You do realize that phobias are inherently irrational right? There’s no appeal to it. It just is.

The issue is that they’re brown babies, obviously.

Blueberry cheese cake lmao. The “water” is the top blueberry layer and the “boat” is where a slice was cut out.

The difference is that most people think of it is moving their face rather than holding a camera.

Thank you, I just started new medicine right after I posted that and the brain fog is making it a struggle to find stuff.

So, I don’t think it’s entirely voluntary either way, it’s just a matter of where your perspective defaults to. I consider myself a fairly empathetic person and I happen to sit on the opposite side of this. As much as I try, I cannot feel empathy for him.

When I try, the empathy I feel is for everyone he advocated to subjugate and kill. I cannot fathom being in the shoes of someone so pointlessly, shamelessly hateful. When I put myself in his shoes, there is no connection that makes it in any way feel like a real person’s understandable perspective. If he had changed at some point? That would be understandable. Imagining that makes me feel empathy for the person he could have been, but that person doesn’t exist, never existed and may never have. I feel more empathy for that hypothetical person than I do the actual Charlie Kirk, someone who himself felt that feeling empathy was a sickness and wanted to eradicate me from society.

I struggle to find anything to empathize with there.

With that said, I watched the video. It made me feel sick to my stomach. But that didn’t change the immense relief I felt knowing there was one less person in the world that thought I should be stoned in the street. I don’t think you’re wrong for feeling unsettled by someone taking glee in it though. It’s hard to imagine the kind of pain someone has to go through to get to the point where someone’s death is something to celebrate as a relief.

He advocated for the eradication of trans people and the party he worked for is literally ethnically cleansing the US. Yes, we are calling Nazis Nazis.

He wanted to eradicate transgender people from society and actively worked with the party currently performing an ethnic cleansing of the US. I’d say these are Nazi dogwishtles but honestly it’s pretty fucking mask off. One does not need to heil Hitler to be one.

What someone says does not exist in a vacuum. His rhetoric encouraged gun violence and vilified empathy. He played a not insignificant part in violently radicalizing fascists, ones that have already been killing or showing actionable intent to kill. He wanted me and others like me to be eradicated from society EXPLICITLY and by running his mouth convinced his base that this was for the best by painting us as child groomers and pedophiles, thereby stirring even more violence in the shocking number of people that listened to him.

He wanted me and those like me to not exist. I’m glad he stopped existing before he could make that a reality. If it’s monstrous to be relieved about one less person advocating for my eradication, then I suppose I’m as monstrous as they come.

This is the same man who said gun deaths are necessary for freedom. Who was shot immediately after exaggerating trans gun violence and downplaying the rest of the gun violence. He reaped what he sowed. His death is directly caused by policies he advocated for. I would of course be elated if we did not have these problems in the first place, but if someone is going to die because of this shit, I’m glad it’s one of them actively making it worse.

Charlie Kirk himself wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. He’s quoted saying that empathy is made up and is dangerous. He didn’t want my empathy and he certainly didn’t fucking earn it.

This IS the begotten violence. MAGA chuds have already killed what they perceive to be left wing leaders. And their own leaders are in the process of killing the rest of us. No one wants this, but when the violence has been already happening? Yeah, it’s nice to see that it’s a nazi dead for once.

But I’d much prefer there weren’t nazis in power trying to put me and others like me in the fucking death camps first. Until then, yeah I’m going to cheer when a nazi dies.