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    I didn’t ask to see the video in my social media feed but I did. I don’t care what his views are, it’s hard to watch a person suffering and in pain.

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      With the amount of blood that immediately came out of him and the almost instantaneous jerking of the arms I’d bet he was out before the blood hit the floor.

      That being said, I’ve had more sympathy when disposing of the rats chewing up my counters and shitting on my skillets than I did watching a fascist get but a tiny fraction of what he enabled and advocated for.

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      Being really honest with you. He probably didn’t feel a thing. That right there is an instant-death.

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      It gets less hard after realizing that this is what Charlie has been advocating to be done to others. And has been done to others with the justifications he created for it.

      A lot less hard.

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      You enjoyed watching a human being with no power or authority who has never committed violence get shot in the throat in front of children because he said words you don’t like. Maybe they were right, maybe we ARE fucking snowflakes. I was possibly traumatized, but I’d prefer that over fucking ENJOYING it.

      I also have no patience for those who celebrate a political assassination of someone speaking making political speech on a University campus, who don’t have the courage to actually look at it.

      You get that you’re radicalizing yourself and others, right? Are you consciously aware of that or is it just something that happens with even noticing?

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        I’ll go ahead and say this — the first thought in my mind having watched the front row video was the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm. Am I a bad person for it? Maybe, but you wanna know who’s worse? All of the people trying to suggest that Kirk’s death is somehow heavier and more important than the 18,000 ish other people shot and killed this year.

        Your ability to feel empathy is being weaponized against you. No one on the right side of history has said ‘Oh that’s so tragic, Hitler killed himself. Gosh, what a world what a world, I’m sick 🤢’. BECAUSE HE WAS FUCKING EVIL.

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        It’s completely fair and normal to be disturbed, I agree on you with that, however:

        a human being with no power

        That’s not true at all.

        It’s irresponsible to trivialize Kirk’s actions as “saying words”, or claim they have no power. Words hold power, and not just from political authority either. Kirk played a major, leading role in promoting and stoking stochastic terrorism and fomenting the political atmosphere that has turned the USA into what it is now. One particular case, a reddit user recalled how Kirk’s propaganda machine radicalized their vulnerable brother into attempting mass murder with a vehicle (unfortunately I can’t find it, I think the comment or post was deleted) and another has said they’re being assaulted by family. I understand not comparing Kirk to formal politicians (despite the obvious links to them) but I think it’s absolutely fair to compare Kirk to a cult leader, a known-murderous cult grooming listeners into demonizing black peoples, gay people, trans people, gun control rhetoric and a myriad of other scapegoats.

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        Grow up, and take off the disney-goggles.

        This guy literally excused the deaths of innocent children. It’s okay to enjoy watching him and his ilk get a taste of their own medicine.

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        “With no power or authority”

        The POTUS ordered flags at half mast

        "Who has never committed violence$

        So we don’t count hate speech when it’s convenient

        “You know that you’re radicalizing yourself”

        Watching a cop kill an unarmed Black man by keeping a knee on his neck radicalized me. Watching people scrape children’s remains from walls after an Israeli bombing radicalized me.

        And… sometimes you actually need to shoot fascists to get rid of them.

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        He supported the genocide in Gaza and denied that Israel was purposefully starving them. He saw dead children in school shootings as a fair price to pay to protect gun rights. He blamed mass shootings on transgender people and minority gang violence. He got off easy, a clean shot to the neck and dead in a couple of seconds. If this traumatized you, either you ignored the footage coming from Gaza over the past 23 months or never saw them as humans.

        Why are you defending a racist and a fascist?

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        Kirk played a major role in the COVID anti-vaxx movement, and has fostered hatred against the LGBTQIA+ community and immigrants, etc. Essentially, anyone that isn’t a straight white male evangelical. He got ventilated for the violence he created, even if he didn’t directly pull the trigger. Adventurism doesn’t really do much, but I’m shedding no tears for the death of this fascist. And yes, I watched the close-up video.

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    Ugh finally a place we can cheer the death of a fascist. I may have overexposed myself on my FB lol, lotta salty uncles

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      Pro Tip: if they start talking about what a ‘wonderful family man’ he was or some other such bullshit, reply with photos of Nazis with their families and pets.

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        Nazis with their families and pets.

        Reminder that Hitler tested a suicide pill on Blondi.

        Reminder that Goebbels had their six children sedated and poisoned, claiming they would support the decision if they were old enough to speak for themselves.

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        On his weekly panel discussion, “ThoughtCrime,” Kirk was discussing death penalties of those convicted of crimes, adding that not only does he believe there should be public executions, but that children should watch them.

        “Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation…What age should you start to see public executions?” Kirk asked.

        His wife & kids were there to watch. It what he would have wanted!

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    This sucks. I don’t think he was conscious long enough to know that justice has arrived. Thoughts and prayers asshole.

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    The Dems speak of how Trump and his people are fascists (not wrong) and that the must be stopped. But then when a fascist is “stopped” they come out of the wood works to make sure they “put aside differences” and will bow down harder to the Republican fascists. Deep down a Democrat fascist will always show their true colours when they see another fascist harmed. Fuck all of them and their theatre.