Not even justifying his death - conservatives will whine about anyone who correctly points out the fact that neither a bulletproof vest, security, nor a good guy with a gun would have saved Charlie Kirk. But he might still be alive if 1) The U.S. had sensible gun regulations, and 2) If the right hadn’t been ridiculing the very idea of empathy and celebrating every murder of their political opponents over the past 10 years.
Right-wing politics and its consequences killed Charlie Kirk.
And as the right continues to bemoan left-wing violence, it’s important to remember that political violence is very much a right-wing issue: https://youtu.be/B2MB2re24oA?t=962
Sorry about the shitty AI audio, I was trying something new hoping that it would make the whole video-making process easier and it didn’t work out at all. If you set the speed to 1.25 it’ll sound a bit more reasonable.
I agree completely. Principles, consistency, etc aren’t important to them. I wonder if they are even conscious of that. When they use something like this shooting as overwhelming evidence of “leftist violence” or whatever, ignoring decades of basically exclusively right-wing political violence, I can’t tell if they are just acting in bad faith or if they are actually incapable of seeing their total disconnect from the facts of the world. Both are scary but the former less so…I can wrap my head around that a bit more easily.
It’s totally bad faith, nothing else.
I’ve seen a lot of conservative news articles about how the killing of an asshole youtuber marks a break from civilized non-violent politics and stuff, completely ignoring that just a few months ago this happened: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/hortman-hoffman-shot-minnesota.html