“He’s not alive any more” is positive enough.
Hard to say for certain in a post-truth world, but allegedly he was calling for the full release of the Epstein files and was softening his support for Israel.
He was still a terrible piece of shit and I’m not sad that he’s dead.
P.S. I hate so much that Twitter is where this shit is stored. I also found references to Kirk saying that October 7th was an inside job, but the linked tweet is gone.
I thought that he had retracted his call for the release of the Epstein files after the regime changed their tune on them a couple months back.
I’d be interested in a link if you have one.
That’s why I qualified my initial comment. Like, I included video of him saying those things but with AI it’s hard to say for sure.
I don’t remember the specific post I saw that compared his tweet from a year or two ago demanding they be released and the one he made in July/August or so where he downplayed it. I did find this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-trump-epstein-call-b2788906.html
Was it Charlie Kirk that said he trusted his friends in government to make the right decision on the Epstein files, or Stephen Crowder?
I absolutely refuse to watch the video of Charlie Kirk getting shot, but that means I didn’t have the context to know what happened just before he was shot. I just found that out on Wikipedia:
Audience member: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?
Kirk: Too many.
Audience member: Okay, well—[crowd cheers]—it’s five, okay. Now, five is a lot, right? I’ll give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?
Kirk: Counting or not counting gang violence?
Audience member: Great—He literally died while misleading people.
He died gargling on a fountain of his own blood looking like he just lost a Mortal Kombat fatality. I’m kinda glad it was so graphic and caught from multiple angles because it just might wake up a few of his idiot supporters to how horrific gun violence actually is.
Yeah. There were, for the record, 7 mass shootings in the week leading up to this (non-mass) shooting. 30 victims not appearing in the news, and I want to hear why they’re not as important.
The full video was shown in Italian TV news, was the first event they talked about in each station.
Yea if you aren’t use to graphic content don’t watch it, although it isn’t all that graphic IMO. There’s a lot of blood for a second, that’s it. I am sorta desensitized to horrific violence like this though.
And you are watching someone die, so that in itself could be graphic to you no matter how little gore there is, but Charlie Kirk himself said empathy is a weakness, so I have zero empathy for him and can watch him die with no pain or sympathy in my heart. Truly you reap what you sow shit head
Saw someone earlier claiming he was killed while trying to have a good faith argument with people who’s opinions were different from his. Clowns.
Edit: the person saying he was having good faith arguments was Gavin Newsom.
Charlie Kirk was too smart not to know that he was constantly lying.
His last words, “Counting or not counting gang violence?” were a red herring. Whether it’s gang violence is separate from whether it’s transgender people.
There is simply no way that he didn’t know he was being intentionally dishonest. And those were his last words.
Personally, I don’t believe in political violence for the most part, but I am not at all offended by the idea of violence against propagandists. People who spread lies and misinformation. That may be a distinction without a difference in modern America, but I still think it is important.
IMO he was an advocate for violence so doing violence to him is fair game. Live by the sword die by the sword. Doesn’t matter if you ever actually wield it yourself.
The BBC article certainly wasn’t going to speak ill of the dead
I wonder if the lemmy.world mods are in damage control rush already trying to do this same thing in the picture.
The lemmy.world mods probably put on a pot of coffee or cracked open an energy drink when they saw the memes. Gotta keep that censorship energy up.
they were out in the News thread yesterday making sure to remove some comments that indicated this was a good thing
