We wouldn't happen to have the link/recording/article that this came from for context, would we? Not to sound like a "SOURCE?!?!? troll, but I'm curious.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote/

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for following up with me, I truly appreciate it.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

no prob

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months ago

Empathy does a lot less damage than a bullet to the neck.

[–] Frenchys_prospecting@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Neck minute gurgling sounds

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Someone’s told me elsewhere that these quotes have been taken out of context. I said he should have been more careful with words.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Lot of people seem to agree with him, judging from the responses to his death.

[+] mub@lemmy.ml -7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

We already knew his views were wild and insane but killing him for it was a bad idea and cruel to his family and friends (I'm guessing he had some). Metaphorically jumping up and down on his grave is just bad taste. The best thing we can do is consign him to an obscure footnote in history and desist from publishing his views for him.

edit to the replies - Holy hell this place has turned into reddit on a bad.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 18 points 3 months ago

If this is such a bad thing, then why did Ben Shapiro cancel his speaking arrangements today? All these grifters are freaking out because they never expected to face a consequence for anything they said or did

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

did-someone fuck that and fuck you, I look forward to using the new unisex toilet. "What about all the other Nazis who might have their feelings hurt?" Fuck off.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You didn't read my post did you? The man was a shit. I said as much. The point I'm making is why give him or his bat shit crazy ideas more air time now he IS dead. Also, have some dignity.

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

kitsuragi-dance
rip-bozo-grave

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Name a more iconic duo than liberals and pearl-clutching. I'll wait.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nope, this is a message to the MAGA Nazis. Turn it up LOUD.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In another context maybe, but linking it with his death doesn't help the cause.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're the kind of person that will walk right into the gas chambers without a peep, and make it easy for the Nazis. They're just doing their job, after all.

A lot of us aren't taking it so easy. We're going down swinging.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not going down at all. Saying that makes it sound like right wingers have already won.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

That's the spirit!

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Nah, violence is the only language they understand. These fascist have killed tons of innocent people, and Kirk was one of the propagandists that helped enable it. This was self-defense, and the only way to stop them from attacking us is to show that we will defend ourselves.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

classic

[–] Tippy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You seem real upset that a white christo-nationalist terrorism advocate is dead. Seems like you're telling on yourself, fashy

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nope. The guy was clearly a shit. Just hope people rise above it and never speak about him again, there are better things to waste our effort on.

[–] Tippy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll gleefully keep talking about a nazi getting his throat blown out by a 5.56 while he was actively blaming LGBT and black people for school shootings, deal with it. You want me stop, call up Trump and have him send ICE to my door.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 months ago

Just having some dignity about it.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

The only reliable way to deal with fascists is to kill them. They will keep killing us until we force them to stop.

Kirk might not have been out there shooting people in the street like a common beat cop, but he built a career out of stochastic terrorism. He suffered the same fate that he advocated for innocent people.