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.

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[–] [S] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Some large-scale surveys suggest that about 40% - 41% of trans people have attempted suicide at least once in their life. There are studies that report even higher rates, and I've occasionally seen transphobes also use "43%" instead of "41%", but the latter estimate is the most famous one.

Of course, such a high rate of suicide attempts isn't met with any empathy or concern from conservatives, but with false claims that gender affirmation is harmful for trans people, and often outright glee as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Honestly I've mostly seen it used as a way to tell trans people to kill ourselves ("join the 41%" is something I've seen spammed to trans spaces). I've also seen it used as you describe though. The raw depravity of humanity unfortunately

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If we had empathy we’d pass universal healthcare - most gun deaths are suicides, more than any other form. gunviolencearchive.org. Banning guns won’t help, those people will still want to be dead. Fewer of them may succeed, but the human misery will still be there.

    And by we I mean my fellow Democrats. Republicans don’t even pretend to give a shit.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I saw a qoute where he wanted a patriot to bail out a person who attacked political opponents with a hammer, isnt that condoning political violence by proxy? I might be misinformed, im not in the us so I have more access to memes than proper news outlets

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No. Nobody is "owed" empathy, you garner it through your actions and circumstances, which is why I and millions of people have absolutely zero empathy for this scumbag. This is a very simple case of you reap what you sow.

    Murder can never be condoned or accepted, and it must be met with the appropriate consequences. I do however understand what would lead someone to believe their only hope for a future would be to put a bullet through this guy's neck.

    It's the Luigi situation all over. Nobody condones murder, but we empathise more with the killer than with the asshole who was fucking us over.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I think everyone, by default deserves empathy. But this guy worked really hard to forfeit that baseline right. He literally said he’s fine with people dying this way, in service to the 2A. He got what he said he wanted.

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