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[–] 175 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He didn't say anything untrue. Charlie Kirk himself said that gun violence is an acceptable consequence of maintaining everyone's 2nd amendment rights. This is the environment he advocated for. This is what killed him.

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

    We live in a society where truth doesn't mean a damn thing anymore. You know they will spin this in such a way that they actually gain from it, be it by limiting your rights further or by lying to impressionable idiots who then vote for them.

    Regardless, objective truth as a marker has lost all its relevance somewhere after 2016.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    No we live in a society where the truth is actively suppressed because wealthy people fear the population realizing they are badly losing a class war due to being tricked into a culture war. Kirk was a culture warrior. Any sort of consensus amongst the various factions is very bad for the owner class, and what he said might lead to an awakening, a la Luigi. What Dowd said risks that awakening.

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