Too many people pearl clutching today over worries of retributive violence, as if the fascists aren't already going to be committing that violence on us in the near future regardless. It's not too early to say that this scumbag deserved much worse and I'm glad he got rocked so publicly. Mods I'll understand if you delete this and I'm truly sorry for the trouble if you do, I just need a personal break today from the media cacophony of liberals collectively reconciling with the realization that we live in an abnormally and horrifically violent society.

A meme image of Charlie Kirk with a tiny face featuring the text "Dear Liberals, if having access to firearms is a bad thing, then why is there a fountain of blood gushing from my neck?"

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[–] 166 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Imagine leading a life where millions are giddy over your death.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I literally cannot recognize Charlie Kirk without his tiny face shrunken slightly further down.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I wonder if people like Ben Shapiro and the likes see this and go: hmmmm

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I see earlier that Ben cancelled an appearance.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I approve of this. In fact, they should just bunker up and remove themselves from the public eye entirely.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Someone said “he died as he lived: talkin’ out the side of his neck.”

    Perfection.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He had a lot to say.

    He had a lot of nothing to say, we'll miss him.

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  • [+] 122 points 1 year ago* (13 children)
  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The Republicans are only going to talk about violence against them. They have a victim mentality and Charlie boy is now a martyr.

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  • [+] -18 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No louder is that other conservative talking head

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Not really. His death put a cap on his ability to say new things or respond to current happenings and cultural events. He was neither timeless nor profound and 5 years from now this is the only thing most people will remember vs him yapping in their feeds about current events this diminished him.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Kirk promoted gun violence to justify the 2nd amendment. It would be poetic justice if the killer was someone whose loved one died from gun violence and chose to give him a taste of his own opinion.

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  • [–] 98 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    It was while he was being asked about gun violence that he was shot, the student says.

    Unbelievable.

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  • [–] [S] 105 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Specifically, he was in the middle of spinning a question about mass shootings into a dog whistle about "gang violence".

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    mass shootings committed by trans people, specifically

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  • [–] 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    The order of events as I've been seeing online:

    Videos circulating on social media showed an attender at the student event on Wednesday asking Charlie Kirk: “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”

    In response, Kirk said: “Too many,” as the crowd clapped.

    In a follow-up question, the attender asked: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

    Kirk replied: “Counting or not counting gang violence?”

    His last act on earth was cracking a joke about how only queers and poors are involved in gun violence, at which point he was shot.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thanks for extra context. These people really don't seem to care about others suffering. Also I don't normally hear gang violence and mass shooters together. Gang violence is generally targeted and not focused on the most amount of bodies.

    Regardless I'm getting tired of this all, and it's likely only beginning.

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

    It's a regularly used debate tactic of the right. He was going to imply that whatever number the student came up with for mass shootings was inflated because the criteria was too vague and erroneously counts gang violence. He would then have used this to simultaneously downplay the seriousness of mass shootings and suggest that trans people represent a larger proportion of mass shooters than they actually do. It was his way of discrediting the argument that the student was making; that trans people are actually underrepresented in the population of mass shooters. The reason for the student making this argument - if you don't know - is that Charlie Kirk has blamed trans people for mass shootings in the past, jumping on the conservative bandwagon that always transvestigates mass shooters because they believe they are a trans conspiracy.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Thank you because I know a bit, but I don't know enough about him and his shtick to understand the greater context. I'm also not familiar enough with those dog whistles to catch them all out in the wild

    Edit: spelling

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Those chicks seemed like smug ass Karen’s. It’s scary how well composed and dedicated to the narrative they were after witnessing someone they liked being shot but then again they were fans. Nazis

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  • [+] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I saw the picture of the just before part, not sure I want to watch the actual thing. However I know he (gleefully) damaged many, many lives and I know that some of them will be happy to watch this.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    People are very focused on the blood gushing part. And I get that. But I can't say I haven't had that normalized by movies. It's not that different.

    The shocking thing about it to me is not the blood but his reaction. Movies do not capture the subtlety of watching the life leave from someone's body so quickly. I think that's what makes the blood so much more shocking.

    I don't watch this kind of stuff ever. I saw it on twitter by mistake. It was hard not to.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

    Fountain of blood is an understatement. It looked like special effects. The guy went out like a DOOM villain. He died gargling on his own blood.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Sauce? I need to watch this plsss

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Resident Evil 4 Original, just intentionally lose to the Chainsaw dude. That shit actualy scared me as a kid, this is nothing.

    I think they censored the decapitation in the remake (but they still kept in the decapitation for non-chainsaw deaths, so idk what's the point)

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Yeah... All the people asking if he managed to survive either didn't see the vid, or don't understand bodies, cause he was unconscious within a second and dead seconds later.

    The bullet ripped open some juicy neck tunnels and based on his contortion probably fucked with his spine too.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Most people have no idea how destructive bullets actually are to bodies, or how much you bleed. Most people have never seen, or have never seen many, actual shootings, and think that it is something in the neighborhood of an action movie on the bloodier side of things.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The only movie I have seen that had realistic war or otherwise gun action was Saving Private Ryan.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Interestingly his head seemed to rock in the same direction that the bullet hit, you would think it would be away.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think the bullet tore up much of the supporting structure on that side, that's why he slumped that way.

    Fuck this vid is bad.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Right in the middle of his full-throated endorsement of the scapegoating of transsexuals too.

    He was going right for the jugular.

    Neck and neck with the president himself in making right wing public opinion.

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

    The onion had a good headline, 'Charlie Kirk loses gun control debate by a longshot'

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    Lol.

    So long asshole.

    Ran your mouth one day too long.

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

    i switched over from reddit recently and this post makes me here to stay. Got a loud laugh out of me after reading all the undeserved sympathy this guy was getting.

    I've been wondering for awhile now - at what point do ppl just start killing these fucking ppl. I guess that's today. Hopefully this a lesson/reminder in why you don't treat your fellow man like fucking dogshit, cause they just might tear your fucking throat out!

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bruh... We are in for an explosion of political violence... Only difference between now and the past is white wealthy men are the targets. Watching them freak out when they are gunned down on a random Wednesday is laughable. Welcome to your average black Americans reality. Police killings are political violence but no one with actual power ever gave a shit.

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

    And your average kid in elementary school. Our society has successfully normalized violence literally against children. I feel like we're not far away from "pedophiles really aren't that bad actually" being said by our politicians.

    And they want me to care about a fucking piece of shit like Charlie Kirk turning into a fountain of blood while no one else was hurt? Literally top 10 clean kills in history.

    The only sympathy I feel is for people that had to feel the trauma of that event. No one there knew they were not also targets. The panic and fear they must have felt in that moment. That is my only sympathy for this situation.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    I give up. Are they gonna post the answer later? How does this work?

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't know a lot about him, I'm not US American.

    I condemn violence in general but a person like him who helps polarize society, pours oil in the fire etc. may just reap what he sowed.

    That's what you get, with culture war nonsense and playing sides of the political spectrum against each other. Strange to assume this would just stay rhetoric.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    Main difference between him and someone else fueling the fire is the irony.

    He specifically supported people bringing guns to schools wiith quotes that essentially boil down to "Gun violence happens but we just have to live with it to protect our god given rights."

    He was the reason he could get shot.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He sayd things like few gun related deaths each year is acceptable sacrifice if they can keep their god given right to bear arms. Also he said he does not understand empathy and it's just a made up new age term.

    So he most definetly got what he sowed, what he deserved.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    dude had a big face or small face depending on how you define face, i see why the shooter didn't want to overcomplicate and went for the neck

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

    He was likely aiming for the face and didn't calculate for the bullet drop. Good. Enough.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Bro, somebody who did a shot this good has to be experienced with weapons. They fucking took into account bullet drop. Maybe they didn't take enough into account, but they had to have taken into account

    Honestly, super curious about who the person is if they ever do end up catching a real suspect.

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