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FirstLight

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6. The only bad thing about this

Reply to Takket (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 06:04 PM

Sep 10

Is that they'll make him a goddamn martyr.

And I think unfortunately this tips the scales closer to civil War of some kind. Maggats aren't the only ones with guns.

And while most of the time I try to stay above these feelings, I really truly loathe those who are bigoted and unapologetic and they do so in the name of Jesus which is even worse. So fuck them all
I guess I am more of a bitter liberal than I thought I was ...oh well

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No one should shed a tear for Charlie Kirk [View all] Takket Sep 10 OP

He was shot at the moment he was talking shit about mass shootings. Klarkashton Sep 10 #1

i'm not - he applauded the killing of liberals, children, others samsingh Sep 10 #2

Live by violent rhetoric, die by violent rhetoric DinahMoeHum Sep 10 #3

"Live by violent rhetoric, die by violent rhetoric" TheProle Sep 10 #8

The last words out of his mouth. . . DinahMoeHum Sep 10 #11

I'm grave dancing and feeling great about it! Coventina Sep 10 #4

Exactly. FirstLight Sep 10 #7

He wasn't on my bingo card of the worst, that is about the nicest thing I can say about CK, made a solid effort to avoid Brainfodder Sep 10 #5

The only bad thing about this FirstLight Sep 10 #6

He was a victim of gum violence Blue Owl Sep 10 #9

Yep, a lot of people were hurt by Kirk's rhetoric on gun control uponit7771 Sep 10 #10

How about his kids? Shrek Sep 10 #12

At least they now have a chance of developing into decent human beings. Coventina Sep 10 #13

He may or may not have believed any of it leftstreet Sep 10 #14