Charlie Kirk confirmed dead.

  • greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    I’m completely apathetic to this news. I’m not going to celebrate his death. But I think there’s a lesson hidden somewhere in here, we’ll probably lots of lessons.

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      I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

      - Clarence Darrow

      there’s a lesson hidden somewhere in here

      “People should be careful what they wish for.”

      Particularly, his own admission that the deaths of innocents should be perfectly acceptable for 2nd amendment rights to be upheld.

      Well, he sure set an example, now, didn’t he?

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      It is like someone falling to their death doing one of those “Free climbing to the top of a smokestack and hanging by one hand.” videos. You don’t celebrate it but you also think “Well you sort of knew it would come to a bad ending eventually.”

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      I’ve been playing Lead Belly’s Blue Tail Fly every few hours and substituting Monster for Master because i don’t know the lyrics very well

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      That liberals are unhinged psychopath murderers who constantly roam around calling everyone a Nazi fascist racist bigot and further alienating themselves, to lose more elections as a result? That’s definitely a lesson to be learned here. Keep on increasing that division and see where it gets you, this site will never take off because most normal people will read these threads and realize the mental derangement.

      https://www.charliesmurderers.com/

      Hundreds have already been fired for this rhetoric, and many more to come.

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        The things these people are saying aren’t even remotely as rude as the sort of things Charlie would say at an average event. Kirk suggested gay people be stoned to death. He said George Floyd had it coming. He blamed rape victims for dressing poorly. But those are all just words.

        So are you suggesting these people are murderers just because they are sharing some uncomfortable words? Curious.

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    One reason why we don’t kill is because we are not used to it. I never killed anybody, but I have done just the same thing. I have had a great deal of satisfaction over many obituary notices that I have read. I never got into the habit of killing. I could mention the names of many that it would please me if I could read their obituaries in the paper in the morning,

    ~ Clarence Darrow

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      "If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

      A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

      Roald Dahl, The Twits

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        Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace. A sour face does not come by chance; it is made by sour thoughts. Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, passion, and pride.

        I know a woman of ninety-six who has the bright, innocent face of a girl. I know a man well under middle age whose face is drawn into inharmonious contours. The one is the result of a sweet and sunny disposition; the other is the outcome of passion and discontent.

        James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

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      I have eleven years on him, he looks terrible compared to me… and I spent most of my adult life drinking fairly heavily, among other things. lol

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      I’m 34 and I don’t think Charlie Kirk looked old or bitter. People need to stop wanking themselves into a gooning, salivating delusion that people with their views are good looking, whereas people with opposing views are ugly. People are so delusional in these echo chambers - they need to look in the mirror.

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      We won’t see the full consequences for years. A lot of people saw Charlie killed and they’re going to start questioning why people should be killed simply for offensive use of language.