This young evangelical guy is one of the most popular man in the US. Many americans respect him.

He said Joe Biden was an illegitimate President because Trump won the 2020 US Presidential Election.

He had no issue when JD Vance falsely accused Haitians in Ohio of eating cats and dogs. It didn’t bother him at all that these people received death threats.

He praised Trump for sending people with no criminal records to prison in South America (1) (2)

He said the US had wonderful gun laws that shouldn’t change. He thinks Canadian gun laws are silly.

https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113

I don’t condone violence or murder. But I’m not going to cry either. Sorry.

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      No need to wait, right wingers are already saying left wing groups need to be investigated for their connections to the shooter even though they don’t even know who shot him.

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    Kirk said gun deaths were worth it to keep the 2nd Amendment. I’m sure he’d include his own in that opinion.

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    It’s an absolutely terrible thing to happen, that Charlie Kirk had said was necessary to an extent. I will hold our restrictive Canadian gun laws dearly.

    And while I am against gun violence of any sort, I will be a lot more upset about and sympathetic for the victims of today’s American school shooting at Evergreen High.

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    I’d never heard of this guy until yesterday. He is some social media influencer that believed in the 2nd amendment. Apparently MAGA people are losing their shit, Fox News commentator claims this is an act of war.

    Social media bubbles are wild.

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      And they want a moment of silence for him in europe, the other side of the ocean to them. Go suck your dusty mums, how about that? Moment of silence for your political crony barely any1 even knows? You’ve got a cheek.

      “He had a wife and kids” - so do 30% of the civilian gazan casualties, the other 70% are the wives and kids themselves in Gaza, all deaths he condoned, so do I care about his death? No. Live by it die by it 🤷‍♂️

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        How many Ukrainians die per day?

        I am pretty sure sure europe is tap out on empathy…

        Don’t get me started on Gaza

        Us right are clowns

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    You didn’t need to condone it. He did so it’s not an issue of your morality, it’s an issue of his morality.

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    I think everyone has the wrong take on this. If this happened to someone on the left, most people will just twiddles their thumbs on their keyboards and goes on about their lives.

    What people need to realize is his actions and what he has promoted has consequences.

    I’ll leave it at that.

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      I have an eerie feeling this will be the beginning of some sort of civil war.

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    Don’t feel bad for Charlie! He’s graduated! He’s now a good Nazi.

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    I don’t condone violence, but I do celebrate his death as the world is now a little less hateful

    The problem is that you have two sides who are against each other

    One side just wants to live freely and happily

    The other side wants to be allowed to hate, discriminate, lock up, and even murder those that they don’t like, which is always people with darker skin, women, religions other than evangelical christianity, and of course people who sexually like to do different than them. They also want to be allowed to lie about everyone they hate to be able to stir up even more hate.

    Now that somebody shot a guy from that second group, I have to feel bad? Fuck that shit, I’m happy. There is one less hateful person on this world.

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        It is not a “tragedy” when someone reaps the consequences of their actions at the hand of the very tool he fully advocated the use of.

        That, my dear friend, is called “comedy”. In the theatrical sense of the term, not the modern vernacular.

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        This is a regime whore we are talking about. There is nothing personal here.

        People have zero obligation to provide sympathy to a hostile operative shilling enemy’s talking points.

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          It’s pretty clear they haven’t been. I’m going to guess white, male, and toward the upper end of the middle class. They don’t have to deal with the systematic de-personing of non-whites and non-males, not to mention the de-humanizing of the LGBTQ+ portion of society. It’s easy to make pronouncements from on high when you’re, you know, on high.

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    Trump is going to use this as excuse to send troops to every state. Who knows maybe Trump called the hit, he’s know for throwing his friends under the bus literally.

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    I won’t cry for Charlie but I have already cried because of the bloodlust and inhumanity I have been exposed to from others.

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        I really appreciated your supportive comments. It’s been a rough day of having my darkest suspicions about people tested and not disproved. I never expect to hear a kind word anymore. You must have known it wouldn’t go well for you. Thanks.

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    Nazis killing other Nazis is ALWAYS a good thing, something to be celebrated joyfully by all rational people. And with zero collateral damage it is a huge bonus.

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    i’ll save my sympathy for the victims of evergreen high school who also had a school shooting but who won’t get covered because the media will be swooning over this ghoul.

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        In a statement, Gov. Jared Polis said he was carefully monitoring the situation at Evergreen High and Colorado State Patrol troopers were on scene to support local law enforcement.

        “Students should be able to attend school safely and without fear across our state and nation. We are all praying for the victims and the entire community,” Polis said.

        U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen, whose district includes Evergreen, said in a statement she was “shocked and heartbroken” to learn about the shooting.

        Wow. These statements really make it seem like American politicians are motivated to put a stop to gun violence.

        The shooting at Evergreen High is at least the seventh school shooting in Colorado since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School that killed 13 students and one teacher.

        Well not that motivated