Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has died, says US President Donald Trump

https://news.sky.com/video/right-wing-activist-charlie-kirk-has-died-says-us-president-donald-trump-13428448

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iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 168 pts · 340d (8 replies)

Does anyone else find it wild that the first confirmation of his death (apart from anyone who had eyes and saw the wound) comes from the President of the United States? Who did not extend the same formality to the lawmaker assassinated in Minnesota just a few months ago?

Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip · 46 pts · 340d (3 replies)
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ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com · 9 pts · 340d

Fox News will just switch rat poison brands to feed into the IVs.

rhombus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 340d

Our best hope is the GOP imploding due to the massive power vacuum Trump’s death will create. There is a lot of discontent among Republicans right now, they’re all just too afraid (or still too loyal) to Trump to oppose him directly. But Vance? He has the charisma and popularity of a wet paper towel. There will be no hesitation throwing him under the bus.

Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 339d

My guess is Barron. If he's trying to imitate NK, establishing a dynasty and getting rid of elections would be the starting point. And with all the talk of a 3rd term.... my guess is that's the goal. No dictator lasts forever, so ensuring a favorable transfer of power is vital. And if trying to deify yourself, the next closest thing is your progeny.

Donjuanme@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 340d

It's fucking disgusting.

But I've got nothing left but disgust, so I'm glad they're going to keep dumping it.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d (2 replies)

How on earth would we know if it was true until it came from Trump's mouth?!? Huh? Got you their LIBTARD!

And009@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Sorry *there

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d

Don't you dare correct me!

/s

Jax@sh.itjust.works · 165 pts · 340d (5 replies)
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BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Finally Trump said something truthful.

DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d

Well, that's not right at all. Catching a con-man saying something truthful? Nah, you just haven't seen the lie yet.

Maybe nazi charlie wanted a fake 'ear wound", too. Those maga nazis do fuck things up extremely commonly.

Jax@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 340d (1 reply)
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djcas9@feed.djcas9.com · 1 pts · 339d

Oh yea, wild people. Training on the data for psycholinguistics and fingerprinting. The way they write will be how they are exposed. Ironic. Public dump and a lot of letters to employers.

dil@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 339d

Top comment deleted by mods of course, real nice reddit vibe here

Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 340d (6 replies)

"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

  • Charlie Kirk, April 2023.
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 340d (3 replies)

See, that's a man of integrity. Someone who practices what they preach.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 340d (2 replies)

He died doing what he loved.

J92@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Donating a life-saving amount of blood fromt the side of his throat?

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d

Yes, and being a cunt.

DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 340d

TLDR: "Public Murders are a part of our religious theocracy, get used to it. You have no choice in the matter."

Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 340d

He was just saying the quiet part out loud though. It's not like he was slth wonky gun owner jn the US.

AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 93 pts · 340d

REST IN PISS 🫡🇺🇸🦅🗽💥

ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 86 pts · 340d (9 replies)

Imagine living your life in such a way that when you're violently murdered, the only thing people have to say about it is to quote all the hateful shit you said.

Kalothar@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 340d (6 replies)

Unfortunately there are a lot of people who are posting about “how he was a family man who just wanted to speak to people on campuses”

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 340d (3 replies)

Yeah brother tried to text me to tell me how sad. I shot back that I was glad he was dead. Sometimes my brother forgets I am not one of them.

cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 340d (2 replies)

My sibling blocked me without comment after i shared a meme about it lmao fuckin snowflakes

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 13 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Conseratives are the biggest snowflakes. They all fucking cried about a corporation logo being changed.

MehBlah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d

The concept of a snowflake in human nature was coined for conservatives. I remember when it popped up online and I know who what group it was pointed at.

DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 340d (1 reply)

So nazis are talking about how wonderful he is? Yeah, they're nazis. He was a nazi. He spread religious hate speech as much as he possibly could.

He wasn't a 'far right political influencer"

He was a common nazi.

Kalothar@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 340d

I would say more, but honestly I don’t know that much about him myself, just that he everything I’ve ever heard from him I disagree with.

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 340d

drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 340d

There is a lesson here.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 340d
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 47 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Well, cheers guys!

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 340d

Third beer in, the schadenfreude still hasn't worn off! Happy times!

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 340d

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 340d (2 replies)

Think he considered himself proven wrong yet?

MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 36 pts · 340d (1 reply)

He died arguing that some deaths are necessary to protect freedom. I don't know if he's been proven right or wrong, all I know is he was willing to put his neck on the line.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 340d

At least he died by his scruples.

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 340d (2 replies)

This piece of shit is gonna get fascist canonized but right now I'm happy that he's dead. Live by Nazi values, die by Nazi values.

EonNShadow@pawb.social · 38 pts · 340d (1 reply)

He finally became a good Nazi.

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d

Like Rush Limbaugh!

robocall@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 340d (25 replies)

DarkGamer@fedia.io · 71 pts · 340d (4 replies)

"He was loved and admired by ALL" ...clearly not.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 50 pts · 340d (1 reply)

In some cultures, a bullet to the carotid artery is a sign of admiration.

Edit: I just wanna make it clear that I don’t support violence. This line just occurred to me and it was too funny not to post, even though it’s pretty dark.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d

Lmfao I wish I could upvote you like 35x.

skooma_king@piefed.social · 16 pts · 340d (1 reply)

But it was posted on Truth Social

RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d

Oh they wouldn't let them call it that if everything posted there wasn't the truth

wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 340d (12 replies)

You mean praying didnt work!? Then why do they keep sending their thoughts and prayers!?

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 340d (11 replies)

I cancelled them out. My prayers to the Allfather were clearly stronger. Or perhaps their god doesn't listen to their hypocritical assess.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 340d (10 replies)

If their God were real, he would FUCKING HATE Republicans. The shooter hasn't been caught yet, maybe God was hiding behind a cloud with a sniper rifle. Zadkiel telling him to go for a headshot, Azrael says that's a pussy shot because it's such a big target. Gods like "bet, watch this shit."

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 340d (9 replies)

You know that JFK assassination game where you get points for getting as historically accurate as possible? I wonder how hard it'd be to mod in the scenario you're describing.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d (8 replies)

I have no idea what game you're talking about lol but I love the username!

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 340d (7 replies)

Thanks I got Fallout 1 and 2 on my 12th birthday circa 2011 and it has been a problem for all involved since then.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d

Lol I feel that. I've been playing since 2. My kids been on fallout 4 for 2 years. I had to buy a new soap dispenser because it looks like the blowtorch. He convinced me to buy a steel bucket, basically anything that looks like loot from that game. Now I'm working on an old lunch box for him, in vault-tec style but I have to do it surreptitiously because it's a surprise.

Klear@quokk.au · 20 pts · 340d (4 replies)

Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 31 pts · 340d

Dude is incapable of not being inappropriately horny for even 1 second.

robocall@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 340d (2 replies)

Why is "sympathies" capitalized?

adarza@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 340d

must be a name--what he calls the shroom in his diaper.

WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d

Because it’s his first one that he composed.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 340d

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 340d

Trump: FEED ME THE SACRIFICIAL MARTYR.

Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 22 pts · 340d

Man, Trump must have really done some fucked up shit in the Epstein files to get this desperate

cl4irv0yant_cr4wfish@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 340d

"right-wing activist" is always such a funny phrase to me because it's called being a bigot 🤷‍♀️

AlexLost@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 340d

We're all stars now, in the dope show!

ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 340d (1 reply)

And doesn’t give a fuck about the kids in Colorado….

GrammarPolice@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 340d

Well he can't now...

tired_n_bored@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Couldn't happen to a more deserving person

GrammarPolice@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 340d

Nick Fuentes? More deserving imo

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 340d

Well well well...... how the turn tables.

ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 340d

Live by the gun, die by the gun?

flandish@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 340d

boo fucking hoo. a nazi is gone. nothing of value was lost.

MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 340d (1 reply)

No thoughts or prayers.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 340d

farts and stares.

Lenny@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 340d

#RIPBOZO

WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 340d

Hey libs watch this! *shot in neck.

Resol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d (2 replies)

Am I the only one who has never heard of this man until the news of his assassination broke? Only then did I decide to dig deeper to know more.

boaratio@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 339d (1 reply)

Bless you. I wish I had never heard of this right wing shit heel grifter before.

Resol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 339d

Now that I think about it, me neither.

fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d

Donald Trump said it, so now I believe it. Political violins.

slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 339d

Says US president Donald Trump makes it sound like he'ss till alive.

carlossurf@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Shocker you dont give a shit when kids at schools are killed so you can keep playing with guns, now you get shot by a crazy guy with a gun karma

DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 340d

Only religious assholes like Kirk would assert that this is some stupid religious bullshit, like 'karma'. That's not real, and neither is Kirk's hate religion.

Only people can make justice, not imaginary bullshit gods or 'forces of the metaverse'.

6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 340d

Couldn’t have happened soon enough. Years ago was perhaps the time. Better late than never I suppose. Take all the W’s by any means. This is just right wing talk btw.

arin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d

Finally Trump said something tolerable.

BombOmOm@lemmy.world · -37 pts · 340d (19 replies)

Someone murdered him. 'He died' is pretty passive.

whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 64 pts · 340d

When a Nazi was killed, it wasn’t called murder.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 340d (3 replies)

Allegedly.

Someone allegedly murdered him.

Kirk was open and proud that it was his belief to live in a society with guns was desirable even if it meant people were gonna get shot.

He thought it was a good trade off.

Now a gun went off. And Charlie Kirk is dead.

This is America for all we know a cop was standing behind him and mistook a shadow for a Black man.

Don't fucking jump to he was murdered, he was shot.

nocturne@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 340d (2 replies)

Was he shot? Maybe his blood was too embarrassed to be part of him any longer and decided to move out of its own accord.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 340d

The body has a way of shutting it down...

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d

Marie Moreau was in the audience and sick of his shit.

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 340d (1 reply)

He wasn't murdered he was weeded out.
It's all just part of the sacrifices necessary for the right to bear arms. It's all good by his own account.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 340d

Caught in the churn.

FlowVoid@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 340d

Actually "He died" uses the active voice, whereas "He was murdered" uses the passive voice.

CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 340d

Are we sure? I've been hearing talk that Kirk is just a paid crisis actor and this was all a false flag.

SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one · 10 pts · 340d

God didn't redirect the bullet into a fire-fighter I guess.

Maybe Kunt should've had a teleprompter up for another glass nick on the ear.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 340d (4 replies)

Its the correct wording for when someone dies while being treated in the hospital. The initial reports were "shot and in critical condition" so now the headline is of course that he ended up dying.

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 340d

It wasn't even the bullet that killed him, he slept in peacefully in his bed.
/s

BombOmOm@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d (2 replies)

That's the whole thing about passive voice, it isn't incorrect. People rightfully criticize passive voice when reporting on police murdering people. Same thing here.

FlowVoid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d (1 reply)

If you prefer active voice then "He died" is optimal.

Nutteman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d

He was killified

Nutteman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 340d

He was hunted like the disgusting beast he is

GrammarPolice@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 340d

Agreed

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 340d

Maybe his neck just does that

sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 340d

He must have been Palestinian.