Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death

https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-activists-are-targeting-people-for-allegedly-celebrating-charlie-kirks-death/

Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats.

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foggy@lemmy.world · 171 pts · 341d (3 replies)

"Fuck your feelings" crowd sure has a lotta feelings.

snooggums@piefed.world · 66 pts · 341d (1 reply)

They meant your feelings, not their feelings.

biotin7@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 340d

Hence the "your" part

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 340d

Really it's just the one. Feeling.

rowdy@piefed.social · 73 pts · 341d (3 replies)

While I'm doubtful if it'll help, I reported the site to the registrar and recommend others do the same. abuse@namecheap.com
This is the message I used. (Admittedly, I am not well-versed in legalese and added some links for credibility but I wouldn't be surprised if they called my bluff.)

The site https://www.charliesmurderers.com/%C2%A0is hosted by your service. The site is currently in violation of Icelandic law; the location of the hosted site. Specifically, Act on the Protection of Privacy as regards the Processing of Personal Data, No. 77/2000.  See:
https://www.government.is/topics/personal-law/
and
https://www.government.is/Publications/Legislation/Lex/?newsid=fadb4b17-f467-11e7-9423-005056bc530c
This information has also been forwarded to the Icelandic civil authorities.

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 341d

Fwiw I've had Namecheap for a while and they've been pretty helpful when I needed support. Hopefully they take this seriously

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 340d

Predicting the whining from the Confederates if it actually gets yoinked:

"But you using lawfare to cancel culture my cancel culture is so unfair!!!!"

🤣

hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 341d
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amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz · 71 pts · 341d (3 replies)

LMAO, reading the submissions on that website are hilarious. Three quarters of the posts on there are super level-headed, saying they don't believe he should have died but they can't mourn or feel sympathy for someone so horrible; IMO, Charlie Kirk absolutely deserved to die. Wanting fascists dead shouldn't be a hot take, it should be the norm.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Yeah he's being treated by the left like the right treats victims of police violence.

4am@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 340d

Most victims of police violence didn’t help build such a socially damaging machine as TP USA

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 340d

There's an argument to be made that propaganda to undermine democracy is warfare, so propagandists are fair game.

I'm not quite convinced we're there yet, but there it is.

NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 340d (1 reply)
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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 340d

We have terrorists killing terrorists while other terrorists terrorize people for celebrating that there are fewer terrorists. What a terrible timeline we live in.

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 341d

Really fuck him and anyone who supports him.

WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 340d (1 reply)

The “fuck your feelings” people suddenly have feelings.

molestme247@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 340d
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blattrules@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 340d

The “freedom of speech” and “cancel culture” crowd that they always accused the left of being.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 341d

Nougat@fedia.io · 31 pts · 341d (3 replies)

Come get me. FAFO.

psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 340d (1 reply)

FAFO?

Fascist ass-fucking oompaloompa?

nulluser@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 340d

#bandnames

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 340d

Come get me. FAFO.

"Better come armed and send bachelors."

NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 341d (1 reply)

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 341d

Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 341d

I genuinely have just been responding with “chickens coming home to roost never made me sad, it always made me glad” just to see them confused

qevlarr@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 340d

RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Everything Charlie said in his life made it clear that he would have admonished us for caring about his death, and he would have defended the necessity of it. This is his legacy.

If you spend your life saying hateful and morally reprehensible shit you don't get to enjoy a posthumous rewrite that is entirely at odds with your life's work.

It's unfortunate that someone died and it is a disaster for the division and incipient collapse of US society. This doesn't mean Charlie was a good person, or that he will be missed, or that we should care about his particular death versus many others.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 340d

I disagree. If a prominent right wing figure such as himself had been assassinated by anyone associated even tangentially with liberal ideology I’d bet hugely that he would he been on the bandwagon blaming the left and instigating outrage. The right have time and again proven themselves hypocrites. His words suggesting we don’t let shootings hijack a narrative or gun deaths being acceptable to maintain the 2nd Amendment would conveniently be forgotten or reinterpreted to the right’s benefit.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 340d (2 replies)

There isn't nearly enough of them to go after everyone on lemmy.

Res_ipsa_loquitur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 340d
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yoyoyopo5@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d

Thank god for Lemmy.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 341d

Target deez nuts, shitbags.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 340d

Apparently posting quotes of Kirk's can be considered a celebration of his death.

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 340d

I don't know who this dude was, but I just heard him talking about "his" stance on ukraine and I want to say that he was a piece of shit.

spirinolas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 340d

Snowflakes

BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 340d

And this is why we need to arm ourselves 😮‍💨 I used to hate guns, but if republicans are willing to murder themselves...

SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 341d

Are racist jokes racist at a klan meeting?

elbiter@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 340d

They're always looking for an excuse.

mhague@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 340d

Wish a conservative would. I celebrated with glasses of wine. It was a nice day too.

Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 340d

I wouldn’t say I celebrate it, but there aren’t many worse people this could have happened to.

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 340d

Celebrating like this?

https://youtu.be/3GwjfUFyY6M

Cocopanda@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 339d (1 reply)

This is why I always preach keeping yourself anonymous online. Or using John Smith like names when you have to.

Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 339d

Some online security tips

  • Never use your real name
  • Never list your employer
  • Always use a different username for each platform
  • If the platform forces you to use a real name, make one up

My discord username has nothing to do with my lemmy username, and reddit username has nothing to do with the lemmy username, every username I have is unique per the platform. Therefore if you find another Mamdani_Da_Savior on another platform

It ain't me

Vupware@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 340d

Surprised we haven’t heard from the DDOS furries yet.

This site is crazy.

frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Looks like it's down

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d

Seems up to me. Maybe it was down earlier?

LemUser@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d
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Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d

Why only allegedly?

twinnie@feddit.uk · -12 pts · 341d (16 replies)

I mean, I don’t think you should celebrate his death. He’s not gonna hear it, but he still has kids.

DemBoSain@midwest.social · 30 pts · 340d (11 replies)

I'm happy his kids will not be raised by a hate-monger like Charlie Kirk. I'm sad that it took his death to accomplish that. And I'm sad that it probably won't make a single iota of a difference in their upbringing.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · -13 pts · 340d (10 replies)

Yeah, I'm sure "my dad was killed by liberals" will help with them being less filled with hate.

curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 14 pts · 340d (6 replies)

Helldiver's 2 memes, dads a 3 percenter, meme costumes - killed by an alt-right groyper is what appears to be accurate.

Fuentes had big issues with Kirk in the past, going back the better part of a decade. They used to interrupt Turning Point events.

Dad got killed by maga who felt some maga weren't maga enough.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 340d

Yeah, it looks like it might have been a fasc-on-fasc faction fight. If that's what it is, it'll be interesting to see the contortions right-wing media will go to to still blame it on the usual scapegoats.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d

I read that last sentence as "Dad got killed by Marklar who felt some Marklar weren't Marklar enough".

4am@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 340d (3 replies)

You think mom will ever tell the kids that?

curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 340d (2 replies)

Its a good question, and I just don't know enough about her to say. They will find out sooner rather than later though I'm sure.

Vupware@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 340d (1 reply)

She had a speech yesterday

curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 340d

I haven't seen it, if its written somewhere I'd like the link to read it.

That said, I don't think prepared speeches represent the person, especially in a situation like this - Its generally prepared for a reason.

Edit: Just read it.

Well.... Yeah I guess it fits since she married Kirk in the first place. I'm going to guess those kids will be getting the alt-right answers to every question they may have.

Oof.

crusa187@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 340d (1 reply)

The shooter was (unsurprisingly) a white Christian male, cis gendered. He hated Nazis and wanted to kill one.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 340d

Okay?

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 340d

Killed by a GROYPER.

You disgust me. Trying to get innocent people killed.

Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 340d

Dude said he’d force his ten year old daughter to carry a pregnancy to term if she were raped. His kids are better off without him if they aspire to be anything other than a trad-wife baby incubator.

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 340d

He DID say kids should be made to watch public executions.

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 3 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Christopher Hitchens was IMO one of the greatest orators of the 20th century.

"Our responsibility is to hate our enemies, and to destroy them before they destroy us"

He was referencing militant religions (or as he put it elsewhere, "people who actually believe the words in their Bronze Age religious texts")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN9v4-lRitg

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 340d

He also supported the Iraq war. I've never understood why people try to canonize that neocon.