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[–] riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

did charlie kirk get shot?

edit: wikipedia confirms 1000040707

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 91 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Bro wtf that dude was younger than me? All that hatred sure AF ages a person.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 66 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what always got me. He was so young when he gained traction. 31 is still pretty young, that fucker was 10 years younger than me. And these cockroaches were like: listen to this 20 something guy, he has it figured out. I'm not saying that age equals intellect or anything, but i imagine the dumb shit i thought about when i was in my 20es and i'm just glad no one gave me a microphone and a platform.

But at least i was never a fascist piece of shit.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ben Shapiro simultaneously looking 14 and 45

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

hate shrinks your face too small for your head.

[–] SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He got shot and killed, I believe

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 68 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Oh yeah, cartoonishly dead. Hardest I've ever laughed at a snuff video before (also the only time I've laughed at a snuff vid). I'm not proud or anything, just, it was really comedic setup and timing, with him talking about violence then just this gigantic upwelling of blood. Don't really recommend watching it but boy, what a cathartic death to have in the news.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It really was almost comedic timing. That probably sounds insensitive, but on the other hand fuck their feelings.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

jokes aren't okay to only be directed at one side or another. everything is fair game

and objectively, his murder was ironic and with comedic timing, and that's funny. regardless of it being a horrible event

[–] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago

Some of these jokes go right for the jugular too, neck and neck with other such jokes.

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[–] python@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Technically it's only snuff if the person filming is paid to produce it.
Anyways, sauce?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

That's a common definition for snuff but not the one I ascribe to. ~~Pleb.~~

Anyways here is the INCREDIBLY NSFL VIDEO

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 37 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Woah jeez

Yeah there was no way he was surviving that with how quickly he lost that blood.

I'm glad an audience of his supporters get to experience what so many other Americans have gotten to experience.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 9 points 3 weeks ago

Must have ripped carteroid artery or whatever.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sure those were paid actors in this false flag operation.

[–] python@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you!! That timing really is cartoonish!

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Charlie to universe:You just need to accept gun violence as a fact of life.

Universe to Charlie: Okay bruh if you insist.

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

Charlie to universe:You just need to accept gun violence as a fact of life.

Universe to Charlie: You first.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Thoughts and prayers ought to fix it right up.

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[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's findable fairly easily on twitter and such
Honestly not sure the rules on linking that kinda stuff here so just not gonna

[–] python@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The twitter clips are all behind a login wall, and I'm not looking to make a Twitter account :/

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 points 3 weeks ago

usa@lemmy.ml has a small 4 second clip.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I kind of don't want to see it.
What were his last words?

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Kirk: Counting gang violence? in the most smug tone he can manage

Audience: Great! BANG

Kirk: 😵 💦

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What an extremely healthy choice to make!

::: spoiler According to Snopes, this is the transcript of his last words:

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

His last word was "violence" said in a rising tone.

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[–] elevenbones@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Maybe his neck just did that.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

I think he always loooked like that

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

"Right wing" isn't true, he's far-right. And not a political activist, but a terrorist.

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[–] Wutchilli@feddit.org 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] JayK117@aussie.zone 65 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Standing before the college students while trying to convince them that gun violence is not such a bad thing, a thought crossed Charlie Kirk's mind... No, wait, a bullet, a bullet crossed his mind.

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

It was his neck actually

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 64 points 3 weeks ago

The only good fascist is a fascist that has seen the errors of their ways and has changed and grown as a person and made amends... But a dead fascist is an acceptable alternative.

[–] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I wish it hadn't come to this point. Like, I daydream about all these shitty nazis going down swiftly in one way or another. So I might get to live my life in peace in the near future, instead of having to wait til I'm old for fascism to recede again (if I even survive, being a trans woman). But something actually happening has tons of complications attached. I don't want fucko's death to lead to some crackdown, or more right-wingers committing shootings (when they already have the near monopoly on shootings, and for all we know Kirk's killer might've been one too) or galvanizing of MAGA shit. And by galvanizing, I mean people who were like "This isn't what I voted for!" and suffering, suddenly popping back into full cult mode.

But of course, at the same time, I know it doesn't matter. Regardless of what happened, they'd find an excuse to do a crackdown, or have trump mumble some shit to rile up the cult. Or they'd just do some more fashy shit with no prior justification anyway if they never got an inciting incident to fill the excuse role.

I guess I just want all this to resolve with minimal deaths, for the regime to topple and the members and the media/influencers who helped get us here to be tried and convicted, and other ones like the supreme court getting impeached so there's tons of precedent being set to avoid this happening again in 80-100 more years. But it definitely won't stay minimal or involve court rulings if we start getting more and more shootings of specific targets and if we start seeing retaliation following said assassinations.

Though when right-wingers assassinated those Minnesota democrats some months back, or when Pelosi's husband got beaten nearly to death in his own home, Kirk and Trump, and other figureheads, as well as a flood of nobody right-wingers on social media who are all now up in arms and angry about Kirk's death, just got smug and cheered and jeered about it. So, thoughts and prayers for dickhead and the family he leaves behind, and I guess we just wait and see what comes next in this little circus of bullshit.

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 14 points 3 weeks ago

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary,”

Marx said in his “Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League.”

It can't be all of the left making those jokes.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

"Looks like he took a left-leaning stance in the end after all"

[–] anonymous_in_atl@ani.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

I hope that p stands for piss

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