Watching the Charlie Kirk video felt good.
I'm not sorry. Seeing someone who spread so much hate and bigotry and weaponized disinformation get his clock cleaned was absolutely fine by me.
I have empathy for lots of people even if we don't always agree, but not for people like Charlie Kirk.
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My only empathy is for the students at the school who probably thought they were about to be victims as well, thinking maybe they were about to experience a mass shooting. Kirk spewed vile hatred non stop, said that gun deaths were needed for us to have our 2nd amendment right, so he did die from what he preached.
I feel for the students in Colorado who just hours after did become victim to a school shooting, the Democratic officials in Minnesota who the media have forgotten about after their assassination.
Does that make me a bad person? I don't really give a shit. There's one less toxic commentator/grifter out there saying demeaning shit about minorities and my trans homies, one less voice calling for their deaths. If the left had a version of Kirk that was assassinated, they'd be saying the exact fucking thing.
I worry about what the repercussions will be for the country.
I don't want anyone watching to have trauma symptoms, sadly they're going to, but even if they support him I don't want that for them.
But watching him about to open his big mouth and say more pro gun shit and then get picked off like a clay pigeon in a shooting gallery? 10/10.
I dunno, I mean his supporters deserve trauma. Id feel for the Lefty's that went to just heckle or observe hate. But I'm probably in the top 1% of the darkest (not skin tone) people on the left. Personally I wouldn't mind being there to witness it, but I've seen a lot in Iraq. One shitty guy doesn't phase me at all, so maybe my opinion on this is a little skewed.
I hate seeing a young vulnerable person who has been manipulated into believing weaponized disinformation like from Charlie, who probably with some more time in higher education and living away from their bumfuck home town would acquire a more discerning political outlook,suffer this trauma.
It could also be the moment of awakening, too.one thing I can guarantee, is that they've been thinking about ethics for the last 33 hrs non-stop.
I feel a little bad for his kids, having no dad probably sucks. Well, not nearly as much as having Kirk as a dad, but still. I feel the same way for Barron Trump and Elon's kids, not much they can do to escape attention and indoctrination. Still doesn't mean that he was a good man just for having a family, regardless of what CNN and the NYT say.
I dont feel bad for them. We have over sheltered the country. We dont want people see videos of what happens. We dont show them the photos. "Its too graphic". Good. See it. Look at the reality. Maybe if more peoole did that we would have less wars, less rhetoric. Its all a big game because we dont confront peoole with the dark reality.