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> he has to come up with $210,000 himself Source?
The linked article.
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> think Kirk probably wouldn't be proud of his own behaviour there He had years to apologise. It could have meaningfully altered the temperature of our discourse, particularly among young men. He never did. Kirk gets no credit for amends he never made.
This is how Charlie Kirk got on my radar: "Mere weeks before his death, Kirk reveled in Trump's deployment of federal troops to DC. 'Shock and awe. Force,' he wrote. 'We're taking our country back from these cockroaches.'" Cockroaches! Literally language of the Rwandan genocide. And it's a Christian saying this about other human beings? The man never changed. (Obviously, he should not have been shot. But his sanctifi…
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> why there should be serious consequences for everyone involved Do we have names of the arresting officers, prosecutors and judge this is in front of? With that we can determine who above them is elected.
> "numerous…teachers, parents and students" somehow interpreted Bushart's meme—with its citation in fine print about a previous school shooting at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa—as a threat to carry out a similar shooting at nearby Perry County High School. Wouldn’t matter. Those elected would likely be re elected. This wasn’t Trump advising some federal agency to bully someone he doesn’t like. It was the community…
This is just rationalising laziness and nihilism. They may get re-elected. That doesn't mean you can't create a lot of chaos and cost for them along the way.
Like, I wish my adversaries would preëmptively conclude that even attempting to oppose me is not worth it.
> This is the will of the people
You're concluding this how?
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Are the children in the divorced houses doing the shooting?
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I noticed the increase over time too. In the 1920s, the era of Al Capone and friends shooting up restaurants with submachine guns, there were 10 incidents of school shootings. What's up with that? I guess the population was smaller ... was it 26 times smaller than the 2010s (259 incidents)? I checked, and in fact the difference is about a factor of 3, not 26.
Amazingly even this post is a reflection of the discourse around Kirk. There are replies equating any criticism of Kirk to celebrating his death and glossing over his past nasty behavior. All seems to detached from reality.
Kirk, among many other right wing figures, have absolutely made light of past violence against Democrats. The discourse around Paul Pelosi was utterly vile and despicable. Nobody ever threatened his first amendment right to say horrendous things.
[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-biden-death-p...
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Are you seriously claiming it to be objectionable to mourn for a man who was murdered in cold blood? That's pretty fucked up if so.
What concern of it is yours? Will you mourn whomever I ask you to mourn? Sounds like an absurd proposition.
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They are real. I cleansed 100s of people from Facebook that were planning Charlie Kirk vigils and shit. It's real.
Are you seriously claiming it to be objectionable to mourn for a man who was murdered in cold blood? That's pretty fucked up if so.
To be fair, a vigil held in the wake of a death is in mourning. A "vigil" held today for Kirk is a right-wing rally.
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No true socialist could do such a thing.
> No true socialist could do such a thing You’re really going to reduce a historical event to platitudes? What people call themselves matters. It may not be strictly correct. But it’s an identity, and that predicts how they’ll align in a crisis or movement.
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Don't make the mistake of thinking comments on a random article are indicative of the way the population actually thinks. They may not even be real.
Oh, they are real, they aren't just bots, and they've all been emboldened. Go on these people's facebooks, or invite them to Thanksgiving, you'll see the same firehose of shit.