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.
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Self-identified "conservatives" are pushing this wave of censorship and autocracy. You're not helping anyone with those rhetoric tricks.
> Self-identified "conservatives" are pushing this wave of censorship and autocracy Are they? MAGA has made it a point to purge the former GOP of conservatives.
This just in, the National Socialist Party of Germany in the 1930s is not actually Socialist !
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#93The comments on this article are horrifying. It's clear people have lost their damn minds.
Which comments you have an issue with?
I presume they are referring to these ones: https://reason.com/2025/10/10/tennessee-man-arrested-gets-2-...
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It's mysterious that few if any defend the current administration's politics but almost immediately there was an uptick in people who are simply offended by political posts in principle. I wonder if people are just too weak to man up and admit they're okay with this, so they feign disinterest in hearing criticism about politics in general.
I can't speak for the person(s) you're referring to but at lest on HN it's generally always been anti-political.
The guidelines state:
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#95People outside the U.S. should care about this because so much social media is based in the U.S..
i.e. If you post an anti-MAGA meme to Facebook or reddit from an identifiable account you could be charged as this man was. Perhaps the U.S. will try to extradite you. (I would hope most nations have sensible checks and balances to prevent extradition over this sort of thing, but it would still be a PITA.) However, the U.S. might also choose to wait and then arrest you if you ever travel to or through the U.S..
The U.S.'s slide away from freedom of speech could have a huge global impact on people who might think it doesn't effect them. We are far too reliant on American social media.
Canada, the E.U., etc. should be looking at protections to prevent social media companies operating servers in their jurisdictions from sharing information with the U.S. government. It's no longer a hypothetical situation. There is a real threat that is clearly evident now.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#96The Kirk assassination was awful, as well as the plainly false things said about his life by some parts of the media. But nobody is obligated to have a particular political opinion and Kirk himself would have pointed out that civil disagreement is this man's right as an American.
Kirks career literally started with organised harasment of what they perceived as leftists professors. Kirk himself was pretty atrocious verbally to people he looked down at. And he wink wink condoned violence against husband of democrat. His murder was wrong. It is not true that he would be some kind of universal "civil disagreement" advocate.
Do you want to post an example? Kirk would defend students being harassed for unrelated political matters - eg the most recent case on his channel was an Agriculture major who had to take some kind of 'equity in agriculture' class and was being bothered by her professor for not being left leaning.
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#97> Bushart did not elaborate, but the context seems clear: Why should I care about this shooting, when the sitting president said I should "get over" this other shooting? From one perspective, this is clearly bad governance. He's using his free speech rights that generations of us died for, to point out hypocrisy. I'm going to say it, and we'll see if I get arrested for it. Charlie Kirk was one of the useful idiots gr…
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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.
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#98Trump's America. Don't forget to wipe your phone before travelling. You don't need to break any laws to have your life ruined, you just have to stumble into the crosshairs of the most vindictive leader we have ever had to endure.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#99There is a little bit more context here in a different article where the sheriff explains how the posts were interpreted as a threat https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2025/09/23/tennessee-l...
> There is a little bit more context here in a different article where the sheriff explains how the posts were interpreted as a threat
> https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2025/09/23/tennessee-l...
There isn’t anything there that wasn’t in the original article.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Conservatives mostly can get away with anything right now.
There's nothing "conservative" about the fascist movement. It's regressive / reactionary (to use Yarvin's own label).
This is a distinction without a difference. "Regressive", "reactionary", and "conservative" are three words that refer to the exact same people and mean the exact same thing.