He also was a lobbyist and his company poured millions of dollars into battleground states to ensure Trump won 2024 he wasn’t just on the sidelines “speaking his mind” he was actively using his company to ensure this world he wanted was a reality like he is one of the literally the reasons trump won Arizona
What worries me is the idea of being comfortable with someone losing their life over words or opinions. Agreeing or disagreeing shouldn’t be the line between life and death. Once we accept murder as a response to speech, we’ve lost sight of the basic humanity that should protect all of us.
#9 why would i empathize for someone who actively has not shown any empathy for my communities and large populations around the world? your misplaced empathy does not put you on a higher moral ground. people have healthy boundaries in regards to their compassion. stop being an apologist for someone who wouldn’t even bat an eye towards you.
Just a reminder that Nazi and fascist regimes used censorship and intimidation/violent tactics as a way to push their control and prevent people from speaking out against them. Silencing a political opponent wasn’t uncommon. Just a reminder that free speech is a vital element of democracy and that Kirk was killed for exercising that right. I think some of you should be mindful with the words and terms you throw around without providing proper knowledge or understanding of them.
this group has become so toxic over this issue. just because YOU think that’s what he was 1. doesn’t mean he was that and 2. doesn’t give someone the right to kill him mind you with his wife and children in the audience. you are genuinely fucked up if you think this was a good thing to happen. i’m usually a middle of the row type of person and i can agree with both sides on some things but i can not agree with this. please get a dictionary and evidence to back up your claims
i said a dictionary AND evidence not a dictionary FOR evidence… let’s read. at the end of the day NO ONE deserves to have their life taken at the hands of another person including the multiple children killed in school shootings and i 100% empathize with every single family that has ever been effected by a school shooting, fun fact i can empathize for more than one person
this actually furthers the point. that's a false equivalence. driving is a regulated public utility that requires and has licenses, insurance, speed limits, safety features, while guns have nowhere near the same universal safeguards. we reduced car deaths with regulation. also people don't get into car ACCIDENTS with the intent to kill like guns. "Gun deaths outpaced motor vehicle deaths in 35 states and the District of Columbia in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available."
even then, the debate you're talking about is even wrong. he didn't say he would force her to keep the baby??? he literally said the opposite of that. he said he would make her have the baby but it's not his decision to keep the baby in her life or not. as a CHRISTIAN man who follows the BIBLE, any follower of the Bible would give that response. are we gonna act like we didn't know he was a Believer?
luckily for you, motor vehicle accidents cannot be account for as suicidal motives or manslaughter motives, so they're all grouped into motor vehicle deaths. in 2022 there were also 44k motor vehicular deaths while there were 46k gun deaths. only 27k of gun deaths were account as suicidal. the total number of homocides with gun use was 19k. therefore, do the math it's not far off statistics in fact they're pretty close in numbers. we can also use the fact of drive bys which also have the use of
But you want empathy for your community as a qualifying basis for you to have basic human decency? Yeah I see you for what you are. It should bother you a 31 yo lost his life for his opinion in a country where we have protected free speech. Period. People like you are a symptom of the cultural crisis our country is in….me me me. What have you done for me.
period. i have sympathy for the children, his children, the lady who lost her life on the bus, kirk's wife, the people losing their lives in Gaza whom i have spread awareness for using my socials, and i have sympathy for people like you who don't have feel sympathy for dangerous and disturbing situations. i don't care if he wouldn't even know who i am. he's a dead man who got his life taken in front of a crowd people who doing what he loved. that type of people are heartless and inhumane
you’re misrepresenting what I said. that’s a straw man. I never said empathy requires a qualifier, i said people can set healthy boundaries around who they empathize with. calling me selfish is just ad hominem, and framing Kirk’s death as ‘for his opinion’ is a red herring. not empathizing isn’t the same as celebrating. people don’t owe compassion to someone who never extended it. don’t engage a debate you can’t understand.
guns are used to serve and protect. the right to bear arms. the second amendment. the entire reason these arguments are happening in the first place. war is what caused the use of guns. and when the mentally ill obtain the use of guns, this is what happens and it causes a break out. damn near a war. you can act like reality doesn't happen and people are going to use what's not meant as a weapon as a weapon, but that's creating a false narrative. and even then, if guns were banned people would
still get their hands on them whether you like it or not. if they have a goal they're going to complete it. those with stricter gun laws have more gun use. make that make sense and come back me? i would rather have the chance to defend myself with my own gun rather than be left without defense in front of a gun man.
wow this really clicks it in. your support for Gaza while simultaneously feeling sympathy for a man who constantly has spoken badly about Palestinas calling it a “ nonexistent place”, and being in support of Israel, who had NO sympathy for those in Gaza? yeah….. i’m not gonna continue to engage conversation with someone playing the middle man. goodbye.
if you read and studied, you'd have every idea that killing God's creation is a sin so therefore it is about abortion just not that obvious. i apologize if using your mind a little bit and it's not directly in front of you makes you use your brain a little bit, but when you try to make arguments like this you're going to have to try at least!
No, most of the alt right and neo Nazis support Israel. Bc either a) they believe in that weird evangelical rapture shit where the second coming of Christ will come if Jews are all killed once in Israel or b) bc they hate Muslims and Arabs more You have no idea what youre talking about. Zionism is white supremacy, genocide of a non-white population and settler colonialism. The alt right and Nazis love that shit
Wait… you think they were actually socialist? lmao. This is Fox News level delusion. They just adopted that name for mass support bc of how popular socialism was at the time. They were extremely anti-communist, that’s actually why they targeted the Jews. Their ideology isn’t inherently about Jews but about white supremacy and taking over Europe. Jews weren’t the only ppl targeted. All ppl that would threaten this idea of a fascist new Germany were targeted
When it comes to Israelis vs Palestinians, Israelis represent whiteness in that dynamic bc whiteness is all about supremacy and hierarchy. And race is different depending on material reality, history and geopolitics. And it’s really not in the interest of Jews, they got the idea from white supremacist Christians. It’s most beneficial to powerful empires You’re just very misinformed. And that’s okay. But no need to be cocky about it
and if i gave you a urinal cake would you eat it???? the nazis didn’t believe in the working class owning the means of production which is literally what the world socialist means. socialism was very popular back then and like all fascist movements the nazis piggybacked off real and legitimate concerns about the economy and social conditions to then blame a minority scapegoat to gain power and influence.
The way #9 is both the guy arguing against gun control b/c gun deaths are necessary to protect the 2nd amendment and we need guns so we can kill in defense of our rights, and also in another thread saying that killing god’s creation is a sin so abortion must be made illegal. Nine, please, listen to yourself. You’re smart enough to recognize this is hypocrisy. I will be so proud of you if you can admit that.
exodus 22:2-3. biblically we have the right to defend ourselves in the presence of a bad person. there's no hypocrisy here. the hypocrisy would be if i were to state this and not feel sympathy for gaza or the children. that is a form of gun violence i dont support, but i dont support the right of my second amendment to be taken away. as, nine, i know my rights and i know my sins. i know what im permitted and not. thank you, though, for trying.
just a reminder that the nazi regime functioned off the creation and perpetuation of prejudice towards marginalized groups that led to "justified persecution" as their cause, which is exactly what Kirk did with full intent. You should be mindful of that before yapping about how his hateful ideals were free speech. Educate yourself on the parallels between persecution of groups in today's climate and 1930s Germany.
They hate Trump. Nothing he does is successful, good, or warrants merit in any way. It doesn’t matter what it is. If he likes it. They hate it. If that’s all the news you watch this is as bad as the dark ages. Fox is Pollyanna…so you have to listen to both to decide what the heck is actually happening.
He wasn’t even a politician directing and impacting policy. He was just a commentator who gave his opinions. He didn’t seek out violence against the people he disagreed with. Why facilitate & encourage conversations if he had no respect for or wished harm against those he spoke to? It’s a matter of starting conversations versus silencing them. It seems you missed the point and I will once again say: maybe be mindful before throwing harsh terminology around and thinking that justifies something.
He didn’t engage in good faith debate. idk why people keep saying that. He didn’t encourage intelligent conversations for the purpose of learning and growing, what he did was bait unprepared people off the street into being filmed for owning-the-liberals cringe compilations. The point was get views, stoke outrage, garner engagement, make money, repeat. It’s a racket dozens of other ppl pull every day, he was not special for it.
1. He didn’t just talk to liberals… 2. I’d say some decent conversations came when someone who had done their research and had genuine knowledge in a topic came to discuss with him. It was also an opportunity for people to inquire on things they might not have known. Also, not for nothing, nobody was forcing or “baiting” people to converse with him. With how big his presence/reputation was, people knew who was on the other end of that mic and made a conscious decision to engage with him.
I want to stress that I personally didn’t agree with many things he said, however I can still recognize that undeserved violence is horrific and that anyone who excuses or celebrates actions like this ON EITHER SIDE is creating a harmful atmosphere and further widening the gap between different-minded people. I just want people to understand the bigger implications that actions like this could have going forward if we dismiss them.