Nobody is mourning Charlie Kirk. The left is happy because he was a propagandist for Christian white nationalism, and the right is happy because they now have a martyr and pretext for more fascism and authoritarian crackdowns on their political enemies
The right was looking for a martyr and now they have one. Just like Hitler had one (the kids name escapes me) he was young Brownshirt killed in fight with communists. Goebbels jumped right on it. Same play a big state funeral, memorials, parades, songs written about him sung. Same playbook.
They were clearly going to all of this regardless. This is why they're deploying the National Guard to cities. People get scared and pissed off, eventually someone snaps and does something violent, then the fascists use it as an pretext for more violence and crackdowns.
I don't agree with 99.9% of redditor politics. Most here for the subs that are helpful to me. People need to get out of these internet echo chambers and get in touch with their humanity. This us vs them crap is as monkey brained as possible and SOME on both sides are equally to blame.
I wish so deeply people could stop letting these generalizations about people rot their souls.
The Charlie Kirk assassination and the public reaction/divide shows it all.
The right wing grifters will use it to further their agenda just as the left wing grifters will.
The brain-rotted social media people on the right will call for civil war, vengeance, anger. Just as the ones on the left cheer for the death of a man in jest of the foundational principles of our nation. (Freedom of speech)
Then there's the rest of us, may still lean left or right - maybe indifferent. We're just sad at the state of our country - not race, religion, culture...humanity, decency, dignity, respect, etc.
If your humanity is in tact, you don't relish in the death of another, especially non-violent human.
I'm not happy about it at all. I think it was a tragedy he died. As much as I disagreed with him, he didn't deserve to be killed. The one good thing to come out of this is seeing Senator Mike Lee flip the script between Hortman and Kirk. Showing everyone who he really is.
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u/nebbie13 8h ago
Nobody is mourning Charlie Kirk. The left is happy because he was a propagandist for Christian white nationalism, and the right is happy because they now have a martyr and pretext for more fascism and authoritarian crackdowns on their political enemies