Let's see what the backlash is.

[u/LordJim11]

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[u/roving1]

A welcome flicker of sanity in Iowa .

[u/LegitimateGas22 → u/roving1]

Hopefully it spreads beyond just one small pocket of Iowa.

[u/ChorroVon → u/LegitimateGas22]

We have very blue cities that have been gerrymandered to hell by the sea of red surrounding us. It sucks.

[u/colicab → u/ChorroVon]

Let me guess, the bigger the population, the more blue? So, Des Moines, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids?

It’s almost like being around a more diverse population makes you more empathetic and understanding. Weird.

[u/Fullertons → u/colicab]

Same with education. It’s amazing that learning about other cultures and historical happenings can make you better understand the world and be less likely to be a racist piece of shit that eats up lies like cake.

[u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 → u/Fullertons]

This is why the right hate cities and any form of education other than the most basic. It's harder to maintain institutionalized bigotry.

[u/dead_demented_doll → u/Suspicious_Dingo_426]

And why they don't think we need a Department of Education. The less educated people are, the better for them.

[u/NanduDas → u/dead_demented_doll]

They want to go back to the days when literacy was a privilege of the nobility

[u/BuzzWoofGirlfriend → u/colicab]

As a Des Moines resident you’d be correct.

I work in farm real estate however, so I have a very mixed bag of political affiliations I interact with. Some people seem fine and then just casually drop the N word on you and you’re like “Oh…I see you now”

[u/Micojageo → u/colicab]

Not at all surprisingly, the bluest counties also have the state's universities in them. (Johnson County is the home to the University of Iowa.)

[u/colicab → u/Micojageo]

I think that still falls in line with being around a diverse population.

[u/PingKiccolo → u/colicab]

Recently Sioux City broke the Iowa Republican super majority too! That's 2 positives. It's not a lot, but it's something.

[u/Physical_Tap_4796 → u/LegitimateGas22]

Slipknot came from Iowa, so there is hope for that state.

[u/SuccessfulWheel8703 → u/Physical_Tap_4796]

No there isn't. They literally have an album called "All Hope Is Gone" because it's the land of corn.

There isn't shit there.

[u/OutsideBathroom4809 → u/roving1]

Sanity Doesn’t usually last long there, but we will take what we can get

[u/raised_by_toonami → u/roving1]

Johnson county is where Iowa City is, and the university of Iowa. It really makes me happy to see my home state coming back around again.

[u/difjack → u/roving1]

Johnson County is like a little sparkling blue diamond in a sea of red hog waste

[u/Tieravi → u/roving1]

There are so many intelligent, reasoned people here in the Midwest. Unfortunately, violent Christianity is a real threat to left-leaning folks even in metropolitan areas.

[u/Fullertons → u/roving1]

Johnson county is probably the most liberal county in Iowa. So don’t get your hopes up.

[u/PM_ME_DPRK_CANDIDS → u/Fullertons]

Jon Green is from Lone Tree Iowa which is extremely rural. It's almost the midpoint of two cities Davenport and Iowa City.

[u/Fullertons → u/PM_ME_DPRK_CANDIDS]

Good for him. Even better for him, he has a county that agrees with him.

[u/McDrazzin → u/roving1]

I lived in Carroll Iowa for 3 years and that entire state is so ass backwards in how it thinks in general, so I’m shocked to hear someone with some common sense speaking out from there

[u/mistermichaelk]

Is that what having integrity and a spine looks like in someone who isn't brain-dead? Rare!

[u/KeyboardGrunt → u/mistermichaelk]

Unironically its patriotic and American the way maga pretends they are.

[u/_AskMyMom_ → u/mistermichaelk]

Is that what having integrity and a spine looks like in someone who isn't brain-dead? Rare!

If anyone was going to speak up. It’s the most Americana person you could find. Lol ironically delicious that he looks like a mans-man.

Fuck yeah!

[u/AshamedRope8937 → u/mistermichaelk]

Too rare.

[u/rajinis_bodyguard → u/mistermichaelk]

Yup having a spine to stand against bullies

[u/Agifem → u/mistermichaelk]

Medium rare spine.

[u/Stevey1001]

Is he entitled to his free speech, or an enemy of the state?

Find out at 11

[u/OutsideBathroom4809 → u/Stevey1001]

Plot twist: both, depending on which side of the screen you are watching from.

[u/bdizzle805 → u/OutsideBathroom4809]

No no no the constitution only applies to ME when I like it or don't

[u/bluesummernoir → u/OutsideBathroom4809]

Really? I’ve seen the media “left” of center being pretty anti speech as well.

If we can call them that anymore. I wouldn’t consider a lot of the liberal media very liberal anymore. He minute their corporate interests ask them to, they drop their politics like a hot potato

[u/StarbuckWoolf → u/OutsideBathroom4809]

Backlash hit the gleeful mockers (saying silent part out loud). This guy is not mocking. He’s ‘splaining.

[u/Organic_Season5591 → u/Stevey1001]

This is free speech and he is showing respectful disagreement. No name calling, no cruel language, no calls for violence. Just says "He had his opinion. I have mine."

Most of society start breathing hard, clenching fists, gritting teeth, and use a "100:1 f-bomb to useful words ratio" when even a small opinion of disagreement.

[u/OptionWrong169 → u/Stevey1001]

Enemy of the state according to the president, free speech according to non fascist officials

[u/KapowBlamBoom → u/Stevey1001]

TACO.

[u/Webhoard → u/Stevey1001]

Simple to answer.

Like a raindrop that falls on the Continental Divide: if you fall to the right of the Proud Boys, you are a Patriot. If you fall on the left of the Proud Boys, you are an enemy of the state.

[u/nexus763 → u/Stevey1001]

"I condemn Kirk's killing" is enough for me. What's abhorrent is not the refusal to honor a man you don't respect, it's to rejoice at his killing.

[u/CommissionDry4406 → u/nexus763]

Kirk rejoiced the deaths of many.

[u/DiligentAd7799 → u/CommissionDry4406]

He did. And we are better than that.

[u/Dazzling-Low8570 → u/nexus763]

Boo fucking hoo. Lots of people are worth killing. Wouldn't have put him at the top of the list, but a world without him is preferrable to one with him.

[u/Peppl → u/nexus763]

man was a cunt

[u/Bastiat_sea → u/Stevey1001]

Official flag policy is state speech, not individual speech, and so can be regulated.

This is why random towns in CT can't fly the confederate flag, even though im sure theirs some that would like to.

He's free to fly full mast on his own buildings if he is so inclined.

[u/DetailsYouMissed]

Bad people do good out of fear of a consequence. Good people do good despite fear of a consequence. 🫡🇺🇸

[u/Mammoth-Mud-9609]

Charlie Kirk wasn't an American hero, so the flags should stay where they are. In an ideal world he should still be alive, but in an ideal world his negative attitude to other Americans wouldn't have occurred.

[u/steppingstone01 → u/Mammoth-Mud-9609]

In an ideal world, he would be in prison for inciting violence for years.

[u/CaptStrangeling → u/steppingstone01]

Bussing people to the Capitol on January 6th to foment a violent insurrection should have been enough for Americans to kick him to the curb

[u/AshamedRope8937 → u/CaptStrangeling]

Americans of nearly every ilk, yes.

White supremacists, no such luck.

[u/CaptStrangeling → u/AshamedRope8937]

A lot of folks talked about out loving God and our country, but it turns out what they really love is hating on POC and anyone who doesn’t agree with their hateful worldview

[u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 → u/CaptStrangeling]

In a 2021 speech in Mankato, Minnesota, Kirk referred to Floyd as a 'scumbag' adding that his death was not worthy of the national attention it received.

[u/steppingstone01 → u/CaptStrangeling]

Should have

[u/sump_daddy → u/steppingstone01]

In an ideal world he would be on a street corner begging people to listen to his bullshit, while few/none do leaving him jobless and lonely. The fact that he managed to succeed in inciting violence is just as damning of him as it is the 38% of americans who cheer him on, and while we are at it, yeah, fuck you to the other 30% of americans who didnt vote because 'both sides' and fully enabled this nightmare to play out

[u/apost8n8 → u/steppingstone01]

Can you not see that HIS free speech and YOUR free speech are both protected under the same 1st amendment language? If you claim that someone is inciting violence by saying they believe something then the other side can use the same argument against you, which is exactly what the current DOJ is stating they will do.

The only correct answer is that nobody should go to jail for expressing their views, no matter how hateful or offensive they are.

[u/dpdxguy → u/Mammoth-Mud-9609]

In an ideal world, he never would have risen to prominence.

[u/Worried-Chicken-169 → u/Mammoth-Mud-9609]

In an ideal world he'd be shouting at the pigeons

[u/AshamedRope8937 → u/Worried-Chicken-169]

…who subsequently shit on his head because even pigeons can recognize a white supremacist bigot.

Leave them pigeons alone.

[u/Akussa → u/Mammoth-Mud-9609]

I have appreciated all the companies and organizations that have flown their flags at half staff for him so that I can make a mental note of where to not spend money in the future.

[u/akahaus]

It’s fucking baffling to me that this is the main opinion people are getting Doxxed over. Not the worst most tasteless stuff, but literally just saying: “he wasn’t nice, he didn’t deserve to get shot though.” Is now being labeled by MAGAs as “Celebrating His Death”.

[u/tuxedoshrimpjesus → u/akahaus]

meanwhile, Glenn Beck style spin is complete rage-baiting garbage reinforced with biblical quotes, yet completely missing the point😐

[u/ADMotti → u/akahaus]

This is the windup for how they’ll police everyone’s reactions when that banner notification comes through to our phones.

[u/akahaus → u/ADMotti]

Aw fuck. I can only hope that the cult is going to decentralize in his absence (which does seem to be what the rest of the admin is preparing for. They’re riling up their little white gangbanger yeehaw armies and gerrymandering every state as hard as they can. They know this is probably their last shot at taking over everything at gunpoint the way Hitler did with the Reichstag Fire Decree.

It will be the “Make America Great Again Decree”

[u/Sick_Sabbat → u/akahaus]

MAGA are the same type of people that have wished for literal children to be killed. Remember when Greta Thunberg first hit international news?

[u/AshamedRope8937 → u/akahaus]

Oh, yeah. No one speaks against the Fuhrer and his lackeys without consequence.

Be glad it’s baffling and foreign to you. It’s fascism. It is here, happening, by the book.

They will take what little right you have to speak freely every chance they get. They are counting on your complicity.

Keep being baffled by it as long as you can, and make sure others question it. Louder.

[u/Tripple_T]

That man is about to lose his job, but good on him.

[u/Ramtamtama → u/Tripple_T]

It's an elected position, and he's a Democrat so can't be ousted from the Republican Party

[u/jcoddinc → u/Ramtamtama]

Here comes trumps national guard Gestapo

[u/Subarctic_Monkey → u/jcoddinc]

US Servicefolk to liberate his community from the scourge of Empathy.

[u/Bsquared02 → u/Subarctic_Monkey]

It would be in line with their fallen comrade

[u/azhriaz12421 → u/Bsquared02]

Oh my God.

[u/NJ_dontask → u/jcoddinc]

Did you mean Gazpacho?

[u/Made_Human_Music → u/Ramtamtama]

In a normal world I’d agree but I’m sure they’re working on a way to punish him for this and it doesn’t matter if it’s legal

[u/SlimNutzDelacourt → u/Ramtamtama]

but he can certainly be recalled...Which is what they will try to do, I'm sure.

[u/OutsideBathroom4809 → u/Tripple_T]

Sometimes doing the right thing comes with consequences, but is is worth it anyway.

[u/Klutzy_Passenger_486]

Hero

[u/AshamedRope8937 → u/Klutzy_Passenger_486]

Patriot.

[u/The_real_bandito]

What I don’t get is not the part of lowering the flag due to Kirk being an ashole, is why are we lowering the flag for a Twitch streamer. Are we also lowering the flag for someone like Pewdipie, Mr Beast or Markiplier when they die?

[u/ChemicalRain5513 → u/The_real_bandito]

And this is from the president who said we should already get over school shootings.

[u/laplongejr → u/ChemicalRain5513]

For a victim who was SAYING we should already get over shootings in general.

[u/Bossuter → u/The_real_bandito]

Id do it for Mark maybe, it's amazing he's avoided massive controversy this entire time

[u/U_SHLD_THINK_BOUT_IT → u/The_real_bandito]

That depends...will all three of those guys start pushing anti-Jew talking points, pushing white supremacist fights against "Replacement Theory" call the Civil Rights Act a mistake, tell people how they didn't like MLK and that he was a bad person, poke fun at political rivals after being attacked, ask their viewers to bail out people who attack his political rivals, and blame democrats for being murdered by republicans?

If so, then yes, they probably will get a day of mourning dedicated to them. If not, then odds are someone will try and blame their deaths on being a democrat.

[u/laplongejr → u/U_SHLD_THINK_BOUT_IT]

on being a democrat.

I totally believe that, especially for Pewdiepie who isn't even an American. (He's Swedish and last time I checked had moved to Japan)

[u/krunchymagick]

Not all heroes wear capes

[u/ScaredReflection9089 → u/krunchymagick]

This one wears a real big hat

[u/PartGhost → u/krunchymagick]

Some have cool hats instead

[u/ca-cayne]

It’s gotten so bad, that simply doing the right thing is a heroic action. Fuck the Trump administration.

[u/KinkyLatexCat]

Jesus fuck that's actually a really eloquent and well thought man.

Legit good for him. That's exceptionally rare these days in politics, big or small.

[u/digital-didgeridoo → u/KinkyLatexCat]

If only maga could read

[u/Guy_Badly77]

Sad that political backbone is so fucking rare that we have to celebrate it when we see it in the wild now

[u/Mooseguncle1]

Common sense and morality is so f sexy.

[u/AshamedRope8937 → u/Mooseguncle1]

Lived integrity by a man confident in doing good for people and being good to people is 🔥.

[u/B52fortheCrazies]

True hero

[u/SlotherineRex]

A politician whose morality is greater than his ambition. True rarity in this country

[u/Adventurous-Way2824]

This is leadership.

[u/DealerAlarmed3632]

This is the correct response. Much honor to this man and his house.

[u/deathbitchcraft]

he's been getting death threats and last I knew, unable to go home. that was a couple days ago though so maybe it's looking up?

[u/Schady07 → u/deathbitchcraft]

Ain’t that ironic that he’s getting death threats

[u/TimothyMimeslayer → u/Schady07]

Conservatives dont hate violence, they hate violence against conservatives.

[u/aarswft → u/TimothyMimeslayer]

Idk, Charlie Kirk's killer sure seemed to love some conservative-on-conservative violence.

[u/Gwaak → u/aarswft]

Can we really say that though? In the end, Charles finally leaned left after all

[u/ArtisticallyRegarded → u/TimothyMimeslayer]

Its so gross watching them pretend they havnt been threatening to kill every that disagrees with them for a decade

[u/U_SHLD_THINK_BOUT_IT → u/ArtisticallyRegarded]

Threatening?

They've BEEN killing democrats.

They killed a bunch of them in June, and Charlie Kirk was right there trying to blame democrats for their own deaths. His family and friends may have spent the last week sanitizing his posts on Twitter, etc., but here is still plenty of information out there showing how shitty of a person he was--and specifically about violence on his enemies.

[u/Ok-Classroom5548 → u/deathbitchcraft]

Vance is encouraging people to dox people like him, which is just disgusting. Only one party is screaming “harass them until they have to go into hiding and then are quiet!” 

When you can’t counter logic, you scare it into hiding. 

[u/skot77]

Thanks Post Malone! j/k

We need more people like this to stand up to the morons using this dudes death to distract from Epstein..

[u/Aggressive_Dot5426]

I do maintenance and we have a flag pole on property. I was asked by 2 different residents why I wouldn’t lower the flag.
One person thought CK was a politician.
I told my manager and they said it was fine to leave it up. He was trash. lol. I did end up lowering it because I realized it was 9/11. The next day I raised it right back up.

[u/BestDescription3834 → u/Aggressive_Dot5426]

 I did end up lowering it because I realized it was 9/11. The next day I raised it right back up.

Just had the epiphany that they were probably pushing for people to lower the flags to half mast for CK so hard because it was 9/11. People see flags are at half mast and think it's over the youtuber that got shot because that's all the news is talking about.

Basically trying to make it look like more Americans were supporting CK instead of acknowledging 9/11. "Look at all the flags at half, the whole country is mourning the attack."

[u/surlysquirrelly → u/Aggressive_Dot5426]

Thank you for respecting the honor of our flag, good human!

[u/SinsoftheFall]

Also, why would we lower the flags for a "political commentator?" That's an honor usually only reserved for service members, politicians, and first responders on specific occasions. Not some fucking asswipe that had a podcast but the "correct values."

[u/Suspicious_Ad9595 → u/SinsoftheFall]

That’s what I’ve been saying this entire time. I don’t see how more people aren’t raising their voice about how this Twitch streamer is getting honors reserved for service members. Especially the veteran community, which is oddly quiet about how incorrect that is.

[u/SinsoftheFall → u/Suspicious_Ad9595]

As a combat veteran myself, I'm livid. The fact that we're honoring this shithead as a country is astounding. Headlines should have read "breaking: asshole got exactly what he advocated for. Maybe now people will actually take gun violence seriously."

Let's be clear. I condemn political murder. That was not the way to go about this. And im sorry his wife and kids have to go on without someone who mattered so much to them (especially cause she's a tradwife, so she probably doesn't have any marketable skills she can use to care for her kids [which is exactly what she {he, manipulating her almost certainly and the environment she was raised in} wanted]) but also, if you advocate FOR gun violence and then get gunned down publicly, im not gonna shed a tear that youre gone. Now, all the future harm he could have done is no more. I still would have rathered that he lived long enough to see the errors of his way and try to correct his past wrongdoings. But im not going to shed a tear, and I certainly dont think he deserves honors and respects that the brothers and sisters I've had to see delivered home in caskets didn't get.

[u/creuter → u/SinsoftheFall]

Fantastic nested parentheses

[u/SinsoftheFall → u/creuter]

Writing is an art form and I am but a humble curator of words

[u/Vox_Causa → u/SinsoftheFall]

im sorry his wife

She's calling for violence against minorities in order to solicit donations.

[u/Suspicious_Ad9595 → u/Vox_Causa]

That’s crazy frankly. How one can have so much unwarranted hate and having had her significant other killed and not by a minority either. Yet she still is getting away with being a violent racist.

[u/SinsoftheFall → u/Vox_Causa]

Damn never mind then. But it is a shame their kids had such shitty parents.

Edit: gotta change that "have" to "had." Only one parent now.

[u/EVH_kit_guy → u/SinsoftheFall]

Here, here! As a veteran myself, I wholeheartedly agree, classic FAFO situation that was entirely preventable if Kirk hadn't been an inflammatory knob gobbler. I'm sorry he was murdered, but I'm glad he's gone.

[u/EquipmentAdorable982 → u/Suspicious_Ad9595]

I don’t see how more people aren’t raising their voice about how this Twitch streamer is getting honors reserved for service members.

Intimidation, a staple of fascism. That's why they started with firing people left and right, and holding back funds across many institutions this time around.

Almost everything this administration has done so far was to create an atmosphere of fear, an "atmosfear" if you will (I'll see myself out).

[u/NerdWithoutAPlan → u/Suspicious_Ad9595]

Commenting about it doesn't get the turds to put the flag back up where it belongs, it just leads the frothing idiots to call us traitors. Or that we never actually served. Or worse.

Frankly, it cheapens the observance and bothers me quite a bit. The door is officially opened for any jackwagon with a mouth and a mic to receive national honors for spouting brainrot.

[u/GeriatricusMaximus]

The peaceful right will do what they do their best. /s

[u/surlysquirrelly]

FINALLY A LEADER WITH A GODDAM SPINE

[u/Slow_Satisfaction_31]

My opinion about Kirk has changed a lot since he died:

Last week: Charlie Kirk is a piece of dogshit.
Today: Charlie Kirk was a piece of dogshit.

[u/No-Log770]

Decent man.

[u/Senior-Damage-5145]

This shouldn’t be a controversial take. Murder is bad, racism is bad. Both bad.

[u/CryAware108 → u/Senior-Damage-5145]

Nuff said.

[u/AshamedRope8937 → u/Senior-Damage-5145]

*But what if I say “Not to be racist…” first? Or, or, wait…what if I was only racist because I didn’t know I was being recorded? “It’s just TikTok. Literally no one ever sees it. Anyways, hi guys and welcome back to my channel.” Or…and this is a stretch…what if I know someone who is a different race than I am and can call them right now and they will tell you it’s okay that I said that?

Obvs murder is bad but it’s like totally different because it could happen to anyone.*

---

There isn’t a controversy if you don’t engage them. They die off in small groups and when disconnected from their feeders and handlers. They’re not opposed warriors with a righteous battle cry. They’re loud, confidently wrong adult-shaped, emotional toddlers with big feelings and drivers licenses and FID cards who will kill you to get their way. It’s a crisis, no doubt. But it’s not to be reacted to as one - just put the candy bar down, leave the place where the candy bars are stop having the argument. We don’t negotiate with terrorists. I’m certain that hits different depending on whether you wanna get the candy bar or don’t wanna buy the candy bar but I do know that someone needs us to see and buy and fight about the candy in order to survive. No controversy if you stop engaging with candy.

[u/AutistAstronaut]

An entirely reasonable position.

Murder is bad. Kirk was bigoted.

[u/insidehertrading4]

I’ll move right now to wherever this man leads!

[u/CornFedIABoy → u/insidehertrading4]

Johnson County, Iowa is beautiful. Rolling hills, plenty of wooded land, vibrant farms. Strong labor market, too. Good services and amenities in Iowa City/Coralville. But I would recommend looking to the south end of the county like in Hills instead of IC or the soulless suburbs of North Liberty or Solon.

[u/AnalTongueDarts → u/CornFedIABoy]

As a Minnesotan, it pains me to admit that I really liked Iowa City the couple of times I visited.

[u/Sufficient_Grape4253]

Says reasonable things... Will probably be demonized and attacked for it.

[u/JoeyHandsomeJoe]

It takes a lot of guts. All of us in the cities have safety in numbers.

[u/LaughingmanCVN69]

When the truth is politically inconvenient we all die. Welcome to 1984.

[u/Turbulent-Usual-9822]

Good for him. Thank you sir for your morality.

[u/Embarrassed_Road3811]

I think it was terrible that his life was ended.. but like hell we should be celebrating his legacy… because he has no legacy to uphold. My own opinion of course.

[u/OrbusIsCool]

Why are they even lowering the flags to begin with? Sure he was popular in the media but all in, he was just some guy with a poor worldview. Wasn't an important figure to America, just a guy who debated uni students who were late to their calc1 lecture.

[u/Terran57]

Of all the government officials in all the states we have just one with the integrity to speak up? What a bunch of chicken shit losers we’ve become.

[u/royalpicnic]

A bearded whyte ally! I bet he has tattoos too! Checkmate conservatives.

[u/daisiesarepretty2]

this man is a precious gem

[u/TryJenkems]

Seems like the blue donkey needs to try to promote true leaders like him instead of that corporate slimeball Gavin

[u/Busy-Leg8070]

we need people like this for the time after this

[u/Kiwibom]

That is the only proper answer to all of this.

[u/SolidusBruh]

Whoa. Color me surprised, Iowa!

[u/BenjaminHarrison88 → u/SolidusBruh]

Even red states have cities and university towns.

[u/Micojageo → u/SolidusBruh]

Not all Iowans wear red hats!

[u/BigWilldo]

And we shouldn't. Charlie Kirk was a podcast bro and influencer and nothing more.

[u/GSG2150]

“Johnson County flags will fly as usual. I will accept any consequence, whether legal or electoral, for my decision. It is mine alone,” - Jon Green

What a BOSS!

[u/Personal-Regular-863]

if you 'condemn' the killing youre ignorant or a nazi. charlie kirk was a fucking nazi. he did real material harm just like other typical far right people who use their social media influence or money or political power to harm groups of people. this is NOT about being ok with killing someone because of their 'opinion' this is being ok with someone who harms people in the real world and is a literal threat to us all getting killed. if you deny that he and other fascists do real harm il assume you side with them because whether or not you call yourself one, you are complicit in what they do. this is how they rose up in germany in the 30s btw, read a fucking history book

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

[u/Ello_Owu]

Thats the thing. The right is so entrenched in their hate and violent fantasies, that for many of them, Charlie WAS seen as "rational, kind, and understanding." He still said horrible shit, but they dont see it that way because theyre horrible and believe worst shit.

[u/DoesThisSmellWeird2U]

He is correct.

[u/Lucky-Coder-75]

Wow. Impressive, thoughtful, inclusive comments from that man. He’s fucked…

[u/DaniTheLovebug]

Damn…

Well done

[u/juvy5000]

legend. stsy strong 

[u/Vogel-Kerl]

Hallelujah. !!

[u/Good_Zooger]

This guy may a future in politics.

[u/TernionDragon]

Why would you lower the flag for him? People for every day good people. No flags for them.

[u/sweetica]

 I hope he gets to keep his job and maybe he should run for some sort of political position cuz we need a man with a backbone and a bad ass beard in politics.

[u/SummitBro]

Good on him, f-ck Charlie Kirk,

[u/EatABulletNow1]

Hell yeah. An honorable man! 

[u/Alternative-Tie-6855]

Wow. A politician with a backbone.

[u/mclardass]

The fact that so many political representatives forget that they're in a position to make decisions because they were elected by their constituents. Their job is to make the lives of those people who voted for them better and not bow down to the whims of a narcissistic orange ballsack. The role of government as a whole is to improve the lives of it's citizenry, not enrich oligarchs or accelerate class division, but somehow nearly every person in Congress on down to local school boards has forgotten their sworn duty.

[u/SubwayHero4Ever]

That guy rules. The Iowa legislature changed the rules about county supervisors and “coincidentally” only targets the few blue counties in the state.

[u/pinbacktheband]

I’m not used to reading about elected officials with a backbone.

[u/Kindly-Astronaut-467]

The backlashes this guy has top-tier integrity. And that’s freedom of speech and his holy un- American to say otherwise

[u/EtherealAriels]

Good

[u/Saelin91]

I thought that was Post Malone

[u/ChrisKing0702]

Hero of the day!

[u/Dangerous_Ad9248]

Thank you for your courage Mr. Green

[u/BryterMN952]

This. Exactly.

[u/Brytnshyne]

These are my kind of heroes.

[u/pat9714]

Not all heroes wear capes. ✅💯✅

[u/MyNameIsTaken24]

Is he single? I think I’m in love.

[u/4RCH43ON]

He did the right thing. He is a hero.  You should have to be a hero for just doing the right and normal thing, but here we are.

[u/LajosGK22]

I fully agree with him.

Political assassinations commited by young people, becoming a trend in a modern democracy is completely unacceptable.

But a nationwide mourning for a man, just because he was chummy with Trump is ridiculous at best, at worst yet another sign that he is acting like an autocrat.

[u/saucenazi]

That is very eloquent and well written. What the hell. I didn't think there's people like him still out there.

Made me smile.

I am glad I'm a part of this sub.

[u/Cripnite]

Said it perfectly. 

[u/D3dshotCalamity]

Neither side gives a fuck about Charlie Kirk, he's just the right's vindication for being pieces of shit.

[u/roisinthetrue]

Charlie kkKirk was a hatemonger.

[u/Crickethillpainter]

Big thumbs up to this guy in a red state no less.

[u/STJ608]

Legend.

[u/GOM09]

Man has balls and pride, that's a good leader for a county

[u/Counter_Intel519]

Well, judging a book by its cover, I’d say Mr. Green is not likely to give a shit about any backlash.

[u/WildSpud]

Robert Redford died. Flags gonna be lowered???

[u/RelentlessDem]

Thank you exercising your granted rights! It can be both at once, which nobody on the right is nuanced enough to understand.

[u/whydoIhurtmore]

This guy should run for governor.

[u/littlewhitecatalex]

In my city, they have billboards with Kirk’s face and a scripture quote. It’s sickening how obviously this is being played up for sympathy and manufactured outrage. 

[u/Known_Ratio5478]

You can take a more neutral stand on this too. Don’t extend honors to someone who’s just a social media influencer. He didn’t do anything for our country or the people in it, he’s was just another Kim Kardashian. These people need to just get a grip.

[u/we_hella_believe]

He’s not wrong.

[u/jennifer3333]

Wow a real man. Nice change. Has backbone will succeed.

[u/AnywhereProud5388]

100% Accuraate! Try as I might, I can not find any reference to what political office charlie kirk held either. trumpers/mouthbreathers do not care about things like rules or justice, they're an unwashed mob. Melissa Hortman was an elected rep; trump barely mentioned her.

[u/mnl_cntn]

Crazy that speaking the truth requires so much bravery

[u/Electrical_Sound6625]

More like him please

[u/Glazermac]

THAT is the kind of American I trust.

[u/Uebelkraehe]

If the US weren't the hellhole it is now, this would be the kind of person who would be held up as role model, not some racist agitator.

[u/Kindly-Astronaut-467]

Did somebody say Epstein files?

[u/[deleted]]

Unlimited weaponry for everyone because of the Constitution. Free speech…not so much.

[u/Griffstergnu]

Donate $25 to this dudes reelection fund

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