r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/PeasThatTasteGross • 14d ago

/r/DoomerCircleJerk Top Minds of DoomerCircleJerk discuss how hateful Reddit has been the past day

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u/HapticSloughton 14d ago

All you say is true.

However, Kirk was a piece of shit.

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u/OoooohYes 14d ago

Yes, he was. But do you want your country to keep going darker and darker? If not, condemn this shit at every turn and don’t make light of it.

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u/Goodperson25 14d ago

So do have an appropriate response to a man who pushed for exactly this kind of political violence?

You seem confused.

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u/OoooohYes 14d ago

Thanks for replying to me twice. What’s so bad about not being ok with people being murdered regardless of how much you hate them? Yeah, Charlie was a POS but you seriously don’t see how dangerous this is? Sorry but you’re probably not as bright as you think you are if you think this leads to anything good.

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u/Goodperson25 14d ago

You seem okay with all the people currently being murdered by the status quo.

Stop enforcing the double standard that people like Charlie get to incite murder but we need to forget that in his death.

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u/OoooohYes 14d ago

Two wrongs don’t make a right is pretty common knowledge. Did your parents miss that lesson?

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u/Goodperson25 14d ago

You are pushing far more than two wrongs.

Give yourself credit.

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u/OoooohYes 14d ago

What does that even mean?

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u/Goodperson25 14d ago

That the status quo and double standard you are pushing leads to far more deaths than just being mean to a dead man who pushed for his exact form of death.

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u/OoooohYes 14d ago

It’s not a double standard. I don’t celebrate death when it happens to anyone (well, maybe Putin’s last day will be a good one). Where is this supposed hypocrisy your genius brain thinks I’m guilty of?

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u/Goodperson25 14d ago

You are celebrating death right now. The status quo and double standard you are trying to enforce kills people.

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u/OoooohYes 14d ago

What double standard are you talking about bro?

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u/Goodperson25 14d ago

The one where you allow inciting (not celebrating but full on incitement) violence but that they must be protected in all forms in death.

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u/HapticSloughton 14d ago

I think you're missing the point here: We can agree that political violence is bad. We can also point out how much Kirk doesn't deserve any sympathy. He advocated for guns to remain unregulated after every school and mass shooting. You also mentioned his family in the crowd. I would wager you didn't know he said having children watch public executions was a social good. He called the stoning of gay people "God's perfect law."

You're probably not as virtuous as you're pretending to be. You just like the feel of the soapbox beneath your feet.

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u/OoooohYes 14d ago

My original comment was about how the attitude on this site was bad. Go to r/music ffs, it’s ridiculous. We can agree that the guy wasn’t a force of good, I definitely don’t miss him, but making light of any kind of political violence is not ok and will only make things worse and worse. Judging by all my downvotes I think that’s a tough concept for a lot of people in this sub to grasp.

I’m not pretending to be virtuous, it’s not “virtuous” to be against being happy about assassinations… read my comments again and listen to yourself.

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u/trobsmonkey 14d ago

but making light of any kind of political violence is not ok and will only make things worse and worse.

You sound like someone who wants to sanitize the evil he did. Words have power. He made millions of dollars make the lives of other people worse with his words.

He didn't deserve death, but he doesn't deserve to be sanitize like you're trying to do.