16th September 2025, 7:20 PM
Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to die in front of a crowd in such pain and horror, and his family don't deserve the grief.
What I don't like is how the media is lionizing him. I expect that from the far right, but to see self proclaimed "center" outlets tip toeing around the kind of man he was, a fascist who literally spoke out against empathy itself and thought homosexuals and trans people should be rounded up and arrested or worse, is also pretty gross. The man was literally in the middle of yet another argument that it's worth having people die for the sake of protecting gun rights.
He helped to create the world that got him killed. I'm not saying it's justified, I'm saying he contributed to it. Careful asking for a world without empathy, because you just might get what you asked for.
And with that said, I won't honor his life and instead show empathy. I wish he'd lived another way, and the greatest tragedy is that he wasted his life and will never get a chance to change. Instead, he's a martyr by people knowingly lying about who killed him. For the record, I waited several days to comment on it because I wanted to get a clear picture and not just a bunch of hastily put together "facts" about who did what. Now that things are clearer, we know what happened, but I won't kid myself. It could EASILY have been someone who was politically "left" of him that shot him. While empathy is certainly championed far more on the left side than on the right side, frankly this guy seemed more like he was influenced by being terminally online more than politics. Anyone who's so online for so long without actually getting out for some fresh air and sunshine can and will be so alienated from flesh and blood humanity that taking a life becomes far easier.
What I don't like is how the media is lionizing him. I expect that from the far right, but to see self proclaimed "center" outlets tip toeing around the kind of man he was, a fascist who literally spoke out against empathy itself and thought homosexuals and trans people should be rounded up and arrested or worse, is also pretty gross. The man was literally in the middle of yet another argument that it's worth having people die for the sake of protecting gun rights.
He helped to create the world that got him killed. I'm not saying it's justified, I'm saying he contributed to it. Careful asking for a world without empathy, because you just might get what you asked for.
And with that said, I won't honor his life and instead show empathy. I wish he'd lived another way, and the greatest tragedy is that he wasted his life and will never get a chance to change. Instead, he's a martyr by people knowingly lying about who killed him. For the record, I waited several days to comment on it because I wanted to get a clear picture and not just a bunch of hastily put together "facts" about who did what. Now that things are clearer, we know what happened, but I won't kid myself. It could EASILY have been someone who was politically "left" of him that shot him. While empathy is certainly championed far more on the left side than on the right side, frankly this guy seemed more like he was influenced by being terminally online more than politics. Anyone who's so online for so long without actually getting out for some fresh air and sunshine can and will be so alienated from flesh and blood humanity that taking a life becomes far easier.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)