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I May Be Left-Wing, But This Is Nonsense. The Left Have Went Too Far This Time.

I never liked Charlie Kirk. Let’s get that out of the way. His politics were the polar opposite of mine. I found his rhetoric shallow, his worldview cruel, and his movement toxic. But you know what? None of that matters right now.

Because Charlie Kirk is dead. Shot. Killed around his family. A young man who had just started building a life, just started a family, just begun to really live—gone. And people, my people, the so-called “compassionate” left, are laughing.

What in the hell is going on?

Since when did death become a punchline? Since when did we become so wrapped up in ideology that the loss of human life is a joke to us? Did we not come from a tradition that preached peace and love? Did we not once dream of a world without violence, without cruelty, without this endless cycle of vengeance?

If this is left-wing, then I want no part of it.

I’ve watched friends on the left clap their hands, make memes, and snicker like schoolchildren at a funeral. You think that’s progress? You think that’s liberation? No—that’s barbarism in a different outfit. That’s cruelty hiding under a red flag instead of a blue one.

Charlie Kirk and I had nothing in common ideologically. But he was a husband, a son, a father. A human being. And he did not deserve to die like that. His family did not deserve to watch him bleed out. And anyone who celebrates that is not left-wing, not progressive, not revolutionary—they’re just sick.

We used to chant “make love, not war.” We used to say “power to the people.” We used to mean it when we said we wanted peace, compassion, justice. What happened to that? What happened to building a better world, instead of becoming exactly what we claimed to hate?

Something has gone wrong on the modern left. And if we don’t face it, if we don’t cut this rot out from within, then we are no better than the very forces we fight.

This isn’t justice. This isn’t progress. This is cruelty dressed up as politics.

And I, a lifelong leftist, will say it loud: laughing at Charlie Kirk’s death is nonsense. It is shameful. And if you’re one of the ones who finds joy in this, then you’ve lost the plot.

Because humanity must come before politics. Always.
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WestonT · 18-21, M
Yeah, I'm not celebrating or laughing at his death, but I'm also tired of people acting like this is unique to the left (it's not--anyone who's spent time online has seen all kinds of violent, callous rhetoric from the right, even the center...especially when it comes to immigrants or people who are killed by police or bombs abroad), or that this is somehow indicative of the left broadly (has a single left-leaning politician done anything other than forcefully condemn the violence?), I've seen more leftists on Discord, for example, speak against violence than celebrate or mock. And anyone who saw the video was rightly shaken by it.

But this is the internet, where people do things for attention.

It's fair to call out people who agree with you for behaving badly. But I'm not generalizing about who is reacting to this. Internet edgelords are doing what they always do. And I'm very aware that Kirk is getting outsized attention because he was popular and he represents a movement, and kids who are shot at school, or "collateral damage" in our wars do not get the same attention. But it's all violence and it's all wrong. I will not mock or celebrate Kirk's death, but I'm not going to treat him like a martyr.
ArtieKat · M
@WestonT Agreed!
weirdbeatnik · 26-30, M
@WestonT we are all brothers and sisters fresh and bread we should love each other not hate each other the left used to understand that the left used to be love
Ynotisay · M
@weirdbeatnik What do you expect when people are vilified by the "other side?" What do you expect when human beings are oppressed and hated. When ANY view outside of the cult is reason for death. Do you think the 'turning the cheek" thing is the answer?
I don't think you're living in the real world bro. Maybe you have some kind of belief in utopia. You can believe it all you want. But it doesn't exist.
Just know that if you really are on "the left," you're freaking hated. You're vermin. YOU are responsible for all the shit in the world. Because that's how you are sold to the weakest and most fear-driven in this nation. They want you eliminated. So you can try to 'hug' them all you want but it means nothing.
weirdbeatnik · 26-30, M
@YnotisayI don’t live in the “real world.” I live in the realest world, the one inside my head. A surrealist world, a groovy world, the most real world you can dream up if you dig deep enough.

I don’t carry hate—I only carry love. That probably makes me an alien to some folks. Maybe even the enemy. I’ve been called naïve, I’ve been called dangerous, hell, some might even paint me as the Antichrist. But that just shows how far we’ve fallen if love looks like a threat.

See, I don’t buy into their script of endless war and division. I want to write my own show, full of peace, weirdness, and joy. I’d rather be a clown in the circus of kindness than a general in the army of hate.

So yeah, maybe I’m not living in your “real world.” But my world has color, music, and compassion—and I think that’s a lot more real than living in fear all the time.
Ynotisay · M
@weirdbeatnik Fair enough. You made it clear. It's ALLLLL about you and your feelings. That's fine. Just don't expect to be taken seriously because of it. You're just jacking yourself dude. And again, that's fine. But don't moralize because of it. Stay in your lane.
weirdbeatnik · 26-30, M
@Ynotisay I never said it was about me
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weirdbeatnik · 26-30, M
@Ynotisay it's a John Lennon song it's about we need to wake up I wasn't trying to say anything bad
weirdbeatnik · 26-30, M
@Ynotisay do you know rock n roll???