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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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I'm not laughing at Kirk's death and I deplore violence. However, I am marveling at the irony of the shooting of a guy who found extra deaths acceptable in service of keeping gun laws lax.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."
— Charlie Kirk at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church on April 5, 2023.

And Charlie Kirk did NOT want your empathy!

"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that – it does a lot of damage."
— Charlie Kirk on 'The Charlie Kirk Show', Oct. 12 2022

Personally I deplore violence, but if Kirk is OK with it, what can I say??
yestestvennaya · 22-25, F
@ElwoodBlues Marveling at the irony is its own kind of violence.

“Personally I deplore violence, but if Kirk is OK with it, what can I say??”

Your Democrat politicians also like the Second Amendment. Are they looking to get shot? Should we marvel at the irony when they do?
@yestestvennaya
Marveling at the irony is its own kind of violence.
🤣😂ROTFL🤣😂
Marveling at the irony is speech; completely legal according to the First Amendment. It's funny how you want to protect Kirk's speech and silence mine🤣😂

Your Democrat politicians also like the Second Amendment.
Show us where one of them said anything similar to "it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment."

Sorry, none of them did. Neither did any republican politicians. Kirk stands alone in finding all these shooting deaths acceptable.
yestestvennaya · 22-25, F
@ElwoodBlues Where did I say it was not speech? You cat-clown.

“Sorry, none of them did. Neither did any republican politicians. Kirk stands alone in finding all these shooting deaths acceptable.”

They pick the Second Amendment. It says it all.
@yestestvennaya Nope.
Most Second Amendment advocates claim that guns save lives. Kirk accepts that data that proves the opposite, and believes the deaths are worth the cost.

Kirk is not like the others.
yestestvennaya · 22-25, F
@ElwoodBlues Of course he did. Charlie Kirk loved the idea of armed guards. He believed they should be in schools, to stop school shooters from blasting their fellow students away.

“Kirk is not like the others.”

What is this? Michael Jackson's Thriller? I'm not like other guys.
@yestestvennaya
Charlie Kirk loved the idea of armed guards.

Yet he never figured out how to pay for them🤣😂

Most Second Amendment advocates claim that guns save lives. Kirk accepts that data that proves the opposite, and believes the deaths are worth the cost.

Kirk is not like the others.
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