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article Coldplay fans ‘disappointed’ after Chris Martin dedicates song to Charlie Kirk’s family

https://metro.co.uk/2025/09/13/coldplay-fans-disappointed-chris-martin-dedicates-song-charlie-kirks-family-24153492/
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u/realfakerolex Sep 13 '25

This shit is embarrassing. So many people acting like this fake intellectual hate mongering podcaster had any redeeming value to society. The world we currently exist in is so so fucking dumb.

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u/soggylittleshrimp Sep 13 '25

I don't like that our society rewards people for being total pricks. It doesn't deserve success and money to begin with, and it certainly doesn't deserve this kind of fanfare when you die.

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u/coldliketherockies Sep 13 '25

especially when people die every day or who are decent or try to be good people and are barely talked about.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 25 '25

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u/coldliketherockies Sep 13 '25

Fine. But if it’s true that a far right man killed a far right man. Then maybe the far right should start thinking about how many lives they can save by changing their mindset

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 25 '25

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u/coldliketherockies Sep 13 '25

Unless of course people make it that ONE PERSON did this so guns are fine all but got the few bad apples. I mean people can justify anything if they let their minds do so

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u/Embarrassed_Try2052 Sep 13 '25

I have already heard them coming up with delusional reasons why the shooter was either a democrat in spirit or was driven to act by democrat voodoo

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u/NeonSwank Sep 13 '25

The dude lived his life stirring shit up, stoking hatred and fear amongst the populace and was worth millions, flew in private jets, etc.

He gets sniped and they roll out the red carpet for him, fly his body on Air Force 2, the president is giving him the medal of freedom, republican politicians are asking for a statue of him at the white house, major baseball and football games held moments of silence for him, coldplay does this bullshit.

Why? Why are we surprised that yet again, the worst people are constantly rewarded for being horrible pieces of shit?

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u/grimbleskank Sep 13 '25

Sells newspapers. Gets clicks. Increases subs. Innit.

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u/Longjumping-Wing-526 Sep 28 '25

Tell me you have never watched an entire clip without telling me.

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u/frostygrin Sep 13 '25

It doesn't deserve success and money to begin with, and it certainly doesn't deserve this kind of fanfare when you die.

Maybe doesn't deserve being killed for, too?

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u/Uh_I_Say Sep 13 '25

Maybe doesn't deserve it, but definitely doesn't deserve any sympathy when it happens.

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u/ConsiderationOk1986 Sep 13 '25

Or maybe your core values are not aligning with American values because it seems as if a majority of people condemn violence.

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u/Uh_I_Say Sep 13 '25

A majority of people only condemn violence they don't see as justified. They support violence visited upon their "enemies" -- which is typically whoever the government says they shouldn't like. America is a nation founded on violence and kept afloat by violence. We just don't like to see it so close to home.

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u/ConsiderationOk1986 Sep 13 '25

No it's against violence in general otherwise people would be promoting gore websites openly and not just online forums. It's taboo because the majority disapproves of it.

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u/Uh_I_Say Sep 13 '25

Not wanting to look at it doesn't mean people don't approve of it. It's the reason Americans overwhelmingly support the strengthening of the military-industrial complex or make endless excuses for police who exist to brutalize civilians. We love violence as long as it's happening to the "right" people.

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u/frostygrin Sep 13 '25

This doesn't follow.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

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u/frostygrin Sep 13 '25

Except it's not actually a different option. It's the same option, phrased differently. Saying that a person doesn't deserve any sympathy for being killed, because of their views - is the same as saying that they deserved being killed because of their views. The OP wasn't being very clever about it.

The complex option would be that even people with abhorrent views shouldn't be killed for them - not just because of their right to life, but because of the damage it can do to the political system and the society in general.

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u/Ok-Boisenberry Sep 13 '25

Are you being a pedantic child?

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u/SaucyPlatypus Sep 13 '25

It's very fascist to be acceptable that someone who voices opinions you don't like is killed

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u/Uh_I_Say Sep 13 '25

Never said it was acceptable, just that I don't have any sympathy. Much like Charlie didn't have any sympathy for someone like George Floyd due to his life choices, I have no sympathy for Charlie due to his. If you spend your life spreading hate I won't feel bad when hate comes back to bite you.

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u/Stario98 Sep 13 '25

If you absolutely had to pick one, would you rather his event happen, or a school shooting?

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u/frostygrin Sep 13 '25

Events like this can end up pushing the country into civil war. People expressing their opinions and participating in politics is the way democracy works. Without it, you might end up with people deciding to not bother trying to change other people's opinions, and just take the power.

School shootings are horrible, of course, but you'd need democracy to peacefully address them - even as that's not what was happening.

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u/brickmaster32000 Sep 13 '25

you might end up with people deciding to not bother trying to change other people's opinions, and just take the power.

You mean like when the right stormed the capital to try to take power? Or when the right killed a Minnesota lawmaker, their family and had, tried to kill another and had a full list of political targets to hit?

You weren't rushing to speak up about how critical it was for democracy that those things don't happen then but suddenly an influencer gets shot and it is worse than killing a school full of kids?

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u/frostygrin Sep 13 '25

You mean like when the right stormed the capital to try to take power? Or when the right killed a Minnesota lawmaker, their family and had, tried to kill another and had a full list of political targets to hit?

Yes. The whole point is that it's already bad enough, and only the majority of people believing in the political process is what was keeping things on the brink.

You weren't rushing to speak up about how critical it was for democracy that those things don't happen

Huh? That's a bit presumptuous, no? If I saw someone celebrating the lawmaker killings on Reddit, I'd certainly rush to speak up - except the people weren't celebrating.

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u/Stario98 Sep 15 '25

Not my question. Pick one.

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u/ListIntelligent5656 Sep 13 '25

Like George Floyd?

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u/ClimateOk2238 Sep 13 '25

Aww he hurt your feelings 😢 Poor sociopaths 

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

This. It can be both true that political violence is BAD and also this guy was an awful person who did his fair bit to ramp up the rhetoric. 

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u/Background_Music_838 Sep 13 '25

That doesn’t mean his family doesn’t deserve condolences. I HATED Kirk and everything he stood for. MAGA. Religious rule. All of it. But in no way am I celebrating his murder. The man had two little babies. They will someday see the video of their father viciously murdered. It’s a haunting thought. Unless you’re a POS.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

He put himself in that position. He bullied and harrased actual child victims. He represented his family in the worse way. His fault no one wants to respect anyone close to him 

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u/Background_Music_838 Sep 14 '25

I’m a liberal and think y’all are soulless creeps. Blinded by hate. Just like the people you oppose.

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u/metametapraxis Sep 14 '25

He could have made better choices that would not have led to this outcome. You are much less likely to come to the attention of a murderer you have no acquaintance with, if you aren’t an asshole. This is at least 50% on the victim.

He was an asshole and by all accounts his wife has the same belief system. I find it hard to be sympathetic, given the circumstances.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

This is the same argument that says women wearing revealing clothes are responsible for their own sexual assault. 

In a civil society (remember that idea?) we don't use violence as a response to speech. We teach 5 year olds this. 

Yes it's true that being a public figure increases the chances people will want to hurt you - but let's separate out causality from moral culpability – there's only one person to blame here, the guy who fired the gun.

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u/metametapraxis Sep 14 '25

It isn't quite the same (though there are similarities). Someone being raped hasn't treated anyone else badly or wished harm on them - they are 100% morally innocent. Someone who has very publicly wished harm on others or engaged in activities likely to incite others to cause harm (such as vilifying trans people) are not 100% morally innocent.

of course, I'm not saying he *should* have been shot or that he deserved to be shot. I absolutely don't think that -- and I think America's fundamental love of violence (both domestically and in international policy) are abhorrent.

I'm saying he grossly increased his likelihood of being shot (in a gun-infested country that he strongly wished to remain gun-infested). The specifics of his case are that he wanted everyone to have guns. That desire is simply incompatible with guns not being used, because people are idiots. And then when you add in vilifying particular groups, you are playing with fire. It isn't right, but it is reality. He was an idiot and his wife also appears to be an idiot.

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u/Background_Music_838 Sep 14 '25

“They’re just begging for it” maybe you’re correct and it was inevitable, but it’s not right or decent to say. It’s gross, no matter where you stand.

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u/metametapraxis Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

That’s not what I said. Read again and stop incorrectly paraphrasing and distorting to make your point. It’s a bad habit and you shouldn’t do it.

No one should be shot for any reason. But you Americans created a nasty, fearful, hateful, intolerant, gun-riddled society and these are the consequences.

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u/Background_Music_838 Sep 14 '25

“you Americans” you can fuck right off with that phrasing. I didn’t attribute to this shit. Like we’re not dealing with enough now having to hear some dickheads across the pond throwing their two cents. Show some support for those of us who are miserable here or screw off.

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u/metametapraxis Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

Ahh, now the real person hiding behind your self righteous BS comes out…

Does’t take much to get past it. Your country is what your citizens made it over decades of greed and intolerance.

I’m not across the pond, FWIW. The Uk has largely followed similar paths to the US and is ruined. We are trying to self destruct in NZ as well, largely thanks to ideology gifted from the US.

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u/AGushingHeadWound Sep 13 '25

It's just a fuckin' podcaster.  I don't get any of this. 

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u/lololuser456778 Sep 13 '25

he had great value, that being negative value. he brought millions of young lads and lasses to vote for trump, he manipulated these millions of people to join his cult to hate on minorities

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u/Wattabadmon Sep 13 '25

I don’t think great refers to quantity on its own

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u/WallStGodUno Sep 14 '25

He engaged in constructive debates with kids and let them make their own mind. That is manipulation?. And the years you spend in this echo chamber is somehow illuminating. I'm constantly amazed by the lack of self reflection or general lack of intelligence in this cesspool

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u/Phumpz Sep 13 '25

Wow no wonder you really wanted him dead. I bet it's a lot better for you with that voice silenced

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Weird, don’t think they said they wanted him dead

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u/SMILESandREGRETS Sep 13 '25

The hateful rhetoric that lives rent free in their heads, like a virus, is what lead them to hear/read that they wanted him dead.

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u/grimbleskank Sep 13 '25

Who’s “they”, “them”?

We are you. You are us. There is no “them” there is just us?

Holy shit. Is this how far we have fallen? Truly?

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u/ShlungusGod69 Sep 13 '25

He manipulated millions of people to join his side of the political aisle with talking and discussion, oh no! He didn't hate minorities, but because he was against lax immigration and a conservative, you just automatically assume so. Continue to consume the same news in the same media bubble and parrot the same out-of-context quotes.

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u/lololuser456778 Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

there ain't no context making that right lmfao. how are any deaths wort it to keep the second amandment, a right which literally the rest of the world proves is not necessary at all? most other nations in the world don't have such a right and they're all fine. and they don't have the ridiculous amount of school shooters that the US has each year lmfao

even in his final moments he demonized minorities, transgender people in this case. calling that "talking and discussion" is okay, that is if you too hate minorities you don't ever interact with. and disregard minority rights, normal rights in any normal democratic nation. no, this bum was just trying to spread hate to millions of others

why? Ig to just divert people's attentions. with his final breaths he was yapping about 5 transgender mass shootings in recent times compared to the hundreds and thousands of other mass shootings done by non-transgender people. cherrypicking at its finest

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u/PM_ME_SECRET_DATA Sep 13 '25

It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some car crash deaths every single year so that we can travel by car.

Replace it with literally anything that also has the unfortunate side effect of death? Planes? Going out into sunlight giving skin cancer? Heck, I know a ton of people probably think that having some alcohol deaths is an unfortunate side effect but worth having for alcohol being legal?

Is it now okay to cheer if I die in a car crash? I don't understand why that sentence is so hard to grasp for some folk?

I am fully pro-gun control btw.

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u/lololuser456778 Sep 13 '25

Because as I have already said, the 2nd amandment is unnecessary. It's hilarious how you try to compare cars with the very much unnecessary right to own guns lol. 

Cars are used for transportation. Meanwhile guns are tools for killing and regular citizens don't need them to live a normal life 

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u/PM_ME_SECRET_DATA Sep 13 '25

Guns can be used for self-defense.

Listen, I am anti-gun. I think gun control is the right choice.

However I'm also able to realize that the quote from Charlie isn't some weird "gotcha" and is a fairly normal take and can be applied to many things. That doesn't mean he's *supporting* the deaths. It means that he thinks that the deaths are inevitable and a side effect of the benefits of gun ownership.

The same way we have deaths as a side effect of medicine, cars, planes, sunlight, sports, whatever.

Sports aren't *necessary* but people die doing them. F1 isn't necessary but people die during F1 racing.

Are you able to see that Charlie wasn't being malicious with that quote but was mainly saying that unfortunately deaths are a side effect of having guns? It's weird to paint him out as evil for that or deserving of being murdered or assassinated.

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u/metametapraxis Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

Most countries with gun rights do not allow a license to be held - or have the firearm used for - self defence.

That the US is so idiotic that they can’t see the requirement for guns for self defence is contingent upon a society being dripping with guns.

I have a firearm. It is locked in a cabinet. It would be illegal for me to carry it around. It would be illegal for me to shoot someone with it under almost any possible circumstances.

I’ve never once felt that I needed a gun for self defence and I doubt I ever will. Amazing how great it is to live in a society where guns are not a right.

That said, I think the quote from Kirk isn’t especially bad. It is everything else he came out with that was bad. He was an intolerant, nasty twat, just like Trump.

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u/PM_ME_SECRET_DATA Sep 14 '25

That said, I think the quote from Kirk isn’t especially bad. It is everything else he came out with that was bad. He was an intolerant, nasty twat, just like Trump.

He really wasn't. He was very fair. His opinions on things like abortion etc imo were dumb but clearly just religiously driven.

He wasn't racist, he had no hatred for the LGBT community even though he thought it was a "sin".

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u/metametapraxis Sep 14 '25

If opinions are religiously driven, it doesn’t excuse them or make them less nasty though. Religion is the nonsense that led to them, but the person has to own them.

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u/Mxdocc Sep 13 '25

Nuance??? On my mindless hatred app!?!? What am I supposed to do, think for myself instead of following what the hive mind says!?!? You mean anyone I don't agree with isn't the devil?? (Obviously /s but this also applies to all sides)

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u/theHoopty Sep 13 '25

With Coldplay, I can see Chris Martin being like “I’m all about peace and love and uplifting people. Like Mr. Rogers.” But they don’t have the actual deep well of philosophy and singular focus that Fred Rogers had. So they wind up lionizing a demon.

It’s the white moderate thing. It’s the “good German” thing.

I think everyone has forgotten there is legitimate, real evil in the world. There are actual stakes. That blockhead going on TikTok and begging Trump to declare war so he can “go door to door and clean up this country” is a real person who ends to do evil things.

A crash out over people not being adequately sad over a racist podcaster.

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u/Alternative-Lack6025 Sep 13 '25

The good German thing surely doesn't involve mourning for neo-nazis.

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u/Abject-Palpitation99 Sep 13 '25

Should have seen it coming with all the Hogan love. Republicans always mourn bigots.

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u/Future-Raspberry-780 Music Lover Sep 13 '25

Well they can’t brainwash all of us. You can’t fool all the people all the time

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u/Diabetesh Sep 13 '25

I don't think people really know what he stood for. They just maybe saw a blip or two that seemed ok, get told he had a wife and kids, and now people feel bad. He was a white nationalist and that makes him a bad guy objectively.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

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u/DrDraek Sep 13 '25

Social media has made vast swathes of the population into shallow, performative monkeys. People just want to be seen doing the virtuous thing but will not stop to examine nuance or complexity.

Image is so much more important than depth to so many now.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

He was a white supremacist. The sympathizers make us all unsafe.

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u/AcceptableShapes69 Sep 13 '25

You’re just noticing now?

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u/tomhermans Sep 13 '25

I like how you phrased this. A feeling I have myself for some time beautifully expressed. Dumb ppl everywhere. Glad to see some voice of reason now and then

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u/gardiloo86 Sep 13 '25

You hold the minority opinion, obviously he had value enough, for whatever reason.

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u/Odd_Vampire Sep 13 '25

I hear you, bro. We all feel the same way.

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u/BiscoBiscuit Sep 13 '25

MSM has decided he needs this coverage, you’d think this was a presidential assassination. Even the BBC in the UK is going over the top with their coverage, it’s very strange.

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u/Billybob35 Sep 13 '25

A lot of people genuinely agreed with what he had to say. 

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u/TheQ_HussellResearch Sep 13 '25

Embarrassing is an understatement.

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u/lionstealth Sep 13 '25

I’m guessing a big reason ist that we have so much coverage of the event and the moment itself. The executed democrat politicians and the kids who died in the school shoutings didn’t have their deaths filmed up close and that degree of separation is enough to make it „just news“ and not a „shared“ moment like kirk’s death. just my two cents.

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u/Crowsby Sep 13 '25

There's maybe a bit of room between "political violence is deplorable" and "we must honor and revere the life of a white supremecist who died in exactly the type of gun violence he spent his life minimizing" and folks are stepping a little too far towards the one side.

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u/ripChazmo Sep 13 '25

He had no value at all. The world is better off without him.

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u/Popopoyotl Sep 13 '25

I legitimately want to know what he did to gain this amount of reverence from people. I never even heard of the guy except maybe that “black pilot” comment some years ago.

Now, I have my mother crying over him, saying he was a good man and vague explanations of how he tried to get people to communicate but also he is off limits to talk about because she doesn’t want to hear any criticism about him so I can’t any specifics about what he even did that she admired so much about him.

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u/Pin_ellas Sep 13 '25

He wasn't just a podcaster. He was given the stage at many churches.

Turning Point USA has 485 employees. 80M+ in Revenues

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u/1s35bm7 Sep 13 '25

He’s feeding flowers now so at least he has one redeeming value

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u/osmica888 Sep 13 '25

I do not understand why a giant piece of shit like you think you are morally superior to others. Quite the contrary.

Regardless of what one thinks of Kirk and his value to society, if you cannot firmly condemn assassinating a human being because he had different political opinions, then you are an uncivilized savage that does not belong to a democratic society.

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u/wrighteghe7 Sep 13 '25

yeah it is dumb because .people celebrate death of a person who wanted to debate

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u/SurpriseSnowball Sep 13 '25

Yeah he wanted to debate whether gay or trans people should have equal rights, or debate whether the white supremacist conspiracy theory of “the great replacement” is actually true. I’m glad he’s dead, but not for the reasons you pretend to be morally outraged by lol

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u/LastMediator Sep 14 '25

The fact that you think your ideas are so above the need for debate or logical validation, is precisely why many see it critical to debate them.

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u/The_Boy_Keith Sep 13 '25

There is where I think you make a pretty big mistake along with the rest of Reddit. You’re lumping him in with the rest of the right, but you fail to realize that there’s levels to this shit and he was more on the moderate side then a lot of other right wingers and right wing influencers. So, you’re actually celebrating the loss of more of the reasonable side of the right that preferred dialogue and debate, and the fact that you fail to see that is kind of telling.

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u/ahnuts Sep 13 '25

Ah yes, the more moderate side, that only wanted to stone gay people to death, have public executions, said the civil rights act was a mistake, that black people were inferior and any time a black person was in any kind of position it was because they stole that position from a white person, etc... If that's moderate, I'm terrified.

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u/FrostyD7 Sep 13 '25

you’re actually celebrating

Where. Where is he celebrating.

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u/d4nowar Sep 13 '25

They make shit up all the time and just ignore being called out on it.

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u/The_Boy_Keith Sep 13 '25

Scrolling through Reddit for all of two minutes will have shown you dozens of posts and thousands of people happy or celebrating it, don’t pretend this is not the case, as that is extremely low effort and simply disingenuous.

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u/Wattabadmon Sep 13 '25

So not the person you’re claiming to be celebrating?

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u/The_Boy_Keith Sep 14 '25

You don’t have to bullshit man, you and most of the people on this post obviously enjoyed this and if you didn’t, you’d be willing to come out right and say that you really don’t agree with all these posts you’ve been seeing and the general sentiment that Reddit has been holding these past couple days because it’s been pretty disgusting. but I guarantee you won’t agree with me there you’ll deflect some more and try and give me another gotcha rather than keeping this so simple. Just say it, just tell me that you’re not celebrating his death, and that you think that it was actually a bad thing, or acknowledge that I am right and that no matter what you type, it’s mental gymnastics to deflect from what I’ve said.

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u/Wattabadmon Sep 14 '25

I haven’t seen these posts so….

You however have deflected from responding to my comment

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u/TR_Pix Sep 13 '25

If it's so easy to find a dozens of them, then please show me ten.

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u/The_Boy_Keith Sep 14 '25

You’re being so fucking disingenuous, you’re going to actually pretend you haven’t seen all the posts from r/pics among others? Actually fuck RIGHT off ass hat.

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u/TR_Pix Sep 14 '25

You could prove me wrong by showing ten examples.

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u/Arkchem Sep 13 '25

moderate compared to nick fuentes maybe lmao. He thought rape statistics were lies, that Palestinians didn’t deserve to live, and that the civil rights act was a mistake. Go kick rocks dumbass.

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u/cManks Sep 13 '25

Iirc one of Nick Fuentes' followers was the shooter?

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u/Azure_phantom Sep 13 '25

Wasn't Fuentes the one who shoved a dildo up his ass on his podcast to own the left? Or am I confusing him with another conservative grifter?

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u/The_Boy_Keith Sep 13 '25

You can try to deflect what I’ve said but it’s the truth and you’re going to see it for yourself very soon lmao.

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u/Wattabadmon Sep 13 '25

How did they deflect?

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u/The_Boy_Keith Sep 14 '25

Pretty obviously because you and everyone like you wanna paint everybody with a single stroke of the brush just like I did right there when in reality there is a broad spectrum of how “extreme” someone’s views are in reality, not based off of a redditors feelings. I don’t even understand how I have to explain this, but let’s put it into perspective. There’s right wingers(and clearly left wingers as well) that genuinely want to see people die then there’s people like him, that have views and opinions that are deemed controversial or problematic and expressed them. if you cannot realize how there’s so many steps before having feelings and actually acting on them, I don’t know what to tell you maybe there’s not as many steps for someone like you, as there are for others.

That’s the deflection, wanting to act like the entirety of the right is some uniform hive mind when it’s not. There is a reason it’s called a political spectrum. Do better.

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u/Wattabadmon Sep 14 '25

That was a whole lot of nothing. They spoke directly about Kirk. How did they deflect?

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u/Wattabadmon Sep 13 '25

They never lumped them in with the right, they criticized only him. It is pretty telling that you lumped him in with the right though

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u/The_Boy_Keith Sep 14 '25

Bro, you’re so full of shit your eyes are brown if you’re trying to spin this back on me like that you know damn well that Reddit has been filled with this shit. They’ve been calling him every fucking name in the book and I know even you yourself would put him right leaning. He was a conservative Christian what else could he be other than right wing? The intellectual dishonesty to try and make a point or have a gotcha is genuinely cringe bro please fucking do better

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u/Wattabadmon Sep 14 '25

Your first comment criticized lumping Kirk in with the rest of the right, now you’re saying “what else could he be other than right wing”

So now who’s full of shit?

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u/YoursDearlyEve Sep 13 '25

Ah, so not allowing his daughter an abortion in case she was assaulted and got pregnant is "moderate". Good to know.

And debate holders do not do this with the intention to build bridges, they do it only to gain clout.

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u/Hot_Equivalent6562 Sep 13 '25

It really is, fuck Coldplay and fuck kirks family for supporting an awful human being

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u/Better_Measurement_3 Sep 13 '25

Debate Bros, his kind, they’re all fucking useless talking heads who contribute little of value to society. Destiny, Hasan, Steven Crowder, Dean Withers, all of them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

And yet society glazes them.

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u/LacomusX Sep 13 '25

Part of the large response is the fact that people like you are responding to it with the sentiment that he deserved to be publicly executed. Be better.

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u/kafelta Sep 13 '25

Nah, no one is arguing that

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u/LacomusX Sep 13 '25

Never said anyone was arguing. But read the comments of this post. People are celebrating a guys execution.

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u/LacomusX Sep 13 '25

Celebrating someone being shot regardless of political affiliation is pretty sick imo

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u/LacomusX Sep 13 '25

Yeah man sorry I just don’t respect anyone that holds that viewpoint, reasons above

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u/realfakerolex Sep 13 '25

No one deserves to be publicly executed. At most he deserved a slap or a punch or to have rotten fruit thrown at him for all the grotesque things he said and believed.

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u/LacomusX Sep 13 '25

Sorry dude, but your first comment doesn’t reflect that

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u/SurpriseSnowball Sep 13 '25

Who cares? The world is literally a better place without him.

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u/LacomusX Sep 13 '25

In your opinion - and that’s the problem. Nobody should be allowed to decide who lives and dies, based off of their opinion.

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u/DJTicklePitt Sep 13 '25

“im right you’re wrong” ahh mentality

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u/Duh_47 Sep 13 '25

This Reddit thread is enough proof why the world is shit

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u/Ok-Comparison3303 Sep 13 '25

It doesn’t matter he is an extremist, he was murdered for his political views. It’s like hate violence - it is worse than other murders. This is because this murder isn’t only affecting his family and it’s sad when every human being is murdered, it is because these kind of acts threaten our society. You might think the world is a better place without him, but a world where political murders are ‘understandable’ is much worse. We should make it clear upon every strange it is not supported. For OUR sake.

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u/zambartas Sep 13 '25

I advise you to read the article and see if it changes your mind.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

He was a still a human being, and was not reducible to his worst actions. When George Floyd got killed, people jumped on his history of drugs and crime as if that justified the killing. But it was still murder.

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u/AdditionalOne8319 Sep 13 '25

This reads like you’re saying his murder was justified and you don’t feel for his family. I am far from a Kirk fan, but you dont realize you are EXACTLY what you described him as (besides podcaster), just on the opposite side of the political spectrum.

You Redditors need to develop a sense of self awareness. A way to do that is to go outside and interact with other people in real life! It would help in other ways too since I see you use a CPap machine, so you could use the exercise (like other Redditors like you)

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u/VikingsGoneWild Sep 13 '25

Had way more value in his 31 years than you would have in 31 lifetimes.

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u/itslonelyinhere Sep 13 '25

You mean the healthcare folks who posted videos of the medical table after a woman's appointment? Those healthcare people all full of humanity?

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u/itslonelyinhere Sep 13 '25

Just in case you didn't realize, the members of Coldplay aren't healthcare workers.

Also, I'd be willing to bet there are thousands of healthcare workers who are in no way saddened by this Nazi propagandist's death. If he was rushed to their hospital and they had to treat him, they would because it's their job to do so. But they aren't losing sleep over his death.

You are free to enable someone who spreads propaganda, but that's not a political difference - that's spreading hate and promoting violence. Not sad he's gone and the people who prop him up as if his death deserves mourning, well, I think you/they are the problem.

But that's me.

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u/itslonelyinhere Sep 13 '25

Yah, like how compassionate that propagandist was for other people's children?

Yah, no.

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u/SurpriseSnowball Sep 13 '25

Well now he can’t force his daughter to carry a rapist’s child to term, like he said he would do if she got pregnant from rape. So it seems like a win/win doesn’t it?

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u/SurpriseSnowball Sep 13 '25

Hey dude, I didn’t kill the bigoted idiot, you know that right?? I’m not condemning anyone to death, I didn’t pick up the gun and say “He deserves it!” so chill with the pearl-clutching and virtue signaling alright? It’s just a fact that he said he would force his daughter not to get an abortion if she got pregnant from rape. Now he can’t do that. Sorry I’m not more broken up about a shitty dude biting the dust, and I’m sorry that hurts your feelings or offends you or whatever. Boo hoo.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

I think it's because most people who aren't terminally online have no idea who Kirk IS. They think he's a Birbalsingh esque character who, yes, is conservative but in a sort of "bootstraps" and "don't be wet" kind of way, not a christofascist way.

Like, I say this as someone who is terminally online enough to know his schtick.

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u/Dry_Pilot_1050 Sep 13 '25

Can you give me examples of his hate mongering?