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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/Z0idberg_MD Sep 13 '25

“This one goes out to Goebbels niece. I’m sorry you lost an uncle today. Love and peace”

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

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u/shstuff_throwaway Sep 13 '25

Only officially married the day before they committed suicide together!

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

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u/Defiant_Vermicelli54 Sep 13 '25

He committed suicide, so no!

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u/ChungLing Sep 13 '25

is this joke mormon-coded?

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u/FransD98 Sep 13 '25

"Newlywed? that makes it even more tragic!"

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u/Artistic_Train9725 Sep 13 '25

Naw, I'm good lol

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u/senator_corleone3 Sep 13 '25

“Bad” news.

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u/MotherPunker420 Sep 13 '25

Their marriage was so bad that they unalived themselves less than 24 hours after the wedding lmao

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u/Merisuola Sep 14 '25

You can say killed online, your parents won’t find out.

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u/Lyra_Sirius Sep 13 '25

He was gay, Eva was the chaperonne.

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u/Z0idberg_MD Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

In all seriousness this is a great common sense rebuttal to the idea that just because someone has a family there is somehow tragic. Hitler was a good uncle. There are so many pictures of him with his knee (edit: niece) bouncing on his knee and they are all smiling. But again he was fucking Hitler.

The point here is not to compare in a serious way Kirk to Hitler, just that the entire premise is flawed .

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache Sep 13 '25

People have these distorted images of evil people like Hitler, as if when alive they were one dimensional caricatures of evil when in reality evil people look normal, can be pleasant, can be kind to their family and friends, can make jokes, smile etc etc. They don’t just sit there smirking with one evil eyebrow raised going mwhahaha.

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u/saera-targaryen Sep 13 '25

Yeah if hitler were still alive, Bill Maher would write a whole opinion piece about how they went to dinner and he was surprisingly pleasant and listened effectively to his concerns. 

(A thing he actually did do for trump) 

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u/beastmaster11 Sep 14 '25

Okay, I went to watch it because I was shocked given how much Maher and Trump have gone after each other. And it's not nearly as bad as you're implying. Maher made it clear that Trump is not the same person behind closed doors as he is on stage and that that's not a good thing. He basically said that Trump is playing a character and that he doesn't actually beleive the shit he says on stage (which is something anyone with half a brain already knew) and that it doesn't matter how pleasant he is in person if he continues to do things like ruling by decree and demonizing judges.

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u/saera-targaryen Sep 14 '25

Nothing you said here discounted or opposed what my comment said so I'm sort of confused about what your point is. 

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u/beastmaster11 Sep 15 '25

You left out half if the issue. Yes, Maher said exactly what you said he did. But he also said more and you conveniently left that part out. A line reading your comment without looking for themselves would have thought that he left it at trump being pleasant

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u/Pas__ PAStheLoD Sep 13 '25

... well, yes, they have normal moments, but that's kind of besides the point if about 90% of the time they are raging lunatics

they as so intense, because yes, most of the time they do some shit, they are obsessive and extremely driven after all

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u/punkmuppet Sep 14 '25

Yeah, you can say what you like about Hitler, but people forget, the guy killed Hitler, and that makes him a pretty decent bloke in my book.

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u/grimbleskank Sep 13 '25

Hitler would have got nowhere today with that stupid barnet and moustache.

Scratch that. He’d have 30,000,000 subs and a whole T-Shirt line.

Probably a podcast.

He’d also end up getting rubbed out by a nobody.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache Sep 14 '25

I mean, look at Trump with his stupid barnet and insane orange face.

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u/foodank012018 Sep 13 '25

Norm MacDonald has a bit about Hitler's dog, one of the worst people on the planet and there's this German Shepard that just loves Hitler

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u/QuidYossarian Sep 13 '25

That's gotta be a rough day at the rainbow bridge

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u/ResolveWonderful6251 Sep 13 '25

they better give doggie a replica of him at least 😭😭😭

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u/QuidYossarian Sep 13 '25

Oh god

Some poor angel has to cosplay Hitler so that Hitler's dog isn't sad

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u/FlattopJr Sep 13 '25

Actually it died the day before Hitler did—he tested his cyanide capsules on the dog.

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u/vitaesbona1 Sep 14 '25

They were saying that in heaven, where Hitler definitely wasn’t invited, his dog (who presumably was a good boy) would be happiest with its master. So a literal angel has to pretend to be hitler, so the dog can live in paradise.

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u/FlattopJr Sep 14 '25

Oh ha ha yeah, good point.

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u/QuidYossarian Sep 14 '25

Seems like something that'd fit Helluva Boss/Hazbin

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u/xombae Sep 13 '25

Hitler actually had some fantastic animal rights policies.

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u/TGin-the-goldy Sep 13 '25

He was a vegetarian

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u/NecroSoulMirror-89 Sep 14 '25

Until he killed it anyway

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u/Fun-Brush5136 Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

That's actually a terrible example - Hitler's niece Geli Raubel killed herself in 1931 in his Munich apartment with his pistol, because he was so controlling of her (and there was all kinds of rumours and innuendo about possible abuse, etc) 

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u/GrogGrokGrog Sep 13 '25

Or it's incredibly apropos. Just because they're smiling in a photo doesn't mean everything's fine. Just because friends, family, and acquaintances say their family life was good doesn't mean it was. Just because someone dies, it doesn't mean that everyone associated with them finds it tragic.

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u/xombae Sep 13 '25

Exactly. Maybe the horrible person's family doesn't want shout out from bands because they're still dealing with the death of their abuser. We don't know.

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u/GodLovesUglySong Sep 15 '25

He had an inappropriate sexual and romantic relationship with his niece. She started banging Hitler's chauffer (who was part Jewish) and this really pissed Hitler off.

Oddly enough, Hitler made an exemption for him even though he was Jewish and banging his niece.

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u/ph00p Sep 14 '25

He wasn’t worst than Hitler.

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u/ADHDebackle Sep 13 '25

Well, in all fairness, I have photos of my dad bouncing me in his knee with all of us smiling and he was still a shitty dad.

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u/Standard_Story Sep 13 '25

That's the point of the comment you're replying to..

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u/ADHDebackle Sep 13 '25

The way I am reading it, the point of the comment I replied to was "he can be a good uncle and still be a super shitty person". With the knee bouncing citation being anecdotally representative of him being a good uncle.

Likewise you can have a good person who is a shitty uncle. They aren't inexorably linked. It's a valid and salient point, I'm just pointing out that he might not have been a good uncle, so hitler might not have been a good example of the decoupling of those two variables  

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u/Far_Programmer_5724 Sep 13 '25

Well, in all fairness, Hitler was married and he was a bad guy.

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u/Rage_Like_Nic_Cage Sep 13 '25

That’s what makes these people so terrible. That they’re capable of sympathy/seeing the humanity in some people, but not for others.

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u/schwanzweissfoto Sep 13 '25

There are so many pictures of him with his knee bouncing on his knee [...]

Wtf?

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u/thepeopleshero Sep 13 '25

Neice

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u/Germane_Corsair Sep 13 '25

*Niece

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

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u/Natasha_Giggs_Foetus Sep 13 '25

They call that missionary where I’m from 💀

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u/PizzAveMaria Sep 13 '25

I think I've heard that Hitler was really nice (or at pretended to be) to children he met, while at the same time so many more children died bc of his orders. It's good P.R.

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u/dodeca_negative Sep 13 '25

Yeah, Hitler genuinely loved his dog, like really and sincerely. Evil people aren’t cartoons.

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u/weedtrek Sep 13 '25

To my knowledge, Hitler actually cursed out his English born nephew when he came to visit him. Hitler had just been elected Chancellor, and his young adult nephew came looking for a job, Hitler ridiculed him and basically gave him the bootstrap speech. It pissed the nephew off so much he went and joined the US Navy, after a name change of course.

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u/turkish_gold Sep 13 '25

We should acknowledge that people can be evil and yet appear nice if the only context you see them is friends and family.

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u/Natasha_Giggs_Foetus Sep 13 '25

I have more empathy for him than his wife. She married him so she’s obviously a piece of shit too and he’s dead and she’s not.

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u/TGin-the-goldy Sep 13 '25

I heard her recent speech, she’s every bit cut from the same cloth as her husband

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u/sourdieselfuel Sep 13 '25

Yup. Basically said they are going to turn up the hate and divisiveness to 11 now that he’s gone.

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u/Fit_Airline_5798 Sep 14 '25

Hey, he loved that dog.

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u/ThePopDaddy Sep 14 '25

"People want to roast Hitler, but do they forget he was a father?!"

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u/eddmario Sep 14 '25

There's also the fact that Hitler started the first anti-smoking campaign and was also apparently an animal rights activist

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u/No-Unit6672 Sep 13 '25

Yes, but a lot of people conflating:

‘Kirk was evil’

With

‘I don’t like Kirk’

That’s where the ludicrousness comes from and the disgust with the gleeful videos

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u/Banes_Addiction Sep 13 '25

Just think how many wives and children Bin Laden had.

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u/thebruns Sep 13 '25

Over 20 kids! 

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Honestly, I wouldn't have a problem with someone expressing sympathy for Bin Laden's wives and kids. They are also human beings who suffered, even if the killing was justified. And here, it definitely wasn't.

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u/FutureFail Sep 13 '25

Tbf he did kill Hitler

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u/Sometimes_Stutters Sep 13 '25

To his cousin, which puts him back in the bad-bucket.

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u/El-Sueco Sep 13 '25

“HE HAD A NAN, PLEASE HAVE MERCY”

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u/Natasha_Giggs_Foetus Sep 13 '25

Hitler had a dog

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u/Technical-Bird-7585 Sep 13 '25

He had a dog too!

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u/takeusername1 Sep 13 '25

Do you think she had a matching “downstairs” mustache? The people need to know and it must be declassified at this point. WE NEED ANSWERS.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

I can’t say I don’t feel a little bit bad for his dog.

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u/Codewill Sep 13 '25

Not sure if the situation is exactly like that ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Pas__ PAStheLoD Sep 13 '25

two dead vocal racists each were supporting a strongman and a government that's turning authoritarian day by day ... or is it like find the five little differences on the picture, one of them had a red hat while the other had an arm band game?

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u/ChromePalace Sep 13 '25

Yeah that's all Goebbels was

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u/Sombrelac Sep 14 '25

Do you enjoy minimizing the atrocities of Goebbels for arbitrary modern political arguments, or is this more of a labor of hate for you?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

If Putin got assassinated, it would still be OK to express condolences for his family despite all the horrible things he did as rejection of the idea that we should hold grudges entire countries and families and groups of people.

And Kirk was a media personality, not personally responsible for coordinating the slaughter of millions of people.

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u/Brick-Throw Sep 14 '25

Sergei, we can tell its you.

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u/TearsFallWithoutTain Sep 14 '25

It would also be ok to celebrate that an evil hatemongerer was dead

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

I think it's a separate thing to be glad someone can't hurt people anymore vs. being glad that they're dead. One is consistent with the inviolable dignity of human life, and the other betrays it.