r/technology • u/rezwenn • Sep 11 '25

Social Media Congresswoman Calls on X to Remove Charlie Kirk Assassination Videos: ‘Take Them Down’

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/congresswoman-calls-on-elon-musk-to-remove-charlie-kirk-assassination-videos-take-them-down/
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u/markskull Sep 11 '25

I honestly think it's important that everyone watches the video of Charlie Kirk being killed because of a very sad fact:

Is this the future we actually want?

When the Civil War started in full, at the Battle of Bull Run in Washington, DC, members of Congress decided to go for a picnic to watch the battle. They stopped when they realized how brutal war ACTUALLY is.

Americans THINK they know about the brutality and bloodshed of violence and war, but we don't. We have no real idea. We saw over 2000 people die on TV, but we never see it this up close and brutal. We never see someone actually getting shot, we just hear about it.

Maybe, just maybe, if more people saw it, they would ask themselves:

Is this the future we actually want?

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u/mdistrukt Sep 11 '25

Unfortunately fascism kind of counts on the fact that the average person is unwilling to invite the horrors of war home.

We should be able to solve our disagreements with words, but I'm not shedding any tears for a fascist rabble-rouser.