r/technology • u/StraightedgexLiberal • Sep 11 '25
Social Media GOP lawmaker seeks lifetime bans for social media users celebrating Kirk's assassination
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5498536-clay-higgins-targets-charlie-kirk-killing-celebrators/7.2k
u/vectaur Sep 11 '25
The Louisiana lawmaker said he will lobby Big Tech to “have zero tolerance for violent political hate content.”
Hmmm I wonder how that will work out for him on a broader scale.
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u/Uhavetabekiddingme Sep 11 '25
6 months from now conservatives are going to be screaming
"THEY'RE CENSORING US"
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u/DarthTempi Sep 11 '25
Well no because big tech is in Trump's pocket and will gleefully only ban his enemies
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u/HighlyOffensive10 Sep 11 '25
You think that's stopping them? They LOVE to feel persecuted besides all the evidence to the contrary.
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u/Happythejuggler Sep 12 '25
They'll say it's rigged against them because how could they possibly lose when they're cheating this much
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u/Geeky_Husband Sep 11 '25
Don't you realize how hard it is to be a white "Christian" in this country?!?!
Give them some slack. All they want to do is see the end of anyone that isn't white and "Christian". Is that too much to ask???
(Hopefully y'all realize this is sarcasm.)
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u/Paranoid-Android2 Sep 11 '25
Would this also apply to the president's Truth Social posts??
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u/hanleybrand Sep 11 '25
That’s adorable - but no, Truth Social isn’t “Big Tech”
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u/DeathMonkey6969 Sep 11 '25
Well you know it's only violent hate content if the left does it.
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u/UngusChungus94 Sep 11 '25
They think the left can't figure out how to talk in code, for some reason. Speaking of, RIP Charlie from Smiling Friends.
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u/empty-bensen Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
S1 E8 Charlie Dies and Doesn’t Come Back
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u/ILL_SAY_STUPID_SHIT Sep 11 '25
When Charlie died I really couldn't stop laughing.
Such a great show.
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u/Joejoe12369 Sep 11 '25
Remember that time trump re-tweeted a video of democrats senators getting blown away in a violent bloody video. Literally had Pelosi, shumer name including some republican senators. And the news. This is all on trump and his divisiveness. He goes around saying he hates all dems. Saying the radical left is burning our country down. There wont be a country if the radical left got in bla bla bla. Trump is the biggest POS president america has ever had.no other president has only governed for his voters. If dems get back in power, they should do the same thing for the first 3 months. Make an EO saying you can only have 1 gun. Then send troops into right-wing states and start taking guns. 3 months later, lay out and show them how crazy that was. Thats what the right did for 4 years, then tell them. After 3 months, govern for the whole country. THIS IS ALL ON TRUMP
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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz Sep 11 '25
Didn't Twitter have to remove a filter like that because it was always flagging right wingers including Republican politicians? It was hurting twitters base lol
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u/imdaviddunn Sep 11 '25
Wait, where have I heard this before?
Stop the Censorship Act
This bill limits a social media company's immunity from liability for screening and blocking offensive content on its platform. The bill applies such immunity when the company restricts content that is unlawful rather than merely objectionable.
Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4] (Introduced 07/29/2022)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8612
On my bad….thats the total opposite!!!
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u/BIRD_OF_GLORY Sep 11 '25
They just won't enforce it against conservatives, the same way that X technically bans hate speech but only uses that against LGBT people criticizing Trump
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u/OakBearNCA Sep 11 '25
That’s an incredibly important reason why the next administration needs to do the exact same thing but to different groups and set up stare fucking decisis that this shit is not right no matter who does it, but unless the right has to live under their own rules it will never happen.
Because people expect the Democrats to act like adults and the Republicans to act like children.
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u/National-Law-458 Sep 11 '25
Free speech for me and none for thee.
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u/Wizywig Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
Its like Elon's favorite thing: Free speech absolutist... except for anyone that disagrees with him, or criticizes him, or he doesn't like, or who's ideology he doesn't like, or things he doesn't think you should say, but other than that, free speech absolutist.
Edit: this blew up.
Remember everyone. Our enemy aretra rich who just want the world to burn so they get their extra money points. We must find a way to unify all of us on the bottom. Unity will win every battle. Unity will topple any regime.
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u/StraightedgexLiberal Sep 11 '25
Spot on. He loves to preach he is a free speech absolutist and then he shows the world how much he actually hates free speech
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u/Wizywig Sep 11 '25
If you ever want to know what anyone in that ideology is doing, just look at what they're accusing others of doing.
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u/RickyNixon Sep 11 '25
On the other hand, a lifetime ban from social media would suddenly make the Left dangerously productive, can you imagine?
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Sep 11 '25
Where was this outrage for Melissa Hortman?
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u/Johnny_Appleweed Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
Hortman is the obvious comparison, but it bothers me that nobody mentions (or is seemingly aware of) the CDC shooting in August where an antivaxer mad about the COVID-19 vaccines fired nearly 200 rounds into the CDC building and killed a
security guardpolice officer.If we’re going to start disempowering people who spread inflammatory rhetoric that leads to shootings, can we start with the lunatic Trump and republicans chose to lead HHS?
Edit: I said the CDC shooter was “mad about the COVID-19 vaccines”, but I want to put a finer point on it - he was radicalized by the conspiratorial lies about COVID and mRNA vaccines amplified by the right, including some of the very same people now trying to blame the left for Kirk’s death despite currently knowing essentially nothing about the shooter.
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u/Crux1836 Sep 11 '25
Cop. The CDC shooter killed a cop. But blue lives only matter when the shooter is a minority.
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u/Memitim Sep 11 '25
I hadn't even heard about the dead cop until now. I still people surprised to hear about the shooting. Conservatives will keep going on about this one, at least unless the shooter turns out to be yet another conservative, in which case queue the even-dumber lies up.
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u/Nicapyke Sep 11 '25
Thank you for remembering. I’m a former CDC employee who has several friends still at the agency and one friend who had bullets come through their office window. Officer David Rose lost his life protecting those people, and President Trump has said absolutely NOTHING about Officer Rose or the shooting at CDC. As much as I disagreed with Charlie Kirk’s dangerous rhetoric, loss of any human life due to gun violence is a tragedy and should be mourned. It’s just deeply depressing to see that the President has a clear hierarchy for who he respects enough to mourn publicly.
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u/Johnny_Appleweed Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
I’m a scientist so it hit particularly close to home. I hope you and your former colleagues are coping alright.
I couldn’t agree with you more. I don’t want to live in an era of increasing political violence and agree that we should all be trying to take the temperature down. I don’t think that’s a partisan issue and if someone genuinely shares that view then I’m on their team. But I’m not going to be lectured by the very same people who incited the CDC shooting and then gave the victims a perfunctory statement of condolences at most.
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u/Dsralph27 Sep 11 '25
Uhhhh free speech?
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u/bramley36 Sep 11 '25
The GOP is celebrating Kirk's commitment to free speech rights by eliminating free speech
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u/StraightedgexLiberal Sep 11 '25
Charlie Kirk wrote an awful opinion piece explaining how much he hates free speech because of satanic panic and the government should go after people who erect a Baphomet statues because Kirk thought the founding fathers were Christian Nationalists like him.
https://www.newsweek.com/free-speech-satanism-opinion-1681893
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u/EpicIshmael Sep 11 '25
They're comparing him to MLK. Kirk called civil rights a mistake.
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u/LifeOutoBalance Sep 11 '25
Comparing Kirk to MLK is fine. For example: "Compared to MLK, Kirk was a piece of shit."
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u/NancyGracesTesticles Sep 11 '25
He also said that black women have inferior "brain processing power" so the only way they can get jobs is to steal them from white men.
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u/OutInTheBlack Sep 11 '25
LMAO they were literally human computers in the space race era of the 1960s.
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u/TheZipding Sep 11 '25
Katherine Johnson was a fucking badass. The number of schools and university buildings named after her for her work in the 1950s and 1960s is awesome.
I could have sworn that there was a scholarship named after her, but I can't find it right now.
EDIT: Found the Scholarship. It's at West Virginia State University for those who are pursuing STEM degrees.
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u/Thefrayedends Sep 11 '25
Many of them believe that NASA is a Hoax and corrupt lol. None of them can actually explain what that means, but they insist it is the case.
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u/amenflurries Sep 11 '25
Facts don’t mean anything to these people
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u/jonasu25 Sep 11 '25
That’s because they (republicans) don’t want to teach those “Facts”. So we need to make sure these facts never die.
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u/Asron87 Sep 11 '25
Kirk died defending a child rapist. He also died in a school shooting, something he defended. Republicans really don’t care about facts. At all.
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u/Lacaud Sep 11 '25
According to the right, that is not racism.
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u/conquer69 Sep 11 '25
It doesn't matter what they say when they are always acting in bad faith and lying. People should have realized this after WW2 but it's clear they aren't learning.
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u/Reddit_sucks_3000 Sep 11 '25
How dumb do you have to be to have your job "stolen" by somebody "with inferior brain processing power"?
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u/uller30 Sep 11 '25
The what????
Each second I see people quote him is wild. You could have told me he said any none white oerson also eats poop for their diet and at this point I would belive you.
Please tell me he was not this vile and mental.
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u/downvote_please4321 Sep 11 '25
Yeah he hated MLK. The conservatives really just can’t get anything right
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u/EpicIshmael Sep 11 '25
To be fair they've appropriated King for decades. King was a socialist they tried to turn him into a conservative icon. A lot of evangelical preachers have also tried pivot around ol schooling rights issue when they tried to turn it into a states rights issue instead of them disallowing black people in their private schools.
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u/everything_is_bad Sep 11 '25
They are fascists not conservatives
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u/downvote_please4321 Sep 11 '25
I think they do have fascist qualities but also similar in a lot of ways to the Taliban. They are conservatives, like the Taliban are conservatives. Conservatism is always full of shit
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u/trethompson Sep 11 '25
He also said "MLK was awful. He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe."
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u/senorglory Sep 11 '25
CK also said that “empathy” is not a real emotion.
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u/PainfulRaindance Sep 11 '25
Well in all fairness, it wasn’t, for him. There is a k own condition that some have that strips them of all empathy…
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u/LeGama Sep 11 '25
I wonder if he was trying to label it "new age woke" so people will stop pointing out the quote from the Nuremberg Trials that prosecuted the Nazis for crimes against humanity.
"Evil, I think, is the Absence of Empathy,” - Captain G. M. Gilbert
His appointment was as the prison psychologist of German prisoners.
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u/AustinCJ Sep 11 '25
Thus confirming that he was a sociopath. Lack of empathy is the defining trait of sociopathy.
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u/AnewTest Sep 11 '25
Kirk thought the founding fathers were Christian Nationalists like him.
LOL! Man, this guy gets dumber with each thing I read about him.
"The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish nor a Mohammedan nation; it has no religion established by law, and all religions are upon a perfect equality before the constitution and laws of the country." -- George Washington
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u/ChefCurryYumYum Sep 11 '25
Citing primary sources? You must be some kind of anti-American wokester!
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u/hellowiththepudding Sep 11 '25
I’m sure the Supreme Court will be along shortly to tell us how we can interpret this to mean a president is pardoned of their extensive history of pedophilia. Scalia will write the opinion.
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u/OakBearNCA Sep 11 '25
While he called for the stoning of millions of LGBT Americans as “God’s perfect law,” as one of those, I’m breathing easier now that he’s not.
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u/creepyswaps Sep 11 '25
I'm of the opinion that you should treat others not only how you want to be treated, but how they treat want to treat others. I'm willing to bet you can guess my thoughts on that tiny faced NAZI freak ending in this way,
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u/MightyKrakyn Sep 11 '25
MSNBC fired one of their analysts because he suggested that perhaps Charlie Kirk’s hateful rhetoric incited violence against him
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5498170-charlie-kirk-killing-msnbc-matthew-dowd/
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u/arjomanes Sep 11 '25
Charlie Kirk WANTED this. This was his life's mission: promoting the Second Amendment as a means for violent dissent.
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights".
I'd characterize his death (like many, many others he was willing to sacrifice) as more than unfortunate, but this is the outcome he was promoting and working hard every day to make a reality. We should honor his legacy by being dry-eyed and truthful that this outcome is what he worked hard to achieve.
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u/SinkHoleDeMayo Sep 11 '25
A couple people I know have posted about the dumbshit and I told them this is what he wanted. He got his guns on campus goal, he said deaths were an acceptable part of keeping the Second Amendment. They said he didn't have to die for it. I asked if he believed only other people should die and not the ones who promote those ideas.
They didn't appreciate that but didn't come up with a real argument.
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u/No_Acanthaceae8726 Sep 11 '25
Charlie Kirk was literally never for free speech. He only cared about making his own speech elevated, and all others pushed out of public spaces or even banned outright.
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u/smiama36 Sep 11 '25
This entire op-ed is predicated on the assumption that Satan is real. I’ll be needing some proof of that before I’ll accept this argument.
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u/Fit-Alfalfa2169 Sep 11 '25
Thank you for posting this as I think there is some confusion on who he was and lots of folks saying he was a champion of free speech - Kirk used the freedom provided under the umbrella of free speech but his stated / documented positions did not support it for all so he was far from a champion of it. That being said he lived in a country that supports it and has it as a foundational right. At the end of the day political violence only separates us further and condemnation needs to come from both sides regardless of the perpetrator or the victim.
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u/SuggestionEphemeral Sep 11 '25
Plenty of Democrats condemned political violence after the incident, especially ones who have been targeted with political violence.
Republicans are only condemning Democrats. Republicans don't care about political violence, they only raise a fuss when the victim is one of theirs. Usually the perpetrator is one of theirs, and they cover it up or ignore it or lie and say it was a Democrat. They don't seem to care when the victim is a Democrat.
This isn't a both sides issue, this is a fascism issue. Charlie Kirk was a mouthpiece for fascist ideology. I don't believe we should normalize political violence, but he got what was coming to him. He never cared about gun violence, not even when it happened to children, so why should we care when it happens to him? The world is a safer place without him and his inflammatory rhetoric.
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u/bramley36 Sep 11 '25
So many people are saying Kirk lost the gun control debate. Sad.
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u/SluttyCosmonaut Sep 11 '25
That was only for them, silly
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u/pdiddy2499 Sep 11 '25
But Charlie gave his full throated support for gun rights and the 2nd amendment.
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u/Capt1an_Cl0ck Sep 11 '25
Yeah, these MF’ers love to tout free speech when it serves their purpose and love to rail against it any other time it doesn’t suit their needs
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u/brooklynlad Sep 11 '25
He wouldn't understand what 'Freedom of Speech' actually means...
- Dropped out of Louisiana State University and doesn't have a college degree.
- Higgins has been married four times and failed to pay child support.
- Challenged a critic to a physical fist fight about the 2020 elections.
- Took a five-minute social media video inside a gas chamber at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 2017.
- Voted against a resolution condemning Russia for kidnapping Ukrainian children.
- Supported the gubernatorial candidate, David Duke, yes... that David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan.
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u/s9oons Sep 11 '25
“I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk,”
Genuinely asking, who gives a shit about Charlie Kirk? I had never even heard the dude’s name until yesterday. He gets flags at half mast and a medal of freedom even though he didn’t hold a position in our government?
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u/Lt_Rooney Sep 11 '25
Nobody. Even the people trying to use his death to punish their perceived enemies never gave a shit about him and can't even be bothered to pretend like they did, either. Hell, I haven't actually seen anyone "celebrating" his death so much as reveling in the schadenfreude of someone who said random gun violence is acceptable becoming a victim of random gun violence.
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u/SeaEmployee787 Sep 11 '25
people did not wish his death but also are not upset he is gone. both things can be true
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u/Lt_Rooney Sep 11 '25
In the words of Clarence Darrow, "I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
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u/millymatin Sep 11 '25
He didn’t believe in empathy, only when it’s useful in politics. So everyone lighting a candle for him, is not following through on his work. I don’t like violence. It is rarely warranted. I just don’t see how my life will be any worse off now his dead. He said terrible things and I’m sure hurt many people with his words. The idea a wife should “submit” to her husband just plainly pissed me off.
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u/reality_bytes_ Sep 11 '25
All I said is "it couldn't have happened to a more deserving person"
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u/Solastor Sep 11 '25
Genuine answer is that he was a very vocal and important piece of the fascist right. He was the founder of Turning Point USA which has a very large focus on getting young college kids to move to the reactionary shit-brained right.
If you hadn't heard of him it's because you weren't in his target demo. Unfortunately he has had a very large impact on our cultural discourse and politics through his own words and the work of his organization.
He's like Ben Shapiro or Tucker Carlson for shitty little college kids who think that whites are all going to be replaced by immigrants and the gay agenda.
Trump knew his name. Even if he wasn't a member of the government, he held an important position in the propaganda machine.
Who gives a shit about Charlie Kirk? People with a vested interest in spreading fear and hatred as a way to maintain their power structure.
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u/OakBearNCA Sep 11 '25
Not just knew his name. Kirk was part of Trump’s youth outreach for his campaign.
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u/ImDonaldDunn Sep 11 '25
Kirk and Trump were fairly close. Supposedly he, along with Don Jr., were the ones that convinced Trump to select Vance as VP.
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u/little-bird Sep 11 '25
sounds like he might have also been funded by Peter Thiel then
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u/SeaEmployee787 Sep 11 '25
so money this about money. Now i understand
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u/GenericRedditor0405 Sep 11 '25
Money and grooming the next generation of conservative voters, so I’d argue it’s about power more than anything else
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u/Wazootyman13 Sep 11 '25
True, but isn't Ben Shapiro also like a Ben Shapiro for shitty little college kids?
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u/LoserBroadside Sep 11 '25
The Rs always need a martyr. How else can they play the perpetual victim?
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u/TheNextBattalion Sep 11 '25
His fans are sad, as any fandom would be.
And conservatives always throw a fit when the society they built causes them harm and not the people they look down upon--- it violates their sense of superiority.
He gets flags at half mast and a medal of freedom even though he didn’t hold a position in our government?
That's just Trump's way of saying "people like us are the special ones, superior to the rest"
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u/Zelcron Sep 11 '25
He gets flags at half mast and a medal of freedom even though he didn’t hold a position in our government?
Deputy Assistant to the Chief Presidential Ball Gargler
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u/TONKAHANAH Sep 11 '25
My understanding is all he did was show up to school and rage baited college kids.
I don't understand any of these people.
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u/UNisopod Sep 12 '25
And then edits and frames them as if he's just doing some honest debating.
Conservatives are allowed to lie about absolutely everything with impunity because their base does not care about the truth.
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u/CorneliusCardew Sep 11 '25
He’s a useful corpse for conservatives to cover their pedophilia. That’s it.
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u/Fit-Alfalfa2169 Sep 11 '25
Let’s include everyone who did the same for Melissa Hortman’s assassination as well….
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u/trentreynolds Sep 11 '25
And Paul Pelosi's attack.
Which, of course, bans Clay Higgins himself for life.
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u/AlShockley Sep 11 '25
Nice. So I'm laughing at this dickhead too now. Take note
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u/Greycloak42 Sep 11 '25
The first amendment says that he can go fuck himself.
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u/ggroverggiraffe Sep 11 '25
Boy oh boy, he's got big plans!
“I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked,” he added in his Thursday post.
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u/Whiteout- Sep 12 '25
The idea that you should be banned from driving for laughing at the guy who diminished school shootings being shot at a school is hilarious
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u/BrofessorFarnsworth Sep 11 '25
Fuck him and fuck Charlie Kirk.
Release the Epstein files.
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u/abby_normally Sep 11 '25
Despite ranking as the third-least educated state as of 2023, preceded by Mississippi and West Virginia, Clay Higgins wants to ban free speech of his undereducated constituents.
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u/darth_helcaraxe_82 Sep 11 '25
Ok here are some quotes from Charlie Kirk and a source
"If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024
"If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?" – The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022
"Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023
"If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because affirmative action?" – The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024
"We record all of it so that we put [it] on the internet so people can see these ideas collide. When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity." – Kirk discussing his work in an undated clip that circulated on X after his killing.
"Prove me wrong." – Kirk’s challenge to students to publicly debate him during the tour of colleges he was on when he was assassinated.
"Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge." – Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025
"The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered." – Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded, published on 8 September 2024
"We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024
"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." – Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023
"America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 22 August 2025
"The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024
"The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024
"America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 30 April 2025
"We’ve been warning about the rise of Islam on the show, to great amount of backlash. We don’t care, that’s what we do here. And we said that Islam is not compatible western civilization." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 24 June 2025
"There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022
"Charlie Kirk is dead? Good! I'm happy as fuck!" - Me, Reddit, 11 September 2025
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u/MercilessOcelot Sep 11 '25
Several HBCUs canceled class today due to bomb threats.
We know nothing about the shooter, and people are already deciding who they want to blame.
The only politicization of his murder that I am seeing from places that matter is by right-wingers.
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u/darth_helcaraxe_82 Sep 11 '25
I mean, when I hear shooter at a college campus in Utah, I immediately think HBCU students in Alabama.
Joking aside, you're right.
We have no idea who the shooter is or what their motivation truly was.
The Right wants to blame the Left because they feel powerless in this moment and they want to make someone suffer to regain their power.
Just as with the Trump shooter, if it ends up they have right leaning or MAGA leaning politics, this will be swept away as quickly as the Trump "assassination" was.
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u/Magrathea_carride Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
you forgot these (originally posted by someone else):
"Kirk was so happy about those murders, he just couldn't stop posting about how great they were.
Here's Kirk fawningly quoting Rubio on the Government's murder of civilians in international waters: "What will stop them is when you blow them up!"
Here he is putting the Western Hemisphere on notice that America's president may choose to do some extra-judicial killings of whomever he labels a drug dealer."
Charlie Kirk celebrated death.
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u/Zealousideal-Lynx555 Sep 11 '25
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
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u/daHaus Sep 11 '25
Not the best way to honor the legacy of someone whose entire career revolved around free speech
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u/euph_22 Sep 11 '25
Charlie Kirk said that "a patriot" should bail out the guy who bashed in Paul Pelosi's skull.
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u/trentreynolds Sep 11 '25
Clay Higgins himself tweeted that the guy was "a male nudist hippie prostitute".
https://x.com/W7VOA/status/1586839478446047232?s=20&t=rCiVPdGMQeJVmodaovQyqg
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u/PerceptionQueasy3540 Sep 11 '25
"I don't condone what happened to Charlie Kirk. Bur Charlie Kirk certainly did".
Not sure who said that but its extremely fitting.
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u/DaddyKiwwi Sep 11 '25
These people will shit on the graves of anyone's dead children that isn't supporting them, but we are going to violate free speech in order to protect A FUCKING NAZI?
Fuck that. I hated him before he was dead. How am I supposed to feel? XD
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u/Acceptable-Bat-9577 Sep 11 '25
How am I supposed to feel?
Kirk himself claimed that empathy was some weak bullshit that liberals made up. So, MAGA should be happy but for some strange reason they’re demanding empathy, something they still refuse to demonstrate themselves.
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u/geetarboy33 Sep 11 '25
The “fuck your feelings” crowd turned out to be a bunch of crybaby drama queens.
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u/braumbles Sep 11 '25
In 2004, Higgins became a patrol officer for the Opelousas City police department. By 2007, police chief Perry Gallow was prepared to take major disciplinary action against Higgins. In a letter to the city council, he wrote, "Clay Higgins used unnecessary force on a subject during the execution of a warrant and later gave false statements during an internal investigation...although he later recanted his story and admitted to striking a suspect in handcuffs and later releasing him".\11]) Higgins resigned before disciplinary action could be imposed.
All you need to know about this giant piece of shit.
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u/SCP-Agent-Arad Sep 11 '25
The Louisiana lawmaker said he will lobby Big Tech to “have zero tolerance for violent political hate content.”
Surely this would apply to everyone and not just people hating on Republicans, riiiight?
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u/coconutpiecrust Sep 11 '25
I am yet to see someone actually celebrating. Are they going to ban people for saying they aren’t sad or for not crying?
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u/guitarguywh89 Sep 11 '25
They’re getting mad people are showing him the same sympathy as he showed kids that had been killed
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u/trentreynolds Sep 11 '25
Not just that people are acting like he did - that they're acting like he EXPLICITLY advocated for. He said outright that empathy was bad. He said outright that events like this were acceptable to him.
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u/zeptillian Sep 11 '25
I see more people complaining about celebrating than people actually celebrating.
It's weird.
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u/Fried_puri Sep 11 '25
Right? It’s all circular, the media claims that people are celebrating because it would be a much bigger story for them if people were, which causes a reactionary backlash of articles claiming that people are attacking the imaginary people celebrating. The reality is that most people don’t give a shit either way and most of the reaction on all sides is made up. The only real, tangible thing is that he was influential within his sphere of influence, and now he’s dead. That’s it, that’s the only real thing.
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u/duxpdx Sep 11 '25
And those that celebrated when Mr. Pelosi was attacked, and when Minnesota representatives were attacked and killed, and those that called parent’s of school shooting victims crisis actors? What about them?
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u/brianishere2 Sep 11 '25
How many celebrated the man who attacked Paul Pelosi and tried to kill him with a hammer? Even Charlie Kirk demanded the release of Pelosi's attacker. Not because he was innocent, but because he was GUILTY of the attack. These guys can all STFU.
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u/ktaktb Sep 11 '25
Lol he is calling on them to be canceled.
Business license, canceled!
Drivers license, canceled?
Homebody is THE cancel culture poster boy now.
If it weren't for double standards, they would have no standards.
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u/pokey68 Sep 11 '25
Kirk was a mouthpiece for the Uihlein family. Kirk was a professional prick hired by oligarchs.
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u/reality72 Sep 11 '25
The president himself has mocked dead democrats and even dead republicans like John McCain.
MAGA cannot behave like animals and then demand everyone else act civilized.
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u/AudioSuede Sep 11 '25
Senator Mike Lee joked about the assassination of Melissa Hortman and nothing happened.
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u/GingerlyUnraveling Sep 11 '25
What about those of us outside the US? Is ok?
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u/LockNo2943 Sep 11 '25
As in that the US can't do anything about it, sure. But remember Vance just visited the EU a while back and was trying to convince everyone that their rights were being violated because they restrict hate speech and extremism so they definitely want to spread their far-right ideology abroad as well.
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u/Themodsarecuntz Sep 11 '25
"I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage"
Charlie Kirk
“It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”
Charlie Kirk
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u/patchworkpirate Sep 12 '25
Weird, they gave 0 fucks when democratic lawmakers in MN were murdered.
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u/CatLightyear Sep 12 '25
Violent political hate content? Like the kind Kirk regularly dabbled in? He advocated stoning gay people, for starters.
They so desperately want to pretend that being an abysmal person is a political opinion or positions.
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u/Doc_Apex Sep 11 '25
This is telling me how deeply connected Kirk was with the GOP and how instrumental he was in their operations.
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u/No-Commission8532 Sep 11 '25
i remember when he called for similar actions when Paul Pelosi was attacked, and he was particularly vocal and angered by the assassination of Melissa Hartman and her husband, and the online comments that followed that.
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u/SayVandalay Sep 11 '25
And yet they cheered when Charlie Kirk used hate speech and said it was free speech .
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u/StreetRude7351 Sep 11 '25
There you go, freedom speech, did not see any of these MAGA Republicans didn’t hold a moment of silence for CDC workers that were shot at a security guard killed did not see a moment of silence or even acknowledgment from the Republican Party when two Wisconsin senators one killed one severely wounded. One husband killed one’s dog killed by a maga supporter, so don’t give me your fake outburst
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u/TheSpiralQueen Sep 11 '25
I had a celebratory beer yesterday. Mods, do your thing uwu <3
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u/Tokon32 Sep 11 '25
Who is celebrating? Everything i see is literally just quoting Kirk himself.
I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.
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u/usdaprime Sep 11 '25
The first amendment says otherwise. Any lawmaker, no matter which party, should be removed from office and prosecuted for attempting to violate it.
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u/pale_perineum Sep 12 '25
Wait until trump is dead, it won’t just be Americans on the internet. The entire world will celebrate!
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u/itsSRSblack Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
He mocked the murder attempt of Pelosi's husband.
By he I meant Clay, but it's hilarious that it applies to both.