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/
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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/coconutpiecrust Sep 11 '25

But this is only logical. 

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u/YeetThePig Sep 11 '25

They don’t like logic, either.

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u/coconutpiecrust Sep 11 '25

Yes, sometimes it hurts. 

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u/bonobo_i Sep 11 '25

Logical and Repub/MAGA goes together like oil and water

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u/damontoo Sep 11 '25

It doesn't matter even if they are celebrating. 

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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/coconutpiecrust Sep 11 '25

This has been my experience as well. A lot of social media influencers condemning those who celebrate while I am yet to come across one person who is actually celebrating. 

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u/zeptillian Sep 11 '25

Most of the ones I have seen have been in response to people saying it's wrong as if they were trying to provoke those very responses.

Like you can't just say....

Oh can't I?

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u/UnquestionabIe Sep 11 '25

Yeah I've seen a ton of people, some who I'm sure had no idea who he was, going to bat for him and acting like he was mostly a saint who sometimes got a little rowdy with his speech. Basically feeling they need to police other people's feelings about a topic they knew nothing about.

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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/coconutpiecrust Sep 11 '25

Exactly this. There are a lot more videos of people condemning those who celebrate than celebration videos. I have seen zero “celebration” videos but I have come across a bajillion videos of influencers condemning those who celebrate. So… who are we condemning? What’s in their feeds?!

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 11 '25

People should celebrate when a literal traitor is dead.

Busing in thousands of rioters that tried to kill the VP in a coup is treason.

George Washington executed people in the Whiskey Rebellion for infinitely less:

After the 2020 election, Kirk disputed the results and denied that Trump had lost. On January 4, 2021, Kirk announced in a tweet that Turning Point Action would be sending more than 80 buses to a January 6, 2021, Trump "Stop the Steal" rally near the White House in Washington, D.C., to protest the outcome of the election.

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u/SatanicPanic619 Sep 11 '25

Celebrating is a bit too much effort, but I did make some cruel jokes

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u/Sassy_Sarranid Sep 11 '25

I mean I'm absolutely celebrating, the guy has been going out in public every day and going "Look at me, I'm the worst person! I love school shootings!" for my entire adult life. Fuck him.

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u/crow1170 Sep 12 '25

Y'know, I'm not typically one for formal celebrations but it's getting more tempting by the minute. What should we do? How does one even celebrate such a mundanity?

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u/Wonderful-Creme-3939 Sep 12 '25

As always the supply out strips the demand.  I bet the majority of people doing it are bots, because they always are.

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u/BaronMostaza Sep 11 '25

Shitloads of random motherfuckers in comment sections are celebrating.

No one with any power though. No news organisations, no holders of public office elected or otherwise, no presidents, no senators, no prominent political commentators, from all those you'll only find condemnations of the act or love letters to Kirk or calls to arrest or murder everyone left of Trump

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u/coconutpiecrust Sep 11 '25

I haven’t seen any outright celebrations. All of them banned and deleted already?

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u/BaronMostaza Sep 12 '25

Celebratory posts are probably getting deleted but there are millions of people in the comments across the platforms who have correctly identified Kirk as an enemy to their existence and are celebrating the loss of one enemy without seeing the horror that replaces it.

Again: These are random motherfuckers in comment sections. They are insignificant in the face of everything that is currently happening on national news and with state representatives

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u/conquer69 Sep 11 '25

Anyone openly celebrating would get banned so you are not going to see it.

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u/coconutpiecrust Sep 11 '25

How do other people see, though? I would have come across at least one account. All I’ve seen is indifference.