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  1. What are you stupid? No one is talking about the 1st Amendment. What we ARE talking about is personal responsibility. You asked what generation I am from? I am from the generation where we never knew you were supposed to wear helmets to ride bikes. That same generation knew that WORDS got your ass kicked. If you came home and told your dad that you called some kid a(insert racial epithet) and got your ass kicked, he would simply ask you what did you learn. Your parents weren't running up to your school saying, "but words". When I was a kid you didn't turn on tv and see anyone, anywhere saying the hateful shit Charlie Kirk said. You also didn't have the got-damned President of the United States saying divisive shit while addressing the nation. Words have always been the catalyst to violence. Always. Right wing media is saying that Kirk got popped because the left was calling him a Nazi and White Supremacist. Well, the simple solution is don't say White Supremacist/Nazi shit. Kirk said this-"If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified'" That statement IS White Supremacy. He wouldn't wonder if a White pilot is qualified because the pilot is White. Both pilots got their pilot's license from the same place, but because he sees the black pilot as inferior, he would question his qualification. Someone who was not a White Supremacist would say, "Gee, I hope ANY pilot is qualified". Kirk is dead because HE continued spouting rhetoric like this. He could've stopped at any time. It's not our responsibility to not categorize his rhetoric, it's his responsibility to control what comes out of his mouth. We literally use these same principles everywhere else. When we hear a rapper got shot and killed because he wore a bunch of jewelry in the hood what do we say? Opposing sports fan being a douche in the wrong section what do we say? At some point the onus is on you. I am not going to stop calling people White Supremacist when I literally have dudes doing Nazi Salutes at the Inauguration for the President of the United States of America.
    60 points
  2. All of you are sitting around moping about like someone just shot your dog. Frankly - I'm fucking tired of it. This is Texas football. Back to back CFP appearances. Back to back national semifinals. B12 champs 2023. SEC title game 2024. Back to back 12 win seasons (13 last year). Thorpe award 2024. Outland trophy 2024. 25 NFL draft picks the last two seasons. Get y'all's fucking shit together and quit being a bunch of bitches. If I have to see one more motherfucker post about 2010 Texas or Garrett Gilbert I'm throwing a damn brick through someone's window. I am so, deeply sorry that Arch Manning isn't instantly 2019 Joe Burrow. Why don't all of you relax and watch a couple more games before claiming that this team is going 7-5. These dogs get another warmup and then they all go get to prove themselves. We are going to fuck Florida's shit up. We are going to fuck OU's shit up. Have some fucking faith in what your head coach has shown you and what he has already delivered for this program. The QB is green. They will figure it out. Together. Give them time. Have some God damn faith for once in your life. THIS IS TEXAS FOOTBALL, GOD DAMMIT. Let's fucking ride. 🤘
    52 points
  3. May he receive the same level of compassion he extended towards other victims of gun violence.
    52 points
  4. I guess I need to preface this by saying I am not celebrating what happened to charlie kirk. Yet, the only MAGA posters on this site who even bothered to show up on the thread about a right wing nut assassinating two Democratic politicians, only did so to attempt to gaslight us into believing that the assassin was a liberal and/or a Tim Walz plant. Nor did any of them give a shit when right wing extremists shot up places of worship or shopping centers. But NOW, they are very concerned about what's happening in America.
    43 points
  5. Shit, I feel MORE confident when I see a black person in a position of responsibility/authority…because you know their ass had to not only meet the requirements, but also overcome bullshit at every crucial point in their career while being careful to not piss off the bigots.
    40 points
  6. Charlie Kirk texted me a couple days before his death expressing concerns about Arch Manning.
    39 points
  7. Libs will sometimes dip their bullets in gay so their enemies can't get into heaven.
    39 points
  8. I think grouping everyone you disagree with politically in with the small faction that is openly celebrating is the type of rhetoric that got us here.
    38 points
  9. I just told a friend I have known for 35 years to have a nice life when she posted a Bible Verse about Charlie Kirk and said he was a good Christian. I then told her Jesus preached to love others and treat others how you would want to be treated, and Charlie Kirk had nothing but hate in him, and his goal in life was to stoke that hate through his platform. She of course did not post something similar with Melissa Hortman died. I am done with people. Effectively, she only condemned political violence when someone she perceives on her side is the victim. I am done. If you hate people for things they cannot control like their race, their sex, their gender, or where they were born, you are a piece of shit. I might not understand people or their life choices, but I try and at least treat them with respect, unlike purported Christians.
    36 points
  10. Pro tip, dumbass. When you paste something in rich text, it's obvious to the rest of us that you lifted that quote from somewhere else. Why don't you try citing your source instead of just passing off someone else's shit as your own. As another poster shared already, look at all efforts on good faith discourse: https://www.politifact.com/personalities/charlie-kirk/ That being said, I want to be clear, there is no space for political violence in this country, this is fucking horrible, and to be honest it doesn't end well at all for America. There will only be escalation after this, and it fucking sucks this is where we are as a country and species.
    35 points
  11. i have zero condolences, thoughts, or prayers. gun violence is deplorable, but this man spent his adult life fomenting hatred and violence, and he is absolutely (at least partially) responsible for his own assassination. i opened up twitter as soon as i heard the news and i saw nothing but high profile left wing politicians and personalities condemning this assassination, and all thoughtless gun and political violence. funny, i’ve never seen the right wing folks react that way any of the dozens of notable times when political violence has been inflicted on the left. today they will cry foul and will wholly condemn anyone who celebrates this killing, as if they and theirs haven’t been reacting with glee whenever left wing figures are attacked with hammers or shot down in their own homes. that’s why they will get zero sympathy, zero condolences, and zero sadness from me. these people have been fomenting this violent climate for years, and celebrating when it was the other side getting killed. i would never feel sorry for a member of hitler’s gestapo being shot and killed, and i am not sorry, or sad, or offering my condolences for a member of trump’s propaganda machine paying the ultimate price for his own actions.
    35 points
  12. “How dare you.” From the people who scoff at the assassination of Minnesota lawmakers (D) and laughed at Paul Pelosi having his skull pummeled by a hammer. This isn’t even a blip on the map of the impending civil war.
    35 points
  13. You dickrode Trump for 4 years, cheered for kids in cages, and talked about wanting to shoot immigrants. Then you realized that all sounded bad and nuked that account and started this alt pretending to be someone else entirely. Nobody has a single reason to believe anything you say and many reasons not to.
    34 points
  14. He was killed because at the end of the day, he was a piece of shit grifter making great money stoking the hate machine. That's first and foremost what he cared about. And while he has a right to free speech in this country, he ran a certain risk with all of his inflammatory bullshit. Actions have consequences, and I guess someone had enough of his divisive bullshit. And I hope they find the person that did this and that he faces the full consequences of his actions. But my opinion of Kirk hasn't changed a one bit. He's like Rush Limbaugh. Fuck him and all he stood for. He didn't give one fuck about unifying this country, that's not where the money is at. The money is in the grift, and the grift was in keeping people angry.
    34 points
  15. Trump got shot and we didn't have a civil war. There isn't going to be a civil war over this. Every Democratic leader will denounce this and say we need to end political violence. Every Republican leader will blame Democrats.
    34 points
  16. It’s not particularly new for college students to believe that they have a right to silence speech they believe conflicts with their moral values, and it’s not particularly confined to the left or right. You can’t even begin to count the number of guest lectures that have been pulled down on college campuses over the last 15 years or so after undergrad groups threw fits over the content. It is fairly new for the chief executive of the country to indulge their tantrums.
    34 points
  17. 33 points
  18. I'm not celebrating. But I'm also not canonizing him. And discussing his racist, bigoted, and sexist views -- which were a large part of his identity rather than some harmless off-the-cuff isolated remarks -- is entirely fair game, even on the day of his death. And I have no reason to doubt that he was a good and loving husband and father, and showed kindness to those in his personal and political circle. I don't know him, but I've never read otherwise. However, he chose a public persona and pulpit to spew divisive, demeaning and hateful shit that went so far beyond what his loyalists want to label as conservative policies that big bad universities are stifling. He doesn't get a pass on that just to allow his fanboys a day of grieving. And when yesterday I first saw a comment on a Facebook post comparing his death to MLK's assassination, I thought that was a ridiculous isolated comment. But holy shit, that sentiment has a MAGA tidal wave behind it. And those crazy fucks are even saying Kirk was better than MLK because he never cheated on his wife unlike King the womanizer. Hey, if you want to compare personal lives, fine. I recently read the Pulitzer Prize-winning King: A Life, and along with MLK's greatness, the author also writes pretty extensively on King's infidelities, which were exhaustively taped by Hoover's FBI. If you're going to tell me that Charlie Kirk was a saint who never even thought about a woman other than his wife when he masturbated, okay, I'll assume that's true for this discussion. But however virtuous Kirk may have been in his private life, he chose a message and a movement of divisiveness, hateful, sexist, and antisemitic rhetoric, and a complete lack of empathy. On the other hand, King, for all of his extra-marital affairs, had a consistent mission and message of equality and justice, dignity for every human, love (even for his enemies), and maybe most remarkably, nonviolence, even when others in the Black movement toward the last several years of his life were pleading for him, "King, we need to consider some motherfucking violence!" Back to your post. I'm not happy at all that Kirk was gunned down. I'm sad for his widow and kids, and that another person yesterday was senselessly killed by a gun. And to honestly voice my selfish political reason for being angry at his murder, I'm fucking pissed that someone decided to kill a MAGA figurehead when it's only going to further enrage and energize that sad faction of our country. So we're not celebrating his death (well, at least I'm not). We're just honestly examining his life.
    33 points
  19. 32 points
  20. After the election, I kept asking myself "is this who we are as a country?" It's easy enough to convince yourself that people were brainwashed or the Democrats fucked up the election or shit was just too expensive... but the last week has proven to me that the simple answer to that question is "yes, this is who we are." We are a country that values the life of a conservative podcaster more than the lives of Democratic lawmakers or children in schools. We are a country that happily lives in two different realities curated by the algorithms in our pocket. We are a country where the media is more focused on access than truth-telling. We are a country that is more concerned with our differences than our similarities. I naively thought that the Democrats just had a messaging problem and that the majority of the country would agree with their ideas if they were just communicated better. I thought that many of the Republican voters just did so out of habit or comfort and weren't truly aware of what their party stood for. That's all bullshit. The liberal viewpoint is the clear minority in this country. The Democrats have lost. When the goals of social media align so clearly with one party over the other (outrage!!!), there's nothing that can be done. We have to accept the new reality, complaining about it now is like going to College Station and complaining that everyone is wearing maroon. @Brisketexan - I'm climbing off the ledge. Not because anything has gotten better, but because there's nowhere for us to even jump. Might as well figure out how to live like this. First step is deleting all forms of social media from my phone. Real life is much more pleasant than life through a screen. I only find disappointment in learning who people are behind their keyboard.
    32 points
  21. I had to explain to a friend yesterday how it’s fine to hold these thoughts in our heads at the same time: Violence is bad and murder is wrong and the person who did this should go to jail for the rest of his life…. and also Charlie Kirk was a terrible person who profited off hate speech and demonizing people and the world is a better place with him not in it.
    32 points
  22. go preach this to all of your like minded right wing friends and family who’ve never given a single fuck about political violence or “how we treat our fellow man” one day in their lives. change starts at home. go give this lecture to the people who need it.
    32 points
  23. Yeah, it's not a good look. But damn do I sure wish your half of the country would get this upset about school shootings.
    32 points
  24. Charlie Kirk wasn’t assassinated. That asshole got shot.
    32 points
  25. Um, I made a comment earlier that I am deeply ashamed of. If I have hurt anyone out there, I can't tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart, I'm so very, very sorry. I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith—as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run, and so that'll make it a 4–0 ballgame.
    32 points
  26. Charlie Kirk is dead, and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code, he had no honor, and God was watching.
    32 points
  27. Update: -After 2 games, it is high time to write off new starters across the OL, including the 5 star redshirt freshman RT. His PFF scores have him below acceptability, and his ass needs to be cut, right now. -Based on less than 20 snaps of play, it is clear that Nate Kibble needs to be starting at LG. Meanwhile, Connor Stroh and Neto Umeozulu need to be washing towels and uniforms in the locker room to earn the remainder of their scholarship pay. -No, we mean it, it is high time to fire Kyle Flood. The guy is not developing talent. It's fucking obvious. Do not ask about the 4 guys that just joined NFL rosters. -We're clearly going to need to land 5! OLs in the transfer portal. What we mean by that is the roster just needs to be fucking flushed, folks. -It is time to consider that Torre Becton may also be a problem. There's got to be a reason players are not developing on this roster. -Steve Sarkisian has lost the plot and we're being publicly lampooned for his restroom grimace commentary.
    32 points
  28. No. He taught them to be raging bigots, and that it's okay to say vile, racist shit to people. Proof? My daughter is now in another state because she could not take the racism at her school. We've already been in the news once recently for bullying a middle school kid through racist texts. So she is left to finish her senior year elsewhere. Her hispanic friend told us kids at school thought it was funny to tell her they were going to call ICE on her even though her family has been here for generations and her dad is an MIT grad. These are your church going conservative kids that Kirk is grooming.
    31 points
  29. I’m not celebrating his death. If he truly is a Christian he is with Jesus right now and if so, I believe he is having to give an account for his actions on earth. I feel terrible for his wife and daughters. No one should have their family ripped apart by gun violence. I will note that the vast majority of Americans want reasonable laws passed to lessen the likelihood of that happening to more families. And he vehemently advocated against that in his life. No reasonable person thinks we can take that number to zero, but that is not an argument for doing nothing. According to his own words Kirk believed an absolute right to the 2nd amendment is so important that the deaths of thousands of children are acceptable to protect it. He spent his life sowing hate towards marginalized people; people who are my friends and family members, my patients, and my (and his) brothers and sisters in Christ, so no I do not mourn him. But because I am called to love him I am struggling mightily right now. My eldest daughter, who is one of the strongest and most faithful Christians I know, told me last night she is questioning her faith because of all her friends who are posting about what a tragedy this is when they never had a word to say about Uvalde; or El Paso; or the Pulse nightclub; or any of the church/mosque/synegogue shootings; or the MN assassinations or school shootings. Or even the CO school shootings from yesterday. And who attacked her for saying why she does not mourn him. Note she didn’t respond to their posts expressing their grief but felt compelled to post replies to her on her timeline She has never said anything about questioning her faith to me and she has gone through some very trying times. And I don’t have anything to say to her that doesn’t feel hollow and trite. And that breaks my heart I will leave you with a quote from Charlie Kirk, which I can only assume shows us how he would want us to feel about his death, unless his whole professional life was a work: “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.” “I can’t stand th empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.”
    31 points
  30. Our right wing posters have largely justified away any bad acts of their party and affiliates and have flipped flopped on so many issues over the years it is difficult to summarize in a single post. The ones that repeated the lies about left wing extremists were always projecting and hoping they could make even the thinnest of evidence stick. It was reflected again in the shooting of CK, when so many right wingers and leaders within the community called for violence and war, meanwhile the left’s leadership acted like adults and condemned the violence. The president and his lackeys have called for jailing and harassing people who believe differently. You might not have started out as an authoritarian sympathist who believed in this country, but when you looked around and saw your party was taken over by white nationalists and criminals you stood by them. We got rid of Al Franken for a picture where he pretended to touch the boobs. You elected a guy who is a known felon and pedophile. We are not the same. We do not have the same values. We remove our own for being corrupt. We don’t incite violence. We don’t spread lies and misinformation/dysinformation at the same rates. And we have hope for our future through education and inclusion, not exclusionary and repressive tactics.
    30 points
  31. Kirk publicly mocked and laughed when Paul Pelosi had his head bashed in with a hammer and called for the perpetrator's release. Every democrat of note has said, yet again, that there is no place for political violence. These are facts.
    30 points
  32. An Indian dude, and self-professed Hindu, "talking to" an alleged Christian, about a Nordic pagan afterlife. Makes sense.
    29 points
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