• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
    1365·
    9 hours ago

    I’m getting pretty fucking sick of seeing this ‘no one should be killed for their political beliefs’ take going around.

    He wasn’t killed for his beliefs. He was killed because he dedicated his life to terrorizing everyone who isn’t a conservative white man, and was materially supporting state violence in the pursuit of white supremacy.

    That is 100% something we have firmly established that people should be shot for, in multiple wars throughout the last few centuries.

    • Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      38·
      8 hours ago

      Seriously, he’s words and actions have probably resulted in the deaths of others, why shouldn’t he have gotten this outcome?

    • m0darn@lemmy.ca
      61·
      6 hours ago

      His family shouldn’t expect empathy, and he wouldn’t want his death to distract from full Epstein file disclosure.

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I expect the NRA will stage a gunshow at a nearby site someplace in the next few days, right? Its what they do for school shootings and this was at a school. So Kirk’s fam can stock up on cheap ammo.

    • BanMe@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 hours ago

      If you’re part of a movement that’s taking vaccines away from babies, well, you’re evil and people are going to respond to that.

    • deaf_fish@midwest.social
      3·
      6 hours ago

      There was a way around this that would have resulted in no deaths. Trump should been prosecuted for the January 6th insurrection. Then we should have put a bunch of fascists in jail for a long time. Then we should have de-platformed grifters.

      But none of that happens so. We get what we get.

    • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 hours ago

      Pretty sure Wikipedia has a single button that changes all present tense to past sense. Someone who’s more familiar with it correct me if I’m wrong though.

  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
    55·
    9 hours ago

    This is a TRAGEDY! WHY couldn’t they MURDER A BUNCH OF KINDERGARTNERS Instead? This SUCKS! It’s TIME for Trump to send the Military into the Shithole Blue state of Utah!

      • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 hours ago

        That happens all the time it’s not news.

        Someone getting the justice they deserve? That’s news!

        But I didn’t know about the school shooting. I am so fucking sick of this shit. It’s not ok for the conservatives to have conversations with their kids about gay people existing but it’s perfectly fine for me to have a conversation with my kids telling them they might die when they go to school right?

    • AndiHutch@lemmy.zipEnglish
      71·
      8 hours ago

      I like them anyway, but your comments never fail at being slightly annoying. I know it’s parody of trump and his type of posts, but it’s just a little too on the nose and the intermittent all caps words gets on my nerves. 10/10 Boomerposting

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    743·
    9 hours ago

    I feel bad that his children had to witness that, and even if they hadn’t been there (which they were) they’d undoubtedly have the video clip shoved in their faces eventually. That’s a hell of a way to lose a parent.

    The fact that he died while in the middle of talking about trans mass shooters being a huge problem certainly makes it feel like cosmic karma at work. I struggle to give a shit about the man himself being shot dead. But I do worry about political violence… it’s a very rare occasion when murdering someone sitting in a chair talking is a good idea. Not a single person in his right-wing sphere of repugnance is going to do any self-reflection and change their ways, they’ll just become even more rabidly anti-everything left of Hitler. Shit like this doesn’t go unanswered too often. Violence is a contagion with no cure except time, and the clock gets set back another decade every time someone retaliates. I’m sure we could chain all of these assassinations together into a causal sequence. But even if they’re all independent events, the narrative-makers will be hard at work making it sound like a grand battle of the ages, so the result is the same either way.

    Source: History, memory…

    P.S. Any bets that the shooter was a MAGA nut? Seems to be the trend 👀

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      22·
      8 hours ago

      Speaking as someone with a shitty sociopath ‘parent’:

      They’ve seen enough its not too much escalation. And now they never have to deal with his bullshit again. The emotions will be complicated, but they won’t all be bad.

      You’re looking for someone to cry for. Cry for tye victims of this toxic shit. The kids he turned into nazis. The people who died on the street. The querrs who suffered abd possibly died in silence. All because this didnt happen sooner.

      Cry with joy for those that might live now. If you have that much surplus of tears.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      3·
      6 hours ago

      I feel bad that his children had to witness that, and even if they hadn’t been there (which they were) they’d undoubtedly have the video clip shoved in their faces eventually. That’s a hell of a way to lose a parent.

      It’s what he wanted. Quick, too.

      It is fucked for those kids though. Not their fault.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah his kids and family didn’t deserve that.

      He may have, but they didn’t. That’s why this kind of thing is usually frowned upon I suppose.

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      Wow, i heard Trump orchestrated this to distract from the Epstien files.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    611·
    10 hours ago

    “No Way to Stop This Happening” Says Only Country Where This Regularly Happens.

    America’s Finest News Source

  • Inucune@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 hours ago

    Translating this into MAGA-speak: “God called him home on the express… possibly Nitro. Who are we to question His plan?”