SoftestSapphicIrony rule
BigFigIt’s got nothing on clown slaughter, but yes it is very funny
SanctusAfter you said kids should be forced to watch public executions live and on tv and then you are publicly executed in front of your kids live on tv.
🍉 Albert 🍉I don’t support that kind of violence, however Charlie Kirk was
I personally know (knew?) someone with a Wikipedia article about dying in the street after doing a ton of blow, naked, covered in Vaseline, running away from prostitutes… And even this might top that in terms of most hilarious death.
brem#Leopardsatemygigantichead
To be fair, his death was way after me and my family knew him, but he did have a cocaine problem. Look up Herb Abrams; also I misspoke, it was baby oil.
Mr. Electric has an interesting wiki. Thank you for sharing.
I once met a man who fell through a roof of a restaurant & then covered himself in ketchup and mustard. He awoke to the police finding him swaddled in a blanket of insulation.
Also a good story, lol. And no worries, this was ages ago!
I hope it wasn’t fiberglass insulation. Gonna be so itchy!
It was an old building, my guess is the itchy kind.
They should have engraved “Q.E.D” into the bullet
He should have printed copies of Trump’s letter to Epstein on the shells, that way not even the justice department could look at them for evidence.
MeatPilotPeople need to stop celebrating the shooter! I’m absolutely disgusted and ashamed by their actions. How could they miss the shot at Charlie Kirks large ass head and hit him in neck! Practice more and do better with the next fascist.
I dunno, seemed pretty grim and gory to me? Head explosion wouldn’t make much of a difference outside of memeworthyness. Fountain of blood was fully acceptable. Sniped an artery.
Imagine if it was a few inches to the left instead.
Oh, we don’t need to
DasusGoddammit you got me. I was mad at you for two sentences … then laughed. Noice.
Not gonna lie, you had us in the first half.
If it makes you feel any better a shot to the throat probably means he had time to realize what was happening to him before he died, possibly long enough to realize the poetry of the situation. That realization was also likely accompanied by unimaginable pain. A shot to the head would have been instant and essentially painless.
Unfortunately it was likely his carotid artery. His brain would have lost the blood to think before he realized he was shot.
The brain still has oxygen for a little while. Even if it’s just 2-3 seconds, that’s wayy more than it takes for it to register what’s happening
Jokes on you, he died nearly instantly.
The nearly makes all the difference
One could also complain about the fascists “level”. The shooter could have gone for a higher ranking fascist to gain more points/credibility.
Indeed, it’s a target rich environment. They just need to get out more enjoy the nice weather.
Seriously though, nice shot.
This is very ironic, but not at all funny. While the irony may be satisfying, it isn’t going to improve things appreciably and reveling in it is not a healthy thing to do.
If you laugh at someone getting shot because they supported gun violence, then you have just lowered yourself to their level and now everyone is just back to tribal violence.
This isn’t even potentially as beneficial as the killing of someone like Brian Thompson, because you can at least make the argument that it might make CEOs think twice before systematically exploiting people for profit. As ironic as it may be, this is not going to move the needle in a positive direction or change anyone’s mind for the better.
You cannot persuade fascists not to be fascists, the only language they know is this. As much as it saddens me that this is the way it has to be, the same logic applies to Kirk as to the CEO, it might make fascists think twice before systematically dismantling democracy and promoting hatred against minorities.
The same logic does not apply because their motivations are different. The CEO is motivated by greed and the facist is motivated by hate.
If you are motivated by greed and selfishness in spite of the suffering of others, and you see there is a risk of losing everything because you were too exploitive, then it is in your own selfish interest to avoid that outcome.
If you are motivated by hate, then seeing someone with your ideology get shot is going to make you even more hateful and even give you the confidence that you were right all along and your hate is justified.
I’m pretty sure Kirk was also motivated by greed. Fuck’em.
kennedythe reason people are celebrating (even though we dont even know the shooter’s reason) is because they feel like they have no other course of action other than violence. The right has been fine with violence for a while (see jan 6, the senator that was assinated, kyle rittenhouse, etc…) and now the left is getting more comfortable with it. This will not end well for anyone. I dont agree with the man, he said some vile shit and demonized the “other” to gain political power but anyone celebrating this fails so see the devastation resorting to violence will cause. Some people on the right are already calling for revenge killing. Were at a point of no return and anyone who sees this as a good thing is a fucking idiot.
Some people on the right are already calling for revenge killing.
I think a lot of us have known this is what it would come to. In 2016 in Trump’s first presidential run, even before the election took place, the writing was already on the wall - this will not end peacefully.
The cult was fully developed by then. They were already fueled by anger and revenge. Then Covid threw in a curveball, but I guess things are back on track now. The fascist tools were always going to call for violence against “the left” (I’d even argue that they’d been calling for violence all along, just less overtly.) There’s nothing we could have done to stop that - fascists gonna fasc.
I don’t know about you, but to me this just feels like the other shoe is finally dropping. It merely took 9 years to get here.
The fear in every hateful right influencer douchebag due to this killing will help me sleep soundly at night.
shut up oh my god with this lib shit. don’t clutch them pearls so hard.
no, laughing at a horrible person dying the way he wanted others to die every day is not lowering yourself to his level where he laughed at minorities and political opponents being shot and advocated for more of it.
and you’re wrong, the circumstances make it objectively funny. this is how you’d kill someone in a movie like Airplane, without the graphic imagery. no one who’s laughing at this is saying it’s good that this kind of thing happens, or it should happen more; charlie kirk did. his last word was “violence”. maybe he shouldn’t have been advocating for gun violence with a massive head and neck that are hard to miss.
I get your point but it feels like just a spin on the paradox of tolerance.
My enemy in this case is laughing at something they support happening to someone they don’t support.
I am (not really) laughing at something i don’t support that happend to someone who supports that thing.
The thing here being, far too easy acces to firearms.
I’m not advocating tolerance. The key difference is laughing at someone’s death isn’t just an expression of disapproval, it is a devaluation of human life in general. It isn’t a question of being justified in laughing at their demise because they laughed at horrible things; the very act of laughing degrades yourself.
Let me put it another way: Epstein and his accomplices deserved to be gang raped by all of us in prison. Should we run a train on them? No! Because that defiles us as much as it does them.
Yours is a perfect false equivalence.
Epstein was offed via bedsheets. We can also laugh at that.
You can also dig up his body and rape it still: yahoo.com/…/jeffrey-epstein-final-resting-place-1…
Might be too decomposed at this point.
You’re really dedicated to this. I’m sure someone is eager to engage your bad-faith . . . suppositions dressed in slightly bigger words than usual but it ain’t me.
Enjoy your day.
I’m sorry you assume this is in bad faith. Internet text messages leave a lot to be desired when it comes to conveying a message. I am sincere, but I’m afraid I often come off as know-it-all, arrogant, holier-than-thow, in an attempt to make my point. I’m afraid it is self-defeating. I need to learn how to communicate these things better.
I sincerely hope you can enjoy your day also.
Which direction does the funny punch, though?
Up, down, sideways?
in this case, way up. he was an advisor to the president. had massive role in his election, and has been advocating for death, destruction and genocide. there aren’t too many more instances where you can punch higher up than this.
way up
Not sure: up implies power, usually political or economic class. He was an influential, right-wing activist promoting objectionable views. More like a cheerleader than commander.
The only power he seemed to exercise was the power of any activist (to express their views) who lacks political office.
If we swap their political views, would any funny there be punching up?
he’d had foster friess’ backing since he was 18-19. also was mentored by bill montgomery Toilet Paper USA didn’t just come from nowhere. he was handpicked. saying he had any activist’s power is like saying musk donating to a campaign is just like anyone’s contribution. now musk being the rizzless fucking idiot still managed to fuck it up but that doesn’t mean he’s on equal grounds as anyone.
All you’re saying is activists you don’t like sometimes get donations & support from powerful donors you don’t like.
Did Toxic Dump USA make massive donations to lobbyists or politicians or exert real political power beyond expressing garbage ideas to a large following? I still don’t see how an analogous situation with a leftist activist would qualify as punching up, and you haven’t tried to explain that. My conclusion is that you’re overstating the power here according to biases (I agree with but do not indulge).
there is no analogous leftist activist, that’s my point.
No pro-gun leftists?
That would surprise the leftists on lemmy decrying the gun control stance of “liberals”.
tf are you talking about? we’re talking about punching “up”. leftists aren’t “up”.
It’s the same as with the CEO. Sure, if we could otherwise force these fucks to stop persecuting people and generally making everything worse for the entire world, I’d prefer that. But I still feel nothing but joy at anyone whos a “close trump ally” dying.
Because “close trump ally” reads the same to me as “close hitler ally”.
Yeah, they start “Isn’t it utterly heeelarious that…” and proceed to spell out something grim and morbid.
Fuck the fascists for making us feel schadenfreude.
You have to have a storm if you want flowers.
Will this coming storm be [a] death-struggle or the birth-pangs of a new and better age?
Shit I guess we’re about to find out
That quote is from Adolf Hitler BTW. Replace [a] with Germany.
Uh… Okay? Is this some sort of “gotcha” moment? Wtf is your point?
My point is that saying: “You have to have a storm if you want flowers” or “You have to break a few eggs to make an omelete” or “We must burn the old grass so that new grass can grow” are all just other ways of saying that “the ends justify the means” and have been used by people throughout history to justify whatever horrible thing they wanted to do.
In cannot be disputed that he did indeed get proven wrong.
But I am not concerned about him being shot, I don’t care.
it’s a sign from God.