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.

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.

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.