on a real note: what kind of life was that? doomed to debate college students with bad faith arguments for a living, riling up masses against marginalized groups for your own profit and claiming to be a servant of christ...

one must imagine kirk happy, dying on the stage that bound him to this sad existence, a catch-22 of his own design

Given the fact there's now good reasons to believe the (alleged, but himself confessed) assassin of Charlie Kirk was a right wing gun nut, to whom Kirk was not right wing enough, makes me feel more valid in my cynical criticism of Kirk and his passing.

He died not just as a result of the world he created, but specifically through the hands of a person he radicalized, utilizing gun “rights” Kirk defended day and night.

If life was a screenplay, this would be an on the nose plot point that the writers inserted to spread their own political beliefs. Yet it isn't, this is real life, and these are the real consequences of your words.

A far right media outlet told people to mass report my posts on Instagram, many of them were removed without any notice or ability to appeal.

When a story of mine was deleted and Instagram notified me so I could appeal, it was almost immediately reinstated.

Whatever you think of my posts, I should at least be told they were wrong or against the community guidelines. Instagram happily told me that. If a post on Mastodon is moderated, a user on Mastodon is immediately notified and can appeal. This process can sometimes be intransparent depending on the moderator, but it's a hell of a lot better than having some AI algorithm delete your posts for being mass reported and then gaslighting you that they never existed.

Jimmy Kimmel Live has been indefinitely terminated as a show due to Kimmel's statements regarding the Kirk shooting.

“The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

“This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish [...]”

— Source: BBC, 2025.09.18

The first is a correct analysis of the Republican instrumentalization of Kirk's death, the second is poking fun at Trump for his terrible eulogy.

They are instrumentalizing this assassination, and they will go around on a killing spree, justifying the restructuring of universities, media, human (especially trans) rights, and basic government principles in his name.

Teachers, university professors, troops, talk show hosts and news reporters, or anyone with a publicly voiced opinion alike, are being forced into silence over rational statements.

From a government that formed under the pretext of claiming that “hate speech” doesn't exist, there's currently an awful lot of tone policing for when a fraction of their violence and indifference is applied to one of their figureheads.

It was always the goal to use the notion of freedom of expression as a Trojan horse for one's hatred against marginalized groups and their subjugation, never truly because so-called libertarians or conservatives believed in it. Free speech for me, but not for thee.

so why did they all come out of the woodwork on the day the podcaster died

https://youtu.be/BGsxXNsu9tA

here's how you can make international headlines from the privacy of your own bedroom by offending the president of the United States of America

Link: https://www.orangenews.hk/hkviews/UwvBaaZ/來論-柯克遇刺的德國風暴.shtml