1w ago

Charlie on empathy

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1w ago

Charlie on empathy

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Empathy does a lot less damage than a bullet to the neck.
- The truth hurts (but not as much as getting shot in the jugular)
Lot of people seem to agree with him, judging from the responses to his death.
Someone’s told me elsewhere that these quotes have been taken out of context. I said he should have been more careful with words.
You know what else does a lot of damage?
- An arrow to the knee.
- a 3 letter word that rimes with fun?
  
  Sun! Because skin cancer
  
  A hun! From the 5th century.
This whole thing is irony overload
Well it's definitely not "new-age", but apparently the worth "empathy" only entered the English language in 1908.
So I'm gonna pretend like it's 1776 like he always wanted me to do and not have empathy for him 😆
We wouldn't happen to have the link/recording/article that this came from for context, would we? Not to sound like a "SOURCE?!?!? troll, but I'm curious.
- https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote/
  
  Thanks for following up with me, I truly appreciate it.
Neck minute gurgling sounds
We already knew his views were wild and insane but killing him for it was a bad idea and cruel to his family and friends (I'm guessing he had some). Metaphorically jumping up and down on his grave is just bad taste. The best thing we can do is consign him to an obscure footnote in history and desist from publishing his views for him.
edit to the replies - Holy hell this place has turned into reddit on a bad.
- Holy hell this place has turned into reddit on a bad.
  You are literally the one expressing the mainstream (and only tolerated) opinion on reddit and doing the cringe reddiqetue thing where you edit your comment to insult others without actually elaborating
  
  I'm sorry. Being vitriolic and spreading more hate is the only right way to react? I'm glad he is gone, and causes right wing shits like him to realise they are not immune to consequences, is great. I just hate the way people are sharing his views in the process. They are just doing his work for him.
- If this is such a bad thing, then why did Ben Shapiro cancel his speaking arrangements today? All these grifters are freaking out because they never expected to face a consequence for anything they said or did
- Name a more iconic duo than liberals and pearl-clutching. I'll wait.
  
  So this is you practicing empathy, I suppose.
- We can't kill fascists because, gasp, they have families too!
  
  All this boohooing about his family. His wife chose to marry him because he’s a reactionary racist transphobic piece of shit. Meaning she herself is one. The only people I feel bad for are the young kids
- You seem real upset that a white christo-nationalist terrorism advocate is dead. Seems like you're telling on yourself, fashy
  
  Nope. The guy was clearly a shit. Just hope people rise above it and never speak about him again, there are better things to waste our effort on.
- Nope, this is a message to the MAGA Nazis. Turn it up LOUD.
  
  In another context maybe, but linking it with his death doesn't help the cause.
- The only reliable way to deal with fascists is to kill them. They will keep killing us until we force them to stop.
  Kirk might not have been out there shooting people in the street like a common beat cop, but he built a career out of stochastic terrorism. He suffered the same fate that he advocated for innocent people.
  
  Also wholeheartedly supported the 21st century Holocaust, but no biggie to our moral champion mub over here

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