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US officials plan to punish foreigners ‘making light of’ Charlie Kirk death

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Deputy secretary of state says ‘foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors’

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1w ago

US officials plan to punish foreigners ‘making light of’ Charlie Kirk death

www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/sep/11/christopher-landau-charlie-kirk-foreigners

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1w ago

US officials plan to punish foreigners ‘making light of’ Charlie Kirk death

www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/sep/11/christopher-landau-charlie-kirk-foreigners

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not welcome visitors to our country
Good, I'm not welcome in Qatar, Pakistan, or North Korea either, but I live a happy life.
- I’m not welcome in Qatar, Pakistan, or North Korea either
  They seem perfectly fine stunting on Charlie Kirk.
  I guess some countries still have freedom.
Glorify violence and hatred... like Charlie Kirk? Oh, and yourselves?
- and Jesus said ...... "“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.”
  John 8:7
  .. not that these idiots ever read their bible anyway
  
  Matthew 3:60 - “what goes around, comes around”
He wouldn't have wanted this!
"I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that does a lot of damage" - Charlie Kirk
Which has me really conflicted. It's a really awful fashy thing to do, buuut it also makes a mockery of his memory...
May he rot in piss.
PS: To any US officials reading this, don't worry, I have no intention of going anywhere near your shitty hell hole of a country
Good thing my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower.
I'd like y'all to take a moment of silence.
Pause to reflect on all the lives saved by the elimination of this source of radicalization from our youth.
A stronger argument for common sense gun laws could hardly be made than the video of blood and brains gushing out the side of his head.
He and his family deserve all the compassion and empathy he expressed towards the children of Uvalde.
- The gun was an old Mauser 30.06 bolt action, about the last thing a gun ban would restrict.
  
  You sure it's a Mauser and not a Springfield?
yes this is a totally normal and appropriate response to any old large influencer being killed for unknown reasons
No better way to honour someone who, as much as I dislike him, consistently argued government should not restrict speech and different opinions, no matter how repugnant.
I guess it’s up to us Americans to do it for them then.
- thank you for your service
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Oh, someone forgot to unfurl the rest of the amendment's parchment with Sharpie writing, apparently:
...but the President can make any decree respecting the establishment of religion, prohibiting the exercise of other religions, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, for any reason the Government finds convenient.
Quote him a week ago and they would applaud.
Quote him now, they want to lock you up.
- Are we not allowed to say that the only good fascist is a dead fascist?
  
  Apparently not.
  Or it was because I'm one of the unwelcome foreigners.

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