Watching the Charlie Kirk video felt good.
I'm not sorry. Seeing someone who spread so much hate and bigotry and weaponized disinformation get his clock cleaned was absolutely fine by me.
I have empathy for lots of people even if we don't always agree, but not for people like Charlie Kirk.
He was a monster. Without the Fourth Reich to prop him up, he would be just one random evil douchebag.
The world is a marginally better place with him gone. Well until they use it as pretext for carpet bombing blue cities.
They were always going to. Fuck em.
They would either have their moment or manufacture it. I'm sadly aware of that.
Right wingers: how can you celebrate a murder?
Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what makes you cheer.
It doesn’t change them, but it is kinda fun to put together compilations of right wingers celebrating when decent people are murdered.
You can see it written on their RV's.
Him making an incredibly racist statement only for the universe's immediate rebuttal to be "we're taking your blood back" was pretty funny.
Let me put this in a simple way. His death should not be celebrated but you shouldn't mourn for him as well.
Just go "phew, that's one less bigot" & move on
Hm i felt very happy for a day. Great success!
That’s exactly how I feel. One less bigot on earth
I think you are downplaying his role though. And it is critical to understand this in order to understand why people are actually kind of happy he died. He is not just a bigot, he is a person with a very large sphere of influence who uses this influence to turn people into bigotry or make people who are already bigots more extreme bigots. Overall it is a really huge benefit for society, orders of magnitudes more than just a single isolated bigot.
I got more of a cold sense of "you reap what you sow" justice. If you go around slapping people in the face don't be shocked if you get your ass kicked one day.
As far as I'm concerned it was the same as watching footage of a Nazi's neck exploding.
And I'll always take joy in that.
The only good fascist is a dead fascist.
My reaction was just: "it sucks to suck".
I laughed, and I fucking hate the fascists for being so vile that that was my reaction.
Nice. Let's not lose focus on getting those Epstein files.
I don't think you should be feeling some of the utter glee that I'm seeing some people espouse. You can find it funny, you can feel indifferent, even a little glad that such a dickhead isn't in the world anymore, but some of the stuff that people are saying on social media (using their full name and photo like an idiot) is a little disconcerting. I don't think it's healthy.
I couldn't give a shit about Kirk personally or his family, but I've seen friends turn to extreme levels of sadistic joy, watching the video again and again, and trying to get me to watch it, pretending to have a party about it.
...I dunno, that doesn't seem like a mentally healthy thing to be doing.
The president is a pedophile. No one in America is mentally healthy any longer.
No, celebrating it makes you not much better morally and emotionally. A sense of justice though? I can see that.
I watched the video, shrugged my shoulders, and moved on to watch Casual Geographic. At least that is fun.
Honestly, I didn't feel much from seeing Kirk die. He is just one many conservatives, that I would simply like to turn into dust. They sometimes fill me with anger, but...it isn't much of a feeling, most days. I want to get on with life.
And then people post shit like this here: "Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting
As if it's not 'normal' people not giving a fuck about some hate spreading dead nazi.
I think those bots are also on Charlie's side, like pushing an antileft agenda, because they want us to have a civil war to damage our country.
I'm surprised we didn't get a condolence tweet from Putin too.
Empathy shouldn't be selective. I get that it 'feels good' but it in fact makes you no better than the hate preacher.
He was a cunt. A bad person. However, we should build a society where that behaviour is not tolerated nor rewarded. Don't like that he got murdered for it.
The irony of the whole thing though is almost comedic.
It is a bit troubling in the feelings department as a whole.
Empathy isn't something that lasts in the face of persistent hate and intolerance. Its naturally selective in that respect. You can put it any way you like but this man received karma and if you didn't feel satisfaction at how he ended then you must either be ignorant of his hate and intolerance or you must approve of it.
That's the point. I am glad he is gone. But I am just against murder. Murder should not have been needed, we should have had a better society were people like him cannot flourish.
Not feeling bad about the situation is nowhere near as bad as actively trying to make the lives of minorities worse. Shame on you for even implying they are equitable.
You people are insane. Crazy how all the chopped up footage over the years has brewed this much hate into you.
Self defense isn't hate.
It IS crazy but please take John Brown's final words to heart:
"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."
We are repeating history and that man was an enemy of any rational or empathetic souls left in this country. I took the warnings of others seriously before watching the footage, as it is indeed awful. But that man would have been happy to watch me die. Knowing that, I can't pretend it doesn't feel good to see a threat neutralized.
First of all, sir, this is a Wendy's.
Second, maybe watching their country slip in to totalitarian fascism bring out in the worst in some people? Like the ones with a shred of morality and awareness.
Third, I think most of the people aware of what Charlie Kirk was actually like, probably have pretty good reasons to wish him ill.
Charlie Kirk talked about the great replacement theory quite often. That's quite literally white supremacy talking points. What else is there to feel for someone who is a Nazi?
Charlie Kirk died while doing what he loved:
Being a horrible horrible person, and a blight on humanity.
He died in the midst of what he loved: a school shooting.
Gotta be high on the list of most ironic deaths of 2025.
I guess he was the violent gun death he hoped for to keep the 2A.
I have said it before, and I will say it again.
Empathy is a huge strength, lack of it is a huge weakness.
“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
Quotation: Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials
"All words are made up." - Thor
Empathy: a made up word that apparently most people in this thread dont have.
Seriously, can no one see the irony in hating this sick fuck of a waste of air, and everything he stands for, but then using his views as justification for his death?
You are mocking him for saying empathy isnt real, which ironically shows an absolute lack of empathy and an admission that you agree with him.
Just stop and take a breath.
He was an absolute prick and i am not sad he is gone. But somebody was shot and killed and all you can do is point an laugh.
How can you stand on any moral high ground when there are any other shootings or murders that you want people to mourn.
It's REALLY different, when you're the specific kind of person he spent his life degrading, defaming, and spreading hateful rhetoric about, so that he could harm you. Successfully. They are teaching his garbage in schools. Right now. So that he can train children to hate me. Specifically. My family. My friends and neighbors.
I'm sorry you don't get this, but when the racism, the hate, the violence, the laws being passed to try and make life impossible. when they DIRECTLY and explicitly effect YOU. Not "they came for the communists" but for YOU. it's a very different kind of feeling than when it's just a group you don't give a shit about.
Charlie Kirk didn't hate you. I can tell. Because if he hated you as much as he hated me. and spend as much time as he did talking about how other people needed to hate you as much as he talked about people needing to hate me, you wouldn't be saying this stupid ass shit.
Empathy does not come without conditions.
Example, Trump is a vile human being, I feel no empathy towards him.
I feel empathy towards the people who, as we say in Sweden, bites the sour apple and interacts with him out of necessity while maintaining their professionalism.
I can even feel empathy toward the first wave MAGA crowd, plenty of them was deceived and fooled into believing their lies, and the weak democrats only acting as a ratchet and not reversing the GOPs decisions when they could have. I feel empathy toward them for having been brainwashed for generations into believing that socialism is bad, that line must go up, but that things can never improve more than marginally.
The US government has failed is people, I have no empathy toward the people perpetuating the status quo
It's about consistency. This is man who said, in the wake of school shootings, that a few gun deaths every year is a worthy cost for gun rights. This is a man that said empathy was a made up woke term that causes a lot of damage.
Why should anyone have empathy for him being shot at a school? Not caring about those kinds of victims was his entire platform. This is karma, divine poetic justice, and I'm not going to ignore that. He got precisely what he deserved.
"Y'all are all about 'shoot Nazis, kill Nazis' until a Nazi dies. Then it's 'Oh but that Nazi had a family.' Fuck off."
so glad that I can evade all consequences forever by knocking up bitch
Well, I don't wish ill on anybody. But when it does happen to some people, schadenfreude can be enjoyable.
Rest in piss Charlie.
Like someone else said, Kirk getting shot in the throat, in a school, possibly by a republican, while ranting about minorities, gang violence and trans people, is peak irony
I wish ill on people who do evil shit. I also wish they'd see the error of their ways and make amends. They don't tend to though. Watching Charlie get so neatly picked off like a clay pigeon in a shooting gallery as he was about to spew more horseshit was highly satisfying.
All the pearl clutching from people who openly support a man "Who could shoot someone on 5th ave and not lose a single vote."
I'd call them hypocrites but they're too busy praying in public to hear me.
Their messaging is also weirdly contrived. They almost never do the same for deaths of innocent people, they consider them statistics rather than people. But then a bad guy meets a bad fate, and they bring out their alts accounts to tell you “yOu gUyS aRe eViL.”
Irony is lost on some people.
I hope this was a turning point for this country
SHOTS FIRED. Hahahaha.
It's absolutely okay to feel relief when you experience the death of an abusive person.
My only empathy is for the students at the school who probably thought they were about to be victims as well, thinking maybe they were about to experience a mass shooting. Kirk spewed vile hatred non stop, said that gun deaths were needed for us to have our 2nd amendment right, so he did die from what he preached.
I feel for the students in Colorado who just hours after did become victim to a school shooting, the Democratic officials in Minnesota who the media have forgotten about after their assassination.
Does that make me a bad person? I don't really give a shit. There's one less toxic commentator/grifter out there saying demeaning shit about minorities and my trans homies, one less voice calling for their deaths. If the left had a version of Kirk that was assassinated, they'd be saying the exact fucking thing.
I worry about what the repercussions will be for the country.
I don't want anyone watching to have trauma symptoms, sadly they're going to, but even if they support him I don't want that for them.
But watching him about to open his big mouth and say more pro gun shit and then get picked off like a clay pigeon in a shooting gallery? 10/10.
I dunno, I mean his supporters deserve trauma. Id feel for the Lefty's that went to just heckle or observe hate. But I'm probably in the top 1% of the darkest (not skin tone) people on the left. Personally I wouldn't mind being there to witness it, but I've seen a lot in Iraq. One shitty guy doesn't phase me at all, so maybe my opinion on this is a little skewed.
I dont feel bad for them. We have over sheltered the country. We dont want people see videos of what happens. We dont show them the photos. "Its too graphic". Good. See it. Look at the reality. Maybe if more peoole did that we would have less wars, less rhetoric. Its all a big game because we dont confront peoole with the dark reality.
I feel a little bad for his kids, having no dad probably sucks. Well, not nearly as much as having Kirk as a dad, but still. I feel the same way for Barron Trump and Elon's kids, not much they can do to escape attention and indoctrination. Still doesn't mean that he was a good man just for having a family, regardless of what CNN and the NYT say.
charlie kirk sucked ass. but i don't see his extremely public assassination having many positive consequences
Whatever happens next was going to happen eventually anyway. Don't let anyone shift the blame.
The memes are funny though
Look harder.
First positive influence: his psychotic ass is gone. Second: Republicans finally have a hint of fear, knowing there are actual consequences.
They bet on there being no credible resistance.
Republicans finally have a hint of fear
Yup. Consequences motherfuckers.
My friend had a great quote while we were talking about farmers suffering under Trump's policies.
"Did these fuckheads think owning the libs was going to be free?"
Second: Republicans finally have a hint of fear, knowing there are actual consequences.
you're assuming they weren't the ones to do it to create a false-flag event to consolidate magats.
the only fear I have yet to see is from the Democrats. the Republicans are using this as an opportunity to further their agendas.
mark my words. there will be a national political registry before there's a national gun registry.
The trouble is often fear is displayed as anger. And when people are experiencing strong emotions, fear included, they behave less predictably and make more impulsive decisions.
I'm worried about the next left demonstration and hope that everyone stays safe.
dumpy mcshitpants next pls.
I can think of one.
The tree of liberty finally got some much needed moisture.
It's so fucking hard for me to even begin to disagree with you. I want to feel empathy for this human being but for fuck's sake... you can feel the irony and hypocrisy...
Years of bad faith argument by professional high school bullies does that. Years of spreading hate and intolerance to their "others", but shock and horror whenever someone didn't tolerate them. Years of snide comments or glee whenever there was an attack on someone they didn't like.
I really didn't care when Paul Pelosi was attacked because people like him don't care or even notice when someone me gets attacked. Why should I care at that Kirk was attacked?
People are saying that this attack with spark more violence, but it didn't really matter that Franz Ferdinand was shot. WWI was going to happen some way or another. Whatever happens next was going to happen one way or another.
I agree on a lot of particulars there, but I feel compelled to quibble on behalf of historical contingency. We are separated from the past by an infinity of momentary possibilities, and just as people in the past did not know what was going to happen, we can never know what possibilities did not come to fruition. It seems impossible that there was ever such a thing as a foregone conclusion in light of the sheer amount of things that are left to chance every single day. Any historian worth the time of day will tell you that their subject is a litany of unintended consequences, and I am happier knowing that no fate is preordained, especially not war.
Its not about empathy. Its one thing to be indifferent. I am indifferent. I didnt like him, I thought his way of debating was disingenuous. Not giving a shit that he died, is where everyone should be who didnt like him. This glee, this joy, this is not normal. This is sign that a lot of people have been radicalised by their echo chambers.
And worse, now they are calling for others to be murdered. People like JK Rowling. Theres fucking crimes being committed everywhere, all under the guise of "they are nazis!". The exact same shit Putin said to justify his attack on Ukraine. Theres just something so wrong in peoples heads now. Social media has fucked a lot of people brains.
Feel empathy for the fact that people like Charlie, other white supremacists, have something so fundamental missing in their souls they treat other people so poorly. Feel empathy for the fact he was a piss poor human and didn't understand love, respect, community, humanity, etc.
I like treating it like a game. Think of rabid far right radicals as people under the influence of a cognitohazard. You can't really help them, and if you listen to them for too long, you'll pick up the cognitive hazard as well. Like a cold. Only thing to do is quarantine and isolate the infected until they can be humanely put to rest. It's IRL SCPs
My only disappointment is a shot to the carotid artery means he likely had no time to process the karmic irony of his death.
Based on his body posture right after it looks like he got reset to factory default settings. I think his brain stem got damanged. It was probably lights out immediately
People need to stop celebrating the shooter! I'm absolutely disgusted and ashamed by their actions. Charlie Kirk was doing nothing but sitting there giving a speech. This was in the middle of the day, there were clear skys and the sun was shining directly on Charlie, as if he was chosen to deliver an important message. Than the shooter shot him. I'll say it as it is, nothing was between Charlie and the shooter that warranted this.
So how could the shooter miss the shot at Charlie Kirk's large ass head and hit him in neck instead! Embarrassing, do better on the next fascist.
Skulls are thick. A bullet hitting at an angle could potentially ricochet off.
Ain't nothing ricocheting off a neck.
Shooter knew exactly what he was doing.
I think someone down voted you because they didn't read the second paragraph. Got you back to positive. 👍🏼
He was doing a scientific experiment to see if his head was swollen with blood or gas
I hear reports that estimate the shot at 200 yards. Most rifle scopes come zeroed out at 100 yards out of the box. Maybe the scoped the head but the bullet landed low because the scope was set too close. ¯(ツ)_/¯
I'm mostly just tired of the same people that might take time off to go piss on Biden's grave having the gall to demand that we be respectful of this chud.
These are people who hung effigies of Obama being lynched outside their homes.
What's to feel bad about? He said himself victims of gun violence were acceptable.
Don't forget the tailgate images of Biden tied up.
What's to feel bad about? Briefly, that people are so fucked up in general. Kirk just happened to be a lot worse than most. But he's far from alone in his awful beliefs. Look around the Internet and you will see people giddy and you will see people declaring civil war on the left. We're fucked and that's nothing to celebrate. I'm glad he's dead but it's likely that every day will be worse than the last in America until there's no America anymore.
As not one of those people. I would never expect anyone to show him respect, but to want to watch anyone die for pleasure is insane. Frankly.
Yeah its wild - normally i click off of these type of videos, but i felt less than nothing for him but damn that's alot of blood
I've seen this sentiment around a bit, and while I'm not going to tell people their feelings are wrong (I did not like the guy and while I would have preferred something else happen to him over murder, he did help support the set of circumstances that made his assassination possible), I find it confusing enough that it makes me question if either my brain works differently around this or if I'm misunderstanding what feeling empathy actually refers to, because to me, it doesn't seem "voluntary" like that.
Like, for me, if something unpleasant happens to someone, I can't really help but to start imagining it and going over what it might be like to be in or around that position and getting emotionally worked up, pretty much automatically. It doesn't really even matter if I'm glad the guy is gone at some level or hated them, my brain gets the immediate gut twist of "damn, that seems like a horrible experience" all the same. Like, it could be someone as heinous as literal Hitler, and even then if some documentary gets into the details of his end my first gut reaction is likely to be a sense of discomfort and something like "it would really suck to wake up one day as someone that's done all that and brought themselves to such a position, imagine what would be going through your head in that situation".
I haven't watched the video as I don't handle blood and gore and such well, and I don't mean this as some kind of judgement or assertion of virtue, it's just a bit confusing to me when people say things like "I have no empathy for guys like that" or "you shouldn't feel empathy for fascists because they don't deserve it" and I'm like, okay, but how? Does your brain just let you decide not do that? Mine seems to just do it automatically regardless of if it feels appropriate or not.
The justifications are just ways of shutting down empathy. You can stop feeling those things automatically if you work at closing them off. It's a great first step at becoming a psychopath, if you want.
Feel your feelings. Do what's right for you. Nobody else makes that decision for you.
I've spent the last eight years infiltrating white supremacists on social media. I have seen people like Charlie and what their conversation is like when they're among their own and the masks are off. That's why I don't feel bad for him, I have seen their true faces.
You dont need to feel bad for him. You dont need to mourn and you can be happy that he is dead. But if that video of him dying didnt make you feel awful, because you just watched somebody die, then dont you think you might need to take a look at yourself? How much snuff content have you watched to get to a point where somebody gushing blood from their neck doesnt feel bad, you actually feel good watching it? Dont you see how thats a little bit disturbing?
Because of justice (or perceived justice). Just like if you see an old man knocked out by a angry 30 year old, you'd feel badly for the man, except if that 30 year old just caught the old guy molesting your kid, then your sympathy ends.
That's what empathy is, it's automatic, reason doesn't factor in. There is nothing wrong with you.
Reasoning how to feel afterwards is something different.
You described it pretty perfectly as I experience it. Charlie Kirk was an awful piece of shit, and also violence is bad. I watched the video but shouldn't have. I truly cannot understand how people are so gleeful. I certainly get being glad that he's dead. He didn't deserve life. But as you said, empathy isn't voluntary. People are either devoid of it or overriding it. America fucking sucks and probably will never get better.
Same! I think curiosity and sleep depravity got the better of me when i sought out the video.
Then i instantly and continuously regretted watching it as it was fucking foul! I cant get the image of the neck snap and blood exploding from his neck our of my head.
I absolutely despised this guy, but watching anybody die should have a natural effect on anyone.
I cant get behind this sentiment of wanting to watch him die for pleasure. That makes me think there are a lot more sick people on this platform than i had previously believed.
So, I don't think it's entirely voluntary either way, it's just a matter of where your perspective defaults to. I consider myself a fairly empathetic person and I happen to sit on the opposite side of this. As much as I try, I cannot feel empathy for him.
When I try, the empathy I feel is for everyone he advocated to subjugate and kill. I cannot fathom being in the shoes of someone so pointlessly, shamelessly hateful. When I put myself in his shoes, there is no connection that makes it in any way feel like a real person's understandable perspective. If he had changed at some point? That would be understandable. Imagining that makes me feel empathy for the person he could have been, but that person doesn't exist, never existed and may never have. I feel more empathy for that hypothetical person than I do the actual Charlie Kirk, someone who himself felt that feeling empathy was a sickness and wanted to eradicate me from society.
I struggle to find anything to empathize with there.
With that said, I watched the video. It made me feel sick to my stomach. But that didn't change the immense relief I felt knowing there was one less person in the world that thought I should be stoned in the street. I don't think you're wrong for feeling unsettled by someone taking glee in it though. It's hard to imagine the kind of pain someone has to go through to get to the point where someone's death is something to celebrate as a relief.
I think its pretty hilarious that he died in a literal school shooting. Something he advocated for.
I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some famous fascist gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.
It's great that he's no longer hurting people. It's not great that he's dead. It's terrible it had to be murder. Yes that's very idealistic.
It's karmic he was gunned down.
Was as entertaining as watching ketchup coming out of the bottle.
Pouring like an avalanche, coming down the mountain.
Same. I was already thinking how cool of an album cover it would be for a punk or metal band. Maybe an Unsane album cover.
If this was the 80s I would start a punk band called Turning Point. Album named Change My Mind. Distorted black and white album cover of him leaning over.
Hey just looked at his wikipedia page and whats funny to me is there is very little about his actual life. Its like hes a caricature and nothing more. It makes me think of animes where people are caught up with spirits and stop being human. In this case the spirit is the movement that does not care for his humanity.
His Wikipedia should mention how he failed at the game of life. I've already significantly outlived him in years. And I'm not a pathetic worm propagandist. I beat Charlie Kuck at the game of life. We all did.
Im not sure playing is winning at this point.
he failed at the game of life. I’ve already significantly outlived him in years
Thank you; this is a thought worth keeping in my pocket for the next time I feel down.
He was such a hollow husk of a man that I'm surprised there was anything inside to leak out.
He never has his own opinions or views. He only displayed the opinions and views of his fanbase and worked to maintain that. He focused on his mask for so long, that the real person was hollowed out.
It's true! But I think that's what dark money does, it installs political figures who don't really have a human side.
If they did, they wouldn't take the job.
Watched it and I'm happy too.
Like watching Hitler get shot would be, IMO.
"fuck yeah... Put that in your mouth uh huh... Just like that."
Can Hannity be next?
A stranger I met on the bus today said that his cousin works with a guy who is penpals with someone who's sister wanted to watch it for research purposes... Got a link?
Of course it did, the world is better than it was before it.
I was immediately worried about the consequences from the right to feel any joy about what happened.
This question (or its answers) are probably not fine by instance-rules, but either way:
Does anybody have a link to the uncensored video? (PM is fine too)
I can pm a link to a clip of the actual moment ... don't want to post it here because of the site rules.
But be forewarned, it's (obviously) nsfl due to the blood.
I found some on Facebook by searching "Charlie Kirk shooting" and searched videos. I can't seem to give you a link because they're Instagram reels and I don't have an account and there's no share button, but if you use Facebook try searching?
I can never actually rejoice in it. I avoided the video and my wife sprung it on me and like other things like this I berated her (she knows I don't like reality gore and prefer printed news). I made comments because its a bit hard not to with mister a few killings here and there are the price you pay for gun freedom.
I'm with you, soldiers came back from war with PTSD just from seeing a dude get smoked, I don't need to watch that shit, much less take glee in watching it.
I accept that with him gone, the movement I disagree with has been kneecapped, but damn, watching what people say is one of the most gruesome shootings...
And all us millennials who said "man I watched such dark shit on early internet", and then to still watch Charlie get one tapped... Don't need that image rumblin round in the noggin.
I mean I get people feelings. My thing is several things happened I don't like. An person died. It was an extrajudicial killing. It happened while peacefully publicly speaking. However I can't say a good man died. The things people say online is also peaceful public speaking in the sense its comparable to the public speaking of the guy who died. By his own standards he called for not having empathy, accepting gun deaths as the price of the second amendment, and having families and children be witness to executions. So I get it. Its not how I want things done but I get the online sentiment. Don't want to see it though rather read about it. I mean I feel that way with most news but if I do want to witness video Its not see horrible things.
And all us millennials who said “man I watched such dark shit on early internet”,
I feel like, as Millennials, we never had to go far out of our way to witness something fucked up. We're the generation that saw people jumping out the windows of the twin towers from our classroom televisions.
I consider that to have been gruesome and disturbing enough. I don't need to see something this visceral.
Here's why I feel the way I do. Because he said shit like this.
Here's the full article with all the things he has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs
Guessing the WMBA one was about Brittney Griner, who nobody liked, but you can see how he capitalized on that to push his agenda. Seriously, we traded someone who willing went to Russia for the war criminal that Lord of War was based off of.
I get why someone would but again I can't really rejoice. A human died, a man died, a man was assasinated while publically speaking. I can say that and I don't like that. I can't say a good man died though, that is for sure.
I celebrated last December and I celebrated yesterday. In an ideal world, they'd never have been in a situation where such is necessary, but unfortunately we're far from that an some people need a reminder that they are mortal.
I'd like to see an ultra low resolution low quality version of the video so i can get a sense of what it looked like but not give me a bad memory i can't get out of my head.
Like 96 x 54 resolution, with lowered contrast and lots of mpeg compression artifacting
EDIT
i found this low quality still image and that's more than enough for me
https://tdpelmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Charlie-Kirk-1024x576.jpg
That's way higher res than i was asking for. Gross, no
If you think that's bad... Lol
https://mastodon.social/@Ulfh3dnar/115181548207581457 (NSFL)
Enjoy, I'm pretty sure if you listen closely before people start freaking you can hear him wheezing into the mic.
Wow, that was fast. He was just gushing instantly, and def awake for a few moments.
There's no way he could have survived that, unless there was a combat medic right next to him.
Its disturbing. Its engraved into my mind. If you want to watch that on repeat you have either never seen somebody get brutally killed or you are so desensitised that you are borderline psychotic.
I am not sad he is dead. Man was a deplorable waste of oxygen.
But wanting to watch him flood blood from his neck on repeat is not sane behaviour.
Maybe just maybe they should live. But the rest threatened the entire human race's existence. They could very well doom us to a situation like the one from I have no mouth and I must scream.
They supported unspeakable atrocities, and literally everything wrong in this world.
There's no punishment great enough for them.
Your username definitely fucking checks out.
What a dumb, dumb, dumb thing to say.
Died like a lil bitch is what he did. Didn't even put up a fight, just went out like a light.
Not to defend these cunty fascists, but how exactly do you suppose anyone — barring Superman — "fights" a surprise bullet to the neck?
By the time he heard the shot he was already dead.
Bootstraps to pull himself up over the bullet?
Trump Bible to deflect the bullet?
Anti-woke shield?
Who cares? He's dead.
So a big thing of these 2A advocates is the whole idea that as a good guy with a gun, you can take care of all the bad guys with guns.
I must assume he owns guns. He did not defend himself from what to him would be the "bad guy with a gun".
Or in an ironic twist, you could say that in this instance the good guy with the gun DID take out the bad guy.
Shouldn't have dressed like that, really he is asking for it
yeah like of all the things you can make fun of him for you choose the fact that he didnt magically deflect a rifle round with his jugular? wtf lmao
By the time he heard the shot he was already dead.
Beta cuck move on his part.
Bullets are fast.
Didn't even try to staunch the blood flow, just keeled over. Weak.
Everyone keeps talking about it, but why is no one posting it?
Back in the early days of reddit, it would have been on the front page within minutes. Y'all are slacking.
Don't just downvote, god damn it! Please give me a link!
Edit 2: Thank you. If anyone wants it, pm me.
what would be even better is finding a video with more context, maybe the whole event.
Fucking thank you. I've been searching all day to no avail.
All I could find were censored clips from a distance, and news articles stating that the video is "circulating widely on social media". Well I don't use social media (besides Lemmy), and DDG is useless for these kind of searches, so the video might as well not have existed until you came along.
Thanks again.
YouTube randomly gave me this:
Yes, I would like for him to be next if that's what they're saying.
Oh can we have this for christmas? Please please please please please please
Can we get some witches to put a curse on him too?