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Charlie Kirk's first movie

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What about those Epstein files?
You can disagree with Kirk on just about everything but he was a big supporter of debating ideas & free speech. The more you celebrate murdering people for their speech, the more damage I feel you're doing to hurt the causes you otherwise support.
- So you're saying I should limit my speech whilst discussing the death of Kirk?
  
  I never said that. I said I think people are doing damage by celebrating him getting murdered for speech you'd otherwise care about. Not that I think that is right, that you shouldn't have free speech, even ugly speech, but that I believe they'll use things like this to promote their fascism. I think it is dumb for that reason. I also think if you're celebrating people getting murdered for their ideas, especially those that actually did value free speech, that it appears you don't really care about free speech at all & that you support your own form of fascism.
- This sort of meme (the ones about making his face smaller) has been made for a long while before he was murdered, and this one doesnt reference his murder or any of the details or even mention that he is dead, let alone express celebration of it. If someone who did not know about his assassination were to see it, they would not even be clued in that he was dead. How then does it celebrate murdering him? And if even this doesnt pass muster for you on that, how would you go about making fun of him without celebrating his killing? Being murdered doesnt make one immune from criticism after all, and mockery is a form of personal criticism.
  
  He was shot in the neck. The meme says.. "Honey I shrunk my face," with a gun pointing at his head, and your argument is that it isn't making fun of or celebrating? At least be honest about it... Have you seen the other memes here? You're celebrating, like why even try to pretend?

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