They will simply not recognize why the only reason they are feeling this way about Kirk is because the video of his death was extremely graphic, but would never have the same energy for the people dying in the same way in other countries. Idk I guess asking for consistency is asking for the world

I personally find nothing wrong with acknowledging that it’s horrendous that his children no longer have a father. But why does that always seem to terminate all thought and excuse every vile thing he stood for in his life 🤔 truly, it’s like a Godamn get out of jail free card

This is why I don’t spend a lot of time outside. People are extremely fake and always rationalizing their fakeness by hiding behind statistics that reveal them to be “normal.”

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    THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

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    he deserved it, it’s good he’s dead instead of spreading more hate, and i hope more nazis get got.

    anyone who thinks it’s overall bad he’s dead is an enabler at best.

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    I think the majority of people just genuinely don’t know how vile he was and think celebrating a public and gruesome murder is in poor taste. I know how vile he was and therefore how this is ultimately good but I am terminally online. Most people aren’t.

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    To be honest, I don’t think most people care really. Among those that know of him and aren’t chuds, how many are really crying about it? It seems more like a media/elite reaction, of them trying to stamp out their newfound vulnerability. It’s like Luigi, except the right is pissed too this time.

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      Yeah I hope people are just looking at it as a death and aren’t nearly as into it as the average political junkie

      Crazy how it’s at the forefront of all media though

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        Honestly the more people learn, the harder it is for a normal person to empathize with Kirk. His death is one of the most ironic ever, if you look at all the heinous shit he’s said. Heinous even to normal people, not the politically educated.

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          Maybe it’s the instagram algorithm echo chamber ragebaiting because all I’ve seen are posts about how it’s a tragedy and he was killed for his free speech (lol)

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    I personally find nothing wrong with acknowledging that it’s horrendous that his children no longer have a father.

    He’s probably an abusive piece of shit like all trad husbands are when the cameras are off, and it seems like they’re financially secure on account of him being a popular grifter. They’ll be fine.

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    It’s a little wierd for me because I really don’t have that emotional reaction most people have to it. Like omg blood coming out of him (???). Idk I don’t feel anything nearly as strong as most people seem to be. I could see something a lot more graphic of him and I just don’t emphasize. He deserves it. Fuck him. I didn’t feel repulsed or anything watching the video. Idk if that’s an ND thing or a, I’ve watched gore before thing.

    And yes, exactly. This is what school shootings look like to. This is what Gaza looks like. Where’s the outrage from these people?

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      I like how people are tut tutting about freeze-peach while ignoring how we can’t say anything bad about it without getting censored lmao

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      It’s a little wierd for me because I really don’t have that emotional reaction most people have to it. Like omg blood coming out of him (???). Idk I don’t feel anything nearly as strong as most people seem to be.

      The pictures of starving children in Gaza are far more horrific than Kirk’s quick and painless death. I’ve avoided watching the most graphic videos out of Gaza, mainly sticking to Al Jazeera. But it’s still been 2 years of daily images and videos of unbelievable human suffering.

      Yet the liberal media has shown more sympathy for Kirk in the last 24 hours than they have for Palestinians 2 years into Israel’s final solution.

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      Honestly this might be worse. Now they’re gonna grow up hearing about what a hero he was and how he died fighting for freedom and whatever other dumb shit his adult family members are gonna say about him. If they’d grown up in close proximity to him, they’d know first hand how flawed and human he was, even if they loved him and even if he was a reasonably good father. They’d also have a pretty good chance of rebelling against his fascist bullshit.

      But now there’s no human to see and to criticize. Just whatever fake fucking image his family is going to build of him. I’d say the kids are more likely to end up trying to be like him now.