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[-] Xulai@mander.xyz 102 points 3 days ago

Couldn’t happen to a better guy. He advocated for guns on campus, and got exactly what he wanted.

He stated that the few shootings were worth it. Not a soul should feel sorry for him.

I’m fairly confidant this is a setup for Trump to start taking away guns, though, not some heroic revolutionary.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 61 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

He advocated for guns on campus, and got exactly what he wanted

That's called irony.

Next up: RFK Jr dies of COVID and Marco Rubio is arrested by ICE for looking too latino.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Trump almost died of COVID. They really hid how bad it was.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I never though I'd say I wish COVID did a better job...

[-] bamboo 17 points 3 days ago

Isn't it only ironic if the event that happens is opposite of what is expected? He advocated for guns on campus knowing that it would result in shootings and deaths, he just didn't expect it would happen to him.

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There are several types of irony (not sure if this just applies to literature.)

Verbal irony is when a person says one thing but means the opposite;

Situational irony is when the reverse of what is expected happens; and

Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters do not.

This falls under dramatic irony imo

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[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

Exactly.

The same way it's going to be wildly ironic when the ICE Gestapo starts going after MAGA voters.

[-] Xulai@mander.xyz 13 points 3 days ago

We can hope.

[-] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I’m excited to see him try. Today there was also another school shooting, and none of them cared.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-reported-colorado-high-school-2-kids-transported/story?id=125452526

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

He also stated he hated the word "empathy" and thought it was a made up "new age" term.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 59 points 3 days ago

When a MAGA piece of shit gets gunned down, our Dear Leader is tripping over himself to praise the sonofabitch.

But when kids get gunned down at school, not a peep.

You know where the orange utan's sympathies lie. What a nauseating human being...

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago

Mod opinion: Links to the video not marked NSFW/NSFL will be removed.

My non-mod opinion:

Not going to celebrate, just noting:

"I can't stand the word 'empathy', I think it's a made up New Age term." - Charlie Kirk

https://youtu.be/qO8GGZ418T8

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Eh. He was disgusting traitor filth. It’s fine to celebrate. Fuck him, I hope he suffered.

[-] sepi@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

It was instantaneous.

[-] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

[Pundents] come and go

And one just went

The ingredients you got

Bake the cake that you get

  • Jesse Welles, probably
[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago
[-] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Oh no!

Anyway...

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Does this qualify as a Herman Cain award?

It can qualify for every Nobel prize for all I care as long as the piece of shit stays dead.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Most of my conservative coworkers haven’t even posted anything about his death on Facebook, instead they are posting about how COVID-19 is still being used as a weapon.

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I do not condone this type of violence in any way whatsoever. I never liked this guy and he was human garbage, but this is not the answer.

However... I do not feel bad for him or his fans. I feel bad for his kids who had to witness it and will now grow up without a father and I would never wish that upon anyone. Unfortunately, when you base an entire career off of hate you'll only get hate back. We're talking about the same man that said school shootings and people dying from gun violence are necessary sacrifices. The same man that wanted to bail out the guy that assassinated two Democratic lawmakers. The same man that stopped talking about Epstein as soon as Trump came up.

I think political violence is disgusting and a slippery slope to so much worse, but I do not feel bad for this man for facing the consequences of his actions and hate.

[-] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 19 points 3 days ago

Yeah, political violence is a slippery slope. They should've thought of that when they started it.

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You're not wrong, they definitely started it. But just because they started it doesn't mean it's all of a sudden a good thing when it happens just because you don't like the guy. You can condone this type of violence and also not feel bad for the guy at the same time. We all know the saying "an eye for an eye makes the world go blind."

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Eye for an eye, only applies if the person taking your eye has empathy. WWII and nazi germany weren't solved with words and discussion.

[-] Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

This "Eye for an Eye" train of thought is how we went from WWI to WWII. Nazi Germany and the WWII they started was caused by the rest of the world wanting to punish Germans for WWI. It could've been solved before it even started if the rest of the world had shown some empathy towards the German people.

I'm not saying we should be flower children who don't believe in violence, but rather that violence is a tool that should be used with extreme caution because violence does breed more violence and the more violence we breed the more normal it becomes. Sometimes violence is necessary, in this case I don't think it was necessary. I'm not going shed any tears for Charlie Kirk. He tried to normalize the exact behavior that got him killed so there's some poetic justice there, but him getting killed this way is not normal and it shouldn't be cheered because at that point you're just doing what Charlie Kirk was doing, normalizing it. Don't be Charlie Kirk, be better.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It’s high time the traitor filth suffer the fear of the masses.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

"Live" updates

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