Charlie Kirk died while doing what he loved:

Being a horrible horrible person, and a blight on humanity.

"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."

Well, I don't wish ill on anybody. But when it does happen to some people, schadenfreude can be enjoyable.

Rest in piss Charlie.

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.

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.

YouTube randomly gave me this:

Yes, I would like for him to be next if that's what they're saying.

It's absolutely okay to feel relief when you experience the death of an abusive person.

charlie kirk sucked ass. but i don't see his extremely public assassination having many positive consequences

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.

Right wingers: how can you celebrate a murder?

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what makes you cheer.

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.

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.

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...

My only disappointment is a shot to the carotid artery means he likely had no time to process the karmic irony of his death.

Him making an incredibly racist statement only for the universe's immediate rebuttal to be "we're taking your blood back" was pretty funny.

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.

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

Was as entertaining as watching ketchup coming out of the bottle.

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.

I laughed, and I fucking hate the fascists for being so vile that that was my reaction.

Watched it and I'm happy too.

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.

I was immediately worried about the consequences from the right to feel any joy about what happened.

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

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.