Charlie Kirk

[Lu]

I did a little superficial investigation, and it seems you're correct about the left regimes having killed more in raw numbers. TY for correcting me :)

[BTGBullseye]

@Lu

 

No worries. There are a lot of people out there that refuse to learn history, and just blindly believe the talking points of those that want to make the world a worse place for everyone. I'm glad you aren't one of them. :)

[arsenicCatnip]

Quote

Only the ones CELEBRATING or JUSTIFYING this heinous act are the ones who are evil. Hell, I'm a moderate leftist, but compared to these demons I'm "extreme right".

my brother in christ for as long as i have known you you have been nothing but right wing. i've seen you deny climate change, push conspiracy theories, use alex jones as a source, you even said you were a single issue voter for the criminalization of abortion at one point. unless you've somehow changed in the past 5 years i seriously doubt you approach anything even resembling halfhearted centrism. name ONE SINGULAR left wing position you hold, and i'm not talking about something stupid like "legalize weed".

 

either this is the shallowest possible attempt at framing your position as "moderate left" so everyone seems insane by comparison, or you are genuinely so deluded that you don't know what words mean.

 

[Deep Dive Devin]

Quote

I did a little superficial investigation, and it seems you're correct about the left regimes having killed more in raw numbers. TY for correcting me :)

Could ya try doing some non-superficial investigation? What did you even look at that drove you to this heel-turn?

Edited 3 hours ago by Deep Dive Devin (see edit history)

[arsenicCatnip]

calling totalitarian regimes that collaborated with fascists, suppressed "degenerate" art and culture, murdered dissidents, and did A LOT ethnic cleansing and genocide "left" because they called themselves communist is about as asinine as calling the nazis "left" because they called themselves socialist. 

Edited 3 hours ago by arsenicCatnip (see edit history)

[Deep Dive Devin]

It sure is convenient, huh? This thread started out saying the left perpetrates and celebrates more political violence in the US, but the second someone challenged that & refuted it with receipts of the propagandists saying it openly engaging in this behavior, suddenly the goalposts move.

 

Now it's conservatives redefining leftism to whatever convenient thing they hate regardless of the context of the modern left, because that's a thing conservatives can argue about until the sun blows up. Pointing at a blue-haired lady and yelling "YOU'RE LIKE STALIN!" until I get banned from the Arby's.

 

I'm sure this is just a coincidence, and burying the lede isn't a common tactic with reactionaries online. How fortuitous for the right that we now are in a conversation they can ignore any context about until the sun blows up.

[Im_CIA]

Quote

So... Charlie Kirk got murdered in front of his wife and children, and thousands of people on the left are openly cheering all over social media. So much for the "party of tolerance" for open debate and differing opinions.

I've heard that most movers on the American left, a la Bernie, actually condemned the murder and sent their condolences, which makes believe that this is an algo-mob based assessment. To be honest, I've barely took notice of CK before his voice box got vented, so it has a been a somewhat surreal experience for me to get my bearings.

 

On hand, political violence is a destabilizing accelerant that can only hasten our demise.
On the other, I think MAGA 2 is wearing 30inch clown shoes for turning a shit-talking podcaster into a martyr. Actually, they seem to own multiple pairs for many occasions now, but I digress. 
If "Dark Humor" mfers can't even see the irony of a staunch 2A activist/empathy disbeliever getting this kind of mixed epithet, then they have ripened on the wine and need to be bullied relentlessly. Which I'm more than happy to do :3

But that aside, it seems like CK wanted to release the Epstein files. I think we should turn this point of friction into one of unity. Let's all come together and honor a dead man's noble wish

Edited 1 hour ago by Im_CIA (see edit history)