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Wiz Imp

(10,423 posts)
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 12:47 AM Sep 2025

These people are pathetic. According to them, now criticizing someone is celebrating their death?

Well, we knew they weren't very bright.

Things people have gotten fired or death threats for saying (supposedly celebrating Kirk's death):

“Save your sympathies for the innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of MAGA’s violent political messaging machine.”


“Hope the bullet’s OK.”


"America became greater today"


"Good riddance"


“This may not be the obituary we were all hoping to wake up to, but it is a close second for me.”


“37 years in public education, ready to take a bullet for my kids. No I’m not shedding a tear, he chose to sacrifice himself for the rights [to] be protected. Karma’s a bitch.”


“Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. “You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place.”


“Why are y’all sad? Your man said it was worth it,”


“Truly don’t care if you think it’s insensitive or poor timing to decline to respect an evil man who died.”


"Yes I am making his death political, no I do not care, If all you do is spew hate, you're bound to get some in return."


"Charlie Kirk died the same way he lived: bringing out the worst in people,"


"Could this have been the consequences of his actions catching up with him?"


"#karma is a b*tch,"


"Good riddance to bad garbage,"


None of those quotes are "celebratory". The only 2 that could even be considered remotely close are "America became greater today" and “This may not be the obituary we were all hoping to wake up to, but it is a close second for me.” This should scare everyone that people are getting fired just because they dared to say something critical or negative about a truly hateful bigot. What's worse, is many of them simply pointed out the hateful things that Kirk himself said. It's Censorship of anything the slightest bit critical of right wing politics and they're clearly trying to completely silence all opposing viewpoints.
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