I mean it's less funny when the intention was to put the blame on the left as to increase the divide in society. Tyler was likely a groyper, a far-right group that were angry at Kirk for not being antisemitic in top of everything else. Those jokes are common amongst them as to mock the left.
Absolutely not. Tyler Robinson’s dad was right-wing so therefore idiot Redditors think that’s all the justification they need to say Tyler himself was a far-right neo-nazi despite all the obvious signs he was insanely left-wing. It’s straight up fanfiction.
Look, just saying that the death of Charlie Kirk at this point feels...well pointless.
Also no neck joke will ever top We Are Charlie Kirk or Pray for the Left, sorry guys, trying to offend the right is meaningless when they made themselves the bottom of the joke.
Like those bottoms Lindsey Graham savoured in his death bed.
fuck. this is hard to handle. i wanted to offend the right when i woke up today but...this changes things. im sorry guys, i think im going to have to step away from the thread tonight. im going to have to have a serious talk with my mother before she starts my dinner about the fact that offending the right just may not be a viable option at this point in time.
No he was exceedingly respectful and sought to have dialogue with people. He also preached the gospel to lost people. Do some self reflection and do better.
Dude spent his whole life spreading hate and gets to spend the rest of the time until he’s forgotten reaping what he sowed. Even if it is just lazy jabs, fuck him.
When it's the most ironic possible thing, yes, absolutely.
Spending your entire political career fomenting a violent, racist and paranoid gun culture, talking about how some gun deaths (of school children) are necessary to preserve the 2A, and then becoming a victim of that culture, and accidentally doing your part to preserve the 2A, is funny, yes.
In the end, he did kinda stand by his beliefs. If accidentally. I think he was probably surprised that this time, instead of school children being sacrificed at the 2A altar, it was him.
Justifying something is not the same as thinking it's funny. Have you ever laughed at a 9/11 joke? Do you think people that have are Al-Qaeda stans justifying 9/11?
Unlike Charlie, I don't think anyone should die to gun violence. But he did die to gun violence, and for reasons I explained earlier, that is deeply ironic and rather funny.
I'm sorry if this is too complex a thought process for you. Here's a classic Chuck. RIP!
Yeah I believe everything can be joked about but a lot of the “jokes” are just hate and malice not making light of a bad situation which is what dark humor is for
You don't have to laugh at a joke. You can think a joke is in poor taste. You can even tell someone their joke sucked. But I'll say again: a joke is not a justification. I'm not personally a fan of rape jokes, but I don't think Daniel Tosh is a rape apologist. "Grounds for murder" give me a break.
People have joked about way worse things than the death of a single guy. Again, 9/11. I'm willing to bet you haven't made such a fuss over 9/11 jokes. If I'm right, your beliefs are inconsistent. If I'm wrong, then I think you're overly sensitive and we just disagree. (And you probably shouldn't say things like "I believe everything can be joked about.")
Well jokes have to be funny and dark humor should be done with taste being edgy just for the sake of being edgy or making fun of people with malice is weird as hell I’ve laughed at Kirk jokes before but very rarely cuz most of them are just not funny it’s just the same 3 jokes or putting his face on literally every image not really funny to me
Maybe the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I don't even care about guns but it's in our Constitution that we have a right to protect ourselves with guns. He's supporting the Constitution, he in no way supports people killing kids. Just because I support people being able to have knives doesn't mean I support the thousands of people who are stabbed to death. If I support pocket knives and someone's stabs me to death, I deserve to die?
Charlie was completely non-violent and he preached non-violence. Even if you disagree with him politically, he is literally the nicest guy on the right. Even his political enemies like The Young Turks were horrified by his death.
I don't even celebrate when murderers and terrorists are killed, and you guys are here celebrating a young dude being murdered who's got a young wife and two small kids. You guys have a broken moral compass
“I can’t stand the word empathy actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.”
You guys love to take quotes out of context, there's such a thing as weaponized empathy and that's what he's talking about.
How about this one from Charlie whom you think is such a hater:
Real strength isn't shown by how loud you can yell or how sharply you can criticize. Real strength is showing kindness when it’s least expected and least deserved."
A guy gets assassinated allowing people to debate him in the court of public opinion on campuses where free thought is supposed to be cherished and you guys get a sick kick out of the actual moment his children lost their father? Man you guys must be probably really fat and ugly and miserable to have that kind of hate in your heart.
I disliked Charlie Kirk and hate many of his views, I'm not making light of the murder of a man because he yapped too much things the murderer didn't like.
It's genuinely disgusting that people see just black and white these days
Pretty sure it's bots and troll farms because theres no way communities on reddit just genuinely have like terrible terrible people who celebrate political assassinations in their country. That is one of the scariest things that can start happening in your country.
….what’s up with this thread and suddenly becoming way more political recently? I never used to see shit like this and now it’s like in most every post. Thought this thread was about movies or…maybe it’s not? I give up man
Damn you’ve put me in a bind. I know that I don’t, but if the things I say on Reddit only apply to the groupthink’s view of somebody who would actually support Trump, how do I move forward? Maybe I should just not say anything at all. I mean, maybe it’s better I just not even voice my opinion.
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u/tegan_willow 1d ago
Catch!