Meanwhile every right-wing commentator on every right wing media outlet is calling for blood and wants to murder and incarcerate anyone just to the left of the Kaiser.
Fuck all network news. They’re all billionaires bullshit.
Let us all come together and condemn violence of any kind.
Oh, get fucked dude.
Saying this as groups are forcibly rounded up by masked police, and a police state is being created in DC, among other increasing intolerance and hate.
I actually developed a bit of respect for Chuckles after this event. He died for his beliefs. Wish more Republicans would.
Unfortunately for him he’s still not welcome in Valhalla as they hold a “no nazis” rule
By no choice of his own. No way he would have chosen this. Nothing to respect.
I think you may have missed the joke.
Yeah, he didn’t think he’d be held accountable in his wildest dreams. I guess he thought if Alex Jones didn’t get shot, he wouldn’t either.
They’re welcome to die for other reasons too.
I mean clearly multiple right wing commentators and leaders that are literally calling for the murder of anyone on the left is not a problem at all.
Meanwhile, Greg Gutfeld still has a job after this.
Free speech. What?
That’s not how free speech works there.
Or anywhere. Freedom of speech is about the government not restricting your speech. It has nothing to do with private relationships.
I tried this once with an ex and apparently there’s nothing the government can do to force gf’s to stay with you after you call them a dumb cunt ;/. Who knew?
I mean, was she?
Idk, she knew that the 1st amendment is about what the government restricting speech, so i was the dumb bitch in this case
Proof the media is corrupt and owned by the evil empire
The large media companies are owned by broad commercial interests and indeed the enemy of working people however they try to position themselves, but the other Factor at play here is the right is trying to subordinate them further and accuses them of bias at every opportunity and they cave to the pressure. Not the least as they can step on their other myriad commercial interests for not caving as we saw with Colbert recently.
Caving to the pressure it will only make it worse though.
“He’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that is the environment we are in. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
Was he wrong?
No but he wasn’t let go because of that remark.
He was let go for this
“We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration. So we have no idea about this.”
I mean it’s an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. He should get flack for how patentedly stupid that comment was. But probably not fired.
I completely agree. But I’m not a billionaire running a cable “news” outlet that can’t let a single dollar go away.
Jesus christ that man is a great comedian.
wow. so his “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” line lost him his job?
tucker Carlson did so much worse for years and was lauded for it. I guess because it was aligned with the networks priorities…
No, it was the “a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.” line that upset people.
Here we have it, y’all. The leftmost TV news channel.
Still run by billionaires after all. Can’t be upsetting any portion of your gross profits, even if they are complete snowflake morons who support a white supremacist.
Corporate media has always been complicit.
Divisive is putting it lightly
Edit: just want to point out that threads about this are being cultivated on this community, silently by the moderators for some reason or another. I was effectively shadowbanned from commenting on the megathread and posted this comment to see if I could still post on the wider community.
Why my comment on the megathread was removed is unclear, considering it was just general discussion and was being upvoted. Super shady coming from a community that claims to be less astroturfed alternative to Reddit
He was right and lost his job over it
Not unusual in this timeline. Check the news about the head of the Department of Labor Statistics.
Streisand effect time? Gonna follow this person now.
We really gotta stop appeasing the fascists.
Unfortunately, the fascists own the media.
The other factions of fascists own this media, the repub partisan fascists are taking over the long game of big biz to kill the republic in all but name.
The comment about the supporter shooting the gun in celebration was slightly inappropriate. Everything else is spot on.
What the fuck. He was asked about the environment we’re in and he said he always believed that hateful thoughts lead to hate words which lead to hateful actions. So we can’t be surprised that when we have hate thought and hateful words that we see hateful actions.
How did he condone political violence?!? He just answered the fucking question!
I want you to know they can’t see that, the supporters of Kirk and his kind. They see some weird golden reality where a father and man of God was assassinated by the left.
To them he was a Guardian of society and tradition, giving his time up to connect with the youth in honest discussion.
They for whatever reason cannot see it as him being hateful, to them their golden boy died. Or at least that’s what they will pretend to believe.
Sure. Those people are going to misinterpret his statement as, “He got what he deserved”, but the fucking company has to know that’s not what he did! Its not like the people criticizing him are MSNBC viewers, so from a pure business view, there’s nothing to lose by just being like, “He answer a question and never once called for violence. Go away.”
Instead, they fire him.
Some people fail to see policy as violence. They view it as civilized, even when its outcomes are suffering and death. They then view resistance to that policy as violence. You’re supposed to do things the “right way” and change the policy by voting like a civilized person. Conveniently, that doesn’t work, so you’re always forced into being the bad guy if you have a soul and want to stop hurting people.
Meanwhile, every instance of something horrifying happening to a Democrat is featured on Fox News with Tucker Carlson squinting angrily into the camera saying it was all their fault, and he hopes it happens again.
I mean it is valuable, I guess, to maintain some standards of non violence even when “they” are not. I’m just saying the double standard is relevant.
Political analyst Matthew Dowd on MSNBC wonders whether the Charlie Kirk shooting may have been “a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.”
Well… holy shit man. You can’t say that on TV, even about a bad person.
We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.
I’m cracking up
