Fascist pro-Trump political operative Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot to death Wednesday afternoon on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, as he was addressing a crowd at an open-air event.
Kirk was the founder and leader of Turning Point USA, a fascist youth group that has been active on college campuses promoting white supremacy and hatred of immigrants and leftists. After playing a major role in Trump’s 2024 election campaign, including a prime speaking slot at the Republican National Convention, Kirk became a powerful advisor to the new administration, vetting cabinet nominees for their acceptability to Trump’s fascist “base.”
You’re an insane person.
Instance checks out
Lemmy.ml is a lot of things, but blind religious nuts is not one of em
I’ve had this user tagged as a religious nut for a long time, so I’m not surprised at all
Why would you link a post to such a vile community?
.ml can get pretty vile you’re right, but don’t worry, the link goes to the megathread of the documentation of lemmy.mls extremist simping for authoritarian regimes like Russia and NK and the censorship it entails
Yeah no was refering to the Meanwhileonthegrad or whatever it’s properly called. Not a fan of such far right communities being normalized.
ML isn’t as bad as people make it out. That said, it is tankie central and I’m not sure why this person made an account there. Maybe they just saw other violent, oppressive authoritarians and felt right at home? I’ve had them tagged as a “Randian Scumbag” for some time.
I’m appalled at pearl clutching liberals who are rushing to his defence. Like yeah killing people is wrong and shit but he was a vile amoral hate monger who thrived on division and he did it for profit. So fuck him.
I’m not even remotely surprised
killing fascists is morally correct
He said it best himself
Political violence is never acceptable!
But killing thousands through law and policy is A-OK 🥰
Certain kinds of political violence is ok. Like when the state uses thugs to shoot and beat unarmed protestors.
The only ones clutching pearls that I see were conservatives on reddit. Anyone else doing anything remotely close to that just weren’t celebrating due to this whole weird “violence is generally bad” thing.
The shooting was at a school, so thoughts and prayers
Nah, Charlie once said “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up new age term that does a lot of damage.” So no Ts and Ps for ole chuck. He wouldn’t have wanted it.
Thots and beers?
A Nazi was shot and killed.
I’m pretty impressed with the WSWS take:
It is politically appropriate to condemn the killing, which accomplishes nothing progressive and actually aids the efforts of the Trump White House to attack democratic rights and erect a police state. But that is no reason to glorify the victim or cover up the bloodthirsty, bigoted character of his political perspective.
The Times editors claim, “Such violence is antithetical to America.” On the contrary, such violence is the stock in trade of the American ruling class, whether directed at striking workers, racial minorities, immigrants, or political figures deemed to be dangerous or merely inconvenient. It is barely a week since the president of the United States ordered the incineration of 11 people in a Venezuelan fishing boat, claiming, without offering any evidence, that they were drug smugglers and terrorists.
Matt Dowd was fired from MSNBC for much less.
Killing fascists is an American principle.
Only when convenient. Lest we forget, the US (And the USSR) ferried a bunch of Nazis to their respective countries, to build rockets and missiles.
I’d say our problems were greatly exacerbated when we stopped killing Nazis.
This should be worded differently. Shot to death sounds like he was riddled with bullets. It fits, it just makes the imagination run wild instead of something like “shot and killed” or “killed by sniper fire” or even “bled to death from single gunshot wound” to really sum it up. He was all about truth after all, and how you frame things.
It’s a term of art (or something like that) in journalism.
It’s just another one of the quirky phrases used bt journalists.
the New York Times, the semi-official voice of the Democratic Party
Thought it was well known to be extremely Right
Remove the “extremely” and there’s no contradiction. The Neoliberal segment (which is that of the leadership) of the Democratic Party is ideologically right to far right and authoritarian. Just like the NYT.
I think that the EXTREME right wing rag from NY you’re thinking of is the NY comPost, though.
MBFC and allsides both have right wing bias themselves. Especially MBFC, which is the pet project of a conservative zionist pretending to be an authority on factuality and bias.
A little late, eh?
Finally the correct headline.
“Fascist pro-Trump political operative Charlie Kirk…”
How sad is it that such a trash publication needs to be the one calling him what he actually was?
This is the correct way to write a headline.
Nice headline
A+ headline
I was about to report it for Rule 4, but damn that’s the OG title 👀
snitchy trigger finger 🏹
I mean, WSWS is short for “World Socialist Website” so that’s par for the course.
The site is a giant shithole, but as the saying goes even a broken clock is right twice a day.
