It often seems like insincere virtue signaling.

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    So many headlines of celebs doing stuff like this and they all feel forced and fake, or at the very least detached from reality. Are they going to start singing “Imagine” again?

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      Reality is that the assassination is being used to justify oppression and hasn’t done anything at all to help causes Kirk opposed. Far less people would be lamenting if this were just a normal death of natural causes (incl. the healthcare system, even) instead of a political assassination.

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          protests are clearly not assassinations. Kirk was shot doing a similar kind of political gathering and I wouldn’t shoot a Nazi protestor either

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        If liberals were lamenting that Charlie Kirk was turned into a martyr even though he was one of the biggest pieces of shit on this space rock, I would accept and respect that. Instead they are all “he was a Christian”, “he was a family man”, “he was a man of faith”, “please send love to his family”. Meanwhile his widow, who’s rich as fuck already, is milking his followers with Go Fund Me campaigns.

        I am genuinely disgusted by how everyone, left and right, is s constantly being taken advantage of…but that’s for a different post.

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          Anyone being assassinated for political views, no matter how bad said views were, elicits sympathy automatically due to the long-term effects of political assassinations when there isn’t an uprising going on. I don’t see what’s wrong with that, and confirmation bias finding additional “things” to have flimsier sympathies for is a thing. Also, “he was a Christian/man of faith” is something I only hear Christians say.

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            With how you put it, it sounds like the problem wasn’t Kirk being assassinated. It’s that there weren’t more politically motivated deaths in a similar time frame, otherwise known as an “uprising” that would have normalized it.

            I think you’re on to something.

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              Yeah, I’d support a movement led by someone I agree with that would set back the oppression by more than a few months. (“agree with” would include minimizing innocent casualties and stuff.) Though Kirk would be one of the weirdest targets, so they better have a good explanation for the efficacy.

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        and hasn’t done anything at all to help causes Kirk opposed

        Why the fuck would it? It wasn’t intended to in the first place!

        I’m starting to feel like I’m taking crazy pills, seeing so many people who should know better act as if the assassination was somehow intended to be for the benefit of the left even though it was a right-wing nutjob who did it.