This only happened like an hour ago, details are still surfacing.
Summer's over, we're entering Fall and people's emotions are starting to bubble over from the shift in temperature. This sort of figure getting shot has me feel like it might give the right reason to 'shoot back', as this dude'd make a pretty easy martyr which is super annoying.
It will be interesting to see how preliminary optics skew reactions, until details about the shooter come in (if they do). And depending on how Kirk ...recovers (or not). ...Interesting could turn a lot more volatile, though.
Despicable people will celebrate this.
Even more despicable are those who'd use this as reason for political revenge.
To quote Hassan Piker:
"The reverberation of people seeking out vengeance in the aftermath of this violent, abhorrent incident is going to be genuinely worrisome."
And this was before Fox News and those adjacent to it began trying to incite people.
Fox News host Jesse Watters said, "They are at war with us," as well as commenting, "We're going to avenge Charlie's death in the way he would want it avenged."[52][53]
Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok wrote, "THIS IS WAR."
Elon Musk, Christopher Rufo, Representative Derrick Van Orden, and Blake Masters blamed the left for the attack.
Even if we find the assassin's political leanings (which generally tend to be right wing for assassins), it's not truly representative of your average person.
This is also a convenient time for Trump (not so much his party) over it serving as a distraction from The Epstein Files.
Damn, Vaush isn't even a little bit sympathetic:
I guess I'm not either, I'm honestly more worried about the response to his death than anything else.
This assassination is not only disgusting but an attack on the first amendment rights of the people. This is a crime against all people.
I've seen the video of the death close up. The shot entered the middle left neck traveling slightly downward. A noticeable bulge to the right side of the neck was seen as the bullet forced it's way through the vitals. Blood was seen gushing from the bullet hole as his head and neck slumped backward and left.
I don't write this out of disrespect. I write this to inform of the actual graphic violence. I feel this graphic reality should not be hidden.
This assassination will push more people to the right away from the "progressive" Left's violent identity politics. So in a way, Charlie's death will be martyred and the Left's own victim ideology will be used against them. Only this time, the victim is real.
HAHAHAHA HELL YESSS! The Right have stripped the population of everything, including empathy, and expect us to give a fuck about this pampered piece of rich shit.
Woke and empathy are dead just like they wanted.
Ironic that you celebrate a killing that further destroys your chances of a Communist following. Just proves how much of an idiot you really are.
4chan's pol community had like 5 different viewpoints of the shooting. it was really interesting how at one moment hes just talking normal, and then the next, there is this red hole in his neck, and then his head kinda goes limp and all teh blood came out... its like they snipped his main neck artary... like if it had been a inch left or right, i feel it may not have been as bad
imagine being a normie just attending this debate, and then literally watching someone die right in front of you... i wonder how traumatic that is? i dont feel affected by the video but i think in real life it would be different