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    I really hate to dance on someone’s grave but some people make it so easy to laugh and cheer about their assassination and the following memes…

    Sorry kirkie, you deserved this one and all the ridicule that followed. You sold your soul for money and power, of course most people hate you.

    This meme shows perfectly why people laugh at your death.

    I lolled hard at this meme

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    Watching all the fascists weep for this idiot and ask for decorum has been the highlight of my week.

    It’s not fun when you’re on the recieving end of political violence, is it not?

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      I posted his quote without comments verbatim and was banned from a forum by people asking for decorum.

      It was all 100% his stuff.

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      For the sake of fuck I do not support that man either… but why tf are people genuinely celebrating the murder of a father who never physically injured anyone???

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        A father who said that if his daughters got raped he would make them care for the rapists baby… Physical injury is not the only kind.

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        I’m not condonig anything. In fact this killing is brutal and violent as it gets. But this violence didn’t come out of thin air, he’s been fomenting violence with words and propaganda for years. And this has a weight.

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      It is like they genuinely forgot that this person has been advocating to deport migrants to concentration camps. And shooting Pelosi’s husband. And a literal genocide.

      The amount of hypocrisy of the right suddenly denouncing political violence now that they are on the receiving end is stunning.

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    I’m Canadian. I didn’t follow this asshole before someone splattered him but what the fuck is up with his face? Is this the face of the white right? It looks like someone pinched all his features to the nose and pinned them there. Weirdness.

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    “We need to be very clear, you are not going to get gun deaths to zero,” he said. “It will not happen. You can significantly reduce them, by having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one.”

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      I guess the guy who shot his throat won the debate about Charlies shooters being trans and from fatherless homes theory and proved him wrong

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        i was flabbergasted when i first heard americans have security & armed guards at schools. the closest to that any of the schools i went to had was cameras watching the doors and overweight PE teachers

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          We don’t have that either. Best we can do is cops with excessive cowardice.

          Source: uvalde, unfortunately

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        Plenty of Western countries with lots of guns that don’t have the same issues with gun violence.

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          Not nearly as many guns. No other country even has half as many guns per person as the US. But, even the ones that have a few guns (plus the ones that have almost no guns) have strictly enforced gun control laws, and treat gun ownership as a privilege not a right.

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      A conservative saying something that sounds reasonable in order to convince the listener that the opposite is true.

      Conservative messaging 101 right there.

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        If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

        – The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

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          This is a reasonable fear in a world where pilots are hired based on their status of being a minority. Is it not? That was the whole point, DEI practices enforce the idea that minorities aren’t qualified.

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            For those who stumble across this and are confused, this isn’t how DEI works.

            The reason DEI policies exist is that without them white male bosses were just blindly hiring white males and not considering anybody else because of their racism and sexism (sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious). That meant pilots who weren’t as good, musicians who weren’t as good, bankers who weren’t as good, etc. Aside from this being a guaranteed jobs program for white makes, and a roadblock for everyone else, it also led to problems because when everybody came from the same background, they all had the same kinds of blind spots.

            So, DEI policies came along to try to make sure that companies were actually hiring the best people, and not missing out because of entrenched racism and sexism. So, instead of having a concert violinist hand her resume to a committee and then perform for them on stage, the person performing on stage performs behind a screen and uses a number so their age, name, gender, and connections aren’t a factor, just the way they play.

            So really, when you see yet another white male airline pilot who looks like he’s former air force, you should be saying to yourself “I sure hope this airline has a DEI policy, and they didn’t just hire yet another guy who was drinking buddies with one of their pilots when they were both in the air force together.”

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              That’s part of DEI, and conveniently not the parts that Kirk, or most conservatives, complain about.

              The policies complained about are the one that effectively turn race/gender into qualifications. Like affirmative action. Like IBM working to get 50% female representation in their engineering hires. Like Biden in 2020 campaigning on the promise of hiring a black woman to SCOTUS (2 years before he even looked at candidates). Like Google and other tech companies implementing policies to favor non-asian minorities and women. It’s a form of “diverse sourcing” while making their actual skills and expertise a lower priority than their race/gender.

              If that’s not the DEI the left supports, then they’re awfully quiet about ridiculing it.

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                Those “other parts of DEI” are parts that don’t actually exist.

                Nobody’s out there hiring unqualified or underqualified people. When IBM hires engineers they’re not hiring women who are underqualified just to get to 50%, they’re just hiring very qualified women instead of very qualified men.

                Like Biden in 2020 campaigning on the promise of hiring a black woman to SCOTUS

                Do you think Ketanji Brown Jackson is unqualified? Or is it that you think that Biden couldn’t possibly have known that there were black women who were qualified to be on the supreme court?

                Let’s not pretend that everybody who gets a seat on the Supreme Court is incredibly qualified. Justice Hugo Black (who was a white man, despite his name) was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1937 and served until 1971. His only experience as a judge before being appointed to the Supreme Court was 1 year as a police court judge. Other than that he worked as a personal injury attorney for a few years, then as a country prosecutor for a short time before joining the army in WWI, and then he was elected to the US senate.

                Biden undoubtedly knew that there were plenty of black women who were qualified to be Supreme Court justices, but who simply had never been given the chance because of racism and sexism. The woman he ended up choosing had clerked for 3 judges for 3 years (including 1 supreme court justice), had had a stellar career as a lawyer for 10 years, was vice chair of the US Sentencing Commission for 4 years, then a district court judge for 8 years, then another year on the US Court of Appeals before she joined the Supreme Court.

                Like Google and other tech companies implementing policies to favor non-asian minorities and women.

                The case you link to was someone suing Google claiming that it had such policies. Did he win that lawsuit?

                Do you have any actual evidence that tech companies are actually choosing unqualified or underqualified non-white men? Or is it that they’re making sure to give a fair chance to people who aren’t white men?

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                  When IBM hires engineers they’re not hiring women who are underqualified just to get to 50%, they’re just hiring very qualified women instead of very qualified men.

                  Only 20% of graduates in engineering are women. They’re picking from a smaller pool, yet I’m supposed to think they won’t be underqualified? That’s not reasonable.

                  Do you think Ketanji Brown Jackson is unqualified?

                  You seems to be viewing qualifications as a binary instead of a spectrum. When I look for an attorney, I’m not just looking for someone who passed the bar, even if they technically “qualify” as an attorney. I want to scrutinize their qualification much more than that.

                  She’s not a terrible judge, necessarily, but not great either. There have been worse selections in the past, but I don’t think that makes the decision acceptable to hire based on gender and race. Justice Thomas proves that merely sharing someone’s race does not represent that constituents of that race.

                  I don’t think Biden already knew qualified judges that were black women for SCOTUS, imo. It was just politics. Trump did the same when he picked a woman strictly because he was replacing another woman. I’ll admit that SCOTUS, along with a president’s cabinet, are often not chosen based on particular expertise or skill. I personally don’t like this 🤷. Though I gues this can work fine if they have a skilled team while they strictly lead.

                  Do you have any actual evidence that tech companies are actually choosing unqualified or underqualified non-white men?

                  Only anecdotal. They’re having similar problems as universities, where they have “too many” asians and want to take measure to pick other races. The problem is that they’re actually not admitting asians to universities and hiring asians in tech because of their race. So to even the ratio, they would have to pick people based on race.

                  I suspect tech companies really avoid hiring underqualified people, which is why they maintain high asian representation even while publicly acting like they’re working to be more diverse. The lawsuit could be related to that public “policy”. I work in tech and personally have seen positions made specifically to get quotas, usually in non-tech positions. My company has tons of women in non-tech positions like quality assurance, HR, marketing to even out the lack of women engineers and programmers. Or maybe they just know about the gender wage gap and they’re trying to save money lol.

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                It’s really cute how you cite a suit that never went anywhere, and then fail to acknowledge, either through ignorance, or in your case just sheer stupidity, the more likely reason for that particular strategy for hiring…

                It’s because they want to pay them less. Because they still favor white people. And that was actually proven in court.

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                  That suit was moved to private arbitration proceeding and settled out of court.

                  And I joked about hiring women to pay them more in my other comment. It’s a joke because that implies that tech companies, publicly disclosing their desperation to hire women, are actually losing hundreds of millions (collectively billions), just to avoid hiring women. I’ve never met anyone working on tech that hates women that much. It’s one of the most liberal fields out there. They bend over backwards to be diverse. It’s a struggle because asians are overwhelmingly dominating in terms of qualification.

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            This is the type of misinformation that Kirk spread. This is why it’s good that he’s dead.

            That’s not what DEI is at all, literally the exact opposite.

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              If DEI is explicitly taking measures to not consider race/gender in hiring practices, then conservatives would largely support it.

              So they’re not racist for opposing DEI, they just don’t understand what it really is, right?

              This is the problem in politics when everyone is using the same terms with different meanings. Political discourse devolves into people speaking past each other with absolutely no point.

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            At least you admit being a racist. Good for you!

            Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

            – The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

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              If you learned that your new surgeon was hired strictly because she’s a white woman, is it racism to be skeptical of her qualifications? Or are you thrilled to get that surgery just because it’s a woman doing it?

              Average person cares about their ability to do the job. It’s not racist.

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                DEI means hiring a diverse pool of qualified employees.

                But you know that. You’re just arguing in bad faith.

                See why these “debates” are so pointless? It gives a thin veneer of intellectual rigor to bigotry and white nationalism. And the guy “just asking questions” will argue in bad faith or just outright lie. Like Charlie was when he was shot, trying to pretend that the majority of mass murderers aren’t straight cis white men.

                He also lashed out at the gay community, denouncing what he called the “LGBTQ agenda,” expressing opposition to same-sex marriage and suggesting that the Bible verse Leviticus 20:13, which endorses the execution of homosexuals, serves as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”

                So, how would someone debate “kill homosexuals”? What’s the counter argument?

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                  The counter argument would be a majority of Christian faiths believe in the new testament so anything in Leviticus is irrelevant. That might be where Charlie was trying to go with that clip with Rachel. That’s not a good clip to use if trying to prove Charlie Kirk held dangerous beliefs.

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                  DEI means hiring a diverse pool of qualified employees. But you know that. You’re just arguing in bad faith.

                  No, I don’t know that, because it’s wrong, or misleading at best. “Qualified” is a spectrum, unless you’re talking about the low bar of simply having a medical degree/license.

                  If you’re looking for a lawyer to represent you, are you looking for “black woman” as a qualification, reassured by the fact that she is at least bar certified? That would be stupid. You’d want the person who you felt could best represent you. Which could end up being a black woman, but not necessarily.

                  Joe Biden literally said he was going to pick a black woman to sit in the SCOTUS before he had even made a shortlist of potential candidates. Jackson is a DEI hire. Sure, she is a “qualified” judge, most acting judges technically are, but it’s unlikely that she’s the most qualified. That’s the problem with DEI, people will assume that women or minorities may not be qualified, even when they are. Jackson could very well be the best for that position, but that would be quite the statistical coincidence considering Biden started his search with narrow racial/gender qualifications.

                  Like Charlie was when he was shot, trying to pretend that the majority of mass murderers aren’t straight cis white men.

                  He was discussing whether to exclude gang violence when discussing mass shootings, because those are overwhelmingly from gangs. So much so, that people typically exclude gang violence from stats. So if you’re including gang violence, white men would not commit the majority of “mass murder.” However, most people don’t care about gangsters killing each other, they care about innocent people killed/shot.

                  So, how would someone debate “kill homosexuals”? What’s the counter argument?

                  He never advocated for instituting laws to kill homosexuals. Neither did he support killing adulterers and people who worship false gods. So a counter argument is pointless unless he actively wanted to enforce Biblical law in the US.

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                If you learned that your new surgeon was hired strictly because she’s a white woman

                If if if.

                When in your life did you learn that someone doing something important for you was hired BECAUSE of the color of their skin?

                Shut the fuck up you fucking loser.

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                  When in your life did you learn that someone doing something important for you was hired BECAUSE of the color of their skin?

                  When Jackson was chosen for SCOTUS.

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            A simple DEI policy would be, for example, to remove the name from a resume before passing it over to the hiring manager for initial selection. That reduces bias against ethnic groups, religions, or genders.

            This should in no way reduce the qualifications of the candidates. Quite the opposite.

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            How is this a hard concept? You still have to be a pilot, you just can’t have a policy - tacit or explicit - of only hiring white men.

            Couldn’t you have gone with the idea that it’s “taking jobs from white men?” Then I could point out that there isn’t a limited pool of specific unemployed people you have to pick from, and that even if you give a job to a white man it’s still taking a job from a different white man?

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        Yeah, without knowing context, you might think it’s someone admitting that we need gun control, but no, his point was that we shouldn’t care about the gun deaths so much…

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        For some it takes a village.

        For some like Charlie it takes an orgy. Of exclusively middle aged dad bods.

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    You know? In Spanish, there’s an idiom: “irse a hacer gargaras” (literally “go to gargle”) that we say when something or someone ends poorly or incredibly wrong. This… well, he did go.

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      He did. It was in the top 3 most gruesome things I’ve ever seen in my life. However, I only feel sorry for two people that saw it, and those are his kids. They didn’t choose to associate with one of the lowest subhuman pieces of shit we have to offer, but the right sure did. His wife did, our pres did, a lot of our families did.

      The world is a better place now that that fucker can no longer speak. All of his words caused pain, hate and suffering. Fuck him, amen.

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    When God sends you a message about the “god given right to carry arms”.

    Edit: typo