Charlie Kirk is known for engaging in respectful Socratic dialogue with people that vehemently disagree with his political views, which is something that is desperately needed today. The fact that he was attacked during one of these events is an attack on the medium itself and an admission by the radical left that they don't care to engage in dialogue, but prefer to brute force their views on the world. A very sad and frightening day.

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errant 5 months ago
Faker than the trump assassination attempts. They are priming you for a fake trump assasination.
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unknown 5 months ago
You’re confusing speaking truth for hate. Just like the far left so vehemently does on a daily basis. He’s always been calm and willing to be respectful to those he speaks with. Just leave this alone and take a walk.
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Vincent 5 months ago
This will not go over well.
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JT 5 months ago
That's a fucking crock of shit statement, and you know it.
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JT 5 months ago
We're here. I agree with you. Wish it would've been a woman or women pulling triggers instead of some old dude.
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Nate / 5 months ago
A bullet doesn't change the cold hard reality that Charlie is 100% correct
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unknown 5 months ago
He’s not a bot. But he is most likely mentally unstable. Thank you PringleMac πŸ™ this assassin hits deep.
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Trivium 5 months ago
TPUSA sources confirm Charlie Kirk is in β€œcritical but stable condition” after a shooting at Utah Valley University.
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JT 5 months ago
Why would he have ever done that? Money, meet hand, repeat.
Left leaning libertarian here. I don't think folks need to die for us to be able to work together. Violence just begets violence and an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. The problem, outside of the puppet masters pulling their strings, is the fact that a large number of humans don't have empathy.
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JRA 5 months ago
πŸ™πŸ» heartbreaking
Fanatical right wingers have done it too. Its not fuckinhg left and right or red and blue. It's the fucking government pitting the people against each other so they can keep raping our kids and robbing us blind. But hey, yeah, let's blame politics and not the politicians.
Absolutely true And after hearing the conflicting reports on whether the shooter is in custody, idk if it was a lone actor. Fuck them if they got paid or given special fed immunity to do this But if it was a lone actor, I hope they don't get the death penalty for going after a Nazi
There's no proof he hasn't committed violence, but there is proof he has participated in group violence, which is open to debate whether you'd call it "committing" violence
There was a word for people who didn't join the military or anything in Nazi Germany, just chilled being okay with genocide That word is Nazi Republicans and Democrats are both modern Nazi party branches in the US
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Scurvydog 5 months ago
Yes according to recent announcements
> "respectful" > constant logical fallacies, no apologies I mean can you even show me 1 time he apologized for being disingenuous/arguing in bad faith?
Kids in Gaza are walled in and starving. Charlie Kirk supported that, with words and also materially with actions. That's what I call being a Nazi / a member of the Nazi group.
Any members of Hamas participating in walling in children and starving them are Nazis. Yes. Unlike the Israeli authorities, I have no evidence that includes many, if any, members of Hamas.
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Ofaku2 5 months ago
This is the closest thing to the truth
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Ofaku2 5 months ago
100% , my folks and friends are so enraged many of them took off work once they heard this to calm down and I can't blame them, things are imploding. We know this was intended to stir the masses and cause chaos and it will.
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Ofaku2 5 months ago
I know, that guy who said that must have seen one CNN short and said, yup that's what happened and didn't look any further.
Very sad day. For what I’ve seen Charlie was a nice, articulate and respectful guy irrespective of which side he took. His political views made no difference to me. My only word of warning to the people is: don’t let these events weaponise you. It’s easy to put labels on things (e.g. β€˜radical left’). In reality, if you took off the labels and looked at the facts ONLY, across history, it would be hard not to notice that β€˜radical left’ is very similar to β€˜radical right’ and that once you reach a certain point of abstraction left=right=centre=corrupt system . The system is there to make you slave. Fuck the system using non-violent, smart, anonymous, freedom-based resistance. Study Bitcoin, buy Bitcoin, set yourself FREE. βœŒοΈβ€οΈπŸ€™
Don't use this event to demonize the "radical left". I'm sure you didn't like it when people used the super trump lover in Texas who shot over 40 people at a Walmart to call it the "radical right" on a murder spree. Don't be part of the problem dividing everyone with your rhetoric. You have a big platform, use it to make things better, not create more division. From TXMCtrades on twitter: I've hesitated to post this all day but I'm going to now. Will probably lose me some followers but I have things to say and I've never been one to hold my tongue. I respect the exchange of ideas and a diversity of thought. Political violence should be widely condemned by all and it's unfortunate that we are so eager to paint outcomes as a single faction's work. We do it every time, and so quickly. However the pendulum is forever swinging. It was just three months ago that two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses were shot at their respective homes in the same night, two of them fatally (Melissa Hortman and husband), all Democrats. Some recall the 2017 Congressional baseball game shooting targeting Republicans. Infamous and awful. 2017 was also the Charlotte car ramming incident that killed 1 and injured 35 people protesting against the Unite The Right rally, mostly progressive victims. In 2018 César Sayoc pled guilty to 65 felony counts for mailing pipe bombs to various Democrats and Trump opponents. Last year we had the horrific attempt on President Trump's life at a rally that he amazingly survived. Another Trump rally that summer had a man arrested with guns and a fake passport. These are just the first things I thought of. This is not an exhaustive list and isn't meant to encapsulate all political strife in this country, before anyone lists more tragedies. Let us not compete. I only bring these up because in my view it's important not to allow single events to deepen our partisan trenches any more than they already are. I see a lot of folks suggesting all our violence emanates from one direction but history says otherwise. It is becoming too easy to dismiss whole swaths of our countrymen as violent lunatics when most people are good and decent and law abiding. Charlie Kirk's murder is an abysmal tragedy and we should seek the ultimate justice against his perpetrator. Just as those who carry out any heinous crimes should be punished. Think we can all agree on that last bit. Memories are short. Emotions are sky high. People are enraged, and rightfully so. But we are not tearing apart at the seams solely because of the efforts of left or right. We're tearing apart, in my eyes, because the social contract has been destroyed and people increasingly feel they've lost any agency to improve their own lives and leave their children a better world. Our communities are fraying. The classic American dream is dead, replaced by a fevered race to try to gamble thine self into wealth or risk drowning in five figure net worth hell with zero prospects and no property of your own. This is a soul crushing fact we must face as a nation. As I said earlier today, the very fabric of civil society feels as though it's being pulled apart. And whomever is tugging the threads surely benefits from seeing us divided by ideologies rather than united in any capacity. This is not a cry for any one party, I have no partisan allegiance. I think it's all a big cabal as I've said consistently for a long time. But I hate feeling as though we're allowing the republic to be ripped apart by an unidentifiable evil. Events are in motion that cannot be easily undone, and it is heartbreaking to think that the nation my son inherits will be worse than the one I knew. We are being tested and so far we are failing. I'm not sure what we're supposed to do, but unanswerable grief and dread appear to loom over us like a cloud, dark as obsidian on a breezeless night. My soul aches. Social media is designed to divide us. It is working. Know that you are loved. Goodnight. ❀️
The problem is the giant outpour of people celebrating his death. The "radical right" did not celebrate the death of people killed at walmart. The left is celebrating the death of Charlie. No matter who the killer was, the people celebrating speak for themselves. You simply do not see the right celebrating the death of leftist politicians like we are seeing from the left now. This is the problem that your post has completely avoided. If you celebrate murder, you are evil. There will always be evil people and we won't always know their motivations. But we can know who condemned them or celebrated them after the fact.
I think you may be stuck in a media echochamber. I assume rightwing media minimizes bad behaviour by the right and leftwing media minimizes bad behaviour by the left. Find me one post by a democratic senator or housemember about Charlie Kirk similar to what Mike Lee posted about the assassination of the elected Minnesota lawmakers. Also note Trump did not think those lawmakers murdered deserved the flags to be flown at half staff, even for a day. ------------------------ Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah took down X posts Tuesday making an apparent connection between Gov. Tim Walz and the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, and blaming β€œMarxists” for the murders. The change comes after blowback from Sen. Tina Smith and her staffers as well as Minnesota Democratic and Republican lawmakers. One X post said β€œNightmare on Waltz Street,” with pictures of Boelter, who is accused of killing Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the early morning hours of June 14. Boelter also went to the homes of two other state lawmakers that night; one house was empty, and at the other, a police officer pulled up to the house shortly after Boelter arrived, so Boelter left. Another Lee post read, β€œThis is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way,” with a picture of Boelter.
Yeah he spoke a lot of good values. And he was logical and fair. Many got angry that they couldn’t make rational arguments against him. I just hope whoever cowardly killed him finds Jesus before they meet Jesus. I can’t imagine the haunting conscience they must have now after killing a good man. As Judas did.
You are still missing the point. They want us to keep fighting with each other in the name of left and right. The real enemy is the one you can't publicly criticize and everyone knows who is that foreign entity is. This foreign entity wants big government to control us. image
nope, i am saying that there are situations when you have to choose between 1 death or 100k death, and which choice is more ethical and if you are promoting death in front of a large audience, there is a big chance that you are also causing death, and not only 1 for example: when hitler died would you said that it is very sad that this person died, he had a family, rest in peace hitler?
An equivalent case could be made for killing vocal pro-choice speakers because their speaking might cause the deaths of many pre-birth babies. I don’t believe Charlie was pro death of innocents in any case. Comparing him to hitler who was explicitly and absolutely pro death is false equivalence.
Evidence for this claim? I haven’t seen that anywhere. β€œThe Left” is tens of millions of people. One or two saying something stupid is not a collective response. Be real.
im glad i could explain it and yes i was just trying to find a radical example so it is more demonstrative, so yeah its difficult to find a grood example, but everybody knows hitler and kind of has similar opinions (most of the time)
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Trainer Dan 5 months ago
Authorities are claiming to have recovered a rifle wrapped in a towel in the woods near the shooting and they believe this to be the weapon used in the murder. Allegedly there were three unfired rounds still in the rifle and there were leftist slogans written on the casings
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Oj 5 months ago
Hello, care to chat a little?
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Trainer Dan 5 months ago
It’s reported widely but I think WSJ had it first. Regardless, if you’re skeptical about convenient facts, I share your sentiment
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Trainer Dan 5 months ago
Wall Street Journal reported it first and I am seeing it in Reuters and elsewhere.
Care to address the point I made? Did Trump fly the flags at half staff when actual elected representatives were killed? Why the double standard? We only honor the dead when they are the president's friend? Did any elected democrat say callous things like Mike Lee did after those democrats were murdered? Which clearly even he realized were wrong (or perhaps he couldn't stand the backlash) so he deleted the comments? We talk all day about how bluesky, x, facebook are full of bots sowing dissent and how the algo sucks and that is why we use nostr. Then your 'evidence' is a bunch of stuff from those platforms we all decry daily?
well, the facts are that the shot would not have taken a pro sniper to do, just a someone trained adequately, 200 yards is not a hard distance with a scope and a 303 or 308 cal and by the amount of superficial damage i'm betting they were hollowed, also likely the bullet hit his shoulderblade and again, this seems indicative of the bullet being an expanding tip of some sort. probably not a FMJ. remote control assassins is pretty much proven, i saw a video where a hypnotist demonstrated doing it, using hypnosis to train the shooter really quickly (which was part of the go signal trigger) and the individual "blanked out" while they were doing it. so, yeah, hypnotising someone to shoot on a signal is easy to do, and someone with susceptibility to hypnosis, very easy to implant all the ideas to write all that stuff, the manifesto, the bullet engravings, etc. meanwhile, the people who orchestrate it sit comfortably distant while their wingnut takes the heat for them. OR, the evidence was created like this in order to mislead the investigators, that seems more likely, and that the shooter was a trained covert operative, a mercenary, who was given loads of money and help and guarantees to escape without being found. either way, it's covert ops, spooks, and psychological operations, one on the public, the other on the shooter and the public.
Also, bots don't post memes about someone dying. Kind of a shit argument. Obviously to see people on the left, you have to go where they are. That's how you avoid living in an echo chamber.
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Trainer Dan 5 months ago
Sure does. But let’s be honest. At this point in the breakdown of our national society it’s also entirely possible that some angry young individual was so bought into the leftist propaganda that he thought he was doing a good thing
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Trainer Dan 5 months ago
I agree with your assessment that the shooter did not have to be particularly skilled and also on the very real possibility that this has been orchestrated in some way. However we shouldn’t rule out the possibility that it really is just a lone individual heavily influenced by years of hysterical left-wing propaganda thinking he’s doing a good deed by taking out a bad guy. I’m not ruling out shadow individuals and deep state organizations but let’s not overlook the damage that has been done by regime media and the increasingly shrill culture that nowadays counts as β€œmainstream”
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Trainer Dan 5 months ago
I think we’ve all seen too many action movies that make us think it takes a ninja to pull the trigger and escape but honestly it doesn’t.
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Trainer Dan 5 months ago
Well, I believe Charlie Kirk was a real person and that he was killed and I believe that killing was utterly wrong. Beyond that, it’s very hard to know what information can be trusted about the specifics of this event. With these high profile killings, everyone has an agenda and they’re either actively pushing itβ€” perhaps with deliberate misinformation or at the very least they may be letting their bias influence their narrative so that they appear more confident than they really are when asserting what they claim to know
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Trainer Dan 5 months ago
Agreed. But I think that no specific source is always reliable so it’s a lot more work than I feel like it used to be to decide on what is true. I think the best we can do nowadays is triangulate based on multiple sources after having made sure that they’re not all simply echoing one source
So Trump (the president of the entire united states) lowers the flags for someone he knew personally. But when two elected officials are assassinated, he does not lower the flag, because... he doesn't know them personally? Is that your argument? Does this make sense to you and/or feel acceptable?
So you're still ignoring the points I made in the post while trying to change the argument to what you'd like to argue. Got it. Good luck to ya my friend
It seems safer to just etch such ideas into the ether here on Nostr. No one can censor you, no one can shoot you in the neck, and everyone can comment and attack your ideas (or, if they are good ideas, get swayed by your ideas).
Yes he should fly flags at half staff whenever anyone politically associated dies. Now that I've addressed that, what do you think about the left celebrating charlies death?
Great, I'm glad we agree he should have flown the flags at half staff when 2 elected Minnesota lawmakers were murdered. But when he chose to not do that, but to lower the flags immediately after personally announcing the murder of a right wing political podcaster/influencer, it comes across as very divisive. "If my team gets hurt, we mourn, if your team gets hurt, fuck em." That is what makes it feel like "there is a war about to erupt", its that type of attitude. In terms of your second question, I think people (and bots I guess) are free to do what they want. I don't like celebrating someone's death personally, but I also don't like many other things I see people do on social media or in real life, but I don't try to control them or change that behaviour. If an elected representative on the other hand were to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk (or the Minnesota lawmakers like a republican senator did), there likely should be consequences for that action because of the position and power they hold. I think politicians should be held to a higher standard in general vs. the regular public, but unfortunately I think we actually allow them a much much lower bar. I also generally am not a fan of super broad terms like "the left". I've seen so many people use the following terms interchangeably (I can't blame them as the president himself, their leader, taught them to do this through repetition): the left, communists, democrats, fascists, radical left, etc... I lean left of center most of the time (although I didn't vote for Kamala and I did vote for George W) so would consider myself a moderate democrat. I don't want to be associated with the 1-5% "radical left". Similar to how I assume you may lean right of center (maybe not?), but you may not want to be associated with the far right radical elements that exist in that party. We've drifted towards using super divisive language (starting from the top with the prez) which is a very common divide/conquer tactic used throughout history by the rich/powerful to control the masses. I'd imagine in real life, if we were to share a meal, we'd agree on 80%+ of issues and perhaps even enjoy each others company.
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Trainer Dan 5 months ago
I think it’s both. It really did used to be easier for people in our society to agree on narrative and also, as you say, there was always a need to triangulate because indeed all information is partial
I'd also add this post from twitter I read earlier today that may help explain where a lot of people are coming from: Kirk should not have been killed. I have empathy for his daughters, his wife, his family, and his friends. But my compassion has limits. I didn’t care for Charlie. He showed no empathy for others, and his words and actions dehumanized people. You don’t get to be outraged when others don’t extend compassion toward him. That doesn’t mean we’re celebrating his death.. it means we’re human. It means our compassion has limits. This is the limit.. MAGA you have no compassion for the people you despise, you had no compassion for the Dem Rep Hortman and her husband when they were murdered in their sleep... You had no compassion for Nancy Pelosi’s husband.; So spare us the selective outrage. This lack of compassion isn’t something unique to MAGA, we see it in all groups. Violence comes from individuals who are unwell or hateful. Their politics and actions don’t always reflect the core values of a movement. I am a conservative at heart. But MAGA is not conservatism. It’s extremism and division wrapped in cheap appeals to Christianity and patriotism. Nothing you show proves otherwise.
Information follows a Pareto distribution: 90 percent of the information comes from 10 percent of the sources. Prior to the internet and mobile phones, that meant a few TV networks and local radio stations and newspapers. It used to cost tens of dollars for a long distance phone call; now it’s basically free. Now the outliers can broadcast their messages. In some cases, they’re valuable. But there are a lot of wing nuts out there. There have always been conspiracy theories, for instance, but now they have a global community and can talk to each other.
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Trainer Dan 5 months ago
If you’re saying that it used to be easier for people to settle on a narrative, whether that narrative accurately or inaccurately reflects the truth, that’s what I’m also saying.
You lost me at Hitler, who ordered the deaths. Charlie argued that Israel had the right to defend itself. Whether you agree with him is another thing. He also pushed back on the idea that Israel could not be criticized, and he hated that Israel was killing women and children in Gaza. There is such a thing as a nuanced position.
No nuance of how you support starving children to death en masse will make me care if you get killed for supporting starving children to death en masse The nuance might impact like, how you should be killed, but the fact that you support starving kids to death is just not nuanced in itself
I just tried while I awaited your reply, but Google wouldn't even give me any quotes where he suggested voting for Donald Trump Did he somehow campaign for Donald Trump while telling people not to vote for him? Or like, without commenting on voting or something? I don't get it image
Not some collated Google search. Post a direct video quote of Charlie saying it was OK to kill women and children either by blowing up buildings or starving them. That was your accusation. I'll even accept one where he says it was OK to raise Gaza. Support it with something other than inference. This sort of accusation shit game that the left plays. And keep in mind, I hate Israel, and I think Netenyahu allowed Hamas in on Oct 7 so he could hold onto power.
Look man, if he campaigned for Trump while saying "don't vote for Trump" and that was part of a general pattern of looking like a Nazi without actually advocating for doing anything to any starving children, then I was wrong about him. I'm just pretty sure there are plenty of actual quotes from him that prove me right, even if Google didn't wanna show me one at first
You refute that Charlie Kirk ever suggested to vote for Trump? Why don't you make things more interesting with a wager. I'll bet you 100 sats he did
If you aren't allowed to vote for third parties or write in your own votes where you live, why live there? And why vote there at all? I voted for Trump in "2016" when he wasn't genocidal. Supporting Trump in "2020" was supporting killing and disabling kids with a deadly virus; not the kind of "free speech" I care if you get killed over. Supporting "Trump 2024" was like in "2020," but now also walling in a city full of kids and starving many of them to death.
I will stay in this place as long as I think there's a fighting chance to stop authoritarianism. Nowhere else in the world is there a mass of people with enough guns and FU money to hold the evil at bay. Israel is a sideshow. You can accuse people like Charlie of supporting genocide, which is truly what's happening there, but it's not on the mainstage if the 4th Turning at this point. Charlie challenged the Marxist authoritarian ideology, and that, my friend, is the fight that will matter in the end.
Marxist authoritarians aren't the problem Nazis are We might end up with an eco fascist world government to stop us from using crude oil and nuclear weapons to commit global suicide, that would be much better than what we have now or in the past I have a personal belief in anarchy but it seems too late to try that as a productive solution for the problems we've created today
Since this keeps coming up lately, I have an explanation ready to copy and paste of why I use this wording Level 1 Nazi πš‚πš˜πš–πšŽπš˜πš—πšŽ πš πš‘πš˜ πš•πšŽπšŠπšπšœ πš˜πš› πš“πš˜πš’πš—πšœ πš’πš— 𝚝𝚘 πš‘πšŽπš•πš™ 𝚊 πšπš›πš˜πšžπš™ πšπš˜πš’πš—πš πšπšŽπš—πš˜πšŒπš’πšπšŽ πšŠπš—πš πš‹πš›πšžπšπšŠπš• πšŠπšžπšπš‘πš˜πš›πš’πšπšŠπš›πš’πšŠπš—πš’πšœπš– Examples: Charlie Kirk's support of Trump and Israel, maybe your posts defending him Level 2 Nazi πš‚πšŠπš–πšŽ 𝚊𝚜 𝟷, πš‹πšžπš πš πš’πšπš‘ 𝚊 πšŒπš˜πš—πšœπš’πšœπšπšŽπš—πš πš‘πšŠπš‹πš’πš 𝚘𝚏 πšπšŠπš›πšπšŽπšπš’πš—πš π™ΉπšŽπš πšœ πšπš˜πš› πšπš‘πšŽπš’πš› πš›πšŽπš•πš’πšπš’πš˜πš—/πšŽπšπš‘πš—πš’πšŒπš’πšπš’ Examples: Charlie Kirk's support of Trump and Israel Level 3 Nazi πš‚πš˜πš–πšŽπš˜πš—πšŽ πš πš’πš•πš•πš’πš—πšπš•πš’ πšŒπš˜πš—πš—πšŽπšŒπšπšŽπš 𝚝𝚘 πšπš‘πšŽ π™½πšŠπš£πš’ πš™πšŠπš›πšπš’ 𝚘𝚏 πš†πš˜πš›πš•πš πš†πšŠπš› 𝟸 π™ΆπšŽπš›πš–πšŠπš—πš’ Examples: Charlie Kirk's support of Israel and the 21st century American uniparty
Then you should be glad the Catholic Church seems quite non-Nazi and ready to be part of a non-nuclear-apocalypse future, so people like me have no desire to destroy everything Christian.
Not suggesting that. I'm just saying, as a Christless commie myself, they're doing a good job ensuring real Marxists shouldn't want to "destroy everything Christian"
My idea of communism doesn't do anything to your church or your family unit, it mainly just prices most people out of luxuries they should have the self control to avoid to begin with (like eating tons of meat and driving huge vehicles faster than necessary all the time)
Well that's why I'm always posting on nostr and never filing taxes But ultimately I kinda expect someone else with an AI powered robot army to do more than I can
I am definitely a serious person. If I live long enough, I will build the robot army myself Also, it's not hard at all to drive reasonable speeds, but you people are still vastly far too retarded for that
Many people would. If I send unarmed quadcopters to crash into people's trucks and scratch the paint when they're driving too fast, people will want to strike me with predator drones. Thank you for being more reasonable
"Globalists" as in get rid of national borders, yes "Globalists" as in ship everything across oceans to help poison everyone, obviously not Either way, how the fuck does blurting out the word "globalism" change the fact that you, not some shadowy overlord, want to kill me by poisoning my air and you threaten to escalate the violence further for anything people who want to survive (like me, not some shadowy overlords) do to defend ourselves?
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