He gave his life in service to one of America’s most sacred ideals. He traveled the country, not to silence others, but to debate them, to show that words, not violence, are the path to progress. He believed in speech and knew that when speech stops bullets fly. When he was struck down during a respectful dialogue, he became more than a commentator. He became a martyr for liberty, a reminder that the freedoms we take for granted are never free. Charlie Kirk is an American hero not because of his opinions or politics, but because he defended with courage the principle that makes every other right possible: the freedom to speak.

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You can’t have a free society with democratic values with people who don’t want a free society with democratic values. People who don’t believe in freedom shouldn’t be personally entitled to it.
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HeadVoice 3 months ago
Good job Hodl. This is a dangerous road. There are evil vibes creeping. Charlie was a decent courageous man. Father, husband.. now a hero.
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nobody 3 months ago
Too bad he never actually called out the real epicenter of evil… Israel. But neither does hodl so i see why he is glorifying him as a great hero
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0x07AA 3 months ago
While I strongly disagree with his stance on Israel I give credit where it’s due. He hosted debates on Israel. He did truly believe in free speech.
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hurtstoogood 3 months ago
He advocated for women to lose the right to vote. If that’s not silencing I don’t know what is.
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Logen Kain 3 months ago
Now? First time I saw videos of him hosting open debates I realized he was doing right by his country. He was a hero then, and a hero now.
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Patriot 🇺🇸
Who would have had to kill him to make him not a martyr? The FBI? The CIA? A Republican? HODLs point stands regardless - he is a martyr for free speech. It is ironic people can’t understand this on a platform established to preserve just that…
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Logen Kain 3 months ago
Why? It doesn't matter. He died while working toward an ends. Using his death to further his objectives, if feeling a bit cold, would certainly honor him, as we would further his message. And it would honor his family by keeping his name alive.
Parrēsía, is an Ancient Greek term that literally translates to “The Freedom of Speech” But this had a specific connotation within the Greek assembly or public forums, it was to be able to speak freely and openly without fear of punishment, but also by the very act there was something at risk. He epitomizes that principal in this day and age regardless of his stance of politics, as speaking itself has become the most political acts. Makes you wonder about this technology…
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hurtstoogood 3 months ago
The drafts and all compulsory military service is a violation of human rights for men, woman, non-binary ppl anyone… but the right to vote is the fundamental right in a functional democracy. Taxation without representation is unconstitutional. Do you wanna strip women of the right to vote so badly? Then I guess they don’t have to pay taxes….. please this is nothing
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Jean DuBois 3 months ago
💯 % We have to change to a democracy of peers. Many people are unfit to have a vote.
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Jan1st 3 months ago
The USA is the new Russia (or Mexico, or…)
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Vin 3 months ago
Feel like this is where NOSTR could shine. The brutality of the video is not for everyone, but it helps to understa d the heinousness of what happened. Hopefully it won't get censored here.
I'm not saying that's what happened. In fact I highly doubt it. I just wanted to point out, that there are possible scenarios in which he is not a martyr. However unlikely they might be.
#RIP didn't know the guy much ... but obvs he's pissed off some pro level people
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He gave his life in service to one of America’s most sacred ideals. He traveled the country, not to silence others, but to debate them, to show that words, not violence, are the path to progress. He believed in speech and knew that when speech stops bullets fly. When he was struck down during a respectful dialogue, he became more than a commentator. He became a martyr for liberty, a reminder that the freedoms we take for granted are never free. Charlie Kirk is an American hero not because of his opinions or politics, but because he defended with courage the principle that makes every other right possible: the freedom to speak.
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Everyone votes via emotion, not logic and reasoning - and it's nobody's place to assert their vote is more valid than anyone else's, for any reason (or logic).
Taxes are the root problem of an uncivilised society. Put theft (extortion) at the foundational basis of society and this is what you get. Voting in a system of injustice is making yourself the criminal that you seek to control. We have voluntary interaction based on love, relationship and contracts on all other levels of human interaction. It's a lack of creativity and the lust for power over others that makes this possible in the first place. Votes and other forms to make consensual decisions are a great thing in a voluntary system, where people have the rights to leave at any time or being left alone, reassociating in full or part at a later stage - like blockchains
I don't want women to vote. I don't want men to vote either. I want to live in a world where whoever sits at the golden throne of government matters less than the kind of toilet paper I buy
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Vikingarna1990 3 months ago
Charlie Kirk was an American travesty. This fuck was a seasoned Jew-lover, a radical internationalist and stalwart psychopathic Marxist parasite. It's exactly these sort of noxious personalities that decent American plebs should be liquidating by the millions.
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Deleted Account 3 months ago
Ok so maybe he held views you didn't agree with and maybe he was plenty wrong about a wide range of issues (lots of young 30 somethings are wrong a lot because they are still navigating and discovering themselves in the world). But surely he's just a father of a young family whose voice you could ignore rather than call for his liquidation/extermination? Yeah?
It cannot get censored here, but please be respectful and use the the NSFW hashtag.
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errant 3 months ago
He stood for judeo Christian values
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errant 3 months ago
As @HODL states, Charlie Kirk stood for the judeo christian values that make the USA the shining light on the hill for all to see.
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Benking 3 months ago
He truly embodied courage and the spirit of free speech. His legacy reminds us why defending our freedoms matters. 🙏🧡👊🏻
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errant 3 months ago
Charlie Kirk is an American hero for standing up for the judeo Christian values that make the USA and Israel the shining light on the hill for all to see.
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Pepethefrog 3 months ago
USA is a tranny nation and will fall hard. Karma is coming and Americans will be the new Palestinians. We will all laugh.
Yeshua the Messiah, the Anointed One, is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8, TLV). And the fruit of His Spirit is still "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (Galatians 5:22–23, TLV). So when someone claims to speak for Him, remember what He said: “You will recognize them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:16, ESV)
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Irrepressible 3 months ago
The sad part is next week something else will happen and he will be forgotten, but his children will never get their father back. America is an evil evil empire that has to fall completely and be rebuilt. No saving it in its current state
An attack on the left in the coming weeks/months and more media coverage and incitations for violence. They want an American Civil War. Oldest trick in the playbook, now turned against US itself. This is how Western intelligence agencies have been keeping the world in chaos during the last centuries.
Yeah. That and constraining the malevolence in my own heart. I feel super frustrated, angry, powerless etc, but I realize that I genuinely can limit the amount of evil that comes into the world by starting with myself. So that’s where I’ll start.
People that quote him on that don't realize that the reason we have the 2nd amendment is also for our protection, against intruder, be that an adversary and/or the government.
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Vikingarna1990 3 months ago
The United States is the shining light for all the parasites of the world to congregate in. What the fuck is Judeo-Christian values? Jew-love, fatal injections, PPIs, international parasitism, Marxism and 6400 TV shows with lawyers, doctors and psychiatrists. If that is Judeo-Christian values, you should speedily flush them down the drain. If a nation puts the Jew parasite, lawyers, judges, "doctors" and psychiatrists at the top of the privilege scale, it should cease to exist.
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Ken Eash 3 months ago
And here I thought it was someone's trigger finger🤦
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I’d never heard of him before he was shot, but apart from some views (that’s I’m yet to find), he was just a dad with a wife and kids, debating those who disliked HIS choices. Take two for today’s lecture, what will going through my head “everything’s a risk if you’re a fucking pussy”, damn you @M A D E X !!!!!
My American cousin (30ish, married), told my mother he’d never heard of him, have the left performed the ultimate footgun? Well said @HODL , we live, we work, we have ideas, then we share, debate and discard those ideas that cannot be defended. We make progress, we don’t silence those we dislike. View quoted note →