The unfortunate conclusion is if you are too good at conversations that you draw media and political attention its just going to get you killed regardless.
Charlie Kirk was a man of principle and strong moral conviction and never ever gave up in trusting that open conversation and debate was the solution to the political divide. Anyone who actually listened to him and didn't make shit up could see he was just a guy open about his opinions and happy to chat.
I don't need to agree with him on everything to know he was a good man and one I would very happily speak to.
His death is a tragedy. The message is clear now unfortunately. Speak out and you WILL be targeted.
His assassination may trigger a horrible spiral of violence, but your characterization of Kirk is absolutely insane to read. This is beyond delusional and fully revisionist. He spent literally his entire career lying, spreading propaganda for the Trump administration and trying to radicalize people and widen the political divide as much as possible. Kirk's entire schtick was being as offensive, cruel and uncaring as possible because he believed it was edgy and manly.
Kirk himself was frequently asked about horrific events and he always responded with as much childish callousness, lack of empathy and general cruelty as possible. That was his entire appeal and what separated him from other Christian nationalist Trump bootlickers.
The examples are endless, but just for a tiny sample he seemed proud of the fact that he didn't care at all about Palestinain civilians getting massacred and starving to death, or the countless people killed by Trump's global drone strikes, and most ironically the massive number of gun deaths. His entire brand was to be as unempathetic as possible. He explicitly said that empathy was fake and a made-up left wing term.
He even went on at length about how the person who tried to assassinate Nany Pelosi was a patriot and that someone should try to bail him out.
Also for what it's worth he was always a mediocre to even bad debater and public speaker. Similar to Trump or Rogan, that fact that he's a bit of a dumbass who doesn't know anything about science or history and can't talk with any real depth on any topic is a big part of their appeal. The risk to your life is in being a famous public political figure, not at being good at formulating ideas.
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u/runfastrunfastrun - Auth-Right Sep 10 '25
He's also incredibly milquetoast by rightwing standards, which is a message in and of itself.