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WoodScientist@lemmy.world 23 hours agoNo, he actually, absolutely, objectively did deserve to die. Maybe not by vigilante justice, but he absolutely deserved to be in the ground. The world is a better place without him in it.
Have you forgotten your history? We hanged people at Nuremberg for doing exactly what Kirk made his whole career doing. We hanged people at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity who did what Kirk did. We hanged Nazi propagandists who spent years inciting hate against the Jewish population. Kirk was absolutely guilty of incitement to genocide. He was responsible for countless deaths. He made his whole career trying to incite violence and hate against innocent people.
In a just world he would hang for his crimes. But we don’t live in a just world. The closest we get to justice is vigilante justice.
joan@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
This man wasn’t Hitler. This man was an annoying loudmouth who at the end of the day has a wife and kids he comes home to. He did not deserve this; this will only divide us more and contribute to the cycle of violence.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You’re right. He wasn’t Hitler. He was Julius Streicher.
Charlie Kirk’s life ended on September 10, 2025 shot in the neck by an assassin’s bullet.
Julius Streicher met his end on October 16, 1946, hanged from the neck in Nuremberg Prison.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I suspect they’ll reply with silence like they usually do when proven wrong.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Seriously. The idea that they’re just words and they have no meaning is historically ignorant. We executed Nazi propagandists, even if they never killed anyone with their own hands. Inciting others to genocide is still a crime against humanity.
Kirk was openly calling for the extermination of a group of people that represents the same portion of the US population as the Jews did in Germany prior to WW2. It is not all hyperbole to place Kirk’s death in its proper historical context. We literally executed people for doing what Kirk made his whole career doing.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
Something, something, tolerance of intolerance.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Oh no honey, no. Go back to bed.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
You make a reasonable argument, unfortunately these are unreasonable times. Think about it, were more or less already in a revolution right now, I’d deign to even say rebellion is over the next hill.
Be ready.