Comment on DEI, more like DIED
Cruel@programming.dev 2 days ago
At least make a funny joke if you’re going to mock murder victims. “LOL HE GARGLED AND CHOKED ON HIS BLOOD” is not an attempt at dark humor, it’s just enjoying death and violence.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Stamau123@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
i’d send this to my grandpa who keeps asking the family to stop celebrating, but he’d just get more pissed
Formfiller@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Just send him a picture of the January 6th riot
Cruel@programming.dev 21 hours ago
Rittenhouse defended himself against criminals trying to kill him, shooting one of them in the arm just as he was lowering a pistol to point it at him.
Nobody would be “celebrating” him if people didn’t try to vilify him and lock him in prison for the rest of his life.
zbyte64@awful.systems 17 hours ago
Lol. That was good but you need to double down on the irony at the end or else people might think you’re serious. Maybe rift on him crossing state lines.
Cruel@programming.dev 17 hours ago
Maybe rift on him crossing state lines.
Very true.
Rittenhouse traveled all the way to some far off city he had no interest in. Sure, his father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, and cousin live there. Sure, he stayed with his friend who lived there. But otherwise, he only went there because he’s racist. That’s why he shot a couple white people.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The joke is that he was willing to let some people die at the altar of the Second Amendment (not him, of course), then he become one of those “some people.”
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
if you don’t see the irony in the circumstances of his death, you may be stupid
Cruel@programming.dev 18 hours ago
It only qualifies as ironic if Kirk would not support being a part of the “price worth paying” for gun rights. Do you actually believe he would’ve only accepted the deaths of others and not of himself?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
It’s ironic whether or not he actually stands behind the words that he said
Cruel@programming.dev 22 minutes ago
Using what definition of irony?
A situation is ironic if it defies expectation. Like how Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed by a stingray.
Kirk being killed by a leftist extremist, who thought he was a fascist, using a gun, is pretty much in line with how you’d expect him to die.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Absolutely. Yes.
Cruel@programming.dev 18 hours ago
Nothing I’ve seen would suggest that he was not willing to die for gun rights. Seems more like you cannot even comprehend someone being principled and politically consistent. Seems like projection to me.
barelythere@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Questioner: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”
Charlie: “Counting or not counting gang violence”
Charlie then gets shot in the neck.
His literal last moment is him deflecting the question to a right wing dog whistle
Cruel@programming.dev 1 day ago
How is that a deflection? Excluding gang violence from mass shootings would change the number dramatically. So how could he give an accurate answer without knowing?
The definition of “mass shooting” varies and can potentially exclude gang violence. Excluding gang violence is often useful since most people don’t care about criminals killing each other (most of gang shootings), and prefer to talking about innocent people who are shot.
barelythere@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
“Gang violence” is the dog whistle if you missed it.
Iwaku@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Downvote bombing and not explaining why is the most liberal thing
LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Calm down Cruel, you just didn’t get the joke
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
We’d mostly have a different views if he weren’t openly advocating for school shootings. He was literally framing them as a good thing. He was shock and awe, and drawing followers. It’s not all jokes, people are happy he’s dead and rightfully so imo.
Cruel@programming.dev 1 day ago
When did he frame school shootings as good? Are you referring to when he said they were acceptable deaths if they were required to keep the 2nd amendment? Because that doesn’t make them a good thing, it makes them tolerable.
Kinda like how we tolerate ~350 toddlers dying in swimming pools every year and nobody demands that we ban swimming pools.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’ve had enough of you. I encourage everyone here to just block you.
Cruel@programming.dev 23 hours ago
I see the real reason you guys hated Kirk so much. You seem very uncomfortable confronting differing opinions. That’s not politically healthy.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Stop using that tired false equivalence. The purpose of cars isn’t to kill. The purpose of pools isn’t to kill. The purpose of guns is to kill.
Cruel@programming.dev 23 hours ago
So you want to outlaw everything designed to kill, I take it? Fine.
What about police officers that use guns to kill people who are actively attempting to kill others? If they’re disarmed, more of these people will succeed in killing innocent people, right?
SippyCup@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Every day a fascist dies choking on their own blood is a good day.
TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Meh I’m enjoying it
Stamau123@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean in regards to the shitstain racist sexist propagandist in question I actually find “LOL HE GARGLED AND CHOKED ON HIS OWN BLOOD” fucking hilarious.
Evil people dying is funnier than stand up comedy to me.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 2 days ago
He said that little kids being killed in school shootings is worth it and ridiculed disabled people in his circles (source)
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
He had a following cheering him on, too.
There’s a family of kids who’ve died to school shooters. In a lot of cases, they’re very upset and have very little to live for.
He was perpetuating it. I’m honestly shocked it took this long.
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I actually find it encouraging that people still respond to “evil.” Like yeah we don’t allow people to just be openly evil anymore. That sounds like a good change.
Cruel@programming.dev 1 day ago
I’m not seeing it. Most those quotes were about affirmative action logically causing him to question the qualifications of blacks (because their race got them there via affirmative action). The rest are simply not racist or just bashing specific black individuals.
I’ll say this is the only one even worth discussing, as it requires a lot of nuance. The other points below aren’t good.
If he could, I’m sure he would say his own death was “worth it” in the context of being able to live in a country with gun rights. There are like ~1200 children killed by cars every year. Would you say that’s not worth having cars? Would you outlaw them?
Making a joke about blind people is insensitive, but not even half the insensitivity of the meme in this post. I won’t defend him necessarily except to say this is a pretty mild offense, especially for someone everyone is calling a fascist who deserved public execution. I’d expect something a big more dire.
Do you know why? And do you have a reason for being so strongly against that? I don’t have a reason. I don’t know any studies on how this affects kids, but it could very well be a good idea.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fuck, you’re dense.
Iwaku@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I wouldn’t assume everyone is in agreement with you
Stamau123@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You’re pissing yourself awful hard here for someone that has no reason to be against witnessing public executions. Go watch your leaders public execution again and report back how you feel; I’m smiling myself