Ryan

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

How many long balls did Nix miss today?

The most rabidly bigoted and Islamophobic Republican member of Congress retweeting/quote-tweeting approvingly a rabidly bigoted, in-context Charlie Kirk tweet. Glad to see Republicans are actually sharing Kirk's actual words now.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Do Fox News hosts and commentators agree with their colleague Brian Kilmeade that the United States should "just kill" homeless people?

He still has a job. No apology. No retraction.

Just let us know, Fox.

Big sigh. Watch this.

Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?

No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

Charlie Kirk was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader. But he was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader in the right way.

by Ezra Klein

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Maybe the way forward is to reclaim politics as a practice of compassion and clarity — a way of shaping the future that reduces suffering rather than increases it. If our words are seeds, then let us plant those that heal.

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Charlie Kirk’s death is tragic, but the greater tragedy is how normalized cruel speech has become in our public life. We can mourn his death without beautifying his legacy, just as we can reject hatred without meeting it with more hatred.

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And yet, many lionize him. Perhaps that is the greatest sign of how far our politics — and our moral compass — have drifted.

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What I struggle to understand is how Charlie Kirk became a moral figure for so many, or how he reconciled this way of speaking with Christianity. By the standards of either tradition, his legacy is hard to call moral.

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Buddhism reminds us of the precept of right speech: to use words that are true, kind, and healing. Christianity, too, teaches love of neighbor, compassion for the poor, and care for the vulnerable.

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It’s also about what we argue for.

Words carry karmic weight. When words normalize racism, dismiss compassion, and accept preventable deaths as “worth it,” they are not simply the practice of politics — they are seeds of suffering.

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Ezra Klein recently wrote that Kirk was “practicing politics in exactly the right way.” I understand his point — showing up, engaging, and debating is essential to democracy, and political violence is corrosive no matter who it targets. But politics is not only about how we argue.

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by his supporters. Either they agreed, they condoned, or they were too afraid to call out bad behavior when their “side” engaged in it. Silence in the face of cruelty allows cruelty to grow.

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He spread the debunked “great replacement” conspiracy theory that immigrants are being used to replace white Americans.

I of course did not know this man personally, and I am in no place to judge his heart. But I can say that these comments were rarely acknowledged, let alone challenged…
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He called Martin Luther King Jr. “awful” and “not a good person,” said the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s was a “huge mistake,” and joked that if he saw a Black pilot he would “hope he is qualified.” He compared vaccine requirements to apartheid.

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political discourse.

Charlie Kirk’s own words are a clear example. He dismissed empathy as “a made-up, new age term” that “does a lot of damage.” He said, “We have to tell our babies to stop crying,” and argued that preventable gun deaths are “worth it” for the sake of the Second Amendment.

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Somewhere in the past forty years, the word politics grew to cover things it was never meant to. Once it meant debates about policy: the scope of government, tax rates, spending priorities. Disagreements, not dehumanization. Now it too often means cruelty, mockery, fear, and hatred disguised as 2/x

I’ll admit: Charlie Kirk’s politics did not align with mine. And yet, his death is a reminder of impermanence — that no position, no voice, no ideology lasts forever. What remains are the ripples our words and actions leave behind.

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This is one of the many, many reasons we should all condemn the celebration of political violence, as Kirk did here: You often don't get to decide when to dismount the tiger. It eats you first.

Glad they warned us… I was worried it might only be casual lightning.

Not yet…but am certainly concerned

Don’t Drink the Water

Dude, that’s awesome!