I'll go ahead and say this — the first thought in my mind having watched the front row video was the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm. Am I a bad person for it? Maybe, but you wanna know who's worse? All of the people trying to suggest that Kirk's death is somehow heavier and more important than the 18,000 ish other people shot and killed this year.

Your ability to feel empathy is being weaponized against you. No one on the right side of history has said 'Oh that's so tragic, Hitler killed himself. Gosh, what a world what a world, I'm sick 🤢'. BECAUSE HE WAS FUCKING EVIL.

It's completely fair and normal to be disturbed, I agree on you with that, however:

a human being with no power

That's not true at all.

It's irresponsible to trivialize Kirk's actions as "saying words", or claim they have no power. Words hold power, and not just from political authority either. Kirk played a major, leading role in promoting and stoking stochastic terrorism and fomenting the political atmosphere that has turned the USA into what it is now. One particular case, a reddit user recalled how Kirk's propaganda machine radicalized their vulnerable brother into attempting mass murder with a vehicle (unfortunately I can't find it, I think the comment or post was deleted) and another has said they're being assaulted by family. I understand not comparing to formal politicians (despite the obvious links to them) but I think it's absolutely fair to compare Kirk to a cult leader, a known-murderous cult grooming listeners into demonizing black peoples, gay people, trans people, gun control rhetoric and a myriad of other scapegoats.

a lot of people responsible for wide scale violence don't personally commit violence

Grow up, and take off the disney-goggles.

This guy literally excused the deaths of innocent children. It's okay to enjoy watching him and his ilk get a taste of their own medicine.

"With no power or authority"

The POTUS ordered flags at half mast

"Who has never committed violence$

So we don't count hate speech when it's convenient

"You know that you're radicalizing yourself"

Watching a cop kill an unarmed Black man by keeping a knee on his neck radicalized me. Watching people scrape children's remains from walls after an Israeli bombing radicalized me.

And... sometimes you actually need to shoot fascists to get rid of them.

social violence is still violence, and kirk committed plenty of it.

Throat that boot a little deeper there guy

He supported the genocide in Gaza and denied that Israel was purposefully starving them. He saw dead children in school shootings as a fair price to pay to protect gun rights. He blamed mass shootings on transgender people and minority gang violence. He got off easy, a clean shot to the neck and dead in a couple of seconds. If this traumatized you, either you ignored the footage coming from Gaza over the past 23 months or never saw them as humans.

Why are you defending a racist and a fascist?

If you aren't a radical yet you haven't been paying attention.

Kirk played a major role in the COVID anti-vaxx movement, and has fostered hatred against the LGBTQIA+ community and immigrants, etc. Essentially, anyone that isn't a straight white male evangelical. He got ventilated for the violence he created, even if he didn't directly pull the trigger. Adventurism doesn't really do much, but I'm shedding no tears for the death of this fascist. And yes, I watched the close-up video.

he was a fascist propagandist, he got what he fucking deserved

some charlie kirk quote's for your enjoyment