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Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else

  • Republicans warn against mocking Kirk's death, threaten dire consequences
  • At least 15 people fired or suspended for allegedly disrespecting Kirk's memory
  • Online campaigns directed by Republicans continue to target Kirk's critics online

WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - After the fatal shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, U.S. Republicans have a warning for Americans: Mourn him respectfully or suffer the consequences.

Over the past several days, Democratic and Republican leaders have widely condemned the murder of Kirk, a 31-year-old activist and Trump world celebrity known for his hard-right views and pugnacious debating style.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/charlie-kirks-allies-warn-americans-mourn-him-properly-or-else-2025-09-13/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
piefed.social

Nah. Fuck your feelings. Rest in piss, shithead.

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Treczoksreply
lemmy.world

Wherever his grave will be, it will become a public toilet.

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danc4498reply
lemmy.world

At the same time, always remember that whatever you say online can be used against you. Now or 10 years in the future when your life is much different than it is now.

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startrek.website

"removed by mod" lmao how fucking poetic

Nice to see mods here are working overtime to appease the fascists. I am aware of the comment's original message, and am in agreement.

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I mean this is 'Lemmy.world'...

Noticeably the worst (most reddit like) popular Lemmy instance

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Tinidrilreply
midwest.social

That's why I'm glad to be an old fart. The only thing different for me in 10 years is that I'll give even fewer fucks.

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danc4498reply
lemmy.world

Just wait till Trump’s 3rd term where he saves the budget by denying social security based in social media posts.

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lemmy.world

That's not a "warning," that's a threat.

It is just and righteous to threaten them in kind and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

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Loafreply
sh.itjust.works

Facts. This “they go low, we go high” stuff got us stuck with fascism. It’s time to start swinging.

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lemmy.world

Yeah, why doesn't that moron Obama come out and update us on her feelings of how going high has worked out? Just a little update. Only silence.

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That is the only thing that would cure their behavior, is them being afraid of suffering what they seek to give.

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They think they are everyone's betters. They have God on their side y'know.

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Kirk would've done a full-throated Musking, if not for his micropenis.

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feddit.dk

Yeah, so here's the thing: I don't take orders from you.

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yeah, so here's the thing: that's literally what they want, to be able to order people around

fucking North Korea, man

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lemmy.ca
  1. Publish every single business that fires employees over this.

  2. Create a centralized repository of those businesses

  3. ?????

  4. Destroy profit

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Pretty good idea ngl, could even be the precursor to a sorely needed general strike for better working conditions and political representation of non-corporations.

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ayyyreply
sh.itjust.works

God, I wish. It would be so nice not to be weighed down by all the baggage. All they do is steal my tax money without representation then piss it all away.

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I fully support an independent union of western states.

Becoming the Canadian province of Pacifica or Cascadia would also be acceptable. Let Gilead fend for itself.

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hectorreply
lemmy.today

We need a site connected to the fediverse too be able to catalog such information and cooperate secretly and publicly too do things like Target companies for reasons like this. Obviously I am referring to targeting those companies within the bounds of the law that goes without saying.

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Do we still have laws? Or is it just whatever Dear Leader decides is law...bcz Im not sure I see that as rule of law exactly.

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Don't need the /s. The Confederates looooove (the real) cancel culture and always very much have. The shit they were bitching about didn't even exist.

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Whenever I see pictures of Charlie Kirk I sincerely can't tell if his face really is that small or if it's shopped for the memes.

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Nougatreply
fedia.io

Me too. He went so fast he didn’t know what was happening.

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lemmy.world

Those frames immediately after impact keep replaying in my head and it makes me feel uncomfortable in public spaces. It's so difficult to hide my erection.

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Republicans honor the memory of Charlie Kirk by doing… _checks notes _…”snowflake liberal cancel culture”

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I do not condone murder. I don’t even support a death penalty. But I do not and will not mourn terrorists, nor will I tolerate the whitewashing, sanewashing, or saintwashing of that hateful, monstrous person. Who dedicated their life to spreading fear and suffering and damnation among his fellow man.

I am a staunch atheist, but since Kirk frequently masqueraded as a Christian, I’ll leave you all with this:

Matthew 23:13-15

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler You will suffer, you politicians and preachers. Hypocrites! Because you have shut people out from the kingdom of heaven you will never enter, just as you have stopped others from entering.

You will suffer, you politicians and preachers. Hypocrites! You would rob a widow of everything she has left, while verbosely pretending to pray; therefore, your punishment will be unimaginable.

You will suffer, you politicians and preachers. Hypocrites! You would travel any distance over land or sea to win one convert; and when you have one, you make them twice the child of damnation that you are. :::

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lemmy.world

Kirk did not deserve to be killed.

I won’t mourn him and no one else should because Kirk and many others like him on the right have been pouring gas on the fire that is violence in the US.

Had Hasan Piker or any other left wing commentator been shot, Charlie Kirk would have been crowd funding to get the shooter out on bail.

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Well that's absolute nonsense and you know it. Empathy is for the weak remember? These are blatant lies

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lemmy.world

I'll say this about Charlie Kirk: while inconsistent, at some point he wanted the Epstein files released. Let's mourn him properly. Let's get those files. Do it for Charlie™.

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He wanted them released until the admin told him not to. No brownie points for that.

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feddit.org

I think they are right. Everyone should mourn him properly.

And there is no way more proper than respecting his own wishes and acting like he encouraged to do.

So let's gladly accept his death as the neccessary and justified cost for free gun ownership, don't politicize his death, don't show any empathy for him who preached violence and reaped exactly what he sowed, and start collecting money for the legal representation of the guy who shot him.

Did I miss anything?

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Every time I go to the range now, I’ll thank Charlie for dying so that I can own this rifle that I bought long before he was relevant or caught one in the neck.

May he rest in piss.

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Kirk was a piece of shit. Everyone defending him at the very least is shit stained by association

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"Don't speak ill of the dead "

Well then, don't be a piece of shit while you're alive.

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lemmy.world

“Prepare to have your whole future professional aspirations ruined if you are sick enough to celebrate his death,” said conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, a prominent ally of President Donald Trump and one of several far-right figures who are organizing digital campaigns on X, the social media site, to ferret out and publicly shame Kirk’s critics.

Laura Loomer and Kirk's assassin were both Groypers. Nick Fuentes backed Loomer for congress, and she was shit-talking Kirk over his Epstien stance last month. She's more culpable than anyone she's whining about.

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Just realized that's drawn over a bunch of Christian writing. I bet this pissed off a lot of people and I love it

There's a cross and a crown off to the upper right of the image and it appears that the kirk art is over the words "Christ is King"

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lemmy.world

Mourn him properly? Sure. Well as the man himself said it, it is a necessary cost of having the second amendment. Also as he stated empathy is a disease of the woke, so nothing to see here, just move along.

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What I don't get is why do people think he wants them to mourn him? He made his thoughts on that pretty clear lol

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I'm going to straight up point out his followers are Nazis and their opinions are not to be listened to. Idiots

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Kirk is their modern day Horst Wessel. Just wait until they release a country song praising his life and play it at sports events.

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I'm honoring the dead you fucking pissants, he said he doesn't believe in empathy

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no one can mourn him properly before he's buried. where are they supposed to piss?

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lemmy.world

Hey! Didn't provoke them! MAGA might go after Jordan Peterson that just moved to Arizona next! Heaven forbid!

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I second KOLANAKI. Their collective and multidinous balls are all dessicated, defective, and the wrong number for the gender they are intending to be and entirely in the wrong places. They as a group suffer from a severe case of ball-lackitude. they go clickity clack on escalators.

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lemmy.world

I got an email at work about this, saying there would be an investigation into employees' posts.

I can understand if they say something heinous from their work accounts (unless you work for the POtuS, apparently), but there are already rules and regulations for that stuff.

MMW they will use this sort of surveillance and censorship to go after anyone critical of political figures on the far right. If they're this protective about someone like this, imagine what they could do to silence opposition of other leaders who are alive.

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lemmy.world

Sounds like you need a new job if the bosses are abusing their power to push their own political beliefs.

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Charlie Kirk was a racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, quite honestly not that intelligent piece of shit and the universe is better off now that he's been assasinated by a member of his own group in a totally ironic way due to his calls for political violence folding back on him.

Come at me Republicans, I stand by my stance of pointing out Kirk is a POS even after his death. Besides I'm just doing what Charlie would have wanted anyways, shown him and his family no empathy because empathy is a made up term.

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I got my first a doxxing threat on another platform and all I said was he didn’t deserve to die, he deserves a punch to the nose.

These people are insane.

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lemmy.world

Hey Kirk fans,

I'll show him just as much respect as the right showed the minnesota democrats who were attacked by a right wing nut job (just like Kirk was, I might add)

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Aulireply

Exactly two people die on the "wrong" side and nothing.

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I'm self-employed, so nobody can fire me but me ( and I've been tempted at times). Luckily, my boss despises MAGA Nazi Traitors, as much as I do, so I'm safe.

Also, I'd never be so stupid as to post my political views under my own name.

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lemmy.world

Why would I or anyone outside of his family and friends mourn him at all? He was a political pundent... A talking head.

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lemmy.world

Yeah, why the fuck are we lowering the flag for a goddamned youtuber‽

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It is kinda insane. Dude. I've seen billboards for the guy in my home town.

Christ on a stick. I feel like I need a shower.

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Charlie Kirk deserved what he got, and everybody who defends him deserves the same. He was an unapologetic racist, and deserves no sympathy.

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piefed.world

Cracks fingers

Time to start logging into my Xitter, ND and FB alts again LMAO

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JasonDJreply
lemmy.zip

Dude I logged into my Facebook yesterday for the first time in a long time.

First I found out an old friend from highschool of mine unalived, coming up on the first anniversary of the event. Not close...we were on the football team together one year, we hung out a bit for a few years after I graduated, but honestly I think I've seen him once in the past 20 years.

But then on top of that, I see so many people writing words of praise and support for Kirk. People that I thought were friends, but honestly, I dont think I want to associate with them anymore.

Lemme clear something...any death is a tragedy, there are better ways, etc etc.

But, to use their words against them, he was asking for it.

This guy is the Christo-Fascist version of Joseph Goebbels, and his death is being treated like MLK's..

Prominent conservative talking head and one of the big people behind MAGA, Turning Point, and a big proponent of all the associated propaganda. He would sit on Vance's couch while they take turns sucking Thiel's dick.

I guess Nazis would've mourned Goebbels if he were assassinated

Thiel, for those that don't know, is basically the New World Order. Legit everything that conservative conspiracy theorists have been scared of for decades, and they are lapping it up.

And I get this funny feeling that Kirk is going to become this generations Franz Ferdinand. Not the singer. Part of me even thinks this was intended to spark a civil war, and the internet rage machine is just working as designed. And probably even arranged by a dickhead like Thiel.

I'm not saying he deserved to be assassinated. I'm saying that he doesn't deserve mourning. He has committed his life and legacy to turning back decades, if not centuries, of societal progress. Fuck. Him.

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Are they talking about this lil man baby? Plenty of tuff guys gonna be defending the right to adult diapers.

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Well I do apologize if I am not giving a full throated mourning here.

But I would like to think I am neck and neck with most non pieces of shit and not being sad that a literal Nazi influencer met and Ill end.

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Stop posting collections of direct quotes that make him sound like a fascist asshole! You're taking them out of context!

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lemmy.world

Or else what? The ghost of his forehead will haunt me for the rest of my days?

Too late.

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This is some serious North Korea shit, where if you do not mourn the passing of the leader you could be imprisoned.

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Oul Charlie would debate this but he got something caught in his throat.

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These same people are criticising the UK for their crackdown on freedom of speech, kettle calling pot black.

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Siegfriedreply
lemmy.world

Stanilism vibes

Edit: this site needs to be overflown with AI made fake submissions

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lol they should submit some of the less known alt right influencers here with fake screenshots, some will eventually get through. give them a taste of their own medicine.

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lemmy.sdf.org

I can’t say I feel sorry for him, specifically.

But anyone who can’t agree with the fact that us being here, where a man (whether you agree or not) was shot at a public event for his beliefs and people are celebrating it, is absolutely insane for things to have gotten to this level, needs to do a bit of thinking.

And I mean that as, whether you think it was his beliefs (which I fully believe are WILD) that led to him being shot because they had no basis in reality and only sowed hate or the guy who shot him was crazy and shot him, we all need to admit, this situation is so far out of normal that I’m not sure there’s a chance to go back.

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lemmy.nz

I'm not sad that a fascist was murdered.

I am sad that the US has got to the point where fascists are being murdered, in public.

There're millions of Americans who are ordinary people who are watching their home burn to the ground and are effectively powerless to do anything about it.

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A much better way of putting my point.

The fact that someone like him was elevated to the status he was coupled with someone feeling they needed to go as low as killing another human to make things better is insane. I hope American history (as long as America still exists long enough for this to become history) looks back at this like we looked back at other huge events in American history and some 4th grade teacher someday has to try to explain to our great-grandchildren how we let things backslide to this point followed immediately by a chapter on the first presidential debate held entirely virtual with augmented reality and holograms.

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Lodespawnreply
aussie.zone

Let's not forget it was a fascist murdered by another even-more-fascist fascist for not being fascist enough.

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Wtf are you even talking about he was a literal Nazi shot by another Nazi for not being Nazi enough lol.

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midwest.social

Sure that's something to be addressed if the murderer is a leftwing extremist. All the evidence suggests this kid is an ultra-nationalist Groyper. Media silence all but confirms it.

The bigger issue is that conservatives care so much about what others think. If you see someone doing something you don't approve of you call them an asshole and move on. You don't threaten violent retribution and another Civil War.

Sure, people celebrating the death of Kirk is a bit unseemly, but they're not hurting anyone so leave them alone. This all comes back to control and I'm against bullies above all.

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lemmy.world

The bigger issue is that conservatives care so much about what others think.

They are essentially Puritans. At least when it comes to anyone the merest iota different from themselves:

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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they are also very shallow people, they care about other peoples looks, and how people percieve them look, hence thats why they go complete the "mar-a-lago" face surgeries.

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Agreed - but I'm not going to mourn him. And I think those lionizing him should be noted, doxxed and have their place of employment notified.

Because they are honoring a Nazi.

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Bo7areply

I am sick to fucking death of people saying that we are ok when assholes like this die because we hate their beliefs. They were not hated because of their beliefs. They were hated because of their fucking shitty actions and the shitty words that came with those. Get the fuck out of here with this fucking belief bullshit.

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lemmy.zip

Correction, he was not shot because of his beliefs, he was shot because of his actions: running a Republican fascist media company.

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Running a not fascist enough media outlet apparently .. Charlie Kirk, the neo left wing, what a time to be alive

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dem leaders complicit in defending kirk, of course they are instead of you know criticizing kirk for fomenting this type of violence in the first place, and not condeming the far right. so many dems are actually DINOS anyways, so no surprise there. the senators that were murdered, the news got dropped almost as fast as they got killed, not a word from dems since.

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Over the past several days, Democratic and Republican leaders have widely condemned the murder of Kirk, a 31-year-old activist and Trump world celebrity known for being an asshole.

his hard-right views and pugnacious debating style.

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lemmy.world

As soon as they publish the location of the gravesite I'll be sure to wander over and leave my respects all over the gravestone. Gotta figure of enough people do it it'll trickle on down. Eat asparagus first.

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America is powerless these days. If you act like a whiny toddler, you'll get treated like one. He practiced what he preached, time to face the music.

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Why the fuck should I mourn him. I barely knew who he was before he died. And seems he was against fun regulations even though kids where getting shot in schools so he seemed to die the way he liked.

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They only have that authority if we accept it and give it to them. Flight back and resist!

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Lmao, good luck with that. I'm genuinely curious if I can goad some of them into violence. Right-wing extremism needs to be exposed so we can address it head on. I don't let bullies control me.

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Or else what? You gonna flame online? Anything else out here IRL won't end well for you

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