Leo Gura

It is rather odd that this shooter was so professional. Does not seem like something a random unhinged lunatic could pull off. That shot was pro sniper style. A rando lunatic would not have shot from so far away but rushed the stage for close ambush. What leftist has this kind of sniper training? And the fact he escaped means he had a good escape plan. It might be possible they won't even catch him.

This doesn't follow. Trump is bad but we don't want his supporters shot unless they are being violent. Yes, it is wrong to shoot a Trump supporter.

It will take a full on war to make America worth leaving. The Twitter world is not the real world. Everyday life in America has barely changed. Politics is not city life. You can live in a house, not look at the news, and you won't even know anything changed in 5 years.

I doubt that. The Epstein story never ends and people are too attached to it to forget. This story has legs. There's just too much juicy evidence now.

Sounds silly. My guess is it was some pro-Palestinian activist seeking revenge for Charlie's 100% pro-Zionist views. As I said before, the atrocities in Gaza will cause terrorism in America for generations to come. I think this is the first major case of that. Just practically, Charlie would have done 40 years of new propaganda had he lived. So it is a setback for the right. It will not be so easy for them to replace him. He was a huge leader on their side and he played a big role in winning elections for MAGA. He swung elections. But even so, killing him was wrong. We can't kill people just for having ideology we disagree with. That is not democracy. I think this is quite different. Trump was shot at but lived. So it wasn't a big deal. I've already seen frightening levels of radicalization and demonization of the left and Dems as evil for causing this.

Guys, NO. This is a very negative event for everyone. No one will win from this event except extremist lunatics. Even if you hate Kirk, if you could push a button and undo this event, you'd be a fool not to push it.

I am not as rich as you think I am. They don't care who killed him. They just need an excuse to hate the left.

But egging them on to fight definitely makes it worse.

It's a huge deal. He was a major political actor. This goes way beyond just some dude getting killed. The implications are deeply ideological and national. I already see right-wingers going full patriot lunatic mode.

No. We don't need to go high, but we need to not inflame this. War is bad for all sides. No one will benefit from a war over this. This kind of escalating radicalization is very bad.

Super, super, super bad.

This event is extremely problematic. It's going to radicalize the right so much.

When your political opponents are killed it can arouse mixed emotional reactions. This is natural. On the one hand you feel empathy for the murder, on the other hand you can feel a sick glee that someone heinous got his comeuppance. The mind is not always a positive empathy machine. Complex, confliciting emotions can rise. The important thing is to stay mindful of them.

Dude, come on. Don't make us look bad.

Charlie Kirk was not killed for telling the truth. That much is certain.

He was a propagandist. That is not respectable. When a right-winger says "free speech", he means "free speech for me".

The military has to be conservative simply because it's hard to shoot someone in the face if you're a Lib.

Most of them are not developed enough to see that. It's blind patriotism.

With AI, car safety can become very high.

Of course a majority of them do. The military will always lean conservative.

If you take a long enough view, everything leads to good. Nuking Hishoshima turned out good in the long run.

Except cars are necessary and American gun culture is not. The rest of the world lives fine without owning 15 guns per household.

It is a well-known trope that right-wingers lack empathy, ridicule those who have empathy, and even demonize empathy. That is of course until they themselves get hurt. Right-wingers don't take liberal causes seriously until it personally hurts them. That is how selfishness works. It's not an issue until it touches me. Well, Charlie was touched. That is the tragedy of aggressive ignorance.

The fatal flaw of the fascist worldview is that it foolishly overlooks that the violence it glorifies will boomerang on the fascist.

It's fine to fight fascists, but killing civilians for their free speech is not that.