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Shipwack

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Thu Sep 11, 2025, 06:32 AM Thursday

Yeah, yet another Chucky Kirk post... [View all]

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I posted a quote on Facebook book about reading some obituaries with satisfaction, and got some pushback for talking “ill” of the recent dead. Here’s my reply:

To those who are under the impression that I am gleefully tap dancing on Charlie Kirk’s corpse:

Kirk demonized my friends and beliefs, was emphatically against “live and let live “, practiced stochastic terrorism, and pushed a history of America that erased people of color and women.

Despite all this, I didn’t wish him to be killed or die. On the contrary, I wanted him to live a long life so he could see the failure of his vile philosophy.

Now, I don’t particularly mourn his passing, but I do acknowledge that he was part of the human race.

“Any man’s death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind,

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

It tolls for thee.” - John Donne

I also am exhibiting the exact amount of sympathy he had for the victims after various school shootings and gun rampages: none.

He literally said on April 5, 2023, "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

Since he believed that, I have no problem with -his- death being part of the price… however, I will mourn the deaths of all the victims of gun violence who -didn’t- agree to be part of the cost.


Epilogue
My MAGA brother texted me that I needed to see the “whole” Kirk speech about gun violence, and not fall prey to liberal sound bites that twist things. He sent me a link, and… well… if anything, it puts Kirk in an even worse light… not going to waste bandwidth telling my brother that, though. Lol
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