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  • Political violence, regardless of ideology, is not the answer and must be condemned.

    Love ya Bernie, but I gotta disagree on this one. What he’s saying is pretty much just more ‘paradox of tolerance’ that leads to the ratchet clicking further right.

    People keep shunning what happened to Kirk as a crazy extreme response to a “difference of opinion” as though we’re discussing a budget proposal for a new bridge or something. And yeah, with shit like that there’s a justifiable argument to be made by both sides.

    When the ‘opinion’ being advocated for is one that seeks to deny life or liberty because of their skin color or gender or w/e, it stops being a debate and instead becomes a fight for survival. That person is literally an enemy combatant spending their life trying to kill you. And when someone is trying to kill you, violence is absolutely a justifiable response.

    …and I know that’s not why the shooter killed Kirk, but even if it was a dark skinned /gay/trans/muslim/<insert target of right wing bigotry here> who shot Kirk in response to his vitriol toward them, that’s still fucking justified because he spent his life promoting violence to those people.

    So no, if your ideology is that you hate people because of what’s in their pants or the color of their skin or w/e, then you’re a piece of shit; if you act on that ideology, then you’re an existential threat to those people, and if that culminates with a bullet in your carotid artery then your death will mark a sudden reduction of evil and hatred - and that is worth celebrating.

    Evil fuckers like Charlie Kirk should never be tolerated.