oh man this is what got r/thedeprogram banned, i was using it last night too

Real life soccer moms calling for civil war

“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” - Charlie Kirk

The reaction to this is crazier then trumps “assassination” attempt

What on earth is this

Because Trump didn’t die and he got grazed by a bullet and maybe not even that.

unless they get him by dna someone rats him out or they have a full face like they did luigi he's gone

Oh…

I don’t think that’s even his real face

commie subreddit that veered too much into fedposting

What is fedposting

Not asking to be a smartass i really dont know and am curious

wtf not even a pump fake threat just “hey bro u got away”

it’s funny how flippant and fragile the whole faux culture war the right tries to fan online

a few weeks ago you have bots flooding X talking about America is BACK because of American eagle jeans or Cracker Barrel and now all they can do is tone police Facebook and get people fired over kirk while claiming this is the “last straw”. Pure theatrics

saying you want to kill everybody or calling for war basically

Well usually an assassination where we see the guy get sniped in the neck and bleed out on camera will generate a crazier reaction than an attempted one

I saw a tweet that had similar sentiments because it talked about how right wingers saying “this is an act of war” is how they also refer to getting rid of Uncle Ben on the packaging. It’s all so feckless lmao

Because the shooter actually got the job done this time and it was caught in 4k

what the other user said but calling for more violence towards other obvious authority

Lowkey we're prolly on a list as well. I just find it kinda crazy what did them in is hating on Kirk of all people

Good to know

Yeah true

Incoming “I ain’t reading all that” post, but I really wonder what kind of impact the Internet/social media is having on people’s state of minds nowadays, and for future generations.

Assassinations and attempts are instantly turned into memes or rage bait for reactions and internet points. This isn’t a right or left issue either, both sides do this. When Paul Pelosi or Melissa Hartman were attacked the far right cracked jokes. The far left was upset that Trump survived and celebrated Kirk’s death. Luigi was made into an icon in a surprisingly nearly bipartisan fashion.

There is a known copycat effect when celebrities commit suicide, to the point where the media handles that with delicacy to avoid causing it. I think the same thing occurs with other events, say mass shootings, where the fact that the idea is there and prevalent can influence dangerous people. And I think the internet’s reaction to not just this particular incident but the last few are really kinda dangerous. And again, not just the right or left.

Celebrating a murderer or making light of the killing I think gives these people on the edge a motivation where they can mean something. More so than a mass shooting, where they become known and hated. With this, they’ll be at the least acknowledged and at the most praised by the little anonymous Twitter accounts and edge lord streamers.

My concern is that we’ll have far left lunatics who see the celebratory Tik toks and the “he was a piece of s*** rest in piss” tweets who know they’ll get their 15 minutes of fame for doing the same. Or far right lunatics who see this as the start of a war, who know that if they take out some notable left wing politician they’ll be seen as heroes by the far right.

I don’t know, I think society is just kinda f***ed for the foreseeable future. I don’t see how we get any better. Notoriety is the quickest way to celebrity nowadays, good takes don’t get the algorithm working.

End of rant