• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    I’m also not from the US. youre right we’re living in fucked up times.

    At first, I was kind of sickened by the rhetoric in these threads too.

    The thing is, US legislative, executive, judiciary, and even the media, are all corrupt. There is no truth and no justice.

    This guy was profiting by engaging in a culture war, and manipulating anyone he could into signing up. He was recruiting people to an ideology intent on persecuting minorities.

    There are people celebrating in these threads, and it is sickening. However, I do believe that he deserved to die, and his death is much less sickening than the atrocities performed by the conservatives every day. If it were a time of war, we would’ve taken one of their generals. We are all lessened by it, but the world is undoubtedly better for it.

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      I do believe that he deserved to die

      One characteristic of fascism is the forcible suppression of opposition. By your statement which mentions that someone can « deserve to die » because of his political view opposed to your, in my opinion you’re more fascist than him. Or maybe I misunderstood you.

      So far I saw videos of him debating, asking to be proven wrong. I don’t remember any quote of him saying something so violent as « someone deserve to die because xxx ». Knowing that trump got elected with less votes than during his 1st term, in the end one might argue that Kirk did a poor job.

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        your statement which mentions that someone can « deserve to die » because of his political view opposed to your

        That’s not what I said at all though, is it.

        Conservatives don’t deserve to die, disingenuous manipulator recruiting young adults to fascism do.

        If all you see is someone debating asking to be proven wrong then you’re a naive idiot.

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          10 hours ago

          If all you see is someone debating asking to be proven wrong then you’re a naive idiot.

          After your comment, I documented myself on the techniques behind his debate techniques, watched multiple videos, found this one being the most educational : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7y50cNb7c&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1HQg%3D%3D

          You were right. There is no way to prove him wrong with all those techniques. However, I still do not think he deserved to die.

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            9 hours ago

            I still do not think he deserved to die.

            That’s fine, but I think you can probably understand why other commenters do feel that way, given his profiting from hatred and the deaths of others.