I seen the compilations of Twitter. It is sickening. Definitely much worse than I thought too, I'm not on either side but I didn't realise people would celebrate assassination in this insane way, meming it and after seeing that video... ugh, it's mind-boggling. I litterally can not get my head around it. 

He was a grifter IMO, purposefully trying to get attention/publicity for punching down on certain groups for the purpose of enriching himself.

The problem is he lives in a country where it's fairly easy for anyone to obtain a fire arm, and even more ironically he cheered on that very gun culture and said having the right to easily obtain guns was worth it, even if it meant people dying. He's become part of that statistic.

Welp. Hope the grift was worth it, sometimes you piss off the wrong person and in America where gun violence is fairly commonplace and ... it only takes a few seconds for that to be the result.

You can thank people like Charlie Kirk for your country not making it. The far-right, with active help from the big techs, have spread their bigotry believes for 15+ years on the internet, radicalizing people into dehumanize any group that doesn't fit in their idea of "ideal human being". Add the american gLorIouS FrEe SpeEch allowing groups like KKK and nazis to exist and you have a time-bomb society. Of course some people won't watch all of this still. People being dehumanized will radicalize in response to that

Speaking out is an action. In fact, according to linguistics like Vendler, "to speak" is considered an Action/Activity Verb, differently from "to be", "to own", "to belong", "to consist", "to have", which are Stative Verbs

The only comfort I can offer is to say the internet is not the real world. Far from it.

Never have truer words been spoken.  Twitter is a hell hole.  I hate it when people use it as source and 'proof'.  There are a billion users on Twitter but if a small group of 50 people make comments people don't like, those extreme minority get blown out of proportion and are somehow supposed to represent the views of the billion others. The logic is stupid. 

@Tober Thanks, it is. I heard someone here in Ireland today in real life saying it wasn't right and it was sobering but still, 1% of loud people beat 90% of silent people. As exactly to your point Cosmic...at least, I think that's what you're saying...?

This is why people need to be able to speak their minds, and why we should let them for the most part (besides incitement, etc).

-Silence is violence, becomes a thing when power is used to silence someone else, then they resort to physical violence instead.

-It's better to let someone speak and find out they're a monster, instead of being fooled into thinking they're a saint by an image.

Right wing commentator Matt Forney wants this to be "the American Reichstag fire", followed by a complete crackdown on the left like the German version in the 30s.