Leo Gura

Lenin was an unhinged and radicalized machiavellian devil. He was tempermentally incapable of democracy. He wasn't even capable of getting along democratically with his fellow socialist thinkers. He just wanted to shove his ideas down everyone's throats. This is the temperment of a tyrant. Unfortunately these are the kinds of characters who grab power in a revolution, not the nice guys.

How else could it be??

@Shane Hanlon Nice!

Pure corruption:

I'm talking about today's left in America. White supremacist, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic. Kirk was all of those things. Learn what those term actually mean, not just as memes.

Guys, stop the personal attacks and insults. Not useful at all.

No. And the left has never called for executions nor is the left happy about it. But we warned that electing an authoritarian will lead to political violence, which is exactly what happened and will continue to happen. The right cannot elect authoritarians and then act surprised that violence follows. Trump has been stoking division and violence from day one, for 10 years. And Kirk was all for that kind of politics. You can't elect leaders like Hitler and Mussolini and then act surprised when violence follows. When you elect fascists the only way to get rid of them in the end is with violence. Which is why electing them in the first place is wrong. Yes, in the end the left will resort to violence to end tyranny. That's not a mistake, that's how this works. Right-wingers are just too selfish and ignorant to understand that. If Trump keeps going down the road he's going there will be a lot more violence because people do not sit nicely by while you abuse them, dehumanize them, and take away their freedoms. The error of right-wingers is they think they can dehumanize others without grave consequences to yourselves. That is the narcissism of people like Charlie Kirk. He thought he could go around dehumanizing and oppressing minorities without it backfiring on him. If you dehumanize anyone long enough, you will live to regret it. To expect otherwise is dumb. The problem is that fans of Charlie Kirk are not conscious enough to understand that he made a career out of dehumanizing fellow citizens. So they act shocked and outraged when he gets natural blowback, like Kirk was just this sweet innocent guy. Kirk was a key architect and cheerleader for a politics of dehumanization. This is what the right at large is in denial about and blind to.

Zaren? Lol

Right-wingers will have a field day with this degeneracy.

Of course the granularity is there, just takes work to explicate it.

@Joshe Unconscious survival, group-think, low stages of development, and not caring about truth (corruption) explains it.

Fuentez is a straight up Nazi. Please stop whitewashing his insane and childish ideas.

UFO nuts eating their own.

It is a classic trope that fascists believe empathy is weak and gay. Don't act otherwise. Fascists attack and mock empathy. There is nothing new in this worldview. That's exactly what Kirk's worldview believed. Which is why he wanted kids to watch televised executions and why he mocked the Paul Pelosi attack. Kirk didn't believe in empathy because he was incapable of it, and the same for his king, Trump. Kirk wanted a president with no empathy. He got it.

Kirk would have wanted it this way. Afterall, empathy is for losers.

His audience is not being lost, it is being absorbed by some other right-wing epistemic pervert like Ben Shapiro.

This is incorrect. He has way more than that.

They completely ignore how corrupt the conservatives have become. This is not merely an issue of left vs right. It's an issue of corruption. Objectively, there has never been a more corrupt, dishonest, unfit, criminal, and authoritarian president in American history. To act like this is the fault of the left going to far is just brain-dead. Trump literally planned and executed a coup. And these assholes dare to speak about the left going too far left because of some trans stuff. Their level of analysis is embarassing. They have the political analysis of children.

Lol. This is like saying: "I grew up owning slaves and things were cool. But then those crazy leftists ran so far to the left that now I'm fighting for the Confederacy. What a crazy world! Those crazy leftists!" No shit. Society evolves. If you don't evolve with it you become a dinosaur. When Owen Cook was born, beating blacks and gays to death was considered normal. It is no virtue to say that you haven't evolved in your politics. These guys say that like it's some virtue. Yeah, if PBD and Owen were born in 1910's Germany they would be proud Nazis.

@Yimpa Welcome back.

Sweet!

Banning guns in USA is simply impossible. But raising the age to own is possible and reasonable.

But guns are much rarer than USA so it is acceptable. USA needs stricter rules because guns are too available.

Because there are zero penalties for parents giving guns to their kids. This is part of the sick gun culture where kids are just allowed to grab guns from around the house. That's a huge part of this issue which needs fixing. Parents need to be told that if they leave their guns unlocked to their kids, the parents will be imprisoned for manslaughter.

I promise you that if Charlie Kirk arrived in Heaven and saw only black people he would curse God and side with Satan.