I’m going to challenge you all, right here, right now. Put down the thought of what’s right, what’s wrong, how people should be reacting, ect. I’m an apathetic bastard and I really could care less either way.

What I have noticed though is there’s a LOT of divide on this one, more than usual. Lemmy’s pretty homogenous but go outside to Facebook, Instagram, reddit, any of the mainstream places, hell, even talking about it with friends or family, you get some really differing views and people seem ready to discard longtime relationships over it. Hell, I’ve seen it happen 3 times now so far.

°So what do you think, take off the politics hat for a second and put on the sociology hat. Take a breath, and examine your surroundings.

°How does what’s going on make you feel, sad? Angry? Scared, tired or relieved?

°What do you think this says about which direction our society is going, have you got any predictions? Any old timers who have been through near societal collapses before want to throw in their perspective?

I’m genuinely interested in what you all think

  • JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    First of all, I’ve heard of Kirk for the first time when they killed him. I’m in the EU, I don’t follow mainstream socials, and definitely I’m not a fan of right-wing propaganda. So the first impact was: “Charlie who?”

    When I had read about him, I thought that he was (sorry for my French) a bigot piece of shit. I don’t think that violence is the solution for anything, nor that people like him deserve to die, but today there is one less bigot spreading hate and misinformation which is a positive thing. As someone smarter than me said “some men make the world a better place only when they die,” and Kirk seems to fit the profile.

    When I’ve heard the far-right accusing the left (MAGAs and European neo-fascist too), I was swinging between “how these ‘leaders’ can talk like that knowing literally nothing about the killer’s identity and motives?” and “how half of the population can be so stupid to be unable to understand how these ‘leaders’ are exploiting the tragedy they complain about?”.

    With friends I joked: “what if the killer is actually a right-wing white guy with a poster of Hitler in his bedroom?” I don’t know about posters, but so far I find the whole thing incredibly ironic.

    Bonus: one of the first thing I’ve found about Kirk (again, I didn’t know he existed before the other day) is that he was so pro-guns that he accepted murders and mass shootings as a necessary evil to have the right to carry guns. It would be a massive missed opportunity to stop at the irony here and avoid an healthy debate on weapons.

    TL,DR: I don’t care, but the world should not miss him.