Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

realdanbreen · 11-09-2025 09:47AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805459#Comment_123805459

But poor kirk wouldn't be wanting that after all he said " empathy is for losers:.

ancapailldorcha · 11-09-2025 09:50AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805470#Comment_123805470

Revelling and dismissing aren't the same thing. I did neither. How do you dismiss a murder? What does that even mean?

But yeah, many people are revelling but cite a single one. Making up crap nobody said so you can "own" it or whatever isn't clever. It's just bad faith.

And yeah, it's telling the response. With any kind of normal famous person, you'd be hearing anecdotes, people would share their memories of them and clips and we'd be hearing about some charity or cause they were into. With Kirk, it's the usual crowd with their conspiracy drivel and anyone who criticises him is revelling or something.

breezy1985 · 11-09-2025 09:50AM

A fair few posters revelling in the fact that people are revelling in the death of this guy 🙄

everlast75 · 11-09-2025 09:51AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805452#Comment_123805452

Thanks for the Kevin Sorbo subtweet 😉

Apple Dumpling · 11-09-2025 09:52AM

A child shot two of his school mates wounding them in Colorado before killing himself as well last night in America. Yet the president of America and world leaders are sending their condolences to an Internet influencer who was shot not to the families of the children shot in yet another school shooting in America.

The world so broken right now I don’t know what fixes it or do world leaders actually want it fixed their actions say they don’t.

Mr. CooL ICE · 11-09-2025 09:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805470#Comment_123805470

You need to look up the word "revelling" in a dictionary and then go back and re read those posts

EltonJohn69 · 11-09-2025 09:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805489#Comment_123805489

seems a lot of people online are taking his murder as the opportunity to scold people, to show how virtuous they are…. Isn't that what many people consider what woke behaviour is ? Or is being a snowflake ? Hard to with these amorphous terms….

EltonJohn69 · 11-09-2025 09:55AM

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/s/YnxZC86pU1

Some very intense reactions to Kirk’s murder. I wouldn’t leave the house if I was in the states this weekend.

scottser · 11-09-2025 09:55AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805077#Comment_123805077

My messed up ideology is empathy, compassion and equality. Kirk's is exclusivity, fear and white ethno-christianity. If you follow my messed-up ideology I guarantee you'll live longer.

y0ssar1an22 · 11-09-2025 09:57AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805475#Comment_123805475

mr beast is putting **** tons of wells into some parts of africa. some of the charities that also do this were giving about the fact, cos suddenly their donations are reduced. or he was showing them up by how efficiently he was able to do it.

if someone from one of those charities assassinated mr beast, possibly starmer et al would pay tribute.

leaders pay tribute all the time to high profile (tragic) deaths. see kobe bryant and george floyd as examples.

floorpie · 11-09-2025 09:57AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805488#Comment_123805488

You know what it means to dismiss it. You said he was vile and that you have no sympathy that he was murdered. I don't know why anybody would feel the need to post this instead of keeping it to themselves. You can be involved in the conversation about the event without saying such things.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805503#Comment_123805503

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805498#Comment_123805498

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805489#Comment_123805489

You're all very clever people, we're all impressed by your wit

Greengrass53 · 11-09-2025 09:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805250#Comment_123805250

TThink you know why.Starmer is a drowning man who will clutch at any Trump straw in the vain hope of survival. He's wrong.

Oscar_Madison · 11-09-2025 09:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805311#Comment_123805311

Touché!
😀❤️

johnny_ultimate · 11-09-2025 10:00AM

Nobody should be assassinated in broad daylight, and gun laws in the US are an absolute travesty and a major reason why all kinds of violence - including, increasingly, political - are so widespread. There is no joy to be taken from yesterday's killing, and the consequential crackdown could be catastrophic.

But it's kind of nauseating seeing this pretense - including from, bizarrely, seemingly the entire UK political establishment - that Kirk was an entirely innocent victim. He was a modern day hate preacher, constantly spewing the most bigoted views to a wide audience, with seemingly endless funds to do so. He revelled in endless division and cruelty, and clearly was happy to stoke violence just so long as it didn't impact him and his ilk. Especially violence against Democrats, Muslims etc… He celebrated US gun culture and all of its consequences - no mass shooting could ever change his mind.

Charlie Kirk was a victim of the political and ideological culture Charlie Kirk helped create.

Boggles · 11-09-2025 10:00AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805512#Comment_123805512

So you think if the likes of Mr. Beast was killed, The British Prime Minister would be rushing out a tribute?

That is unlikely isn't it?

sydthebeat · 11-09-2025 10:01AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805497#Comment_123805497

The world leaders (and especially those who financially back them) do not want an end to the culture / identity wars that are widespread across the world today. It keeps the eyes away from the reality of the fact that the majority of assets and commodities in the world right now are getting more expensive and beyond the reach of most working people. The gap between the haves and the others is continuing to widen, especially after COVID. Those that hold more wealth can do nothing with it other than invest in assets though investment funds, and base line assets like housing (but not only housing) in turn become more and more expensive.

Trump will have loved the events of yesterday. Played right into his authoritarian hands.

aero2k · 11-09-2025 10:02AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805451#Comment_123805451

Pot. Kettle. Black.

y0ssar1an22 · 11-09-2025 10:02AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805481#Comment_123805481

He elaborated that while empathy is politically effective, he personally preferred sympathy over empathy.

i think i'd agree with his viewpoint looking at the differences.

Empathy is understanding and sharing another's emotions as if you were experiencing them yourself, fostering a deep connection, while sympathy is feeling sorry for someone's misfortune without necessarily sharing their emotions, often stemming from a position of detachment

Boggles · 11-09-2025 10:04AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805510#Comment_123805510

Jesus, he went a worrying shade of pink.

That is out there for ever now, for his great grand kids and beyond.

valoren · 11-09-2025 10:05AM

Prefacing this as pure speculation. To use the four dimensional chess narrative then when playing chess you sacrifice your own pieces (even the powerful ones) to ultimately win the game. My immediate gut reaction to this is Qui Bono? You have the latest news of the Epstein Birthday card and you grasp that this isn't going away no matter what deflections have been tried. It could be a case of the sociopaths in the ranks (even unbeknownst to Trump who just wants the story to go away) taking steps to conduct a false flag assassination. Murder one of their own to (1) finally deflect from the Epstein story and dominate news cycles and (2) muster capital to clamp down on the loony left liberals with sniper rifles killing people like Kirk. In the end all that would matter is winning/consolidating power and if murdering a sacrificial lamb, a man with a wife, kids and extended family caters to that then it is a very disturbing thought. If no suspect is found and charged then it would be discomfiting and may lend credence to the (speculative) idea that this was a coordinated assassination while also allowing the fear mongering of loony left liberal murderers at large to fester helping the aforementioned consolidation of power.

realdanbreen · 11-09-2025 10:05AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805529#Comment_123805529

Well clarified in fairness to you. Maybe you could also clarify what he meant when he said that the granting of civil rights in the 60's was a "huge mistake " ?

scottser · 11-09-2025 10:06AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805150#Comment_123805150

He showed complete apathy to victims of gun violence and I, along with others are showing him the same.

Rest In Whatever.

ancapailldorcha · 11-09-2025 10:09AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805515#Comment_123805515

So you still can't find a single example.

Derkaiser93 · 11-09-2025 10:09AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805275#Comment_123805275

Jesus christ man you're not the sharpest tool

Mod Edit: Warned for personal abuse

ilkhanid · 11-09-2025 10:11AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123804889#Comment_123804889

Grossly exaggerated, eh? He called civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr "awful" and "not a good person". He assailed the Civil Rights Act of 1965 (outlaws discrimination based on race, religion, colour, sex and national origin, and prohibited segregation). He believed in that "great replacement" bullshit. He opposed the Juneteenth holiday. He said "If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified'" . He was a racist, reactionary, foul, provocative, ****-stirring piece of sh1t and there will be about, say, twenty thousand people, killed unlawfully yesterday that I will be mourning before I mourn him.

Seth Brundle · 11-09-2025 10:11AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805383#Comment_123805383

Sorry what 'leanings' do I have?

A safe assumption is that you would have right-leaning sympathies. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted in the manner you did.

I've never posted in this thread before this event.

erm, yes you have with a despicable comment alleging posters here have mental health issues…

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123804253#Comment_123804253

There are now layers of delusion in your posts making it clear that you have issues. Perhaps you feel encouraged by your fellow troubled posters but that doesn't make you right or good.

Again, more of the snide comments referring to mental health - how very Trumpian of you 🙄
(And you think your "leanings" aren't visible in your posts?)

Cody montana · 11-09-2025 10:12AM

Where was the good guy with a gun to stop him?
oh right, he couldn’t have stopped him.

I would hope this would lead to a greater debate on gun violence in the USA, but I know it won’t.

It will be used to fuel more hate and division.

crusd · 11-09-2025 10:13AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805372#Comment_123805372

You are aware there have been democratic politicians attached and killed recently aren't you? Or do you think this was co-ordinated by Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary and the lizard people?

Nutjubs don't just adhere to one particular political philosophy.

reclose · 11-09-2025 10:14AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805546#Comment_123805546

this would insinuate that you agree with him on that stance then? Isn’t that a contradiction?

floorpie · 11-09-2025 10:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805564#Comment_123805564

> I've never posted in this thread before this event.
erm, yes you have with a despicable comment alleging posters here have mental health issues…

Yes that comment was about this event….

A safe assumption is that you would have right-leaning sympathies. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted in the manner you did.

It's telling that you think being against dismissive comments around somebody's murder - which is all I've posted about - is a partisan issue

Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

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