Darkside

Writer, politics junkie, reader, and highly opinionated individual.

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You don’t have to agree with him on everything, but man did I respect him for wanting to discuss things with people who thought differently than him. We need more of that not less.

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How you feel about #CharlieKirk is a wonderful litmus test on how bad your echo chamber is… he was not a racist, homophobic, bigot, etc. Just take some time to listen to him and don’t take an out of context or completely wrong quote as fact. Just listen.

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Yeah. Charlie Kirk did say, "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

Here's the full quote:

“Yeah, it's a great question. Thank you. So, I'm a big Second Amendment fan but I think most politicians are cowards when it comes to defending why we have a Second Amendment. This is why I would not be a good politician, or maybe I would, I don't know, because I actually speak my mind.

The Second Amendment is not about hunting. I love hunting. The Second Amendment is not even about personal defense. That is important. The Second Amendment is there, God forbid, so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government. And if that talk scares you — "wow, that's radical, Charlie, I don't know about that" — well then, you have not really read any of the literature of our Founding Fathers. Number two, you've not read any 20th-century history. You're just living in Narnia. By the way, if you're actually living in Narnia, you would be wiser than wherever you're living, because C.S. Lewis was really smart. So I don't know what alternative universe you're living in. You just don't want to face reality that governments tend to get tyrannical and that if people need an ability to protect themselves and their communities and their families.

Now, we must also be real. We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty. Driving comes with a price. 50,000, 50,000, 50,000 people die on the road every year. That's a price. You get rid of driving, you'd have 50,000 less auto fatalities. But we have decided that the benefit of driving — speed, accessibility, mobility, having products, services — is worth the cost of 50,000 people dying on the road. So we need to be very clear that you're not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. You could significantly reduce them through having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one.

You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am, I, I — I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.

So then, how do you reduce? Very simple. People say, oh, Charlie, how do you stop school shootings? I don't know. How did we stop shootings at baseball games? Because we have armed guards outside of baseball games. That's why. How did we stop all the shootings at airports? We have armed guards outside of airports. How do we stop all the shootings at banks? We have armed guards outside of banks. How did we stop all the shootings at gun shows? Notice there's not a lot of mass shootings at gun shows, there's all these guns. Because everyone's armed. If our money and our sporting events and our airplanes have armed guards, why don't our children?”

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Guys check TikTok mine is working

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@BaggyAssCondom American here I feel so disconnected from the world I already miss British people judging us for not saying words right when they can’t say taco and Australia’s one sided beef

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@notyoursalal @repusnaketion It’s a way we feel connected to the rest of the world it’s alarming not being able to see what’s happening in real time

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@Tactelller It’s common practice in the states to do this it’s not new just because you don’t like the guy doesn’t mean it’s not culturally proper to refer to him as such

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@Raven0178 @AreMond2 @justinbaragona The people chose Biden he was the one who picked Kamala for VP people would not have picked Kamala as their choice for president

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@Raven0178 @AreMond2 @justinbaragona People don’t typically vote for the vice president though if Kamala was running for president she wouldn’t have won the democrat vote

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@Phlippi4 @AreMond2 @justinbaragona Still not a democratic process plus we all knew Biden wasn’t fit to run a year ago why didn’t he step down then so democrats could choose who they wanted democratically

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@AreMond2 @justinbaragona It is in the sense that the people won’t be picking their nominee they won’t be voting for who they want for their nominee it’s going to be hand picked for them… that’s not democratic

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@michaelharriot This is… uh… so are you saying no POC can be legacies, donors, employee families & special recommendations???

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@Out5p0ken Oh yeah? His video already has millions of views and it was only posted a couple hours ago sooo

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It’s more offensive that you go on to call obese people fat after this tweet. Being called obese is just a medical term, the term fat is actually a slur making fun of others. Sincerely an obese person.

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@Fvcky_Putin @Highway_30 That’s where you’re wrong bad things come with govt expansion. Everything the govt touches literally goes to shit and is run like shit.

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@tomcoates @Matthew74773071 @mtaibbi The hacked part was just the excuse they used to try to suppress it, the laptop wasn’t hacked even in the original post story it was obvious it wasn’t hacked.

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@fwtoney Just owning a firearm doesn’t make you the problem. People who set out to do harm on others are the problem they’re always the problem. Millions of Americans own firearms and never go out to harm others they’re not problematic.

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@DeathMetalV He literally tweeted about the shooter calling him a violent criminal…

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@unclelukereal1 If they have a cell phone they have access to millions of books instantly in the palm of their hand