I should be happy that Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned, because I and many others on the Right had been demanding this for six months. But I am sad, because Modi govt has succumbed to street violence and anarchists. Asked to bend by us, it has crawled before them. - Ajeet Bharti
A while back I put out these rules for the internet. 1. When we disagree, we fight. 2. We have a beer afterward. 3. When we agree, we unite. I got a lot of flack, surprisingly, for the line about the beer. People would ask, "Oh yeah, would you have a beer with Charlie Kirk?!"
Well, I did. And I'm glad I did, because now I won't get to. Yes, Charlie and I disagreed a lot and about really important things. But somehow we didn't lose our humanity. We were still fellow Americans.
We can all choose to hate each other now. That's a normal, human reaction. We can choose to blame each other, and I'm sure we will, endlessly. Or we can defy the voices of division in the country, and have a beer together. This time, in grief.
If you really want to strike back at whoever did this, listen to each other instead of hating one another. They want us to hate each other. Treating one another as brothers and sisters, as a united America, would be a historic act of defiance.
Since I'm on the left, I'll go first. For everyone on the right, and most especially the Kirk family, I am so sorry for your loss. I share your grief and I want you to know our hearts are with you!
Everyone is jumping to the worst possible expectations of what is going to happen as a result of Charlie Kirk’s killing
I’ve heard from people today that I haven’t heard from in years, including people with completely opposite political views, wanting to make sure I was okay
The overwhelming majority of people think what happened today was horrific. Don’t let the worst 5% of society set your expectation about what the other 95% are thinking and feeling and what they will do
I doubt Charlie Kirk and I would agree on anything but I do not give a single fuck. A human was just publicly executed at a university for having views other people did not agree with.
The fact that there are so-called anti-gun and anti-violence people on this platform celebrating the violent murder of someone is enough internet for me.
If you are truly anti-gun and anti-violence - and you are smugly or gleefully enjoying this, you’re absolutely sickening. The tweets I am seeing from professionals and activists revelling in this murder are unforgivable.
its so insane they turned Charlie Kirk into an actual martyr for free speech. not to glaze Kirk as I really didn't agree with anything he stood for but who else in history was killed sitting in front of a crowd, allowing anyone at all to step up and debate him for fun
@avidseries When you fashion yourself as unconditionally good and your enemy unconditionally evil, anything becomes permissible.
The left needs to take a long hard look at itself.