My opinion and anyone take it how you want but *they* don't want right-wing ideology destroyed, they'd rather have it around in a toothless, neutered version because if it's gone something else will take it's place. There's a saying that goes if you kill a king do it in front of his court which is what happened here, we in crystal clear 4k and thousands live in attendance got to see a man get a real life Mortal Kombat fatality inflicted on him to the screams of fear, confusion and terror of those present, if that picture doesn't send the message that these faggots don't care about the game and just want to flip the board over when the other side even so much as makes a move that'll let them win then I don't know what is.
Yeah but many on the right want the same thing for the left.
I know this will be VERY unpopular. Look Charlie Kirk was not a member of the government, yet we're providing him all the honors that someone in government would get if they got assassinated. In many ways this is the same sort of thing like how the left did what George Floyd. Look you could agree with everything Charlie Kirk said, but the man does not deserve to have a flag flown in half mast when that's something that only happens when there's undeniably a national tragedy, or someone in the government dies. Charlie Kirk was a political figure and one not elected by the people. The Democrats don't agree with him and the Republicans like him. So you have half of the country that doesn't like him. Yet people are attacking people for not putting a flag at half mast or flagellating themselves over his death. I mean Christ, the thing that the Indian that runs the FBI said was over the fucking top and the man's corpse was transported on air force 2. At this point why don't we just put him on the fucking 20?
Look I understand this fear and the concern for people who promote and are giddy about this man's assassination, it's not right to promote the death of others because you simply disagree of their political view, especially when your political opposition was doing no more than just speaking. But this reaction is a little over the top. We all have to say that. The man was not a prophet. He was a normal man who had a political and social viewpoint that he was promoting. People are getting upset because flags are not being flown at half mast, and accusing random people of supporting kirks death. This is the same stuff that the left did with Floyd. We also should not allow our national symbols and traditions be used for political purposes regardless of what side they fall on. I understand if Congress passes a law or something (because that is the will of the people), but using taxpayer dollars to give someone you politically agree with what essentially is a state funeral will only cause problems. It turns our symbols and traditions into a partisan issue, and that creates fractures in society, which, if left unchecked, could lead to deep civil unrest/civil war.
You cannot allow this man's assassination to turn into what could amount to the right's version of George Floyd.
My issue comes when taxpayer funds are used to declare a status that the people did not appoint the person to. Look, if Vance wanted to use Trump's private plane, or his house (hell, even the house where the VP resides) to display the body or fly it to Arizona, that's his prerogative, but we should not be expected to follow his lead or admonished if we choose not to. We all got upset when the left attacked us for not "taking a knee" or being all pro-BLM, and we should not be upset when they do not want participate in our "pagentry." But when you make the "pagentry of the state" the "pagentry" you choose, you are taking core national symbols and acts and making them partisan; that action does not bring people together, it makes people think the state has been co-opted to push a particular political view. People accused the left of doing it whenever a black person gets shot (and the accusation isn't wrong), but I think we shouldn't even engage in any pageantry at all, especially at the taxpayers' dime.
Because I have to clarify, I am not saying that Kirk is the same as Floyd. Kirk did nothing wrong, Floyd was a criminal
Based on the replies people seem to think I was saying Kirk was like Floyd, which I wasn't. I was saying that the left turned Floyd into a ditey, we should not do the same, even though we agreed with Kirk. The fact that the left picked Floyd is their own moral failing. I don't know why people can't see this.
I'll make it simple: We should not be making ANYONE a christlike figure just because they stood for something we agreed on or we support them, let the left play that game, it makes them look stupid, we should not look stupid too.
Kirk shouldn't have been killed, and he died simply expressing his First Amendment right. I also agree with many points he made, but we should not make a national holiday out of his death or give him national honors, and I feel many politicians would be so happy to do that.
Why am I against that? Because the man was not elected by the people, and he was a political speaker. That's it.
It's the same house of thought why the left shouldn't be making floyd a national holiday. Except the values of the left are all fucked, so they think Floyd should have the same national outrage as a man getting killed for simply speaking/using his First Amendment right. I am outraged and disgusted and angry that Kirk was killed, but
stuff like this and worse will be the end result if we continue down this path.