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On Charlie Kirk's Assassination and the Glee of Online Celebrants
from The Silencing Of Charlie Kirk | The Tim Dillon Show #461 · #461
13 min
Tim opens by introducing the Max Blumenthal interview and delivers an extended personal reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination, condemning people who celebrated his murder, arguing that disagreement with someone's politics doesn't justify delighting in their death, and warning that this kind of dehumanization is a dark omen for the country.
- Max Blumenthal wrote about Charlie Kirk's mental state in the final weeks of his life.
- Tim witnessed one of the most disturbing things he's ever seen: Charlie Kirk brutally murdered in front of his wife and children.
- People gleefully celebrating the assassination disturb Tim, who considers it spiritually and morally destructive.
- Tim saw the video on a plane to Austin and found it maybe the worst thing he'd ever seen on his phone.
- The glee and delight in Kirk's assassination, particularly watching his wife collapse and children lose their father, is something Tim cannot understand.
- Tim had substantive disagreements with Charlie Kirk but insists you don't have to agree with someone to not enjoy their murder.
- As the country drifts into a schizophrenic fever dream where nothing is real and everyone is radicalized, this type of violence becomes inevitable.
- Tim cannot fathom why assassinating someone willing to debate students on campus would be justified.
- Tim disagrees with many California state policies but would never want the people he disagrees with to die, let alone be shot in front of their children.
- Charlie Kirk was not a crazy extremist despite making inflammatory statements; he engaged in conversations with a coherent belief system.