Taking action, even a disrespectful celebration, is giving CK time and space in your thoughts and actions, regardless of the intentions.

As Elie Wiesel said, "The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference."

This REGIME (I won't call it an 'administration' because it does nothing but line its own pockets) is all about 'show' and 'rebranding' everything.

Just fu*king IGNORE it.

It will piss MAGA off to no end.

that sell custom printed shirts and show up to a local Kirk memorial.

Born October 14, 1973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd

Born
1948: Norman Orenstein
1938: John Dean
1927: Roger Moore (90 years)
1916: C. Everett Koop (96 years)
1914: Raymond Davis , Jr. (91 years)
1900: W. Edwards Deming (93 years)
1890: Dwight D. Eisenhower (successful anti-fascist)
1644: William Penn

1947 – Flying the Bell XS-1 over Muroc Army Air Field in California, Captain Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in level flight, reaching Mach 1.05.
1884 – George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1888 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
1774 – American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.

What better way to honor someone than quoting them?

They realize if Kirk's unedited words are made public he will be seen for what he actually is.

and the media once again failed to read the room...the constant Charlie Kirk drumbeat exposed Kirk as an odious excuse for a human being regardless how he died..people who didn't know the guy were introduced to his Nazis-speak and were mortified...Trump's attempt to deify his vile mini-me by silencing an already supine media is not surprising...it's just another day of Trump's revenge-fueled verbal blowouts designed to deflect from the fecal Epstein sewer he's drowning in..

families straining to feed their children/losing their healthcare/unable to find a job don't give a shit about Charlie Kirk or Disney or Trump ...the story is stale...

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What you heard depended on where you were on the political spectrum and how engaged you were. My hypotheses are:
1. There were two groups whose opinions did not change at all. One was the group of people who followed Kirk, the other the politically active people on the left, including DU. These plus the further right are the people who already knew of him and had an opinion.

2. For the majority of the people who had no or little opinion of him, it depended on where their information came from. That could be social media, people they speak to or public media.

On my own social media, I saw mostly information from the left, including many obnoxious things Kirk actually did say. I responded with thumbs up, care, etc but no written comments.

However, what surprised me was one woman I know is basically a conservative Catholic, shared a video where he was responding to a questioner "proving" Jesus is God - using the Bible! Despite the obvious, he appeared reasoned, calm and "nice". Easy to do when you control the editing. The comments were of people seeing him almost as a martyr. One said they lost a future President.

What Trump is fighting for is this middle group that previously did not know Kirk. I have no idea whether there were more people whose first major exposure was the laundry list of hateful positions or more people seeing him as a saint or at least a good man.

To some degree, the decency of most elected Democrats long believing it is wrong "to speak ill of the dead" eliminated many of those who are usually our strongest voices speaking to those not on the committed left.

As usual, the MSM really did try to show both sides of the issues Kirk raised, while the right deified Kirk and demonized the "radical left" which now seems to be not just those to the left of Reagan, but even those who identified as Reagan/Bush Republicans.

Charlie Kirk Pez dispensers. Too soon?

Or celebrate someone different instead.

Everyone all over on Oct 14 -

Charlie says -

“Release the Epstein Files”

Planned Parenthood, a trans support group. Do something good for the world. It's the best response to ugliness is to make more good.

If it's a nice day I'll go for a walk on the beach and unplug for awhile. I won't watch a minute of broadcast news. If it's a rainy day, I'll go to a movie.

the right wing gets off on the reactions from our side when they do things like this.

Don't acknowledge it and just do as you would any regular day.

In criminal defense for minority groups, to the ACLU, shop at black owned restaurants and leave money for a free meal for someone in need, etc. When you do it be sure to state it's in memory of George Floyd, who deserves to be recognized on his birthday.

reading the joke threads on DU and LMAO.

A fitting "tribute" to that asshole and all who would make him a hero

That would be funny as fuck.

October 14 will be nothing more than the day after October 13 and the day before October 15.

Just because a vocal minority in the USA is pretending the majority in the USA knew who this guy was one month ago (they didn’t), fortunately the rest of the world is perfectly content to continue existing without being forced to pretend that someone deserving of their attention has departed the scene.

He's dead. Good.

-Betty Davis
(Paraphrased)
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I'll celebrate Captain Kirk day, if a bunch of Trekies invite me, but "celebrate" the life of some guy who didn't care about 2/3rds of the US population, who didn't share any of my concerns, and talked a lot of jr. HS bully/jock BS - Id rather wash dishes, do laundry, and clean the grandkids guinea pig enclosure.
I'd rather a day of solemn commemoration of all senseless school shootings, not just his.