"He died in the toxic atmosphere he helped create."

Yes, just like women bring sexual assault upon themselves. Are people psychopaths from birth or is it just a lifestyle choice?

Indyvidual,

That’s the kind of thinking that turns every lightning strike into a sniper.

Kirk had plenty of critics, but he was hardly a lone voice against "the system," he was a highly funded, high-profile culture warrior with friends in Congress, airtime across conservative media, and direct access to Trump. The idea that he was some kind of suppressed dissident stretches credibility well past breaking point.

As tragic though his death was, elevating it into martyrdom by shadowy enemy design doesn’t help anyone. It just feeds the same paranoia loop that has people seeing political assassination plots behind every act of violence, while ignoring the real factors that make violence more likely: polarisation, dehumanisation, and tribal rage - much of which Kirk actively encouraged.

He didn’t deserve to die, but that’s no reason to rewrite the script into fan fiction.
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Fester,

That’s a wild and inappropriate analogy. Not to mention a false equivalence fallacy.

There’s a massive difference between saying someone “deserved” harm and saying someone contributed to the conditions in which that harm became more likely. I never said Kirk deserved what happened to him - I said he helped create the toxic climate that ultimately consumed him. That’s not victim-blaming, that’s acknowledging consequence and feedback.

If a political figure builds a movement around outrage, fear, and dehumanisation - regardless of ideology - and then gets caught in the backlash of that same dynamic, it's not blaming the victim to say: this is the ecosystem you cultivated.

Your comparison to sexual assault is not only a category error, it trivialises both issues.

Leftist ideology is nasty and violent. History is full of them murdering their opponents. Now they are increasingly being challenged, and they aren't capable of defending their extreme views; so, it's back to the killing, then trying to convince us that the people they murder brought it on themselves.

However, if you look in the right places, you will see and hear of 'old-fashioned' (for want of a better description) lefties who are as disgusted as other decent people are, and who, in America, are vowing never to vote Democrat again. Some even think the that the Democrat party they once supported has turned into a terrorist organisation.

In Australia, the Albanese regime has reduced Labor to something similar: a Marxist hate-filled mob that is totally different from the Labor Party of the past. At the moment they want to crush free speech with censorship. If that doesn't work, violence could be next.

If a political figure builds a movement around outrage, fear, and dehumanisation -
John Daysh,
Going by that philosophy and, as per daily evidence the whole of the Left falls into that category.

The only mistake Jacinta made was saying Indian. Media are mongrels. There are plenty of immigrants needed and are welcome in this country, there are plenty here that should never have been allowed into the country and should be deported immediately. As for politicians being careful about what they say and how they say it, most just waffle on and are not worth listening too, the media love it because they can put their own slant on it which they do on a regular basis.

"If you're referring here to the 85% figure pushed by Price, that's been debunked."

Debunked? well lucky I didn't mention it then. Nor did Price. But when you can't address my views, make them up for me and tell me how wrong these fabricated views are. Standard JD.

"Yes, and the worst part is that the quiet part was false and divisive."

Oh yes, never be divisive. Always go along with the zeitgeist. Unless the JDs of this world disagree with the zeitgeist in which case going against it is brave and 'progressive'.

"The guy built an entire career on dehumanising minorities, undermining democratic norms, and stoking culture-war resentments."

JD demonstrates :1. that he understands precisely nothing about what Kirk preached and 2. his own utter lack of humanity.