I am also told that at least one fire station had kept their flag lowered, and locked it in place, requiring the fire chief to come cut the lock. Also that there are people sneaking around lowering flags.
One good thing that comes with the half mast flags is that it reminded me every time I saw them that Kirk was dead and it made me happy
He (Kirk) is just not that important of an individual to merit this kind of national response. It’s not on the level of the September 11 attacks. It’s simply not. And, I would argue it further divides Americans than unites us.
He wasn’t a politician, head of state, particularly well known, or unanimously loved person. The only person he represented was himself. Objectively speaking, There’s no reason to lower the flag for him.
Honestly, lowering the flag for him cheapens lowering the flag altogether.
It just doesn’t mean what it used to. This is when it changed.
It’s insulting. Regardless of your feelings on Kirk, this was hardly an attack on the whole of America. It was yet another school shooting. We have quite a few of those.
Arguably, a school shooting with only one victim is progress? I didn’t quickly find statistics on average deaths per incident, but did see that there is over 1 incident per week average since 2021.
Not every victim of a shooting dies from the injuries. I would argue one whole death is in the realm of shooting event deaths even with multiple victims.
Speaking of September 11, remember that Donald’s response to the attacks, on the day they happened, was to do an interview where he bragged about how they made a building of his the tallest in the neighborhood. And as always with him, it was a lie as there were several taller buildings nearby.
That’s really gross. I had no idea he was so callous.
I sorta love it. Everyone who treats him with empathy is basically shitting over everything he said and stood for. Its an awesome catch 22.
everything he said and stood for
Charlie Kirk stood for nothing besides Charlie Kirk. Kirk was a lying grifter. He would have loved everyone treating him with empathy, because he didn’t ever actually care about empathy generally; he cared about hurting other people to his own benefit, and that meant eliminating empathy towards them.
Well I mean taking his words at face value. Either you should shrug your shoulders and say thats what he gets and his kids have learned something. That would be following the charlie kirk preaching. Or you say its horrible and express feelings he would deride for anyone else. So charlie kirk would not be empathetic to charlie kirk if he was not charlie kirk.
At first I thought you were referring to the Mayor. After reading the article, and re-reading your comment, I now get you were talking about Kirk. Suffice it to say, I was confused. 😅
I edited my comment to enhance clarity without changing the meaning.
And I’d bet that before this many of these people only knew Charlie Kirk as a name in passing if at all, probably couldn’t tell you where he stood on topics. But he’s become a convenient martyr for MAGA, so therefore this is a hill the want to fight on. If we had anyone important to society in any way be laid in state at the Capital or flag lowered, it would be a daily thing with a backlog and the flag would stay down. Charlie wasn’t even that level of important, he was one of many of the current Gish galloping con men pushing an agenda for money, celeb status, and maybe power if they were good enough.
Thanks for clarifying, glad hear it’s the one in my state, no need to lower the flag for fascists
