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Jeff H's avatar

Two things can be true at once. 1. Charlie Kirk was a bigoted, misogynic racist. 2. He didn't deserve to be assassinated. The way to deal with odious people like Kirk is not to kill them but to eviscerate their faulty arguments with your words. Simple as that.

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Jeff Pearlman's avatar

100% agree. Shooting people we disagree with is monstrous

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Sanford Sklansky's avatar

Just because he was civil and will to debate does not make him a good person. As Jeff pointed out. he said many terrible things. A lot of politicians and pundits mentioned this. He pretty much did those debates to score points. I doubt he would send air force 2 carry the coffin of a democratic politician.

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shawncruiksh's avatar

You’re giving him too much credit. Are you sure he can read? He barely understood the concept of a Library!

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Robert Sedlak's avatar

Assholes will asshole.

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SLKennedy's avatar

Thank you for those thoughts and all your posts.

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Camille P's avatar

Jeff, are you planning on attending the San Clemente city council meeting tomorrow night, Tuesday at 5:30pm? Apparently, some on the council, Knoblock is one, in sc want the city to oppose proposition 50. The Democratic Women of sc are trying to get people to attend who favor pro 50. I don’t want to see our sc council to end up like Huntington Beach.

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Sharon Borg Wall's avatar

That is a speech for the mayor, and each council member to model. Unfortunately, I don't think they will rise to the moment.

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Vern Nelson's avatar

Don't know if you saw this, but Burns/HB put this out Sept 11, probably not EXACTLY what you or I would write.......

https://x.com/CityofHBPIO/status/1966205977071358153

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Vern Nelson's avatar

and also of course, only seen by Twitter users. There should be something spoken to the public.

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