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Jilly_in_VA

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1. I wish people would stop using the term "assassinated"

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Sep 11, 2025, 03:28 PM

Thursday

for this murder. He wasn't "assassinated". He was just murdered. Assassination is reserved for really important people, like political candidates. Would you say a movie star who was killed in front of a crowd was :assassinated"? No, you wouldn't. Charlie Kirk was basically a political movie star. Nothing more, nothing less. Can we just leave it at that and stop glorigying this political murder?

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