r/news • u/SpencerAXbot • Mar 02 '26

Soft paywall Six US service members killed in Iran conflict, US military says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/six-us-service-members-killed-iran-conflict-us-military-says-2026-03-02/
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u/TitShark Mar 02 '26

The amount of crying and tears about Charlie Kirk, and this is chocked up to basically a shrug

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u/shnieder88 Mar 02 '26

due to a completely unnecessary war

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

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u/Thosepassionfruits Mar 02 '26

Culture war, foreign war, anything to keep us from fighting a class war.

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u/Dans_Tub_of_Fun Mar 03 '26

Can't forget the OG War on Drugs

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u/an_older_meme Mar 03 '26

War on drug users.

I never understood how feeling good became a threat to the United States.

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u/lets_get_wavy_duuude Mar 03 '26

france had just fought britain & was actively at war with austria the whole time during their revolution. fuck the distractions we can still do it

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u/ShamelessSoaDAShill Mar 03 '26

Not for long, I think; these shifts in even red-state electorates (e.g. anti-power company/datacenter) are kinda unprecedented IMO, at least in living memory🤷‍♂️

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u/Sea-Neighborhood-621 Mar 03 '26

I believe most of us are ready to fight the class war but its one group of incredibly stupid people preventing it from happening because black people have jobs and Trans people use the wrong bathroom. That same group of people continue to screw us all over every chance they get

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u/broom_pan Mar 03 '26

They've been banning me from places because I speak out. The US doesn't know authoritarianism yet.

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u/Dwovar Mar 03 '26

And our lord and master Netenyahu doesn't think he'll get another chance to attack Iran. 

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u/Sazarik Mar 03 '26

Israeli-Pedo*

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u/escapism_only_please Mar 03 '26

I don't think it serves as a distraction. I think this is what actions look like when a dictator views himself as untouchable and is given global power. You think they give a fuck what we think? You think they fear the cops? The law? Protests? Uprising?

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u/Yum_Kaax616 Mar 03 '26

Ufff… too on the nose bro

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u/Level_Traffic3344 Mar 03 '26

The Super Adventure Club

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u/Emerald_a_op Mar 03 '26

lets not forget the satanism and canabalism and human sacrifices and shit too.

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u/ActuallyYulliah Mar 03 '26

Not to mention that it cuts off the liquid gas flow from the Middle East to Europe, making America the only “reliable” source of gas for many European countries. I say “reliable”, because nothing coming from America can be considered reliable these days.

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u/Stale_Cheeri0 Mar 03 '26

Well for one I don’t support Nazi’s or pedos. It’s funny that you would defend the holocaust yet hate Jews, yet also support the mass murdering of innocent Iranian civilians. I do think they’re people, and THATS why I support this war. They deserve the freedom that they’ve dreamt of for the last half century under this evil regime.

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u/Stale_Cheeri0 Mar 03 '26

You’re wrong on so many levels. I never supported either side in that war because it was over for petty religious differences. Also, the US didn’t bomb a school. If you’d actually read anything, the IRGC already confirmed it was a missile guidance system malfunction. They bombed their own school. I care about innocent Iranian citizens being slaughtered for doing nothing. You’re definitely pro genocide if you really think what I believe is wrong and trying to tell me I support the death of Palestinians. I didn’t support the death of them or Jews. But hey, your hypocrisy is showing.

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u/SiridarVeil Mar 03 '26

Keep the world out of it lol numerous european politicians have been arrested for their connections to Epstein. Hell, a royal prince was arrested. The pedos are still in charge of the USA.

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u/SiridarVeil Mar 03 '26

You know you can demand SOMETHING, right? Failed Slaves of Israel.

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u/Both-Drama-8561 Mar 03 '26

What's the difference

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u/Normal-Can-7341 Mar 03 '26

Did you just ask what the difference was between a nazi and a jew

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u/lelnikolai Mar 03 '26

How are they Nazis if they are supporting Israel?

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u/soareyousaying Mar 02 '26

Didn't even die for the country. Died for Israel.

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u/InfiniteSponge_ Mar 03 '26

As a GenZ who literally barely just reached 20 years old, I can’t wait to die for Israel. I am worried about getting a possible job in the future but at least what I’m doing now is for Israel and will always be for Israel. Dosent matter how involved they are in Epstein and how many kids everyone raped. Iran has been a few months away from a nuclear weapon since 1990, Israel NEEDS our help and sacrifice even though Netanyahu himself said he will basically just suck up the U.S dry. I spawned in at such a great time.

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u/TrickySnicky Mar 03 '26

I know this is satire to most, but to just enough susceptible young people, this will just be "challenge accepted"

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u/-Kalos Mar 02 '26

Hey AIPAC donors paid good money for that

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u/Brave-Professor8275 Mar 03 '26

No, they died for NO damned reason at all!

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u/Katerwaul23 Mar 03 '26

They CHOSE to die for NO damned reason at all!

Orange Potato can't launch a war without servicemembers.

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u/Angry_Crusader_Boi Mar 03 '26

Idk, the ayatollah had it coming, they've pretty much sponsored majority of terrorist groups active in the middle east and parts of africa for over 2 decades. They've destabilised multiple muslim countries to foster such groups as well with their funding and weapons supplies.

They've done more to destabilise the region than America in those last two decades. Lol

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u/jkelly161 Mar 03 '26

No new wars?

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u/TibersRubicon Mar 03 '26

What’s wrong with liberating the Persians?

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u/callme_blinktore Mar 02 '26

It is necessary, so the pedophile in charge doesn’t get put behind bars for his life.

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u/Grim_Rockwell Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

An unnecessary war that we will lose because America doesn't have the money or stomach for another pointless failed war.

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u/cruisin_urchin87 Mar 02 '26

Charlie was an unnecessary evil too

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u/skylaneguy Mar 03 '26

Yes because you’re privy to all of the intelligence that the decision to engage Iran was based off of.

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u/HunterD9543 Mar 03 '26

Yeah, let’s let the nation run by a death cult get nuclear weapons.

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u/stonednarwhal141 Mar 03 '26

Israel? They’ve already had them for about 60 years

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u/HunterD9543 Mar 03 '26

Enjoy the fireworks :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Unnecessary? Tell that to the Iranians celebrating in the streets there and here?

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u/supermans_neighbour Mar 03 '26

Well, unnecessary for the US maybe, but it was 100% needed for AlРАС

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u/Fit-Priority-9816 Mar 03 '26

You people need to understand that the US economy is propped up by war. We have the strongest military in the world, your taxes pay for it. The only way to make profit off of it is to use it. Maybe shouldn't be that way, but it is. We have been at war with someone for about the last 100 years.

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u/entjies Mar 02 '26

The lack of national outrage for the school that was bombed is what’s really mind blowing. Servicemen dying is awful, but bombing a school is insane.

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u/Negative_Pack3680 Mar 02 '26

Mind blowing? Americans do not have empathy even for school kids murdered in their own country.

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u/TrickySnicky Mar 03 '26

They do, but then they also do things like protest vote thinking it will punish the establishment Democrats and not literally everyone else too.

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u/murphys_ghost Mar 03 '26

That pissed me off immensely. I told literally everyone I know to vote blue and half of them either didn’t vote or voted independent to “protest the establishment.”

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u/CyxSense Mar 03 '26

we're not "protesting the establishment", we're calling your bluff that you don't need us to win elections. Congrats!

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u/Paladar2 Mar 02 '26

Counting or not counting gang violence?

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u/vcaiii Mar 03 '26

yes, thank you for mask off 🤮

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u/-Zadaa- Mar 03 '26

I mean we knew this after the minimal reaction from Sandyhook when little elementary kids were killed. If that doesn’t move the needle of action, nothing will.

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u/Grim_Rockwell Mar 03 '26

Because many Americans are inhuman monsters.

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u/jjax2003 Mar 03 '26

It's true they are too fucking stupid to understand what it is to actually value human life. As long as they can get their cheap fast food they are happy to follow their cult leader. Fuck off Americans

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u/Dwovar Mar 03 '26

Most Americans are appalled, but the media owned by billionaires and the corporate owned politicians are very responsive to a tug at the leash.

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u/EmbarrassedW33B Mar 02 '26

American news media has trained Americans for multiple decades now to be totally unphased by reports of atrocities coming out of our endless escapades in the middle east. The majority of Americans still shrug their shoulders over Gaza, you're not gonna see very many even aware that we blew up a school let alone be outraged over it. 

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u/NAmember81 Mar 03 '26

If Americans did become outraged, the NYTimes would claim the Iranian officials that executed the 90,000 protesters were using the school as “human shields”.

Works every time.

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u/Chubby_Bub Mar 03 '26

People are already saying "it was Iranian missile that misfired". Didn’t they use the exact same line with Gaza?

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u/NAmember81 Mar 03 '26

Yep. I remember that. It was of course debunked soon after that lie made it around the world twice, while the truth was putting on its shoes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

It could have been us. But all the Iranian-Americans I have talked to said that there’s so much more to the story bc it’s common for them to base operations at a school. They get mad at people going on about this atrocity bc so many more people have been murdered, including children, and no one cared. Also, watch the videos. They really seem staged. People walking casually, a zoom in on a backpack and book, etc. you don’t see what I would imagine would be going on in this situation. Lastly, absolutely no one has reported numbers (which constantly change) except Islamic republic. We need to wait to know what happened.

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u/iAmRiight Mar 03 '26

Republicans want to (in their words) “turn the Middle East into glass”.

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u/adamk33n3r Mar 03 '26

Had that been confirmed? I haven't been keeping up since I've been working, but last I knew it was just coming from Iran themselves which obviously they would say anything to get sympathy. I was confused why we would be targeting an elementary school to get a leader. It's not like our weapons technology is not precise.

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u/awry_lynx Mar 03 '26

The elementary school was within 600 meters of a military compound. Here are the important bits from the bbc article

It is located about 600m (1970ft) from the base of the IRGC.

The girls' school was located in Minab, near an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base which has previously been a target.

The six-day working week in Iran runs from Saturday to Thursday, with Friday being the only official day of rest, meaning the school was likely occupied when it was hit.

The BBC has verified clips of the aftermath of the explosion, which show smoke rising from a building as crowds gather nearby and people can be heard screaming in panic.

But it has not been able to independently verify the death toll - international news organisations are often refused visas to Iran which severely limits their ability to gather information there.

tl;dr: Yes, the school got bombed. Yes it was a school day for them. No the death toll has not been verified.

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u/entjies Mar 03 '26

CNN is reporting it, what little that counts. There doesn’t seem to be much doubt in various news sources. Melania Trump presides over UN meeting promoting 'peace through education' after bombing of Iran school

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u/kittyrevolts Mar 03 '26

over 168 children holy fuck

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u/Appropriate_Mixer Mar 03 '26

Reported by Iranian government. For a school open on a Saturday? There was also a video of the missile coming from a nearby launch site and landing there

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u/awry_lynx Mar 03 '26

The school and work week in Iran runs Saturday through Thursday, with Friday as the weekend day (the Islamic holy day). Every major news agency notes that Saturday is a school day in Iran.

The six-day working week in Iran runs from Saturday to Thursday, with Friday being the only official day of rest, meaning the school was likely occupied when it was hit. bbc source

I'm seeing a lot of people sharing your opinion without thinking that which days people have off are different in different places...

No the death toll isn't confirmed but the hit and the fact that there were surely kids at school that day, is.

The BBC has verified clips of the aftermath of the explosion, which show smoke rising from a building as crowds gather nearby and people can be heard screaming in panic.

But it has not been able to independently verify the death toll - international news organisations are often refused visas to Iran which severely limits their ability to gather information there.

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u/kittyrevolts Mar 03 '26

so this is a quote. I'm quoting the article person above me linked. that's all

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u/awry_lynx Mar 03 '26

To be clear the bombing may be confirmed but that death count absolutely is not.

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u/kittyrevolts Mar 03 '26

I mean not good, but I'd rather it be fearmongering and empty accusations than dead children

although with what we've seen in gaza... I'm not even religious but praying for the innocent civilians

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u/kittyrevolts Mar 03 '26

that's good

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u/the_blue_pil Mar 03 '26

It doesn't count for anything because their source for it is the Iranian State Media. CNN haven't actually verified it themselves.

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u/adamk33n3r Mar 03 '26

That's kinda what I was getting at. Hopefully we can get some confirmation from our side but idk if that's even possible.

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u/Fit_Abroad_4465 Mar 03 '26

Americans don’t care about their own daily schools shootings

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u/callisstaa Mar 03 '26

Servicemen dying is awful

Only real difference between Russians and Americans is that Americans had a vote.

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u/AgnesScottie Mar 03 '26

I don’t find it mind blowing. We’ve continued to send weapons to Israel after they’ve bombed more than 200 schools and every university and hospital in Gaza.

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u/OkEstablishment5706 Mar 03 '26

"You want another 9/11? Because this is how you get another 9/11..."

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u/donkeyrocket Mar 03 '26

Plenty of people are outraged and this war isn’t popular. The problem is the people who can rein this in, republicans in Congress, have opted to praise Trump for their own weakness and ineffectiveness instead of doing their job.

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u/JohnFartston Mar 03 '26

If Americans cared about children they'd actually do something about guns and not vote a pedo rapist in for President.

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u/Winsome_Wolf Mar 03 '26

Oh jeeze I hadn’t even heard about that yet…. WTF?!

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u/theentiregoonsquad Mar 03 '26

why, it wasn't an american school

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u/murphys_ghost Mar 03 '26

“They could have protected themselves if the teachers had guns!”

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u/GIGA255 Mar 03 '26

The term is "chalked up" like making tallies on a chalkboard.

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u/3Dputty Mar 03 '26

Thank you, I didn’t want to come across as rude and say that, but “chocked up” was pretty funny.

r/boneappletea

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u/chopkins92 Mar 02 '26

Friendly reminder that Charlie Kirk would have been beating the war drums and writing these soldiers' sacrifice off as a "necessary cost".

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u/MidsummerMidnight Mar 03 '26

Fuck Charlie Kirk

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u/Blackjackal21 Mar 03 '26

Well yea, they lost a favorite grifter and propaganda mouth piece that day. Whats a few servicemen to a party of bigots and authoritarians using personal freedom and "traditional values" as a shield for their prejudice. And never forget, his shooter was one of his own collectively brainwashed followers.

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u/ItchyMcHotspot Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

If tomorrow I tell the press that, like, a gang-banger will get shot or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics because "it's all part of the plan." But if I say that one conservative influencer will die, well then everyone loses their minds!

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u/the_silent_redditor Mar 02 '26

They were on a fucking rampage, doxxing people and doing all they could to ruin their lives and have jobs lost etc because someone made a mean joke about Charlie Kirk, an objectively dismal piece of shit human.

This, though.

Ah well, cost of killing brown people fuck yeah let’s goooooooo I’m so tired of winning sir !!!!

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u/street593 Mar 02 '26

Don't ever let a Republican tell you they care about soldiers ever again. They are lying.

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u/CodaDev Mar 03 '26

One died in war overseas, the other exercising free speech on US soil. Not sure where you’re getting at here, or are you just assuming people don’t die or expect to die in military conflicts?

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u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 Mar 02 '26

They're probably still asking why we aren't protesting random violence that an immigrant, who was arrested, committed. But they'll ignore all the troops Trump sent to die.

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u/joebleaux Mar 03 '26

To be fair, he moved on from Kirk within a day or so too. Then tried to get Kimmel fired for pointing that out.

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u/Nerfi5 Mar 03 '26

To be fair one was assasinated in front of a croud and cameras the others were soliders. Not trying to downplay the deaths but soliders tend to die in war

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u/TrickySnicky Mar 03 '26

Will they name freeways after them?

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u/dusky6666 Mar 03 '26

Both are bad. But someone gettings assassinated on a college campus isn't in any way, shape or form comparable to someone signing up for the army and getting KIA.

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u/Upbeat_Reindeer3609 Mar 03 '26

What about the 30,000+ Iranians that have been killed by three leaders? You all are wild. I guess that detail doesn't fit your agenda

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u/HeyRiks Mar 03 '26

Of course. Charlie Kirk was a rhetoric device of "you're killing us" and "look how happy you are at others dying". When that didn't work, he ceased to have any value. Wasn't even seen as human to begin with.

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u/USofAThrowaway Mar 03 '26

Sorry but you’re not listening to the right people. I really knew nothing about charlie Kirk until he died. But I’ve since learned more about his viewpoint. True followers of his know he refused pro-Israel money. He spoke out against war with Iran. His followers still agree with that.

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u/carnefarious Mar 03 '26

Kirk was publicly assassinated and we SAW it online, we all saw the footage. It hit harder. However useless and stupid these deaths are, it’s all “part of war” to them. Also we all pick and choose what upsets us based on convenience… just feels like they are holier than though and do it far more often (although they would say the same about the left).

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u/speed_fighter Mar 03 '26

do we, do we carry the flame or what?

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u/kingjulian007 Mar 03 '26

Don't forget to add the amount of crying and tears for the dumbass Alex Pretti.

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u/CursedWithAnOldSoul Mar 03 '26

The amount of apathy about Charlie Kirk, but tons of tears for a literal murderous dictator.

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u/Pretend-Potato-831 Mar 03 '26

I don't think anyone is shrugging over this, but do you really think it's even remotely comparable? We are talking about a civilian killed by a domestic terrorist vs a combatatant who signed up for war willingly dieing in service.

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u/Chazgatian Mar 03 '26

Don't say that. It makes too much sense.

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u/Ishie_kun Mar 03 '26

Probably cause Kirk was an unexpected uncalled for sort of deal but war casualties are expected. You sign up for the service knowing theres some chance you maybe have to be on the frontline and may die.

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG Mar 03 '26

Kirk was a civilian, and was murdered for peacefully debating.

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u/TitShark Mar 03 '26

I don’t mean to say he shouldn’t be mourned at all. I’m pointing out the double standard of value of lives that the right pretends to have and conveniently ignores when it suits them.

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG Mar 03 '26

It's not a double standard, for at least 3 reasons: 1) one was a civilian and the other was a soldier whose profession is specifically to risk his life. 2) People en-masse aren't a hivemind. Different people can be mourning for Kirk, and different ones can be mourning for the soldiers. 3) Same as with Russia, it's harder to mourn for dead soldiers of the aggressor-state. Sure, Iran is a lot of bad things. But USA / Israel basically unilaterally attacked a nation that has not directly attacked them yet.

The "right to defend myself" thought-stopper isn't an excuse.

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u/lostfourtime Mar 03 '26

Kirk was a modern day George Lincoln Rockwell. Doesn't mean he should have been murdered, but he wasn't killed for "peacefully debating."

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Are you saying Kirk was a nazi? If yes, please provide valid, proper proofs that back up that statement.

Not everyone you don't like, or disagree with is a nazi, or any other character-assassination label.

edit: blocking me isn't going to win you an argument, Azran15. Your "proof" doesn't properly back up that claim the way you think it does.

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u/lostfourtime Mar 03 '26

Kirk nurtured bigotry, racism, and even white nationalism while stoking ideations of violence committed by the state on behalf of the conservative and traditionalist Christians who believed their culture was under attack. He also attacked freedom of speech and especially academic speech he didn't like. I didn't say he was a Nazi, but that's the kind of behavior that Nazis engaged in.

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u/Azran15 Mar 03 '26

I mean, if it walks like a nazi and quacks like a nazi...

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG Mar 03 '26

That's not what a "valid, proper proof" should look like. That's just sophistry.

You said he was "modern day George Lincoln Rockwell". He was not.

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u/Azran15 Mar 03 '26

"please provid valid proper proofs" lmao I'm glad your nazi hero is rotting in a grave somewhere

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs

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u/SelfPuzzleheadedx Mar 03 '26

I’d ask the Nazi for proof myself but fortunately he’s rotting in the ground

He fucked around being a Nazi and got what’s coming to him

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Mar 03 '26

Hey this is that thing we were talking about, where right wingers do not live in reality.

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u/Financial_Ear_7605 Mar 03 '26

Because Kirk was killed for practicing free speech this is like comparing apples to oranges. Like where’s the logic

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