https://socialistworker.co.uk/comment/charlie-kkkirks-chickens-come-home-to-roost/?mc_cid=31670dbb32

Charlie Kirk was a founder of far right group Turning Point USA and a key Trump backer

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On 5 April 2023, Kirk told a rally, “I think it’s worth it to have the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other god given rights.”

His podcast, The Charlie Kirk Show, was a cesspit of far right lies, vile racism, transphobia and anti-abortion bigotry that he built his career on. 

He has 1.8 million followers on Twitter/X. But even Twitter once blocked Kirk for “violating rules against posting misleading information about voting” when he tweeted lies about supposed election fraud in Pennsylvania. 

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Nine months ago Luigi Mangione became a folk hero when he shot Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare. The sector was notorious for declining to pay out policies for dying people.  

The US establishment will wring their hands about political violence. But the US ruling class is responsible for far more violence, death and destruction than any political terrorist. They are complicit in the genocide in Gaza and in enabling the continuing horror of mass shootings in the US. 

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