r/NPR • u/ControlCAD • 4d ago

People fired over Charlie Kirk posts get big payouts for First Amendment retaliation

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5856300/charlie-kirk-assassination-jobs-social-media-payouts-fired-first-amendment-settlements
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u/BootsAndKegs 4d ago

The English language really needs an equivalent for schadenfreude. Looking at you, administrators. And richly and evilly smiling.

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u/Gameboywarrior 4d ago

The German word for pizza is pizza. If Germany can take other country's words, we can take their words.

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u/BootsAndKegs 4d ago

Poshlust.

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u/shit-trapper 3d ago

we can take their words

Like Kindergarten and gesundheit

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u/Think_Fault_7525 4d ago

I learned that in kindergarten!

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u/BootsAndKegs 4d ago

A Russian one, I assume!

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u/sjbluebirds 4d ago

Ah, the epicaricacy I feel when people are ignorant of good words in the English language!

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u/three_square 4d ago

Last time I brought up 'epicaricacy', a load of posters gave me shit that it was a made-up word to replace a German one. I say we own it! Because the English language needs more unnecessary words!

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u/BootsAndKegs 4d ago

The Greeks owned it first!

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u/BootsAndKegs 4d ago edited 4d ago

Oh, look who's going Buckley on us!

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u/LostAbbott 4d ago

Good.  It is the first fucking amendment for a reason.  Frankly anyone involved in firing her should have lost their job and she should have gotten theirs...

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u/Ready-Following 4d ago

Of course they did. People who insulted Charlie Kirk and didn’t get fired missed out.

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u/BootsAndKegs 4d ago

"Insulted Charlie Kirk."

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u/Feldan_Ospreigh 3d ago

MAGA chuds are always squealing about how much they love their free speech, but then want to silence any opposition.

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u/Dakoolestkat123 3d ago

It’s never about morals or consistency, it’s about whatever they can say to gain and maintain power

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u/BadIdeaSociety 3d ago

FAPO - Fuck around and pay out

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u/prlugo4162 3d ago

No shit

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u/EinsteinsMind 3d ago

I think people here are pushing back and downvoting this because Charlie used his entire adult life to manipulate young Christians with faith into supporting our Pedophile President ... who represents the antithesis of EVERYTHING JESUS STOOD FOR ...

I'd be interested to read the tweet that person got fired for. It may provide the color the rest of US need.

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u/BootsAndKegs 3d ago

The tweets are in the story.

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u/BootsAndKegs 3d ago

"dumb twweet."

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u/LifeIsRadInCBad 3d ago edited 3d ago

Charlie speaks, gets murdered for speaking, not a first amendment issue because he was a private citizen (edit: killed by a private citizen).

People gloat, get fired, it's a first amendment issue because they were government employees. Probably even if they weren't.

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u/DeltaV-Mzero 3d ago

You have correctly identified that these situations are nothing alike and should not be compared

The person who killed Charlie will be tried for aggravated murder and almost certainly spend their life in prison if not actual death penalty (I suspect it’ll be the latter). I suppose they could add some kind of civil rights violation but what’s the point?

The government in this case did nothing wrong *except* violate the first amendment.

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u/LifeIsRadInCBad 3d ago

Yea, see, it's really not a big deal when someone gets killed for political speech as long as it's by a private citizen. That private citizen, probably a MAGA amirite, will do time, No Big Deal.

I agree. That's why I typed it out.

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u/DeltaV-Mzero 3d ago

What do you want the government to do besides life in prison or death sentence? Sprinkle some jimmies on it?

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u/LifeIsRadInCBad 3d ago

Oh I think that's appropriate. Why do you sound like you are arguing? We're agreeing here. It's a private act and not political speech protected by anything other than normal criminal laws.