Commentators across the political spectrum were shaken up in the immediate aftermath of the fatal shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk at a Utah university campus, with many reacting in real time to the news as it unfolded Wednesday.

"This is the ultimate fear ... for a political commentator, this is it, this is the thing that you don't want happening; this is the thing that you never want happening," Hasan Piker, a popular socialist streamer known for his Gaza war advocacy, said on a livestream Wednesday. Piker had been scheduled to debate Kirk on Sept. 25.

"For the record, there are a sh-t ton of people celebrating this, as well. I am not — for obvious reasons," Piker said. "This is what a lot of people fantasize happening to me all the f--king time and say they will do to me

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