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Wait why is it sinister and demoralizing? I find it a laugh. Also he’s been fucking canonized by the other side so cry me a damn river.
What this guy is missing is that, prior to Kirk’s death, no one outside a very small circle of campus conservatives gave a shit about him. He was that random dude who featured in those TPUSA memes about “if you’re so x, why don’t you y”.
And now everybody’s talking about him.
It’s not just leftist mockery that’s turned up to 11. I live in a college town. I see posters advertising TPUSA and College Republican meetings all the time. Campus chaplains are still opening Sunday sermons with moments of silence for Charlie. The fucking recruiters are using Kirk to convince kids to enlist.
Conservative college students used to stay quiet. Now they’re loud and proud - even louder and louder than the liberal students - and it’s because of Kirk.
And of course conservatives are going full Sunni/Shiite split quoting Kirk (in and out of context) to claim that he would support or oppose the Third Gulf War. He’s like the mirror universe MLK - his memory is so powerful that conservatives are fighting over who gets to claim it.
And I’ve seen more memes about Kirk in the last few months than I did in his entire lifetime, and that’s not a good thing if you think he’s a shitty cryptofascist who should disappear into the same unmarked grave they dumped Rush Limbaugh into.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. How does that go?
The fact that everybody on the left is making fun of Kirk - and everybody on the right is trying to claim him for their own - is really, really bad, because it shows he’s far more influential and powerful and dangerous dead than he ever was alive.
And the fact that literal fascist Nick fucking Fuentes has emerged as the heir apparent to Charlie Kirk and the thought leader of young Republican men nationwide should terrify everyone.
There’s something incredibly satisfying and encouraging about this, like watching a viper’s leaden soul being weighed by Anubis and devoured by Ammit in real time.
Everything he did in his life was useless regardless of whether he was shot or not.
Oh, please. That asshole got exactly what he asked for. And after he was gone, his wife showed exactly what she is: a spineless, petty, money-grubbing whore.
He said, to paraphrase because i don’t remember exactly what he said, that a few gun deaths is fine as long as they keep their 2A rights. Serves him right. ironic as fuck.
He was a tiny faced meme in life too.
Couldn’t have happened to a bigger piece of shit.
Now we just gotta keep the ball rolling and erase the lifetime achievements of everyone else on the Far Right.
Very inspirational tweet. Thanks for the pick-me-up, OP.
No, there are other shits at least as big as him.
I mean his death couldn’t have been more memable. He literally got shot at a school by a white kid. While talking about school shootings, trying to shift the focus onto black gangs, standing under a prove me wrong tent.
Got shot at a school, by a white kid for being not racist enough
Ah, the land of the free. Where you might get shot by a racist for not being racist OR shot by a super-racist for only being normal racist.
I mean, I’m not going to pretend to know everything, obviously a lot of it is media coverage etc… not enough is known, and hell there’s the weird oddities that make me question the entire robinson narrative. (IE the assemble/dissassemble the rifle multiple times that don’t make sense, the fact that the supposed exit wound looks more like an entry wound etc…), But assuming robinson is the shooter, with what we can see, it seems more likely he was against kirks hatred rather than feeling it didn’t go far enough.
I will admit there’s not enough to go on to get a picture, but with everything that is there, I don’t really see anything there that points to robinson being a bigot.
We don’t really know how he leaned. The left was told he was a gopher while the right was told he was a leftist.
I think the whole gopher (edit: groyper) thing was the CIA doing damage control to avoid an other Luigi situation.
*groyper
Trump just needs to die on the crapper to cement his legacy.
I need it to be so much more televised. I need him to just stop talking mid-sentence, fall over, and shit himself all on live TV. So far ive only gotten 1/3 of that.
Have you made this exact comment before? I’m fully on board with it, it’s much better than any ideas I had
That’s what should happen to people who simp for the Fourth Reich.
The public mocking or … the other thing?
Both?
The other thing. Mockery only strokes the ego of the one doing the mocking. Direct Action eliminates the problem.
But sometimes… the other thing.
Most of the time the other thing.
The only good fascist is a dead fascist.
Mockery
oof ouch muh gun rights
Proof that people can change
The ONE TIME in his life where he finally leaned left on the topic of gun violence. So inspiring!
Thank you for your service, Charlie o>
“Ask me about my homebrew tracheotomy.”
He was a joke way before that
Yep. Huge head, tiny face, running Toilet Paper USA.
it’s telling that she’s more pissed off over been mocked by a black guy than the death of her husband.
Basically, everything he ever did in life has been rendered useless
I wish that was true. Fucker’s ideology is still alive and kicking (vulnerable people in the teeth). We need to make it unacceptable and punish those who cause harm onto others.
Social Media is the Torment Nexus.
I’m actually impressed no major company has set up a service where you send them the text history of your deceased loved ones (or all the communications on their phone if you can unlock it) and set up an LLMs that sound like then and knows enough about them for the grieving people to have a ghost they can talk to.
extremely evil and exploitative, which is surprising no one did that yet
i have bad news
Beat me to it lol.
Yep, that… already exists. Text, audio, and video as well.
I’ve been reading and watching reports of… basically, you know how people post tons and tons of videos of whatever they are doing that moment?
Yeah.
You can fairly convincingly digitally clone any of those people.
And, one way that this has been and is being used…
You also either hijack or fuck up their phone/email/social media account.
Doesn’t really need to hold for that long.
Because you have just kidnapped this digital clone of a real person, and you are now blackmailing their family members, while a whimpering, muffled, crying digital clone of their friend or partner or kid is in the background, responding in real time to you ‘smacking them around’.
You can even send pictures of you and your ‘hostage’.
Yep. Fake kidnapping.
If you can disrupt or disable the ‘kidnapped’ person’s ability to communicate digitally for… 8, 12, 24, 48 hrs… thats often enough to scare one of their loved ones into throwing a whole lot of money into some account, for the ‘kidnappers’.
… as I said, social media is literally the Torment Nexus.
not surprised
Wasn’t there a Black Mirror episode like that?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
This is only true amongst the people who are always laughing at him. Amongst the people who always liked him, they still worship his ideology.
