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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 177 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I hope he's remembered for losing a bad faith argument in the most ironic way possible.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 145 points 1 week ago (4 children)

i hope he's not remembered at all, like his cause (someday)

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So we're doing the "doomed to repeat it" thing again in like 80 years, got it

[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Remembering Hitler and the abhorrent shit nazis did has not prevented nazism from rising again. If we want to be really pessimistic we're doomed either way.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I swear to god, it’s like The Game. I go months without thinking about Charlie Kirk and when it happens I feel like I’ve lost.

Sorry, by the way.

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[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Spent his life arguing against the public good. Ended his life as a fountain.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (5 children)

but people failed to realize that mediocre white men should be able to live a happy and fulfilling lives, too. like all of us should. they used to be able to do that by doing less skilled labour like manufacturing etc, and still be able to afford a home and decent life. that's until capital possessing elites decided that it is more profitable to use cheap off shore labour. that as well as worsening inequality left them miserable and without purpose.

too bad centrist politicians are mostly being bought out by capital, that's why opportunist grifters like Charlie Kirk was able to fill the vacuum that was left, and poison the mind of these people.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is why, if you are going to caucus with Democrats, its important to insist on universalism in whatever social programs get focused on for a platform. Democrats look towards their technocrats to support 'means testing' as a way to split hairs and preserve capitalist ideals while offering soft changes on social programs. The result is that we end up with historically racist and sexist programs (look into the origination and implementation of social security).

The answer is straightforwards. Raise the floor. Programs need to be universal, period. There is no cost savings in piecemeal solutions or means testing; its an intentional way to sabotage the social project.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 7 points 1 week ago

No one is talking to mediocre white men about their worries and dreams.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 6 points 1 week ago

Someone paid him.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

You’re not seriously suggesting Kirk came to fame on his own naturally without massive funding from big corporations and CPAC?

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[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not that I disagree with the message, but why is most of it highlighted?

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Needs more JPEG and arrows. I’m not quite following.

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[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

You got me there

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[–] DarkerRadical@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

His death was hilarious and I'm glad it happened

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have a hard time celebrating anyone's death (there are a few I'm looking forward too though), but it's hard to classify Kirk's as undeserved. Hell, he preemptively justified his own death in that golden quote about "some shooting deaths are necessary in order to uphold the 2nd amendment".

[–] gurty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I personally don’t think people should be shot for things they say. I think watching an old, decrepit Kirk fade into obscurity would be a lot more satisfying.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

The problem with that is the decades he would continue to sow discourse and spread hate.

[–] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

On one hand I agree, there could have been worse outcomes for him that he would have deserved, but on the other hand it is good that he can no longer cause any more harm himself

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Sidhean@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

Every time I do it makes me laugh, How did his shirt get so red, And what the hell is up with Charlie's head?

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Counting or not counting gang violence?

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago

When he couldn't get into West Point he was too much of a baby to just join up.

If he couldn't get the prettiest costume he wasn't going to play soldier.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a mediocre white guy who dropped out of college

Fuck that guy

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I also am a mediocre white guy who dropped out of college. And to top it off, I entered a field dominated by women. Am I DEI?

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[–] postcapitalism@lemmy.today 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You, me, others. It's us. We are Charlie Kirk.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

Je suis Charlie.

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[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

A white man who leaned left.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair there are a lot of very successful college and more than you might imagine high school drop outs. The difference between them and Kirk is that they're still alive.

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Charlie Kirk was the human equivalent of an unfixed tomcat that hangs out in the street and yells at everyone, harasses other cats trying to go about their lives, and spreads disease and discord until they get hit by a car or someone euthanizes them.

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Who was Charlie Kirk again?

[–] III@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I tried looking him up and all the results are for someone named Erika Kirk. I think they might be someone who transitioned. Good for her.

Some kind of breakfast cereal I think.

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He got the public execution he advocated for

[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago

Why are we still talking about this guy?

He was murdered, he's dead, he's no longer an issue. We have LIVING people who STILL support the same shit he did.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It's objectively the truth, I agree entirely with all of it.

I've got notes on how to adapt this identical message in a way to maximally influence mediocre white men, but It's pretty clearly not for that purpose. It could be, though.

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, Charlie Kirk, I vaguely recall that guy, how time flies.

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This fucking chud has been dead for how long now and y'all are still talking about him? He was a piece of shit and now he's a dead piece of shit. Why are you keeping this neck bleeding bitch relevant?

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