Dude, I had never even HEARD of this guy’s name prior to his death. What is going on here!? Why are people freaking out. Am I that out of touch?
Even my liberal wife was aware of who this guy was. Was anyone else like me?
I know who Ben Shapiro is. But Charlie Kirk!? This entire time both the left and the right either hates or adored this guy? What are you all surfing on your cell phones!?
I’d only heard of him in the sense of him being one of a flock of fascist wastes of oxygen who grifted around the country spewing hate and violence and making people’s lives worse and more dangerous. He was a name on a list of scum who we’d be better off with them never having been born.
All I’ve learned about him since is that I was fucking right. Having him not exist anymore is a net gain in the long term but he’s still pissing me off for now by the fact that I’m wasting my fucking time and my fucking attention and my fucking blood pressure on his fucking bullshit even more than I was.
He can fucking rot with Rush Limbaugh and Joseph Goebbels and the rest of their fucking detestable cabal of fucking filth. If I never hear his fucking name again it’ll be too fucking soon and the universe still owes me my fucking time back from every moment I’ve wasted having to fucking be exposed to this shit.
I was aware of his existence. Saw him say some racist shit once. Wrote him off as a chud mouthpiece. Maybe a Podcaster or something.
He’s a master debater obviously
He’s a master debater obviously
Was. 🤣
I had seen his face on Rick & Morty before. That’s it I had no idea the hate he peddled or anything
Little bits
~Lil biiits~
You’re lucky. I normally would disagree with ignorance being bliss, but as someone who’s seen his stuff and probably gotten angry enough to kill my own brain cells, be glad.
Never knew him before his death because I’m not 'murican
I knew him because of the memes that distorted his face to look like “Butthead” from the cartoon and the “change my mind” meme. I didn’t know how ingrained his shitty answer-as-accusation or racist dogwhistle was in right wing circles.
Isn’t Stephen Crowder the guy in the change my mind meme?
Is it? Maybe I got them confused because of Kirk’s “change my mind” bs.
Charlie Kirk stole Stephen Crowders shtick.
Steven Crowder is the meme
He’s famous for creating a conservative organization while in college, called Turning Point USA. The org puts out a lot of smug memes to appeal to young conservative folks, so naturally people made fun of them and counter-memed.
He’s said a lot of very vile things, like “Black women don’t have the same kind of brain processing power” (paraphrased) when talking about how bad DEI is.
My BFF hadn’t heard of him either, but they curate their feeds to be mostly uplifting fluff, and they aren’t terminally online like I am lol. I was kind of surprised that he was the influencer that got shot though, I might have expected someone like Loomer or Fuentes
I would say Kirk’s more prominent than Loomer. His TPUSA is also very successful and Trump’s biggest youth wing
Right, I kind of expected that prominence to encourage carrying enough security to protect him. I think he skewed that a bit and thought he was untouchable because of his prominence.
The other two are just as insane, but think they have Trump’s ear despite not commanding anything near Kirk’s audience
Kirk definitely has Trump’s ear. He just doesn’t seem to use it which might be why I think he’s a lot less insane than Loomer. He’s also definitely way less insane than Fuentes who tried to brand Kirk a Fascist in the former’s “Groyper” movement to drive everything further right.
I heard about him once before when he said that Finland shouldn’t join NATO because they are too ”russian”. Well you can’t expect knowledge from an uneducated nazi.
Never heard of the dude either. Didn’t care, still don’t.
Same. No clue who he was…
Yeah, I believe I watched a video or snippet of his or Steven Crowder and stopped. You can tell that they edit all the good arguments out and only publicize online the ones where they get destroyed in.
Also has that ingenious tactic of speaking loud, proud, and stopping the other person so that the other person can’t even get their point across.
The only defense against stuff like this is not engaging at all. These people set up a stand on sidewalks and school campuses hoping to get some good content, and these people just line up for him
He was pretty irrelevant outside of online spaces and campus events. If you’ve never heard of him before it just means you aren’t terminally online, which is a good thing.
He was a ghoul and you’re right to not feel bad about him dying. Rot in piss, bozo.
I’d heard his name but had no idea who he was.
I looked him up and was like “I gotta join in the pile-on”
Really, I’m here for the spectacle and it’s too rich that this dude spouting gun nut nonsense took a shot to his neck. I don’t care if he lived or died, I don’t celebrate gun violence, I wish I lived in a different kind of society. But I don’t, so I’m gonna laugh
And I’m laughing even harder when conservatives clutch their pearls and demand that feel bad. Choke on my indifference, you fucking phony chuds
Most I knew was he was an annoying rightwinger which is enough to get on my “follow your leader” list. Once I saw the small face memes I remembered a bit, but was just happy one of these people was gone that apparently had a lot of pull online.
