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It’s always OK if a Republican does it. Anyway, why didn’t Democrats stop them? |
I think the threats to HBCUs were caused by the murder of the Ukrainian girl in Charlotte - not the Charlie Kirk shooting. Everything about America today seems unhinged this week. |
While he usually had a civil tone, he was not accepting of lgbt people. NP |
LOL. So if I say women shouldn't vote or blacks are unqualified for jobs but I say it with a smile that makes it okay? Anyway, suspect in custody let's get back to the Epstein Files. |
While, I abhor Kirk’s “ideology” I agree that this is a different category than gun violence. It was an assassination. But what happens if it turns out that his killer is a right wing white Christian nationalist? How does that change the narrative? Oh, I put ideology and “” because anyone who followed Kirk knows he didn’t have an ideology. He was a Shapeshifter and a grifter. |
I work in the Influencer and podcasting world, and have worked with people like Kirk. There’s nothing talented about them. What they do is 100% understand the game, which is to be as controversial as possible to get views and virality. When we train new clients, we train them how to speak in ways that are triggering and leave no nuance/room for actual discourse. We also know to pick out debate opponents who will also be triggering in some way - dumb, LGBTQ+, something that will cause the internet to gang up on them and side with the Influencer. It’s very hard for me to empathize with Kirk because when you get into that world, and over time you become more and more extreme to get more and more views, you know exactly what you’re signing up for. Everyone I’ve worked with has received death threats, had their homes broken into, etc. The women I know who do Only Fans basically live in fortresses because there are so many attempts to harm them. I’m not gonna celebrate his death, but I’m not going to pretend he was out there doing God’s work. He had extensive training in how to go viral, and that was the motivation behind his content. If cuddling puppies would have made him money, believe me, he would have been doing that instead. And if you don’t believe me, pick your favorite podcaster/influencer and scroll back on their timeline 10+ years. You’ll see that most start as fairly balanced and nuanced, and over time become more and more extreme because that’s what they need to do to get views. That one chick, Pearl whatever - she started with giving financial advice, nobody watched it, so she started with the whole weird anti-feminism thing (despite her not even following her own advice). |
Yes, black peoples and Latinos should latch only their identity as Americans. What is wrong with you? |
Latch onto. |
What do you mean by "unlike you"? How is cheering someone on to post bail for Paul Pelosi's attacker and insinuating that Pelosi was gay as "respectful and accepting of all kinds of people"? How is saying that black women are too stupid to get jobs on their own so employers have to "steal them" from white men as being "never hateful"? |
He said Sheila Jackson Lee, Michelle Obama and Kentanji Brown Jackson were all diversity hires who lacked the brain processing power to achieve their positions on merit and instead had to steal spots from white people. You and I have vastly different ideas of what it means to be respectful. |
I’m going to keep saying this until one of you Kirk fans actually addresses it, because you keep conveniently ignoring it. His organization maintained a “Professor Watch List” website to publicly doxx professors he didn’t agree with. What is that if not targeting? Professors on that list have been subjected to death threats and in some cases have needed security to do their jobs. Stop glossing over this just because it doesn’t fit what you want to say about the guy. |
So touch 1 for English is the reason white people don’t go outside anymore? It is not immigrants’ fault that the white majority is dysfunctional. The dysfunction is the product of hundreds of years of racism and the paranoia and selfishness that follows through that. Instead of seeking out community the white majority seeks out special privilege and this is the result. Nobody is chaining white people to their Fox News tvs and telling them they can’t play soccer outside- that’s a choice they’re making. |
Here are some nice quotes: "If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified." (January 23, 2024, The Charlie Kirk Show) "If I'm dealing with somebody in customer service who's a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?" (January 3, 2024, The Charlie Kirk Show) Speaking about several prominent Black women, Kirk stated, "You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously." (July 13, 2023, The Charlie Kirk Show) Kirk has also made claims that "prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people," and that this is "a fact" that is "happening more and more." (May 19, 2023, The Charlie Kirk Show) Referring to the "great replacement strategy," Kirk stated that it is "well under way every single day in our southern border" and is a "strategy to replace white rural America with something different." (March 1, 2024, The Charlie Kirk Show) In comments about immigration from India, Kirk said, "America does not need more visas for people from India. Perhaps no form of legal immigration has so displaced American workers as those from India." (September 1, 2025, on his X account) |
Have we? I haven’t seen anyone in government spreading rumors, beyond that weird summary leak from ATF. |
I had never heard of him but my teens definitely had. They texted me immediately upon the news and I was like “who?” I was surprised because they are not consumers of right wing media but they said he has a big present on progressive feeds as well, because progressives are often dunking on him, making fun of how bad his arguments are, etc. I’m very sorry this man was killed by some crazy person and wish that crazy people in this country did not have access to such guns. But I don’t see why we are treating him like an American hero. |