Charlie Kirk’s murder is a shock to me and prior to that I really have not thought about him for months (he apparently shared a stage with Hassan piker), of course the south Park parody.
I have ran into a few of Kirk’s supporters and apparently his legacy is his family and his apparently endless college debates that get rephrased as “debated an entire generation” and governors.
To me, it seems like Kirk was just a content creator.
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Hate, division, degradation of the debate process, normalizing disinformation, encouraging fascism…
A bigot and fascist
Kirk was a state terrorist who called for people to get shot because it protects gun nutjobs.
He also said empathy is for the weak. I’m returning the favour by not having empathy for him but having it for others.
Literally just a fucking nazi. Good riddance.
Careful now (/s), people are losing their jobs over milder comments.
https://apnews.com/article/dowd-msnbc-kirk-comments-e08f349022c9d69171cd575664141075
Seems that even goebbelses of 20 years past are getting kicked by today goebbelses for pretty mild comments
Telling women they are only here to be submissive breeding sows
Can I get a source? I’d love to have this one to share. My family simps so damn hard for him and I can’t stand it.
Kirk said the “biblical model” for women to pursue in romantic relationships is a partner who is “a protector and a leader, and deep down, a vast majority of you agree.” And during a question and answer session on day three, Kirk told the audience to “make yourself presentable” to attract a man. His advice was to join a church, befriend the pastor’s wife, and “hold yourself to a high standard” including by waiting to have sex until marriage, which is “something that some women struggle with.”
Sophist -> nazi propagandist.
Tiny face guy
Smarmy grifter who caused irreparable and immeasurable harm
My eternal sense of wonder. Thinking if any given picture of his has or has not been altered to make his face smaller. And the amusing conclusion that I cannot really tell.
His legacy is organizing to bring white supremacist anti-lgbtqia+ rhetoric more mainstream via the Republican party. He organized to oppress people.
Kirk was a fascist activist, propagandist, and organizer. He was as much “just a content creator” as Goebbels.
A very strong reminder to all mid level right wing mouth pieces that they are all expendable. That they can be sent to the public to sow devision but not have the protection from the dangers they create … or at the most extreme be martyred by their own followers and leaders to push their agenda.
I’ll never trust America to tell me the truth about any major public event like this … this is the same country that murdered their own president for their dumb right wing agenda and got away with it.
I think, in the long run, Kirk’s legacy will be his assassination and it’s contribution to the season of assassination now unfolding. (The two failed Trump assassinations, the UnitedHealth assassination, and now Kirk).
Beyond that, he was an agitator and a grifter. I have the same empathy towards him and the people around him as he had towards school shooting survivors, Palestinians, and etc. It’s what he would have wanted.
Don’t forget the Minnesota assationations
I think the reason why this may be something you’re wondering about is because we have given podcasters a larger influence in recent years. Not to say that’s bad, but it’s new.
Personally, I don’t consider podcasters or YouTubers, etc., trustworthy sources of information or honest dialog. I’m not sure that’s something that even exists anyway now.
There’s a much larger conversation to be had about where we spend our time and give our attention and why. The real news is boring so we turn to salacious clickbait that we often know has a bias to it. The more time we hand our emotions over to this content, then more it becomes part of our psyche. Sometimes we don’t have a choice but I still know a ton of people who are entirely clueless about politics. So, some people are making choices, for better or worse.
I see Kirk’s legacy the same as Rogan’s and Trump’s. These people are a reflection of our times. Something is very wrong in our world today and we’ve spent the last twenty five years shifting, metaphorically, from CBS Evening News to The National Enquirer.
This is the result of great freedom: a wild storm of ideas with equal opportunity to be expressed and heard. Not something that existed before the internet or having instant world wide communications in your hand or selling your information in order to maintain your attention with biased (mis/dis)information.
I’ve been getting my news from secular talk and Hassan piker. One is YouTube news the other is twitch streamer. Kyle did get me conspiracies about 3 man job of Kirk’s shooting
If you take podcasts as the zines of yore, their place in culture makes a decent bit of sense.
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