• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    The left was celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk!

    — the very people who made this tent

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    I feel like Charlie Kirk should be nominated for a Darwin award. Dude literally campaigned for guns, said it was Ok that some people die from gun violence and then got shot while sitting under a tent labelled “prove me wrong”.

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        Everyone always screws that up. The Darwin award doesn’t just mean the person died from their own stupidity, it means they did the world a favor and removed themselves from the gene pool before passing on their genes. By that note, people who are unable to reproduce also cannot be eligible for the award.

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        I’m a parent too, and that’s exactly why I am glad his disgusting voice was silenced in the most public and ironic way possible.

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            Ah yeah good edit, I wasn’t even considering that you could have meant it that way.

            I decided to go look up the rules in order to contribute something more useful to this discussion, and it turns out that the mere presence of offspring does not disqualify one from the award!

            Given their reasoning, I think Kirk would qualify. And given that his whole brand was about spreading stupid dangerous ideas to everybody’s kids including his own, and then he died in a spectacularly ironic and public way, I think he should actually win one!

            https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules.children.html

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        So did John Wayne Gacy, what’s your point?

        Charlie Kirk’s comment about “some gun deaths being necessary” was in response to a comment about school shootings involving small children, wasn’t it? I don’t remember exactly, why don’t you look it up yourself?

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    This tells us more about what these monsters believe than Charlie Kirk ever could

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      GTFO, man if the left did something as tasteless, MAGA heads would explode.

      That is SO on brand, isn’t it? Wow.

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        the thing is: magas don’t care if leftist heads explode or mock them even, but leftists somehow can’t, when roles are reversed. leftists can’t win the “who’s more ruthless” game like this.

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      Nah, Charlie said plenty about how he thought dolphins were people, and how mass shootings are 😉 gang violence 😉

      RIP BOZO

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    “I’ll tell you that you’re not allowed to celebrate his death, while I go over to this tent and celebrate his death”.

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    Can we just start publicly call them weird to their faces again? Please!?!? It worked and started to break through their silly imaginary world where they own limbs at a convention for weirdos and kiddie-fiddlers! I don’t know why they stopped!

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      Walz started the trend and it resonated with and energized the base so much to the point where he surged to the spotlight from relative obscurity in a very short amount of time and ended up getting picked as running mate by the Harris campaign.

      But then Harris’s campaign almost immediately pivoted to the classic strategy of, “damn our base, they’re going to vote for us anyway so instead let’s appeal hard to the right”, despite that consistently being a losing strategy over the last decade or so.

      So they told Walz to shut up, just stand there and look pretty and cut it out with the “weird” stuff, it’ll alienate voters on the right. Turns out instead they just killed all the momentum growing within their own base while at the same time failing to win the votes of the weirdo cult members wearing ear pads in solidarity with their God king.

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    What a fitting memorial to Charlie Kirk’s final words, when he said we shouldn’t care so much about gun violence because so many of the people getting shot aren’t worth getting upset over. That’s an important lesson in irony.

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    I feel like people who support this type of politics are emotionally blunted and stunted. They’ll use his death as a tool of martyrdom for their movement, which this is a prime example of, but I don’t really feel like anyone loved him or mourned him in any genuine sense. I think it’s because they don’t really have any attachment to anyone in a real sense. I’m not saying that other people of other beliefs don’t use grief as a performative tool either, but I feel like most of the problem with conservatives at the root of it all is blunted emotions.

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    Why not add a wax figure of Kirk, wearing exactly what he wore that day?
    Bonus: you could have another figure molded in pose of the moment when he was shot? “Yes, now you can experience Charlie’s exact moment of martyrdom!”

    And you know what? There would be a line.