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slothrop@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Tent where Charlie Kirk was murdered recreated at Turning Point convention — for selfies

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Tent where Charlie Kirk was murdered recreated at Turning Point convention — for selfies

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slothrop@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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Among the attractions at the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) conference being held in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend is an opportunity for attendees to get their picture taken in front of a re-creation of the tent where founder Charlie Kirk was murdered.The four-day event, called "America Fest" is the firs...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/57149491

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  • 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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      erika was celebrating too.

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        I’m somehow sure his death also took some burden from her shoulders if Stephen Crowder is anything to go by…

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          erika was celebrating with NIcki minaj today.

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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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      he had children

      EDIT: which means he cannot get the Darwin award. this is not defending him.

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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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          Sorry for ambiguity, I meant this in the context of Darwin award

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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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        I mean, maybe. Depends on when JD got his couch nob in there.

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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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          Darwin award is for people who make themselves unable to reproduce.

          I need to edit the comment in order not to sound like I’m defending him.

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            Yeah sorry I’m just used to people immediately jumping to defend this guy and make any negative comment about him illegal

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              no problem, I didn’t think enough before posting

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      It didn’t prove him wrong, it just made him one of the “some people.”

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    American Christofascism is a death cult. Change my mind.

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      All Abrahamic faiths are death cults

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        That’s whataboutism, though. Catholics aren’t great, either, but they’re not nearly as bad as Evangelicals who worship Trumpism.

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      Why? You go ahead and believe that. No one cares

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        Why comment this? No one cares

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          I do not care to comment

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            But… You commented

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              No one cares about your silly logic

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                No one cares about your lack of caring about my silly logic!

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                  I’m pooping right now and my dogs are waiting in bed for me to cuddle them. I hope I’ve added sufficiently asinine information to this conversation.

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                  Kinda facts ⬆️

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                Also factual fact ⬆️

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              Factual fact ⬆️

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            Less facts ⬆️

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            Would you care for some of downvotes?

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              Ayyyyy that fact roasted ⬆️

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          Even more facts ⬆️

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        Did the idolization of a barbaric torture device not clue you in?

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          Hey now the crucifix is a plenty civilized torture device. Unlike the savages who just killed you before desecrating your corpse the Romans lashed you to a cross and displayed your still living body then they’d take your corpse down eventually. Do you not see the fruits of civilization when compared to the savagery of the barbarian, especially since you may get running water and lead poisoning in return.

          You know I was initially making what amounted to pro-Roman shitpost but uhhhh it kinda turned into a weird commentary on the United States midway through.

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            Finding lumber in the desert? Now that’s torture!

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              The Romans were civilized, they had logistics for that.

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        Plenty of people care. It’s a large group, and many members of the group are dangerous. Like Charlie Kirk was.

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        This isn’t a movie plot we’re talking about here, nor is it some small far-away regional conflict that could never affect you.

        I’m in the US but even if I was on the opposite side of the globe in a decent and closely allied country like Australia or NZ, I think I’d still be worried about these psychos being in control of the 800 pound gorilla.

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        No need to project on to others, the void that is your life existence.

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        Facts ⬆️

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          Fact: STFU already

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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 always wondered who would take selfies at Auschwitz and now I know.

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      Auschwitz was the scene of despicable horrors, though. not really the same thing

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        I see what you did there. Don’t disagree.

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        People do it though. Walk around taking peace sign selfies and posing on the tracks. Ridiculously disrespectful and tacky as fuck.

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      Daymn. I’m going to start selling selfie sticks outside Auschwitz

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    Maga is so god damn weird. Its exhausting

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      I read this 3 times as Magic is so good damn weird before my morning brain clicked

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        I have a similar problem when people refer to MTG

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          That said I wish someone would drop Royal Assassin on Trump

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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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      Reminder: they harassed math teachers for wearing a shirt with blood near the neck for Halloween. It wasn’t even about Charlie Kirk.

      If anyone left of TPUSA did this MAGA would be screeching.

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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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    That is fucking ghoulish.

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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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    Jesus dude this is so disrespectful. And this is someone they actually like.

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      He was a shit-bag, so its disrespect he deserved.

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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.

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      Hook it up to a hose and squirt fans with blood through a hole in his neck!

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          AI slop isn’t AI slopping for once

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            The face is way too proportional tho

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              We can fix that.

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        shit, i might visit that

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          Gwar has taught me that people love being sprayed with blood.

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        Oh man it could be like a gwar concert!

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          🤘

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          I commented almost the same thing before reading this 🤦.

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    It’s a death cult. Makes sense for them to have a shrine to death.

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    Christ, they really are a death cult

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      That’s as crass as using a cross to symbolize Christ.

      Oh shit…

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