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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    Kirk was just a Republican think-tank, his existence was to spread and breed new forms of bigotry and infect new generations with his toxic ideology.

    He honestly believed that Transgenders were the shooters that committed a lot of shootings over history. If ‘5’ was ‘a lot’ in his feeble brain, that demonstrates the lack of awareness he truly has about mass shootings to blanket blame a group of minorities.

    Until a single transgender tops the mass shooter list of shootings in America, Kirk is an idiot.

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    7 days ago

    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.

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    6 days ago

    His legacy will be Irony. He died of the gun violence that he blithely normalized, and since he openly disparaged and dismissed the concept of empathy, he received none.

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    MAGAs keep bring up his family, as if the people who they are deporting to life sentences in 3rd world torture prisons don’t have families.

    His wife is a young, hot blonde, who just inherited a shitload of Nazi gold. She’ll have some MAGA shill at her side soon. She’ll be fine.

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    7 days ago

    Aside from a shitload of memes? Not very much, they will find another disproportioned faced asshole to replace him and his name will be erased from history

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    Getting assassinated is his legacy for all those who did not know who he was. I think getting assassinated will be his legacy for all those who knew who he was.

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    8 days ago

    Hate, division, degradation of the debate process, normalizing disinformation, encouraging fascism…

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    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.