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Davis's avatar

Everything I ever knew about Kirk was from Wonkette. There were a whole lot of cherries to pick. Did you ever misquote him? No, you showed videos. Anything out of context? Put "civil rights act was a huge mistake" into context.

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Yves's avatar

Wow. The presumptuous and self rightious bigotry of this article and responses is on the level of perverted.

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simpledinosaur's avatar

Yes. And so often, the real scheme seems to be that the arguer is only "using" democracy to destroy it.

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Desperate Ambrose's avatar

"If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all." ~ WSJ

"If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me." ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Marycat2021's avatar

I will be exceedingly glad when the news media forgets about Charlie Kirk

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D Davalos's avatar

As CK's, I and my imaginary angel Calvin Klein object to initializing this huckster's moniker into initials as if he were FDR JFK or MLK.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Where's the resolution honoring the Hortmans?

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Fuck Charlie Kirk.

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Ari Chase-Ramos's avatar

"Words are harm. Words are violence."

This is the right's view. Donald Trump, in his White House speech, blamed the left for inciting the murder of Kirk simply by criticizing his world view. Trump and many other Republicans have said that the free speech rights of Americans must be limited because of the threat that they claim speech presents.

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beb's avatar

Socrates was put to death for teaching youths sophistry. Charlie Kirk was a sophist.

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the author's avatar

banger, no notes.

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seemefeelme's avatar

In all the eulogizing I've seen, Kirk appears as a still image. They can't quote him or show video of him doing his work because there is nothing that shows him as anything other than a trolling bigot who found a way to cash in.

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FloridaFloozy's avatar

It's the old "yell at people & talk over them until they give up and go away" form of debating that only imbeciles believe is really debating. I guarantee he never changed the mind of anyone he ever had his brand of "meaningful discussion" with.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. Completely agree that Churlie Church was no debater. He was way overpaid for his schtick, and I cannot mourn that the leopard ate his squishy face.

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

yelling 'come at me bro' while making bad faith arguments is not the winning strategy they think it is (and they are not owning anything. not a single person who was 'debated' by that person changed their mind based on his rwnj performances)

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Gern Blansten's avatar

Look, Chuckles McSquishface is a saint now so hollow be his name, thy rapture come, thy lies be done in the name of the grift and the free speech for me but not for thee.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

They got one more day to pull the Rapture off. They had to waffle a bit and make it 9/24-9/25 because God's scheduling software still uses Clippy.

Is that a bit of flopsweat I see there?

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