• hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    He deserved it. His legacy is shit and garbage because his life was shit and garbage.

  • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    3 days ago

    Demoralizing? Knowing that absolute shit people will always be remembered as absolute shit people is heartening.

  • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1891·
    4 days ago

    Couldn’t have happened to a bigger piece of shit.

    Now we just gotta keep the ball rolling and erase the lifetime achievements of everyone else on the Far Right.

    Very inspirational tweet. Thanks for the pick-me-up, OP.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      125·
      4 days ago

      I mean his death couldn’t have been more memable. He literally got shot at a school by a white kid. While talking about school shootings, trying to shift the focus onto black gangs, standing under a prove me wrong tent.

        • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
          27·
          4 days ago

          Ah, the land of the free. Where you might get shot by a racist for not being racist OR shot by a super-racist for only being normal racist.

          • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
            41·
            4 days ago

            I mean, I’m not going to pretend to know everything, obviously a lot of it is media coverage etc… not enough is known, and hell there’s the weird oddities that make me question the entire robinson narrative. (IE the assemble/dissassemble the rifle multiple times that don’t make sense, the fact that the supposed exit wound looks more like an entry wound etc…), But assuming robinson is the shooter, with what we can see, it seems more likely he was against kirks hatred rather than feeling it didn’t go far enough.

            I will admit there’s not enough to go on to get a picture, but with everything that is there, I don’t really see anything there that points to robinson being a bigot.

        • Grimy@lemmy.world
          76·
          4 days ago

          We don’t really know how he leaned. The left was told he was a gopher while the right was told he was a leftist.

          I think the whole gopher (edit: groyper) thing was the CIA doing damage control to avoid an other Luigi situation.

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            3 days ago

            Umm… you think the CIA planted evidence to paint him as a right-winger, to avoid blaming it on the left…?

            Are you being sarcastic? What world do you live in?

            • Grimy@lemmy.world
              12·
              3 days ago

              What evidence though? All they did was tell the media which way to spin it. I don’t know of anything that actually points to him being a groyper. His family said he was tired of Kirk spreading hate (his words) and he had a trans girlfriend. That doesn’t scream groyper to me.

              He was painted as the enemy to both sides btw, as a right-winger to us and as a lefty to conservatives.

              I think it’s to avoid copy cats maybe but also, I’m not entirely certain he did it. And if he didn’t do it, then it’s convenient to have him the villain so nobody looks too hard or pays much attention to the trial, compared to Luigi’s trial for instance.

              Basically, he is now part of the out group for everyone, and anyone bringing up inconsistencies is by extension also part of that out group and can be ignored.

              In any case, I’m just glad he did it lol.

          • vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            6·
            4 days ago

            the CIA doing damage control to avoid an other Luigi situation.

            I’m just going to sit and look at this for a while, then shake my head and walk away.

              • Grimy@lemmy.world
                11·
                3 days ago

                I don’t know of anything solid that points to him being a right winger. Most of it seems to be based on what his family believes and ignores the rest. Doesn’t help that his social media presence was scrubbed.

                • TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  True.

                  Not an American myself, so I have to add an extra opening here

                  Some kids shoot up their entire class or even younger classes

                  We don’t ask their political stance there per sé, we can also just say they went nuts and picked an easy target

                  I think maybe this kid just picked a really good target, and maybe he was trying to find a new group by doing what he did. Maybe it was atoning for his parents and his own beliefs.

                  Lots of maybe, but again; he is just a killer in the end. Why make it political

  • EmptyAsparagus@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    yeah, and he worked on his legacy by just spewing out hatred to everyone, thats not white, christian and heteronormative.

  • BillCheddar@lemmy.world
    121·
    3 days ago

    I’m supposed to give a shit that some fascist propagandist died?

    Bring his widow here and i’ll laugh in one of her two faces.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    502·
    4 days ago

    Wait why is it sinister and demoralizing? I find it a laugh. Also he’s been fucking canonized by the other side so cry me a damn river.

  • stabby_cicada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    483·
    4 days ago

    What this guy is missing is that, prior to Kirk’s death, no one outside a very small circle of campus conservatives gave a shit about him. He was that random dude who featured in those TPUSA memes about “if you’re so x, why don’t you y”.

    And now everybody’s talking about him.

    It’s not just leftist mockery that’s turned up to 11. I live in a college town. I see posters advertising TPUSA and College Republican meetings all the time. Campus chaplains are still opening Sunday sermons with moments of silence for Charlie. The fucking recruiters are using Kirk to convince kids to enlist.

    Conservative college students used to stay quiet. Now they’re loud and proud - even louder and louder than the liberal students - and it’s because of Kirk.

    And of course conservatives are going full Sunni/Shiite split quoting Kirk (in and out of context) to claim that he would support or oppose the Third Gulf War. He’s like the mirror universe MLK - his memory is so powerful that conservatives are fighting over who gets to claim it.

    And I’ve seen more memes about Kirk in the last few months than I did in his entire lifetime, and that’s not a good thing if you think he’s a shitty cryptofascist who should disappear into the same unmarked grave they dumped Rush Limbaugh into.

    First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. How does that go?

    The fact that everybody on the left is making fun of Kirk - and everybody on the right is trying to claim him for their own - is really, really bad, because it shows he’s far more influential and powerful and dangerous dead than he ever was alive.

    And the fact that literal fascist Nick fucking Fuentes has emerged as the heir apparent to Charlie Kirk and the thought leader of young Republican men nationwide should terrify everyone.

      • zbyte64@awful.systems
        9·
        4 days ago

        I saw one of his heads which seemed to have a fatal wound, but his fatal wound was healed; and the entire earth followed after the beast in amazement.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          3 days ago

          Chilling…

          If any man have an ear, let him hear.

          He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

          more:

          Secretary of War:

          And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

          And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

          And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

          AI slop:

          And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

          And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

          And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

          And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

          For anyone unfamiliar, “mark” was the meaning of the Hebrew word “Tau,” a homonym for the pronunciation of the letter corresponding to the Greek Ταυ or English T…

          Ironically, the same book also discusses the “elect” being marked with a Tau to identify them for salvation. It reflects the two versions of christianity competing in america: one that preaches hate and one that preaches love, but both wear the same cross…