• CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one
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    21 hours ago

    Why the fuck are they riding this dead dick so hard? He was a horrible debater, held repulsive beliefs even to some people on the right, and wasn’t even really that popular. He was a laughing stock to the majority of people and a perfect poster child for ignorant racist idiots the world over. Like, if you’re going to martyr someone, pick someone who stands up to scrutiny.

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      20 hours ago

      If the beliefs held up to scrutiny they wouldn’t be associated with the modern Republican party

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      19 hours ago

      They are using his strong religious beliefs as a lighting rod. If you slam Charlie Kirk, you’re basically slamming Christianity. It is easily used as a weapon.

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      21 hours ago

      Well he did a good job of upholding his PR for those who are dumb enough to believe it because he deceptively edited his videos for them.

      Charlie Kirk totally PWNS 25 stupid crybaby liberal students

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      This is why the fascists are winning. They know how to play the propaganda game. Libs would have shit bricks if we tried to politicize the murder and attempted murder of the Minnesota state lawmakers.

      We’re beyond playing fair and taking the high road, Democrats still playing the game from a decade past. And fucking losing.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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        They know how to play the propaganda game.

        This isn’t a propaganda win. Its simply a pretext for what they wanted and had the power to do anyway. Propaganda win would be if there was universal popular support for Kirk, and there wasn’t before and simply isn’t now. Most people didn’t even know who Kirk was before this.

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          18 hours ago

          I really wish they’d show more clips of him. Maybe people unfamiliar with him with a couple of brain cells to rub together might realise ‘wait, we’re deifying that idiot?’

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          18 hours ago

          And your point? Of course they needed a pretext and this turned out to fit the bill. Roll the propaganda machine!

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            16 hours ago

            And your point?

            I guess I thought my point was clear in my first sentence. “This isn’t a propaganda win.”

            Of course they needed a pretext and this turned out to fit the bill.

            They don’t need a pretext either. They’ve already enacted draconian policies against monitory groups based upon race and against LGBTQ folks. They needed no rational pretext for those. They didn’t need one for any other horrible things they’re going to do in the future. They would do those things anyway.

    • BanMe@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Some dead people become martyrs and that has happened here.

      That dumb fucking shooter.

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        14 hours ago

        doesnt seem like kirk is the martyr, but more like the shooter is sorta becoming one, because MSM and the gop cant afford to blame one of tier own.

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      14 hours ago

      they seem to be doubling down the fact the shooter was even further right than he is, the gop ,trump and MSM cant afford to alienate the right by blaming a right winger. its simple they cant blame thier own people. so they have make something up like tying obscure reference of the shooter associating with the “trans” people.