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Local man fired for giving barista his name instead of saying ‘My name isn’t important, I mourn Charlie Kirk’ (chaser.com.au)

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"He's basically celebrating political violence" said tabloid writers

Local man Tom Carr has lost his job after he disgustingly said his name when asked by a barista while ordering coffee, instead of doing what he should have done which is refuse to give his name because he is too busy mourning Charlie Kirk.

“He wasn’t even crying when he ordered the coffee,” claimed one self-described ‘freedom of speech activist’ while doxing Carr and his family, “why does he not care about people’s families?”

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[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They removed Jimmy Kimmel from TV for saying this: “We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” he said. His comment was aimed not at Kirk but at the maelstrom of news around Kirk’s death; it speaks ill not of the dead, but of “the MAGA gang.”

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Not really though. Kimmel getting removed had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk, they just used that as a convenient excuse. Trump said Kimmel was next in July.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5410016-donald-trump-jimmy-kimmel-stephen-colbert-cbs/

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 days ago

Kimmel deserves to be majorly shit on for implying, very wrongly, that Tyler Robinson was MAGA. Maybe you could even call it... Misinformation? But maybe not fired, and not the amount of pressure the network is getting from the government right now, sure.

That said... I think their decision to fire him might also have had to do with his viewership being way down.