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What is Charlie Kirk's legacy (lemmings.world)

submitted 7 months ago by PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

His only legacy is a stupid meme format where someone will point out that the guy in the meme was a fascist jackass Everytime it gets posted.

Change my mind.

[–] cheloxin@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

The hilarious bit about this is that's not even his meme format lmao. That's another dude. He's just gonna be another unknown after this all dies down.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

IRL shitposter.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I fear it will the shooter's legacy that we will all remember the name. He may have otherwise continued his life as a weird, argumentative footnote in history. Now he will be a vessel of martyrdom that will fill itself with content poured in by those who instrumentalize his unfortunate death.

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No martyr is born without fighting for liberty for all in the world before death.

The pig was not one of those.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

I fear you either misunderstand my comment or what martyrdom means. I'm no fan of the man who got shot. And for me he'll never be a martyr. But those who did like him can now hail him as such, make him a hero - for all the other people who liked him. Martyrdom is in the eye of the beholder.

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

Foundation to commemorate the small faces, i hear he was a big rod stewart fan

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml -1 points 7 months ago

He may very well be the personality to cause the Epstein files be released.

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