chapotraphouse

His whole debate schtick was fake. All of media is saying that he encouraged discussion or welcomed people to politics, none of which is true. Charlie manufactured scenarios where he could bully unprepared people to promote far right propaganda.

He sits in a booth with a microphone to present himself as the expert, giving him advantage in the conversation. He chooses unprepared college students from campus who are between classes. Then if someone proves that he's wrong, he just won't upload the video. There was no real debates.

yeah he was a real POS.

there's a reason we had instant

I dunno, I think Charlie Kirk is a changed man.

After all, he hasn't said anything repulsive in a week!

Yeah the dude hated black people, thought the Civil Rights Act was a mistake and that black people were better off under slavery. He also was a major source of the anti-vaxx bullshit. He was such a vile human being, 100% deserved what he got.

There’s a fuckin reason his blown out neck is the back ground of my phone: It’s a beautiful sight when Nazis die. Brings a smile to my face every time.

The wild whiplash from him openly saying black women were subhuman to CNN bemoaning his death...with black woman anchors. I know libs are shameless but my god.

It really sucks that that asshole got so much publicity from being 'd. He wasn't even close to the top of the chud debatelord totem pole, but now people worldwide are supposed to know him and weep over his death.

He also just wasn’t even that good of a debater. I’ll never understand why people are so stoked about this guy.

I’m convinced this is all just white evangelicals who have had a massive persecution fetish finally being allowed to cum over it. This is what they have been longing for for my entire life: getting to pretend one of their own was martyred for his faith.

I don’t want to link to it, but check out the music video for “I Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb”, the last part especially, to get an idea of what I’m talking about. I remember putting on a play in church to that song where all us Christians were being arrested for our faith. After all these years they finally have their release 💦

Edit: fun fact, Ray Boltz (who sung the song I mentioned above) came out as gay later in life, and I think mellowed out a lot but not sure.

There's definitely going to be a good piece tracking his history sooner or later but he wasn't just some random far right streamer. He popped up basically out of nowhere in 2012 when he was 18, had donors that helped him fund TPUSA. I faintly remember that he had some vague association with the Tea Party and it was primarily libertarians spamming quotes of him, very astroturfed popularity. I'm not entirely sure but he may have been the first one doing this debate libs, trigger libs then post the vid grift and Shapiro followed as another "conservative youth".

It's nuts to say this but I suspect that this was a GOP strategy to get young voters after Ron Paul accidentally became a meme on 4chan and gained some half-ironic following there. Kirk, Shapiro etc were basically provocateurs for hire with extreme positions but their views shifted depending on who was funding them. Part of the Koch Bros online agitator ecosystem. He wasn't religious until much later when he had an "awakening" and I think he didn't support Trump at first either.

ToiletpaperUSA on reddit has good stuff on his history. These people including Crowder, Molyneux etc were fringe shockjocks for pay and floated to the surface during the gamergate and Trump's 2016 campaign. It's hard to believe they got to be GOP media frontliners and so prominent that one would get assassinated like that because they all started as an intentionally extreme opposition to radlib woke SJWs etc and nobody took them very seriously.

If anyone tracks or remembers the rhetoric strategies of the Trump and Clinton campaigns back in 2016 and sees how initially fringe debate assholes like Charlie Kirk were positioned then the whole republican to fascist groupshift will become far more clear. Wild that it took less than a decade. I don't think this trend will decline post Trump.

The tragedy isn't that charlie kirk was killed. The tragedy is that it took this long for his bigotry to be silenced.

Is this bullshit seriously still in the news cycle? Has to be on the top of the most manufactured news stories I swear to god

he had not a single redeeming quality. good riddance

Remember: for a healthy democracy, it is important for those that hold views like his to be loved, lionized, and be given massive media exposure. It is very harmful to a democracy for anyone to mock or be critical of such a person or that person’s views.

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his face was small

Yeah, I prefer Picard.