Dude, I had never even HEARD of this guy’s name prior to his death. What is going on here!? Why are people freaking out. Am I that out of touch?

Even my liberal wife was aware of who this guy was. Was anyone else like me?

I know who Ben Shapiro is. But Charlie Kirk!? This entire time both the left and the right either hates or adored this guy? What are you all surfing on your cell phones!?

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    I probably heard of him and saw pictures of him but all the alt right folks look alike and say the same things, so he particularly never registered for me. Whoever he was.

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    I’m not even American and I knew who he was. For years I’ve been seeing memes about his face to head ratio and his gummy teeth.

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    You’re lucky. I normally would disagree with ignorance being bliss, but as someone who’s seen his stuff and probably gotten angry enough to kill my own brain cells, be glad.

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    For a split second the first time I heard about him I thought Kirk Cameron had been assassinated

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    Never heard of him before. Now I’ve learned that he seemed like a really horrible person…

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    Only know him from the Jubilee videos where that have guests on and sit in a circle of 20 people with a different view point than the one in the middle.

    He came off as the shamelessly smarmy, creepy, dishonest, and that first impression never got any better any of the few times his videos came up in my feed.

    Whomever shot him has made the world a better place. Fuck Charlie Kirk and everyone like him

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      In the long run, yes. But right now they’re grasping at straws to punish anyone for free speech.

      Fuck Charlie, fuck the orange menace, fuck this administration. All of them can die in a horrible fire. Come get me.

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    Anyone who thinks Charlie Kirk was just some nice Christian who loved the First Amendment needs to get MUCH better sources of information than they currently have.

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    I had seen his face on Rick & Morty before. That’s it I had no idea the hate he peddled or anything

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    I heard of him, but never thought he was this damn important. And this is why the censorship campaign is so frustrating to me. For anyone who hasn’t heard of him, he was not “doing politics the right way”.

    Charlie Kirk was a bigot.

    Charlie Kirk was a bigot. Charlie Kirk was a bigot. Charlie Kirk was a bigot.

    All the firings and censorship and hand-wringing about “lowering the temperature” do not change this simple fact.

    Charlie Kirk was a bigot.

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      He wasn’t that important, he’s being used to create more terror on avg people who didn’t give a shit about him. Fuck Charlie, he got what he literally asked for.

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    Be thankful that you’re not online enough to know him. Enjoy the beautiful outside!

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      I’m online 247 and was aware of him but never watched 1 minute of his propagonda. Similarly, never watched or clicked on any MrBeast or Logan Paul videos or podcast in my entire life.

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    I was just perma’d from reddit for commenting on him “getting slimed.” It was a fucking JOKE.

    Look, if people are celebrating your death, no amount of revisionism is going to change a god damn thing – you’re a terrible human being. All this censorship and chilling effects? Not going to make people shut up forever. You’re going to embolden them.

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    I had no idea. Turns out if heard of him a couple times but he was not relevant enough to remember. He was just another bootlicking sycophant and quite frankly I laughed out loud when I heard a conservative advocate for 2nd amendment rights had been shot. After reading through his history of opinions I just wish I’d had the opportunity to laugh harder. I’m not really political as an accelerationist, but it is pretty fucking funny, and the pearl clutching from all the big talking conservatives is simply priceless.