There’s a line around the block of like-minded bigots who are falling over themselves to take his job.
One big reason why I suspect the killer was a Nick Fuentes influenced Groyper. The fact that Nick was front row center and immediately posted the kill-shot as it happens only fuels my suspicions.
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One of them deserves a statue
Statues don’t get built based on who deserves one the most.
Mandelson was sacked because of the release of the birthday book by Epstein’s estate, not by the government.
What? He’s an ambassador. Of course he was sacked by the government.
Sadly, not the first pedophile President
You don’t read the things you link
You don’t like the answers you’re being given.
Thats literally the reverse of what i am talking about.
You’re choosing to accept Trump at face value and refusing to read between the lines.
No see she was sold to Prince Andrew.
Virginia Giuffre’s family expresses shock over Trump saying Epstein ‘stole’ her
Most people who aren’t actively engaged in this type of discourse like you and I, or don’t pay meticulous attention to conservative media outlets, likely don’t know who Kirk is, let alone care.
Kirk’s had his face plastered all over the news, his voice jammed into podcasts and radio shows, and his physical form injected into college campuses for over fifteen years running. You don’t need to be an academic to know who he is, any more than you needed to be a wrestling fan to know Dwayne Johnson or a pop music obsessive to recognize Taylor Swift.
I have no doubt your average conservative that watches Fox News has been exposed to Kirk
That’s tens of millions of people. And then you’ve got the average liberal who watches MSNBC or tunes in to Colbert’s Late Night. They can spot him, too. And then - again - anyone on a major college campus over the last fifteen years knows this guy purely because of his reputation as National Debate-Me Bro. The man did the college circuit hundreds of times. He’s been a popular meme for at least a decade. He died running his mouth at a C-list university in Utah, ffs. That’s how prolific the man was.
I would gamble that more people could recognize Charlie Kirk on sight than any of the last three Vice Presidents.
If your understanding of why there are any statues of MLK boils down to “he was a famous guy who said stuff and then got shot,” your history teachers have failed you.
If we want to get down to the nut of it, he was an icon of a large and very successful social movement who was cut down in his prime by his political opponents.
But that does technically also qualify for Kirk. Also, for any number of Confederate General statues we’d thrown up across the nation in the wake of Jim Crow. Statues don’t go to the “Good Guys”, they go to the people whose movements have the wealth and the influence to build them.
If your history teacher hasn’t conveyed that message, you might need to ask her why we’ve got Andrew Jackson’s face on our money and a pedophile carved into Mt Rushmore. Monuments and statues aren’t handed out objectively. They are propaganda works erected by the wealthy and powerful to venerate historical icons. Very real possibility we end up tearing down the MLK memorial under our current President in order to clear a space for these goons, sycophants, and freaks.
Point to the redaction.
I would be very surprised if Charlie Kirk has been included in anyone’s history book to date.
In what universe is Charlie Kirk at all comparable to MLK?
They’re both famous guys who were in the news for things they said.
Release the rest of the Epstein files.
Didn’t we get a big data dump that journalists are actively sifting through? FFS, the UK ambassador to the US just got sacked yesterday over the latest news.
At least take a minute to chew and swallow before you ask for another bite.
Putting Charlie Kirk’s giant face up across the street from the MLK memorial would be a real “What do they stand for?” moment for generations to come.
Amazing that they weren’t using Signal
I wouldn’t rule it out. But you can’t do public comms over Signal.
it’s even more amazing they weren’t using something like Meshtastic.
Again, I wouldn’t rule it out. But if I’m on a public group that’s very likely compromised by the IDF, I’m not going to announce all the other protocols they need to block.
He’s just reporting one avenue that’s been closed to the protesters by a corporate entity that is now complicit in genocide.
blaming them on using WhatsApp is besides the point
WhatsApp admins are explicitly interfering with a public protest in order to satisfy a genocidal foreign government.
This is at least as big a deal as TikTok censorship of anti-China posters. It’s just on behalf of a US ally, so we’re defending it rather than threatening to interfere in their business practices in turn.
the shame is on the cess pool that is Meta
Who appoints WhatsApp administration heads if not Meta? It’s the same picture.
It doesn’t matter. The meme needs individual it can blame, and those individuals can’t be the folks in the other three images.
Can’t stop Zuck. Can’t stop Trump. Can’t stop the IDF. So we need someone we can scream at. That means we’re going to scream at you.
It’s just an exercise in scapegoating. Pretend random individuals who are insufficiently pure of deed are the root of all your problems. Ignore that the fourth panel is more properly “government contracts for police surveillance and military services”.
How ELSE will they be able to BOMB CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN while feeling Good about Themselves?
Censor enough people and keep the focus on “We have to beat Hamas”. Eventually you’ll get a public as rabidly genocidal as the Israelis themselves.
Then move from Palestinians to Muslims, generally. And on to Latinos and East Asians. And anyone who is non-White.
Well do not stop there, you should explain why the other side doesn’t get more votes.
Listen, we can’t upset the conservatives. If Republicans say they’re going to round up and deport all the migrants to a concentration camp in El Salvador, we need to say we’re going to only to it to half the migrants. If Trump wants to bomb China, we have to settle on bombing North Korea (again). If the Heritage Foundation has a plan to turn every public school into a Catholic Church, we need to sell people on turning them into Unitarian Churches.
We are doomed
Only because you didn’t vote harder! Nobody would be complaining right now if Kamala Harris had won. Everything would be happy and fine and good. But you people had to ruin her campaign by talking about medical debts and foreign wars. Damn you to hell! We could have had the a Neoliberal Utopia!
My city already has its fair share of Confederate generals and reactionary land barons littering our parks and museums. He would certainly fit in.