Like for over 50 years American right wingers have been fuming about the liberals having managed to turn one of "their" guys into an American icon and the conservatives have mostly had to at least pretend to respect him and his legacy in public and they've felt humiliated and emasculated about it the whole time

Now they want to make the liberals bend the knee and force them to slobber over one of their guys or risking getting fired

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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, it's because he's a do nothing nobody whose image they can mold into literally anything they want in order to artificially create support for their cause. It's a massive grift, they're trying to make it seem like the worst thing you could possibly ever do on this earth is kill a conservative shithead.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Jeezus thank you for making this point. The dude was a do-nothing. He literally just showed up at colleges and argued with kids who are dumb enough to engage. Then he edited the footage to look like a Real American Badass™️

My libertarian removed brother thinks Kirk was "teaching kids how to debate" 🫣 and doing valuable public service