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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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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 5 points 3 hours ago

The same as Rush Limbaugh. Nobody cares.

Someone who got a lot of money via preaching hate

He won’t be in a history book; in five years nobody will talk about him.

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think, in the long run, Kirk's legacy will be his assassination and it's contribution to the season of assassination now unfolding. (The two failed Trump assassinations, the UnitedHealth assassination, and now Kirk).

Beyond that, he was an agitator and a grifter. I have the same empathy towards him and the people around him as he had towards school shooting survivors, Palestinians, and etc. It's what he would have wanted.

[–] xilophor@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Don't forget the Minnesota assationations

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago

Aside from a shitload of memes? Not very much, they will find another disproportioned faced asshole to replace him and his name will be erased from history

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours 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.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 8 hours 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 0 points 1 hour 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.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] palarith@aussie.zone 8 points 17 hours ago

He lives on in my block list

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

IRL shitposter.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

One of the people pushing the idea that gun violence is okay, actually. So by his own logic no one should feel bad for him.

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Yet there is so many posts and comments about how awful it is, someone blocked me last night for calling them out on their bollocks.

[–] ganymede@lemmy.ml 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 18 hours ago

Someone who had a big head and tiny face

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Racism, bigotry, hatred, greed, grift, sexism, fascism, and more of the same.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 13 points 23 hours ago (15 children)
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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago
[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 day ago

Hate, division, degradation of the debate process, normalizing disinformation, encouraging fascism...

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk

[–] Delascas@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago

This. Right here. This quote. I suggest his family make his tombstone out of stainless steel so they can easily pressure wash away the marker pens of people scrawling these words across it.

Thoughts and prayers.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 day ago

A bigot and fascist

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

Kirk was a state terrorist who called for people to get shot because it protects gun nutjobs.

He also said empathy is for the weak. I'm returning the favour by not having empathy for him but having it for others.

His legacy is organizing to bring white supremacist anti-lgbtqia+ rhetoric more mainstream via the Republican party. He organized to oppress people.

Who the fuck cares?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 day ago

his legacy is that you can make a profitable career out of right wing grifting.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Literally just a fucking nazi. Good riddance.

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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Telling women they are only here to be submissive breeding sows

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Kirk was a fascist activist, propagandist, and organizer. He was as much "just a content creator" as Goebbels.

[–] abc@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’m not American, and the only exposure to him that I had the misfortune of coming across was him saying that he’s anti-abortion, even for child victims of sexual abuse. It’s horrible enough to force a grown woman to carry a pregnancy against her will, but a little girl that’s been raped?? That’s indescribably heinous.

[–] sunbleachedfly@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

Not only that, but he said that about his 10-year old daughter

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