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Nota Baloyi, a South African who spoke to The Intercept on Wednesday, had his visa revoked for tweeting that Kirk “won’t be remembered as a hero. He was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash!”

Nota Baloyi, a South African who spoke to The Intercept on Wednesday, had his visa revoked for tweeting that Kirk “won’t be remembered as a hero. He was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash!”

Last Friday he received a brief email notification from the U.S. consular office revoking his visa. The message made no reference to his social media activity.

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[–] chetradley@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

❌Land of the free?
⬜Home of the brave?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Charlie Kirk won't be remembered as a hero.

he'll be remembered as a fascist supporting piece of shit, because that's what he was.

now he's just rotting meat in a tube.

[–] klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Charlie Kirk won’t be remembered as a hero.

Come get me bitches!!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Charlie Kirk was a fascist white supremacist bigot and provocateur, and that is nothing to admire.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

whos primary benefactor has ties to aipac, who threatened to remove 2mil/ year funding from TPusa just a few days before he was "killed"

The last five seconds of film was the best content he ever made.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 days ago

This isn't about Charlie Kirk This is about the faacists incrementally establishing the legal authority to punish speech.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Revoking this guy's visa doesn't change the fact that Kirk was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash. In fact, it rather of confirms it. If I were to, say, tweet that "Charlie Kirk was an endangered white rhinoceros wearing a bow tie," they would've ignored it. (Hint: People don't get angry about claims which are obviously false.)

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

whitewashing, normalizing far right movements.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

rather of

What does that mean?

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 10 points 2 days ago

It means I didn't proofread my comment.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago

Those dipshits just proved his point.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Kirk was just another piece of shit fascist symp.

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Charlie Kirk was a cunt, change my mind.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah pretty sure that's Kara Zor-el.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OVER-GIRL is the super kunt

I was making a reference to I want to say an animated movie where someone calls her super cunt.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

We can use insults that aren't misogynist to make that point

[–] buttwater@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

freeze-peach crowd silent

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're just using him to push things further for their online propaganda machine. Besides terminally online conservatives and bots, the majority of the population has already forgotten about him. I haven't heard his name, even in passing, for weeks now. And even then most peoples reactions were just something like "yeah, that shit was crazy, right?" And that was about it.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Also the supreme orange leader forgot him as soon as possible too.