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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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[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I heard that George Floyd day is on his birthday, maybe they will have some thoughts and prayers on George's Day.

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I thought I did, because people were saying he was the "change my mind" guy and I remembered him from some internet memes a looonng time ago. Turns out that wasn't even Charlie's thing, he just kind of adopted it and was known for that. So yeh, I thought I knew who he was and turns out he was even less significant.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago
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[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I spent half a day wondering why anyone would want to kill the Black Mirror guy. And wtf was he doing in Utah?

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

A hateful, young alt-reich kid was taken out by another hateful, young alt-reich kid because one of them didn't think the other was hateful enough. So the entire MAGA cult is in overdrive trying to convince the world that charlie was killed by "the left". You're only hearing about it because its a completely insane political spin.

[-] thewebroach@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Nope. I did know some morons out there thought mass or school shootings weren't a big deal and complained civil rights encroached on their feelings of white supremacy. Never knew his name specifically because it feels like there's a whole cluster of those idiots who no one ever taught the Golden Rule to. Be kind and treat all people respectfully.

I felt bad about him dying because having idiotic ideals doesn't mean he didn't deserve life, but I also kind of chalked the event up to darwinism. If someone constantly puts themselves in front of the masses promoting hate and violence, its only a matter of time before hatred and violence finds them. In that aspect, he probably wasn't fully innocent of the event himself as so many have made him out to be. I never heard of Hitler himself ever personally killing anyone, but his rhetoric and influence of others was the cause of plenty of deaths. Murder is always wrong.

[-] sixty@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 week ago

Brother why are you only talking about this now? It's very old news at this point

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