
He did not have facts. He greatly exaggerated numbers to sound smart. He wasn’t an intelligent philosopher. He WAS racist and thought mlk was a bad person and that the civil rights act was a huge mistake. He frequently dragged down Ketanji Brown Jackson for being on the Supreme Court only because she is black (she graduated Magna cum Laude from Harvard and then got her jd immediately after) Charlie Kirk had zero accolades because he was too dumb of community college and blamed it on black women
Exactly this, political violence is bad and says bad things about our society. But there’s a reason why when he died, people jumped to “he was a husband and a father” and not any of his actual words. And it suggests something about someone when the nicest thing you can say about them is “well he had relatives”
I’m sorry, was it not Charlie Kirk himself who said that children getting shot was the natural consequence of having the 2nd Amendment, and that it’s worth children getting shot to keep that right? Like, the man basically called “some gun deaths every year” acceptable losses. He just didn’t expect to be one of them. He meant kindergarteners, not himself, right?
Like, when you get asked a question about how guns are the leading kid-killer in America for multiple years in a row, and you respond by biting the bullet because you oppose even the most minimal forms of gun regulation, things that would keep the 2A intact and be “time and place regulations” in ConLaw speak, then yeah that’s a tacit admission that you don’t give a shit about those kids. If that’s his position, fine, but I’m not gonna act like him and his audience aren’t shitty people for that.
Usually that’s the part that matters to me when I see really distasteful stuff, stuff that could be dug up by people and shoved in the face of the people that he was survived by. But even though I don’t agree with him, I do think it’s important to platform other people’s perspectives and views, and he did just that, he also showed his idiocy through some of that, brave man.
No he did not platform other people’s views, not in a genuine way. He clip farmed the most ridiculous examples of people poorly arguing against him, and if you actually managed to win an argument against him or any of his TPUSA surrogates, he’d just edit you out of the final video because he had editorial control over it. He traded in a false marketplace of ideas.
His whole thing was having an entire staff doing hundreds of hours of debate prep for him to go against people who were typically utterly unprepared, and untrained in how to present themselves on camera, and if you went in with media training and prepped points against him and actually effectively countered him, then he’d just omit your clip because it’s his platform. That’s not the work of an honest interlocutor.
This is sad, it must be draining being you. I can’t imagine being so negative, nihilistic, and pessimistic all the time, it must be draining to the people around you. In order for society to change you have to hope that it’s possible. I’m not saying you need to change, but don’t try to make your way of thinking the status quo