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[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 155 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Politics aside, this is extremely sad and pathetic. Something is very wrong here. Far beyond politics.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 64 points 4 days ago

This is their martyr to do everything they want. This won't end.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Agreed. Should dump the remains in a hole, cover it up and forget the spot like a shit in the woods. Pretty sad that the people responsible for running the country (in theory) are wasting time on him.

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[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 143 points 4 days ago (5 children)

It’s really crazy how he is being treated as if he was a high ranking military officer or an elected politician. He was just a hateful guy with a podcast.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is the face of extremism- falling over each other to be the most subservient and loyal to the cause. It's groupthink in a nutshell, they egg each other on and compete to be the most extreme because if you don't shout hard enough then maybe you're a traitor.

This is how you get nazis and holocausts.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I was about to post the same thing.

Its a fucking charade. a desperate downward theatrical spiral to show who can be the most ridiculously "True to the cause" because the person/persons who show the least effort will inevitably become the out group.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is not just about being a traitor or not. This attempt at declaring this guy a martyr is basically trying to prove you are one step more extreme than him on a meta level so you can absorb his influence and supporters to your being.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 31 points 3 days ago (7 children)

It’s because conservatives legitimately don’t actually know the difference any more. There are several people in my town who have their flags at half mast.

They think Donald Trump is a great leader, and they probably see him as a great “military officer” too.

The rules have changed.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's like seeing those crying people in North Korea after Kim Jong Il died, it went on for months and was so over the top theatrical. It's how indoctrination works. The most extreme view becomes the line which if you don't exceed excludes you from the group and makes you a target.

The thing is, he's a nobody. But it only takes one of the cultists tearing their hair and making him out to be a martyr for the next to try to outdo it to show how even more patriotic they are, and it snowballs into this moronic shit where you get hundreds then thousands then tens of thousands then hundreds of thousands then millions of people basically canonize some random asshole.

They've lost all grip on reality.

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We havent viewed good people as good for society for some time and times have been good enough to only focus on petty shit. So they want to pretend that they have been special and amazing just for complaining constantly and making large amounts of money as that is what we say is useful to society.

They need to lie to themselves that what they are doing is good to keep themselves as self hyped as they can. Look at how Trump keeps worrying he is rightfully going to hell. They need to tell themselves and apparently the rest of us that what they are doing is good for the world cause they dont want to do anything else.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

He was brainwashing kids and pushing Shitler approved propaganda

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 96 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If Charlie Kirk gets entombed in a place of honor I'll make it my life's mission to excavate that fucker's body in the least respectful way possible.

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a gofundme I can get behind.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I will donate a jar of piss. I'll piss in a jar. And then figure out a way to transport that.

What happens with that, and Kirks grave, is beyond what I can control. Do with it as you will.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Don't worry. Nazis were also given honorary graves during the second World War. Look how many of those survived after 1945. In the end nazis will lose and everything they created will be destroyed.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This is correct, and it’s legitimately insane to me that the Nazis themselves never see it.

In fact, they will completely deny it afterwards.

I recommend reading They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 by Milton Mayer. This is my favorite quote but the whole book was eye-opening:

When I asked Herr Wedekind, the baker, why he had believed in National Socialism, he said, “Because it promised to solve the unemployment problem. And it did. But I never imagined what it would lead to. Nobody did.”

I thought I had struck pay dirt, and I said, “What do you mean, ‘what it would lead to,’ Herr Wedekind?” “War,” he said. “Nobody ever imagined it would lead to war.”

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is there a male equivalent to "Ding, dong, the witch is dead" one could sing/sound/play in hearing range. I found the British way of dealing with Thatcher that way inspiring.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Kirk was so unpopular I'm willing to bet singles and EPs are being written as we speak

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 46 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I don't like being a tinfoil hat guy, but I can't help wondering who this benefits the most. Sure seems like the right is capitalizing on this very quickly.

Other countries could be involved, it could just be a crazy person with a gun, it could be someone who hated his hateful messaging. We don't know.

How about we minimally figure out what actually happened before honoring a podcaster, who got killed, like he is a war hero?

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's reasonable to expect that the conservatives have expected a significant shooting of a right-wing figure was inevitable in the US, and had strategies discussed beforehand to capitalise on the occasion. No need for tinfoil hats.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

No strategies even necessary, they are all on board with the fanaticism. They don't even need martyrs, they demonize the left constantly, it's like with narcissists- they accuse you of shit constantly and feverishly, and the one time you actually do happen to be guilty of something that is judgment day and proof of everything else they made up about you.

It's how witch processes go, it's how holocausts go, it's how fascism always goes.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I guess that's on-brand for this administration. His sole contribution to society was to piss people off for money by making a lot of stupid noises. It seems to be the only thing they respect.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago
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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nothing says "cannon fodder" like this over-the-top response to his death.

I think when senator McCain, the veteran and hero, died, they insulted him.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Oof. MC Cain was a vet and a pow. Hero is a bit far. He got shot down on a mission he wasn't supposed to be on, in a plane any other pilot wouldn't have been allowed near after crashing 3 prior to that and his demand was only possible because his daddy got put in charge of Vietnam after he was captured and told the enemy his dad was in charge.

It's like one of those rare times where nepotism and ego actually worked out ok.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He saved the affordable care act with his thumbs down mavrick move. I'd say that qualifies

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Why not, he lied everywhere else he went

Someone please play yakety sax while this is happening

Or sad trombone

Or any other number of sonic shitposts

Carotid Artery Charlie: he lived by the shitpost; he died by the shitpost; his memory will be made fun of in shitposts.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago

Fucking clown world

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was wondering where the urinal was in DC

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, nancy, being loud and obnoxious like kari lake isnt going to get you on TRUMPS favour.

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

She won’t even be able to get close on her knees anymore, I doubt the 79 year old still gets hard

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[–] DetectiveNo64@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

They can use his corpse to build a fountain with the water shooting out his neck.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

What a disgrace

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They lay his ass in state at the capital and somebody is going to set it on fire.

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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

what a joke

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did she spray-tan herself pink to match the dress? I can't tell if that is a natural skin tone

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

What does it feel like to suck so bad?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

This would be a good remembrance statue

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 8 points 4 days ago

What a disgrace.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't see what's Oniony or even unexpected about this. He'll join the ranks of e.g. Huey Long.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago

Is he getting a state funeral at this rate?

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

He lied about everything else but he does not deserve to lie there.

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