Normal people don't know who Charlie Kirk is. My mom, dad, husband, neighbor are very confused why it's such a big deal.
Which is good to remember. He's never done anything notable. Didn't run for office, didn't break a big story, didn't write an important book.
So, for a lot of people this is all very confusing.
I think it's very possible this attack was coming from one of the people who used to like him, angry because of the Epstein cover up. That's where *violent* rhetoric about this guy was coming from most recently.
Some of his fans had a para-social relationship with him. He's always been propped up by right wing big money, while trying to "reach out to the youth" and trying to seem "anti-establishment"
The cognitive dissonance of a recent statement he made "I will trust my friends in the government" (on Epstein) caused many of his fans to attack him. They were VERY mad.
So, that's what I suspect. Of course I could be wrong.
@futurebird @jbrownesq I think it's important to not care too much about who he was.
He was a person who thought school shootings were ok, the necessary price of the second amendment.
He was a person who thought queer people should be killed.
He was a person who thought the Civil Rights Act was one of the greatest mistakes in history.
You don't need to know more than that. He was a shithead and we're better off without him. That's all that matters.
@andthisismrspeacock @futurebird I dont care who he was beyond this analysis, but I know a bit about him and I see how the fascist elements in the state and public spaces are immediately using his death in the same way Hitler's fascists used the death of Horst Wessel to gain more power, bring more violence to targeted classes of people.
fuck kirk and everyone like kirk. This is the randomly violent world he seemed to want so much, and he died by it.
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