Charlie Kirk Dead

[Solauren]

While I agree, her 'stepping up' this quickly is a bit of an eyebrow raiser, she might have already been close to doing the first two items mentioned (the podcast, the company) anyway. And if they need to be kept going to keep her real-world bills paid, you suck it up.

The speeches, that's a little different, but everyone handles grief in their own way.

[Raw Shark]

I had a conversation at work about this yesterday.

"#1: Nobody should get shot.

#2: That guy was a total asshole.

These things are not mutually exclusive."

[Ralin]

I've never seen so much government & media co-ordination in an attempt to make a martyr out of some convenient dumbass I hadn't even heard about until 2 weeks ago. 99.9% of the right wing assfaces who are now crying about Kirk on social media have never even made a single post about him prior to his murder and now they're all pretending that he's been their best friend & champion of the right wing cause for years, it's pure astroturfed bullshit. Fucking retards are all reading from the same script and going "Charlie Kirk was the only thing standing between leftists and right wing death squads, you will regret killing him!!" along with endless claims that he was a important figure & key organizer for the GOP. I give it another couple weeks before he's completely forgotten, as he should be.

Whelp it's been a couple weeks and they're still talking about him. You may not have heard of him before this but I had and I think you badly underestimated how big of a deal he was in those circles.

[bobalot]

It was a big thing in Australia for like 2 days and everyone went back to not giving a shit.

[Ralin]

It was a big thing in Australia for like 2 days and everyone went back to not giving a shit.

Yeah and far as I know it was barely even a blip if that in China but the guy was American and that's where it happened and where his work was focused so

[B5B7]

It was a big thing in Australia for like 2 days and everyone went back to not giving a shit.

And only in the media; most people had never even heard of him, and of those who had he was just another MAGA.

[Raw Shark]

I'll step out of character here for a minute and actually give some credit to a MAGA where I think it's due: I actually was aware of Charlie Kirk prior to his (brutally tragic - nobody deserves that) unaliving; he did better than most to energize the right-wing youth vote around here a year ago. Not that I admire the guy's views, at all, but he got a bunch of rightist kids to the polls effectively despite (or partially because of) being a racist, misogynist piece of rancid garbage, for what that's worth.

[Ralin]

I'll step out of character here for a minute and actually give some credit to a MAGA where I think it's due: I actually was aware of Charlie Kirk prior to his (brutally tragic - nobody deserves that) unaliving; he did better than most to energize the right-wing youth vote around here a year ago. Not that I admire the guy's views, at all, but he got a bunch of rightist kids to the polls effectively despite (or partially because of) being a racist, misogynist piece of rancid garbage, for what that's worth.

Yeah like he was a propaganda/base-riler person with a national platform. He was pretty good at it and made significant contributions to getting us where we are now. Dunno why people are determined to pretend he was a nobody.

Anyone else seeing a lot of weird speculation that Vance will divorce his wife for Kirk's widow or make her his mistress so he can have a more MAGA acceptable pretty white blonde partner?

[Rogue 9]

I'll step out of character here for a minute and actually give some credit to a MAGA where I think it's due: I actually was aware of Charlie Kirk prior to his (brutally tragic - nobody deserves that) unaliving; he did better than most to energize the right-wing youth vote around here a year ago. Not that I admire the guy's views, at all, but he got a bunch of rightist kids to the polls effectively despite (or partially because of) being a racist, misogynist piece of rancid garbage, for what that's worth.

Yeah like he was a propaganda/base-riler person with a national platform. He was pretty good at it and made significant contributions to getting us where we are now. Dunno why people are determined to pretend he was a nobody.

Anyone else seeing a lot of weird speculation that Vance will divorce his wife for Kirk's widow or make her his mistress so he can have a more MAGA acceptable pretty white blonde partner?

Yeah, you can also see it on the SDN Discord. Their body language at the memorial rally sure suggests a certain closeness.

[Raw Shark]

The fact that Vance married a dark-skinned woman in the first place, given everything about his public statements, leads me to one of two potential conclusions:

#1: He wanted a wife who he considers inferior to pump up his fragile ego, or

#2: They actually get along really well as friends and co-parents and she's okay with him banging Thiel or the widow Kirk or whomever for [reasons].

[Ralin]

#2: They actually get along really well as friends and co-parents and she's okay with him banging Thiel or the widow Kirk or whomever for [reasons].

#3: He married her at least two personas ago. Also as I understand it she was the one who introduced him to the social circles where he met Thiel and all.

Reading more of the speculation it's seeming more and more plausible that they might hook up. Hard to be a white Christian nationalist when you're married to a brown Hindu woman. He's said stuff that could easily be laying the basis for a claim of irreconcilable religious differences. Having a MAGA-approved hot blonde wife or mistress would help his popularity, and for the shithead channer types like the ones who just got outed for their group chat going on about how epic rape is a sex scandal would actually be a net plus.

[Raw Shark]

I think it's probable that Vance and his wife have a complicated marriage that I am reluctant to read into from what I personally know. Maybe she likes being degraded by an obvious shitbird. That's a complete turn-on for some people. At any rate, if anybody wants to criticize the guy, I think this is the low-hanging fruit. There's a whole lot to say about him without getting into his personal life.

[Ralin]

At any rate, if anybody wants to criticize the guy, I think this is the low-hanging fruit. There's a whole lot to say about him without getting into his personal life.

For now anyway.

All I'm saying is that if I was Usha Vance I'd stay away from any open windows and maybe keep some witnesses around me at all times.

[Elfdart]

Kyle Kulinski, you magnificent bastard!

[Raw Shark]

At any rate, if anybody wants to criticize the guy, I think this is the low-hanging fruit. There's a whole lot to say about him without getting into his personal life.

For now anyway.

All I'm saying is that if I was Usha Vance I'd stay away from any open windows and maybe keep some witnesses around me at all times.

I won't say that you're wrong.