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Chuckie Finster

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  1. 6 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    I don't know that that's the case, because I think the average American didn't know who the hell Charlie Kirk was, but they're certainly being told by every prominent institution in this country that he was a good man.  That's the problem. 

    Again, this is what I thought before Wednesday of last week, but it became very, VERY clear that a lot of people who I suspected were "offline conservatives" knew who Charlie was and cared deeply about him.   He is the mainstream, and this country is much further gone than I think any of us realized before last week.

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  2. 24 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

    Huh. Okay. I am not on SM so I missed that, but being the moments of silence thing doesn’t make much of an impression on me. Most folks are polite-ish.

     

    19 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    Yeah. If I was at an event and they said "A moment of silence for somebody who just got shot" then I am going to be silent.

    Doesn't mean I think the person who got shot was a great admirable guy. I am just against people being shot.

    Yeah, I mean I cited the moment of silence but it's not just that specific act.  It's the fact that a moment of silence was even deemed appropriate in the first place.  

    Stephen Miller isn't running the stadium operations of the Green Bay Packers.  Laura Loomer didn't make the call to use State Farm stadium for the memorial.  The average American feels that a good man died last week, a man worthy of national mourning, and the longer we ignore that reality the deeper the hole will grow (and I'm not sure it matters much anymore, anyway.)

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

    Care to explain? I don’t equate corporations and red state government officials with the majority of Americans. Not denying there was an outcry from the political right’s rank and file, but that percentage is no majority.

    The combination of widespread moments of silence at generally apolitical events like football/baseball games (without any kind of pushback) and the number of people who never talk politics on social media feeling the need to mourn Charlie publicly has completely reshaped my perception of this country.

    This isn't just the MAGA folks who whine about everything, it's the mainstream.

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

     

    FFS, this.

    You can start with the simple direct quotes:

    "You [referring to black women Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and others] do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously."

    The 1964 Civil Rights Act was "a huge mistake."

    "If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified."

    "The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different."

    We should be able to "whip foreigners" in the US.

     

    And that's just a start.  He was utterly divisive and shitty.

     

    I think the issue is that these are not divisive quotes any more.  They now reflect the majority opinion.  

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Laguna said:

    Guess we need to issue an Executive Order banning "very hard Republicans." 

    There's clear evidence now that they raise murderers.

     

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  6. 1 minute ago, Laguna said:

    You think someone that claimed that were taking out a fascist Charlie Kirk can't be used to their advantage? Interesting. The antifa types will be under some kind of increased scrutiny.

    Man, you're really hung up on that one word while completely ignoring the greater context of what it could mean.

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  7. 10 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    So what is your point exactly? There are a bunch of dipshits online from both sides? 

    Fucking yes!  That's what makes all of this so fucking frustrating.

    Both sides are like 95% the same.  We are all just trying to do our best to raise our kids, make some money, and have some fun.  We've both got normies and weirdos and online freaks and political dorks. 

    But for some reason, we keep electing and platforming the people (including, unfortunately, Charlie Kirk) who draw attention to our differences.  The President of the United States said today that he "couldn't care less" about violence from those on the right.  The country will not survive with this attitude.

    If we as a country do not want this man to die in vain, then we can start electing unifiers instead of dividers.  We can recognize that it is unhealthy to immediately assume every horrible act is committed by someone that embodies all of the characteristics we personally hate.  We can acknowledge that the world is so much nicer when you aren't fucking filled with carefully algorithm'd rage pumped into your brain 24/7.

    I'm not holding my breath, but I'd sure like to see it.

     

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  8. 1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    So we have in order on the bullet casing: a furry meme, a helldiver's 2 meme, a WWII Italian resistance anti fascist song, and a common troll comment on message boards. What a fucking weird situation 

    Hey, maybe this will teach the world to not assume next time that the perpetrator is the literal personification of your political enemy ...

     

    lol jk

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