• shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    This reminds me that every conversation about Charlie Kirk should begin and end with his final words:

    “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” he asked.

    “Too many,” Kirk quipped. The crowd clapped and cheered.

    Five, the audience member claimed. “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” the man continued.

    Kirk leaned forward and picked up his mic before setting back into an upright position. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” he said.

    A loud “pop” suddenly rang out.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/us/charlie-kirk-shooting-death-final-hours

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      God must have been tired of people misinterpreting Him and decided to lay it on real thick with this one

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      I’m confused about the back and forth about shooters. An audience member said five for transgender shooters (the numerator), then asked Kirk how many mass shooters total (the denominator)?

      So the audience member was trying to disagree with Kirk to suggest the transgender shooters are a small proportion?

      And the Kirk comes back with the gang violence question to suggest what?

      I’m genuinely confused here, no agenda, just literally don’t understand the transcript.

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        I think Kirk was saying trans shooters are more common if we remove gang violence from shooting stats (lower denominator).

        Still bs.

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          So dumb. Even if they are over represented what then? Like further oppression and alienation is going to help. But anyway thanks for clarifying.

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      Think how lucky that blood was to not continue up into his brain, it was spared the suffering of making his thoughts into words.

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    Twenty years from now, no one will remember the name Charlie Kirk except for us nerds. That’s the best legacy we could hope for for such a horrid human being.

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    And you can’t make this up, he was literally in a tent that had the words “Prove me wrong” written in big letters

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    Calling Kirk’s murder a “debate loss” is so fucking funny. Esp the discourse around debate celebrities in general.

    I can’t fucking stand Slavoj Zizek but the way he broke Peterson’s brain by just agreeing with him back when people gave a shit and JP was at the height of his chud intellectual celebrity – so much so that he spiraled into benzo addiction and dropped from the public spotlight for a year and a half was hilarious.

    But the phrase, “he will never recover” is so prevalent in these asinine YouTube debate wank spaces. And yet truly, thankfully, CK will never recover

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    The whole pentagon religion thing is just them getting back at Mormons for poppin Charlie’s neck