▲ 768 ▼ Tent where Charlie Kirk was murdered recreated at Turning Point convention — for selfies (www.rawstory.com) submitted 8 months ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 144 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/57149491
[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago (1 child) Sorry for ambiguity, I meant this in the context of Darwin award permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago Ah yeah good edit, I wasn't even considering that you could have meant it that way. I decided to go look up the rules in order to contribute something more useful to this discussion, and it turns out that the mere presence of offspring does not disqualify one from the award! Given their reasoning, I think Kirk would qualify. And given that his whole brand was about spreading stupid dangerous ideas to everybody's kids including his own, and then he died in a spectacularly ironic and public way, I think he should actually win one! https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules.children.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago Ah yeah good edit, I wasn't even considering that you could have meant it that way. I decided to go look up the rules in order to contribute something more useful to this discussion, and it turns out that the mere presence of offspring does not disqualify one from the award! Given their reasoning, I think Kirk would qualify. And given that his whole brand was about spreading stupid dangerous ideas to everybody's kids including his own, and then he died in a spectacularly ironic and public way, I think he should actually win one! https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules.children.html permalink fedilink source parent