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I remember how people kept saying "this is gonna make him a martyr".
I'm glad I was vindicated in thinking nobody took it all that seriously.
I carry the flame.
best thing theguardian has written in a long shot, i love this article it has shown me the way to the kirkified subreddit, which has some golden content
It's so funny to me that the media tried to portray him as someone who young people loved when in reality he had the same vibes as Kelvin from The Righteous Gemstones.
Kelvin is way more likeable than Kirk tbh.
Dude was a joke forever and went out like one. Chuds tried to give him a post mortem legacy but it doesnt seem to be sticking.
His postmortem legacy was sealed when his wife walked onto a stage with a goddamn fireworks show immediately after he was shot in the neck
Its so funny that the canadian parliament tried to give him a standing ovation lmao
tbh that would be a shift to the left for them since Kirk didn’t kill any Polish or Jewish people
The chud parties in the European Parliament tried to give him a minute of silence too 
The only thing about Charlie Kirk to me is that I can never see his face as normal after seeing all the tiny face photoshopped ones even before his neck did that.
this clown was always a meme, getting got didn't change anything
Getting got made him more famous, but nothing else
I still can't tell him and crowder apart. I keep thinking he is the "change my mind" guy but he is really just the big head small face guy.
It does warm my heart seeing how this bozo getting shot has been functionally memorialized over the last year by clowning on him even harder.
If he didn't get shot specifically in the neck while saying the dumbest shit ever I don't think it would've gone this far. It almost makes you think the universe has a sense of justice.
Also his colleagues and wife immediately cashing in
He didn't get shot by a literal IRL 
in the mouth so it's not entirely "made for Hexbear" tier perfect, but it is close.
Does it mention how he's ALWAYS been a meme? I remember the old subreddit dunking on his sorry ass during Trump 1.
No he was not cringe , he was a dangerous propagandist and cult leader
It's not mutually exclusive and, to avoid a double ping:
He definitely was successful in brainwashing people. I don't want to minimize dangerous people like him
This overwhelmingly is not what his job actually was. His job was pretending to get youth support so his mostly older audience felt better about themselves. He was a slopagandist whose job was to preach to the choir, which is harmful but for a different reason
Incidentally, brainwashing isn't real and one person doesn't have the power to enculturate you unless you are locked in their basement or something.
You say that like he wasnt just like every other conservative loser. American media in general is dangerous propaganda and cult thinking. He wasnt special. Cringe fits just fine.
He definitely was successful in brainwashing people. I don't want to minimize dangerous people like him
He didnt brainwash people on his own. They were primed by regular ol american propaganda. He wouldve been totally ineffective without the rest of american culture being the way it is.
He was absolutely cringe. Just because his rhetoric was dangerous doesn't mean it wasn't also cringe.
Tyler Robinson already minimized him (allegedly)
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