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slothrop@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days ago

Tent where Charlie Kirk was murdered recreated at Turning Point convention — for selfies

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Tent where Charlie Kirk was murdered recreated at Turning Point convention — for selfies

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slothrop@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days ago
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Among the attractions at the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) conference being held in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend is an opportunity for attendees to get their picture taken in front of a re-creation of the tent where founder Charlie Kirk was murdered.The four-day event, called "America Fest" is the firs...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/57149491

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  • Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    American Christofascism is a death cult. Change my mind.

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      Why? You go ahead and believe that. No one cares

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        Why comment this? No one cares

        • pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world
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          I do not care to comment

          • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            But… You commented

            • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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              No one cares about your silly logic

              • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                No one cares about your lack of caring about my silly logic!

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                  I’m pooping right now and my dogs are waiting in bed for me to cuddle them. I hope I’ve added sufficiently asinine information to this conversation.

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                  Kinda facts ⬆️

              • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world
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                Also factual fact ⬆️

            • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world
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              Factual fact ⬆️

          • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world
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            Would you care for some of downvotes?

            • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world
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              Ayyyyy that fact roasted ⬆️

          • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world
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            Less facts ⬆️

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          Even more facts ⬆️

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        This isn’t a movie plot we’re talking about here, nor is it some small far-away regional conflict that could never affect you.

        I’m in the US but even if I was on the opposite side of the globe in a decent and closely allied country like Australia or NZ, I think I’d still be worried about these psychos being in control of the 800 pound gorilla.

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        Plenty of people care. It’s a large group, and many members of the group are dangerous. Like Charlie Kirk was.

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        No need to project on to others, the void that is your life existence.

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        Facts ⬆️

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          Fact: STFU already

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      All Abrahamic faiths are death cults

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        That’s whataboutism, though. Catholics aren’t great, either, but they’re not nearly as bad as Evangelicals who worship Trumpism.

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    This tells us more about what these monsters believe than Charlie Kirk ever could

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      Nah, Charlie said plenty about how he thought dolphins were people, and how mass shootings are 😉 gang violence 😉

      RIP BOZO

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    “I’ll tell you that you’re not allowed to celebrate his death, while I go over to this tent and celebrate his death”.

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      Reminder: they harassed math teachers for wearing a shirt with blood near the neck for Halloween. It wasn’t even about Charlie Kirk.

      If anyone left of TPUSA did this MAGA would be screeching.

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    Maga is so god damn weird. Its exhausting

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      I read this 3 times as Magic is so good damn weird before my morning brain clicked

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        I have a similar problem when people refer to MTG

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          That said I wish someone would drop Royal Assassin on Trump

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    Why not add a wax figure of Kirk, wearing exactly what he wore that day?
    Bonus: you could have another figure molded in pose of the moment when he was shot? “Yes, now you can experience Charlie’s exact moment of martyrdom!”

    And you know what? There would be a line.

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      Hook it up to a hose and squirt fans with blood through a hole in his neck!

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          AI slop isn’t AI slopping for once

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            The face is way too proportional tho

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        shit, i might visit that

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        Oh man it could be like a gwar concert!

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          🤘

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    The left was celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk!

    — the very people who made this tent

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    Christ, they really are a death cult

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      That’s as crass as using a cross to symbolize Christ.

      Oh shit…

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    Wow, that’s completely tasteless. You would think that’s what the murderer would want to see and visit. Good job guys.

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    I feel like Charlie Kirk should be nominated for a Darwin award. Dude literally campaigned for guns, said it was Ok that some people die from gun violence and then got shot while sitting under a tent labelled “prove me wrong”.

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      he had children

      EDIT: which means he cannot get the Darwin award. this is not defending him.

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        Everyone always screws that up. The Darwin award doesn’t just mean the person died from their own stupidity, it means they did the world a favor and removed themselves from the gene pool before passing on their genes. By that note, people who are unable to reproduce also cannot be eligible for the award.

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        I’m a parent too, and that’s exactly why I am glad his disgusting voice was silenced in the most public and ironic way possible.

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          Sorry for ambiguity, I meant this in the context of Darwin award

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            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

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        I mean, maybe. Depends on when JD got his couch nob in there.

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      It didn’t prove him wrong, it just made him one of the “some people.”

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    This is grotesque, I couldn’t imagine thinking this is normal or okay. These people are so detached from reality.

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      they’re creating a new religion before our very eyes. best to get versed in discussing theologies because that’s the propaganda language they speak and how we’ll deprogram enough of them to survive this

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    you know, before that troll gurgled his last slur the term “getting kirked” was more likely to mean you’re being fucked by a spaceship captain.

    I like the new meaning instead.

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      I guess “penetrated by something that isn’t good for your health” is the common denominator

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    Churches have a statue of a man being tortured to death on a cross prominently placed within them. So it’s kinda on brand.

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      Exactly. What do we expect from the bloody death cult?

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    “And Charlie Kirk would have been sitting right here when he was shot in the fucking neck.”

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    Honestly, this doesn’t feel different to me than using the cross as a holy symbol for Christians. Both are very weird culty behaviours, but not much different. Although at least Christianity has the centuries long traditions, history, and international numbers to justify their behaviour. The tent thing without that context makes it extra weird.

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      Are these chucklefucks gonna start wearing little tent necklaces?

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      Well Western Christianity was also a social construct designed to control the masses into working against their own interest… rather fitting.

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    Why

    Literally why

    I can’t

    I don’t have the energy for this right now

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      Because money. Someone thought “oh I can make money doing this”. It’s all they care about. Money

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      To feed their prosecution fetish that justifies their vile views.

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      They actually evil. It’s that simple. We’re brought up to think humans have innate morals that ultimately prevail. Some just don’t have it. The current president has shone a light on this. Unfortunately right and wrong has to be taught.

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