Archangel1313 comments on 'We have a statue of MLK': GOP lawmakers push for Charlie Kirk monument in Capitol

I mean, yes though. He was a huge influence on the reason the US is the way it is now and a big reason why so many young men think the way they do and elected the people they did.

He accomplished a pretty huge amount of shit. Just not good shit.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

I've heard some say "it's better for someone to get into politics and disagree with me than to be apathetic"

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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On shit like tax burden and foreign policy not on who counts as a human being.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I don't know how politics descended that far

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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

By letting horrible bigots have power, by not having actual protections against bad-faith actors, by tolerating hateful rhetoric despite the obvious cost to society.

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[–] shani66@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

We never finished the job. The civil war? We didn't finish the reconstruction, we let those bigots keep their power. The Nazis? We hired those monsters.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Two youts

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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll be honest, outside of Reddit/Lemmy I know exactly nothing about him. I just always assumed he was yet another far-right extremist podcaster. Like Andrew Tate, but allowed to be in the US. Side note, it took me forever to figure out who Andrew Tate was, because I think people thought I was trolling when I asked "who is this dork?".

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[–] Pieplup@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Incredibly replaceable, alt-right influencer, Your matt wahs your shapiro honeslty they all blend together for me.

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[–] shani66@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

To a point, yeah, but he was far more influential and sick than what used to be the average. Shapiro looks down right reasonable when compared to kirk, and kirk's outlet has managed to worm its way into schools. Like, officially.