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[-] hapablap@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 19 hours ago

I'm not sure I want to follow Charlie Kirk career path. It sort of seems like a dead-end.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

he washed out of college, and made money being a grifter of people stupider than he is, and on occaision doing Shapiro specials, of "gotcha moments on the left"

[-] bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

He made his living from wingnut welfare.

[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Laura Loomer is a paid AIPAC soulless ghoul

[-] Matombo@feddit.org 3 points 17 hours ago

Ah yes, the good old american Maoism.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 6 points 21 hours ago

Wasn't going to colleges his entire career?

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

conservative college too. i heard the way people like shapiro and kirk appears on college, is that a fan in the admin that allows them to speak there. thats how people got seinfeld and darthmouth or butke.(i dont think the whole admin approves, they only need one to do it.)

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

Charlie Kirk didn't go to college.

No but he did die at a University.

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He never wanted an education, but at least someone gave him a good shot at college.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

Did not even have to take out a loan to attend.

[-] jason@discuss.online 2 points 19 hours ago

Holy non sequitur. That argument might make some sense if he was an engineer or something. You don't need any education to be a podcaster. Just start yapping.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Fucking hell this woman, a month ago she was saying he was a traitor and now he is a public hero? Every single day she lowers her humanity bar more to new depths I didn't know was possible. I am pretty convinced she is just trying to increase her visibility via rage baits.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

she has her marching orders from putin, her financier, much like most of the grifters right now.

[-] dan69@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

And look where that got him..

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Lol I was about to say "do you want to be like Charlie Kirk?"

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I mean, no one educated should be on Twitter.

Seriously. Do people not understand 'don't feed the trolls'?

[-] suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

"Don't feed the trolls" sounds great in theory, and for your own personal sanity it makes sense. Unfortunately ignoring people like this doesn't make them go away though. Instead, the lack of any pushback to their vitriol and lies just pulls in even more people and makes their message stronger.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Also "don't feed the trolls" was killed by 4chan's networked harrasment campaigns, and said 4channers wanted to reinterpret that saying as "leave the internet", "don't do the thing we harrassed you over", etc.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago
[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can push back.

Just not on their turf.

If you were in Nazi Germany, would you push back in a forum personally set up by Hilter to make you look like provocateur then cut you off? No. That would be stupid, and even worse, validates the platform with your presence.

You go somewhere else. And bring people with you.

[-] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think George Takei gets a pass. He's there as a warrior, buddy. (edit ok but not alex cole who is that guy lol, and I forgot that's George's bluesky account. I'll just shut up now. slinks away)

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

i'm gonna be honest, i give takei a pass because he's takei. we've all gotten to know him parasocially over the years. i can think of a hundred excuses for him, but honestly he just seems like a righteous dude. he doesn't need an excuse for where he chooses to online, as long as it's not stormfront or krasnovsocial he's cool.

[-] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Very good points!

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[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 107 points 2 days ago

Charlie's only shot ar college was to debate new adults with a decade worth of adulthood less than he. He debated with a 10 handicap.

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago

Charlie's only shot at college

Recent circumstances suggest he got one additional shot.

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[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Didn't their hero Trump go to college? Also, SHE went to college, a couple of different ones.

[-] ceph@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Laura Loomer is certifiably insane.

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[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 39 points 2 days ago

Laura apparently wants her supporters to end up like Charlie Kirk.

These arguments always remind me of this quote from The West Wing: "Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position."

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

look whats happening to teachers right now: getting fired for quesitoning Charlie kirk, and then theres the disrespect from students and parents forcing them to leave education forever. The pay is just adding insult to injury. I occasionally go on the r/teacher sub, and almost every post is they cant handle school anymore.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

there was a bill to double educators salary in california. stalled in committee.

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[-] fort_burp@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

Defund American universities? If tuition goes toward funding universities, does that mean.... naaaah that's socialism!

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

they will fund conservative colleges solely.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

The shooter was in trade school to be an electrician…

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[-] el_twitto@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

...and look where he is now...

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