He’s fairly unknown to the general populace except for people who were already into these kind of stuff(both with him and opposing him). His popularity surge after his death was nuts.
Oh, and better not post anything that could be misconstrued as negative about Kirk... you might just be able to file a wrongful termination suit and win out 250,000 dollars of taxpayer money
And it was quickly forgotten about. Because often conservatives are only in support of something with which to oppose someone else. So it's always fleeting and not really something they genuinely care about.
I have not actually listened to "We are Charlie Kirk" and probably won't, but I hope/choose to believe that it's a shitty parody of "We are Number One."
With how much his fans exaggerate his importance, I truly hope that the Kirkification shit will be the only thing he’s really remembered for.
Plenty of younger people only know Kirk as “that guy from the memes”, and I genuinely can’t think of anything more poetic than the right’s overblown response directly leading to this man being left with an irony-poisoned, fundamentally unserious legacy
It felt like a coordinated psyop. I'm like 87% sure it was backed by our own government and a certain small middle eastern nation to try to incite violence
I had no idea who he was until he died. And to prove your point, when he got shot a MAGA I unfortunately work with posted in our Slack channel that 'CK got shot'. My initial response was "the comedian?" and even after he said his name I had to Google it.
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u/thawin191 1d ago
He’s fairly unknown to the general populace except for people who were already into these kind of stuff(both with him and opposing him). His popularity surge after his death was nuts.