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[–] Ghostalmedia 141 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Affirmative action or not, Michelle graduated cum laude from Princeton after she got in. She had the same coursework as everyone else.

Charlie Kirk was unable to complete community college, and has no real college degree.

However, he does have a fake Honorary Doctorate from Liberty University in 2019 because he hated the libs hard enough.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Yeah he's basically just projecting his own inferiority complex.

[–] haulyard 19 points 1 year ago

You just took me back to the Gangster Capitalism podcast about Liberty University. Mind blowing stuff there, and not the good kind.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gangster-capitalism

[–] Carvex 10 points 1 year ago

For real? What a fucking loser

[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did he think he should have married Barack?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I imagine that there's quite a few people who would marry Barack, given a chance.

[–] Lilith02 15 points 1 year ago

Honestly, every time I hear him talk I forget about the war crimes. He's too charismatic!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure racists hate black man and white woman couples more than just about anything.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Lemmylefty 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You could show me a picture of him at anywhere from 90 to 105 percent size and I would not know if it was real or not.

[–] hemmes 5 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My favorite thing about Charlie Kirk is that, regardless of your political standing, nobody can tell if any still image of him actually has a correctly sized face.

My least favorite thing about him is his continued existence.

[–] AbidanYre 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The world would be a better place had he stayed a Dick Tracy villain.

https://dicktracy.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Face

[–] BuckRowdy 4 points 1 year ago

We should start a community here called c/FuckCharlieKirk

[–] TokenBoomer 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He’s losing relevance, time to lash out for clout.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People are slowly leaving twitter, which was his forum to rage bait. Now it's just an army of bots and idiots that agree with him. There's a reason Nazis can never keep to themselves, cuz if they did it would be like 10 people.

[–] ZooGuru 36 points 1 year ago

Wow. What an absolute piece of human shit.

[–] ninekeysdown 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What an aggressive traffic cone of a human being…

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

You're supposed to avoid hitting traffic cones with your truck though

[–] Fedizen 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did Huffpost shrink his face with photoshop or does he normally look like some kind of cursed sock puppet

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

He does indeed have shrunken dumb face syndrome.

[–] Rhoeri 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait. Since when did we pay attention to what he says?

[–] Ghostalmedia 13 points 1 year ago

“Loud mouth community college dropout critiques cum laude Princeton grad for not being smart enough”

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 13 points 1 year ago

It's good to know what each side of the aisle is talking about. Sometimes it is pretty stupid, but they believe it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did they photoshop this picture of him? His face/head seem somewhat in proportion

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

When Obama was elected, I remember someone telling me, "they'll never get over this, it will break their brains." They weren't wrong.

[–] YoFrodo 14 points 1 year ago

haha what an idiot

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't quite understand. He feels obama should have married a white woman???

[–] Sterile_Technique 7 points 1 year ago

You're searching for reason in an array of stupid. It's not there. He's just a racist asshole doing racist asshole shit.

[–] Wookie_the_Ewok 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's up with that dudes face?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Inbreeding.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t even tell whether that picture of him is photoshopped or not. He has such a weird face.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It literally stopped me in my tracks. Like an android that was powered-down in the middle of his Chuck E. Cheese performance.

[–] Raphael 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In any decent country, this statement is reason enough for prison.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Arrest this person, they said something I don’t like!”

Dude’s a certified sexist and racist douche and deserves to be ridiculed for what he says, but I’ll defend freedom of speech. Doesn’t mean he has freedom of consequence, but he can say whatever he wants.

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[–] Laticauda 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As racist and stupid this statement is, it's not reason enough for prison. Putting people in prison for saying something mean or dumb is the exact kind of thing the GOP would want to be able to do to anyone they deem "too woke". Let's not lower ourselves to their way of thinking.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

For PRISON?? Over a racist statement? That's mental. I think he's a fucking racist moron but I'll defend his ability to speak freely.

[–] Sanctus 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then we need to educate people better. Once you hit the point where the hegemony decides idiots are more useful to their goals it begins to breakdown. The People are left stupid and vulnerable and they begin to cling to any mouthpiece that is loud enough. A vicious cycle initiates where hatred and fear are the only offspring. If we aren't going to take education seriously we need to watch what statements people are gravitating towards. Least we wind up with the common man investing in evil ideology.

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[–] inclementimmigrant 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The whole lawsuit that got rid of affirmative action was that unqualified white people were talking slots of East Asian Americans.

Which was true, they're called legacy admissions and in the end after this ruling these unqualified white kids will continue to get admitted in front of more than qualified Blacks, Asians, Latinos, Jews, and yes, even poor white, qualified applicants which this manchild jackass was never part of.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Pretty rich coming from a semi-sentient bobblehead, who dropped out of community college.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"lacked the brain processing power"

Wtf?! Even if he's making the argument that it should be 100% merit based, that doesn't mean the school doesn't have strict standards. She still had to be super smart to get in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And to graduate at the top of her class!

[–] mechoman444 5 points 1 year ago

Everytime I see a picture of this ass hat his eyes get closer and closer together.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Charlie Kirk looks like he's perpetually having an allergic reaction to hair dye.

[–] AllonzeeLV 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"We abducted your ancestors and forced them into slave labor after we killed off the native people fair and square!"

The most pathetic bit is that modern right-wingers believe white people won so handily because white people are somehow inherently superior, when the reality is Asians invented the gunpowder that would eventually be used used to decimate, genocide, and enforce slavery in the new world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're starting to get a little too comfortable saying the quiet parts out loud.

[–] DragonAce 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I honestly think this is a concerted effort by most of the right-wing mouthpieces to rile up the base just before election season to get them to do something stupid...........again.

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