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[–] [email protected] 95 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I don't know who this man is, but his face is too small for his head.

[–] krelvar 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] JustAnotherRando 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Huh. His face is ~7% too small. 107 and 108% look reasonable for that head.

[–] jeffw 29 points 7 months ago

I think the pic is photoshopped. His real way is waaaaaay snaller

[–] Son_of_dad 22 points 7 months ago

1000009078

I believe this is where I first saw him

[–] samus12345 7 points 7 months ago
[–] wildcardology 7 points 7 months ago

A right wing grifter. That's all you need to know about him.

[–] ElectricTrombone 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It doesn't help the fact that there was a meme where someone photoshopped his face to be slightly smaller. Then as it became popular and he started appearing in news more, a whole group of people became dedicated to altering every photo of him. It's possible that those images ended up in the top results of google.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago

Oh Charlie. My woodchipper aches for your hot body.

[–] IchNichtenLichten 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dickheads like this pitiful excuse for a human thrive on attention. Why give it to him? He's irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He's not, which is entirely the problem. His kind gets stronger on the outrage attention cycle but that isn't the same thing as being ignorable.

Not anymore, at least, he doesn't need free press anymore.

[–] IchNichtenLichten 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you explain? I'm not following.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TPUSA became famous in large part due the free advertising generated from liberal and leftist outrage over their messaging, but in 2024 they no longer need that outrage to grow. They are now large enough a brand for their own community to generate that press for them.

You can ignore their shit stirring, but it won't cripple them, it will just mean you don't know what their enemy of the week is.

[–] IchNichtenLichten 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

it will just mean you don’t know what their enemy of the week is.

That doesn't exactly sound like a negative to me.

I say they're irrelevant because they have no experience in anything other than spreading propaganda to keep right wing idiots in a permanent state of fear and outrage. They argue in bad faith. They're neither interesting nor insightful. They have no accomplishments. As people, they're remarkably dull and uninteresting.

So again, why give them the attention they seek?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Exactly, he's either a complete idiot or morally bankrupt (or both). He spreads false info sourced from 8chan. Never would've thought that kinda rampant idiocy would find a target, but it does. The less attention he gets the better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why know what your enemy is doing?

So you can prepare.

[–] IchNichtenLichten 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I already know what they're doing. Hell, I could write a ChatGPT prompt that would spit out the exactly same drivel as these clowns and save myself the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ha, not a bad point, but now you know they're outright, irrefutably, no dogwhistles endorsing racism and can even point to a specific example if you need to.

[–] IchNichtenLichten 3 points 7 months ago

The far right has been doing that for as long as the far right has existed. Strom Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, David Duke, etc etc.

[–] just_another_person 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I've only heard of this Charlie Kirk. First time seeing and hearing him. Who in the fuck raised this guy?

[–] barsquid 29 points 7 months ago

Charles and David Koch.

[–] nutsack 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

and was fathered by a sentient half used roll of toilet paper.

[–] Phegan 4 points 7 months ago

Billionaires convinced him to drop out of college and run propaganda for them at college campuses.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Somehow YouTube algorithm showed me this dumbass’s video that was something like “Charlie Kirk destroys a college student with a great comeback”. I think I lost brain cells by watching it even halfway. His argument for being smart, even though he didn’t finish college, was naming couple of guys that the student might not know and saying how he got rich.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“But to the left... he's a young white man, so it's worth destroying his life."

I had to scroll back up, because I thought he’d been kicked out of the university. Nope, he was just kicked out of the frat. Oh no, he might have to stay in a dorm or apartment, it’s the end of the world!

"And they're trying to destroy the rise of the frat boys," he added.

Um… good? Why would I care about frat boys? My university didn’t even have frats, and I somehow managed to graduate anyway.

[–] jeffw 2 points 7 months ago

But did you get handed a job from a rich guy?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

What century is it?

[–] joel1974 8 points 7 months ago

Product of immigrants. He treats immigrants the way his grandparents got treated

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] jeffw 4 points 7 months ago

Correct, this is the politics community. That’s why I didn’t post it in the news community.

[–] kmartburrito 4 points 7 months ago
[–] TokenBoomer 4 points 7 months ago

Why is his face so small?

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

Hands up if you thought this was about Shane Vaughn for a minute.

[–] xc2215x 1 points 7 months ago

Very ignorant of Charlie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why are paywalled articles allowed still?

[–] jeffw -4 points 7 months ago

Because they’re so easy to get around?