Is the world really that sad Charlie Kirk got killed? Does almost everybody really buy the framing that he was just debating people because he was on a quest for the truth and wasn’t just an asshole literally being paid by a billionaire to travel the world scapegoating ethnic and sexual minorities to distract us from the crimes of the rich? Please tell me this is just the media bending over backwards to manufacture a narrative.
the capitalist media ecosystem is currently filling its pants with shit in fear that any of them could be next, and trying to get the public on their side
i don’t want to underestimate them tbh, but i also don’t think all that many people really give a shit
Yeah, there’s so much astroturfed bullshit going around right now, the media of every western nation and western ally is trying to make this out as the worst tragedy in a decade. But most of the people I’ve spoken to aren’t falling for it, most of them understand that he was a piece of shit who deserved what he got. Even very liberal “apolitical” people I know weren’t doing the “thoughts and prayers” thing. This whole thing is entirely astroturfed, no one gave a shit about tinyface, but he is far more useful to them as a martyr than he ever was alive.
Yeah it’s uncanny and unsettling to me that they’re holding signs exclusively in English. It’s almost too obvious an American media company printed these.
Even in the videos the crowd is sounds bored and dead, repeating “we are Charlie Kirk”, nothing else.
Compared to any protest from my little city, people are singing songs, banging drums, playing guitars cheering, waving every variety of homemade signs and flags, mostly hand painted, sometimes just on cardboard with sharpie.
Anecdotally, most of my american coworkers had no idea who he was, and their takes on his death ranged from “lol, lmao” to “who fucking cares, it’s just some nobody”. Seems fake to me.
This is one of the times where feeling you’re crazy means you aren’t. I haven’t heard a single person in the real world express so much as an iota of sadness Kirk got got. Everyone is either a) glad he’s dead or b) could not give less of a shit.
The major media are the only ones crying for him, and it’s largely for manufacturing consent reasons
As someone from an evangelical background(became atheist) in Myanmar, there are definitely third world evangelicals who are way too keyed into conservative American politics and propaganda, even firmly believing Trump is an agent of God, so I don’t doubt that it’s probably these types of people who are actually making this a much bigger deal than most.
Is the world really that sad Charlie Kirk got killed? Does almost everybody really buy the framing that he was just debating people because he was on a quest for the truth and wasn’t just an asshole literally being paid by a billionaire to travel the world scapegoating ethnic and sexual minorities to distract us from the crimes of the rich? Please tell me this is just the media bending over backwards to manufacture a narrative.
the capitalist media ecosystem is currently filling its pants with shit in fear that any of them could be next, and trying to get the public on their side
i don’t want to underestimate them tbh, but i also don’t think all that many people really give a shit
Yeah, there’s so much astroturfed bullshit going around right now, the media of every western nation and western ally is trying to make this out as the worst tragedy in a decade. But most of the people I’ve spoken to aren’t falling for it, most of them understand that he was a piece of shit who deserved what he got. Even very liberal “apolitical” people I know weren’t doing the “thoughts and prayers” thing. This whole thing is entirely astroturfed, no one gave a shit about tinyface, but he is far more useful to them as a martyr than he ever was alive.
Yeah it’s uncanny and unsettling to me that they’re holding signs exclusively in English. It’s almost too obvious an American media company printed these.
Even in the videos the crowd is sounds bored and dead, repeating “we are Charlie Kirk”, nothing else.
Compared to any protest from my little city, people are singing songs, banging drums, playing guitars cheering, waving every variety of homemade signs and flags, mostly hand painted, sometimes just on cardboard with sharpie.
I associate almost exclusively with dudes that are bombarded with chud propaganda. The day after Kirk was killed it didn’t even come up once.
Anecdotally, most of my american coworkers had no idea who he was, and their takes on his death ranged from “lol, lmao” to “who fucking cares, it’s just some nobody”. Seems fake to me.
This is one of the times where feeling you’re crazy means you aren’t. I haven’t heard a single person in the real world express so much as an iota of sadness Kirk got got. Everyone is either a) glad he’s dead or b) could not give less of a shit.
The major media are the only ones crying for him, and it’s largely for manufacturing consent reasons
As someone from an evangelical background(became atheist) in Myanmar, there are definitely third world evangelicals who are way too keyed into conservative American politics and propaganda, even firmly believing Trump is an agent of God, so I don’t doubt that it’s probably these types of people who are actually making this a much bigger deal than most.
No lmao when is the last time you want to a protest with a sign written in Korean
Nobody knows here except me and an expat from Canada lol