We might not live in the best timeline, but we sure live in the funniest one.

(no idea if it’s satire, but I appreciate the dedication to the bit, especially when he started stealing merch right after)

Link to the videos Knowyourmeme page

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    This is like… how you write the snivelling, untrustworthy, back stabbing, people pleaser, duplicitous ‘local guide’ archetype/trope character in a movie, with zero subtlety.

    Just 110% opportunist.

    Fucking wild, man.

    • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world
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      Just 110% opportunist

      Yeah, America has basically become (and, to an extent, has ALWAYS been) a factory for making endless opportunists, swindlers, and snake oil salesmen

    • TimeNaan@lemmy.world
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      It’s a community that rewards and even glorifies grifters. Of course there’s going to be people like that.

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        I read up on all the real life characters when I finished the show. Apparently the show did him kinda dirty, he was a bit of an intellectual in real life.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    Well, with the kind of scum listening to people like Kirk, this should net be surprising, should it?

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    This is the dumbest fucking timeline, but the silver lining is that if you’ve got a really dark sense of humor, there are a lot of moments that are deeply hilarious

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      It feels good to open the news and laugh for once. Every time it’s “the world is getting worse” but for ONCE it’s “Someone who was making the world worse got what was coming to them”

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    Sure, someone just got shot and the crowd is panicking and trying to escape.

    Let’s just stand here in the middle of the exit and fill a video, blocking everyone’s way out! Absolutely brilliant.

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    I mean, everyone’s paying all their attention to the shooting, nobody’s going to worry about the merch until later. Pretty ideal situation for a thief.

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    I love that he exhorts everyone to “Go to church on Sunday,” and “Read the Book of Mormon,” but immediately turns around and steals the now extremely collectible merch. Gotta love those MAGA Christian Values.

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.works
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    My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined that this wasn’t the elaborate Harlem Shake drop with a crowd celebrating CKs death that I was expecting.

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    Everyone running for their lives like cowards. He however sees the opportunity, steals the merch and asks for subscribers. A true American patriot.

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      So what does one do with such items? Is there a collector’s market for merch sold on the grounds upon whence le charley kirke died like he despicably preached for others not himself?

      “It’s the tee-shirts and caps from where there was a shooting! Somewhere in 'Murica!”

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        I think yes. I am pretty sure there is a market for exactly what you just described. I mean, would you be surprised if some right wingnut buys a kirk shirt and places it on his trumpian altar? It doesn’t even have to be a cultist. Captain tiny face died in a bombastic way. The morbidity of it could attract collectors.

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          With a big enough market there will always be buyers. There’s like a hundred million of these psychos in the USA, how many shirts and caps was this, a couple dozen? Yeah they’ll sell. Just look at that bath water girl or she sold her farts or whatever the fuck it was

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          Now that you mention it, there was an old shoe repairman in my town, among other knickknacks he had a piggy bank on a shelf, but it was like a bust of JFK, and the coin slot was right where Oswald supposedly “acted alone”.

          But le charlee kercke is like scraping the bottom of the barrel on that political and cultural scale.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        I’ve been saying that the murders of the health care CEO and Charlie Kirk are simply normal Free Market corrections at work, and here is more evidence.

    • python@lemmy.worldOP
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      His apology video included the line “I loved Charlie Kirk, he taught me things about Jesus that I didn’t even know myself”
      It’s so fucking funny

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    While everyone else was running away, this man was brave enough to run in (and steal the merch).