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| Topic | Red Hood Series Gets Canceled Because of Trans Writer's Remarks on Charlie Kirk |
| ImagineUsngAlts 09/16/25 7:16:42 PM #98: | darkknight109 posted... The irony that you're calling me a right-winger while posting links to a literal Nazi website is not lost on me. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/55453d26.jpg darkknight109 posted... You have any evidence that Charlie Kirk ordered violence, rape, and murder the way a dictator does, Mr. "Dictators aren't actually criminals"? https://jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk-posobiec-political-violence-far-right Take a look, for instance, at a 2024 interview he did with Jack Posobiec, a far-right commentator known for spreading the #Pizzagate mythos and for his association with various out-and-out white supremacists, none of which stopped Kirk from employing him for years in his organization Turning Point USA and cohosting a podcast with him. It was one of my favorite conversations Ive ever had with him, Kirk told listeners after interviewing Posobiec for his book Unhumans:The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them), which argues that right-wing dictators were right to torture, kill, and otherwise repress the Left, and that todays conservatives might have to take a page out of their book. That is not hyperbole; it is literally what the book argues and is about. And there is no indication that any of it gave Kirk any pause as he allowed Posobiec and his coauthor to hold forth unchallenged about how the Spanish fascist leader Francisco Franco and the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet responsible for hundreds of thousands of murders between them were great men who had a fathers heart for their country and were their countries equivalents to George Washington, whose great deeds are only remembered badly now because an omniscient, all-powerful left has infiltrated education and entertainment and rewritten history. Franco simply had to do what he did including concentration camps, mass rape, torture, and hundreds of thousands of killings because he was fighting a war, and doing it the same way that [William Tecumseh] Sherman fought a civil war, they explain. Kirk didnt push back on any of this. As Posobiec explained that he endorsed killing his political opponents the unhumans of the books menacing title Kirk personally talked about how conservatives needed to stop being nice and said he wanted to emphasize the bit about how to crush them, meaning the modern liberal-left. He talked about how he wanted to see a right-wing revolution. The only remotely challenging question Kirk posed was about whether it was truly possible to eliminate their opposition without using violence. Posobiecs reply was that the United States could merely rerun the earlier Red Scares and round up and expel thousands of people whose politics they disagree with the supposedly moderate solution and that the only times violence has been used is when right-wing forces were faced with violence already. The keen-eyed reader may note that this is a thinly veiled permission structure for conservatives to engage in political violence, if they can construe any violence against themselves as having been inflicted or incited by their opponents. Are communists channeling the demonic? Kirk asked at the close of the interview. His subjects explained that communists, a label that to them describes ordinary liberals and Democratic officials, operate in the same way as Satan and demons do. This is not an isolated example. We have an idea of what kind of revolution Kirk was thinking of when we look at his critical role in trying to help Trump illegally overturn the 2020 election. That didnt just include using his massive platform to spread lies that Trump had won the election but also busing people into Washington to try to storm the Capitol and stop the certification of the election. darkknight109 posted... Take your purity test bullshit elsewhere, dude. My political beliefs are not so feckless that I need to be goaded into mocking a dead guy to validate them; I'm sorry you can't say the same about yours. This is the typical projection from right wing types. The one purity testing is YOU. "Make fun of a dead Nazi? That makes you a Nazi yourself!" That's your whole argument. darkknight109 posted... Hey, look at that - another classic MAGA line. I usually get this one when talking to Republicans about how ridiculous American gun laws are. Odd that you keep parroting their approach yet still insist you're not like them. That's rich coming from the guy whose getting all his lines from the playbook of "both siding" enlightened centrist right wing concern trolls. darkknight109 posted... So you keep saying, but you haven't bothered to explain why. As I've already said, the message that hate advocates and extremists like Kirk need as much disdain as possible rather than treating them as just another commentator which is what's gotten the far right their power. Nobody's switching sides from the left wing showing decorum and giving impotent "this shouldn't have happened but..." either. Being harsh however can help draw in the crowd that's drawn to zingers and "savage!" which American society has shown there's way more of than there isn't. darkknight109 posted... If an anti-vaxxer who died of COVID had instead gotten vaccinated, they probably would have lived. If Kirk wasn't a major well known controversial talking head speaking in a region where guns are everywhere he wouldn't have been in that situation. It is decidedly the same scenario. --- Don't trust the ones below level 33 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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