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5d ago

Charlie Kirk was a divisive far-right podcaster. Why is he being rebranded as a national hero?

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Charlie Kirk was a divisive far-right podcaster. Why is he being rebranded as a national hero? | Saida Grundy

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return2ozma @lemmy.world

5d ago

Charlie Kirk was a divisive far-right podcaster. Why is he being rebranded as a national hero?

www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/sep/23/charlie-kirk-bigoted-far-right-podcaster

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6d ago

Charlie Kirk was a divisive far-right podcaster. Why is he being rebranded as a national hero?

www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/sep/23/charlie-kirk-bigoted-far-right-podcaster

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Forcing their cultish beliefs on us is one of the ways that they know they're powerful.
We should be rejecting their false idols as soon as they put them up. I'll boycott any business that pays homage to that grimy little Nazi and will do my best to destroy any public monument to him and his pig beliefs.
because white supremacist Christian nationalism is being ushered in via far-right populist rhetoric. fascism is utilizing the angry and bigoted, the angry and misguided, and the angry and fearful.
- Might I add the angry and uneducated.
- And the "resistance" is doing fuck all
  
  it does feel that way. i hope i'm merely unaware of something that is being orchestrated.
- Nailed it!
- Thanks for sharing this! More people need to learn this history, especially now.
- Another strip, on how fascists manufacture create fake crises as excuses for their seizure of more power, would also be instructive.
He gets the Horst Wessel treatment
- Came here to say this. Fascists need a martyr & will make one if necessary.
- Horst Carotid-Wessel.
Because the fascists needed of a martyr.
Just another of many, many parallels the path we're on has to Nazi and pre-Nazi Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel
- Chicken or the egg?
  Most of Hitler's inspiration came from US policy.
Fair chance it's because the Imperial States of America is a far-right fascist nation?
He's not. Only about a third of America are MAGA, they just make a LOT of noise. They can elevate him to martyr status in their own little alternative reality universe, but the ACTUAL reality that 2/3 of America, and the rest of the world, and the entire rest of the universe lives in, is under no obligation to indulge their perverse little fantasies.
Because everything is stupid in this timeline?
Because the rest of you ALLOWED IT.
Good for business that's why

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