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Delarage

(2,532 posts)
5. Same!
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:19 AM
7 hrs ago

When I heard "Charlie Kirk was murdered!" I assumed immediately he was a Democrat somewhere. Because that's what usually happens. Did not have to mourn this one, though!

ShazzieB

(22,160 posts)
14. I had kinda sorta heard of him, or least heard his name, before he died.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 05:28 PM
42 min ago

But I couldn't have told you who he was or anything about his beliefs or activities prior to the shooting.

hatrack

(64,189 posts)
6. A college dropout with a website, a fat motormouth, a well-developed Gish Gallop and a shitty attitude . . .
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:21 AM
7 hrs ago

And now he's St. Francis of Assisi, George Washington and Aragorn son of Arathorn all squished together into one greasy beatified sausage skin.

Hey Joe

(381 posts)
10. As am I and so many others
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:48 PM
5 hrs ago

Gaslighting, bullshitting , gishgalloping, and lying while talking down to those who questioned him were his only talents.
The right wants to elevate him to sainthood for it.

Ol Janx Spirit

(615 posts)
7. So, apparently, people who are not in control of the White House, the Senate, the House of...
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:26 AM
7 hrs ago

...Representatives, or the Supreme Court, are actually in charge of the country?

Or, as pointed out by Lakota Man, is he talking about people in his own party?

I'm confused....

So is he....

wolfie001

(6,983 posts)
8. The boys in that wacked-out religious family where the shooter was from.....
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:47 AM
7 hrs ago

....wore "I'm Proud To Be A Virgin" t-shirts. Fucking pathetic jack-offs if you ask me.

"Virginity Rocks!" How stupid and pathetic
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ShazzieB

(22,160 posts)
12. From what I know about Mormon purity culture, this doesn't shock me in the least.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 05:24 PM
45 min ago

The LDS Church is obsessed with sexual purity, teaching that "sexual sin," defined as the "illicit sexual relations of men and women," is the worst sin of all, next to murder. That includes any sex outside marriage between a man and a woman: adultery, fornication, and (of course) any sexual activity between people of the same sex.

It's almost kind of refreshing to see boys wearing shirts like that, because Morman purity culture is so often laser focused on women and girls. That kind of preoccupation with policing people's personal lives is, of course, not healthy for anyone, but Mormon girls as young as 12 are particular targets, being frequently admonished to dress modestly, lest showing "too much skin" (whatever that means) should tempt males to sin.

Mormon kids who are LGBTQ+ get the worst of it, because their religion strictly forbids both sex outside of marriage and marriage between people of the same sex. They are left to choose between leaving the faith they were rraised in or living a life of celibacy.

I'm sorry if I sound like I'm dunking on Mormons. I'm not opposed to the LDS Church or its followers, per se. What I'm opposed to is the kind of strict and punitive purity culture that causes kids to feel guilty about every sexual urge they may feel and/or arouse in anyone else, and the purity culture of the LDS Church is particularly strict and punitive in that respect, from what I know. In my opinion, kids who are raised in a culture like that are more to be pitied than derided as "stupid and pathetic." They've been brainwashed since childhood. That is NOT their fault.

ShazamIam

(3,013 posts)
11. The entire national legacy news and conservative talk show propaganda system is working hard to sell the lie that the
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 03:02 PM
3 hrs ago

Charlie Kirks deatj was caised by , liberal, lefty Democratic. Personally I had never heard of Chirlie Kirk until he was murdered.

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