Charlie Kirk was a divisive far-right podcaster. Why is he being rebranded as a national hero?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/23/charlie-kirk-bigoted-far-right-podcaster
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/23/charlie-kirk-bigoted-far-right-podcaster
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chosensilence@pawb.social · 57 pts · 357d
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.
DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 357d
Might I add the angry and uneducated.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 357d
And the "resistance" is doing fuck all
chosensilence@pawb.social · 4 pts · 357d
it does feel that way. i hope i'm merely unaware of something that is being orchestrated.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 357d
Nothing is being orchestrated. The "left" is sitting comfortably at home, posting on Lemmy and Reddit about how upset they are, then planning their weekend activities.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 357d
This is deffo what it feels like but that’s because no plan worth its shit is gonna get talked about anywhere on the internet. It’s gonna happen between people irl in the backs of coffee shops and shit.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 357d
The revolution will not be televised. It won't be on the Internet either.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · -5 pts · 357d
Not least of all because it doesn’t exist
ubergeek@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 357d
Well, partly true. For example, this week I spent planning a weekend range trip for myself, and several comrades. There will be a stop the bleed class hosted at the beginning of it, before pew pews start.
Next weekend, planning a comrade and camping trip, where we will get to practice things like unit movement tactics (For hunting, of course!), living communally, and prepping a parcel of land for the possible need to house several dozens of people for an extended period.
chosensilence@pawb.social · 2 pts · 357d
i understand your confidence in your pessimism here but i'm holding out hope, i guess. a form of self-defense on my part, perhaps lol.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 354d
How would you know?
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 357d
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 357d
bradinutah@thelemmy.club · 8 pts · 357d
Thanks for sharing this! More people need to learn this history, especially now.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 357d
Another strip, on how fascists manufacture create fake crises as excuses for their seizure of more power, would also be instructive.
Jumi@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 357d
He gets the Horst Wessel treatment
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 357d
Came here to say this. Fascists need a martyr & will make one if necessary.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 357d
Horst Carotid-Wessel.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 357d
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 357d
ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 357d
Chicken or the egg?
Most of Hitler's inspiration came from US policy.
d33pblu3g3n3@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 357d
Because the fascists needed of a martyr.
ubergeek@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 357d
Fair chance it's because the Imperial States of America is a far-right fascist nation?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 357d
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.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 357d
Because everything is stupid in this timeline?
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 357d
Because the rest of you ALLOWED IT.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 357d
Good for business that's why
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 354d
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.