• Manmoth@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    I’m challenging the certainty of this entire site. My personal opinion is that he is a broken product of a nihilistic culture. I also think that he hated Charlie because he thought Charlie hated gays even though he was a big tent conservative that was inclusive for all. What people don’t understand is that Kirk WAS the moderate conservative.

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      3 hours ago

      Kirk was definitionally a fascist.

      As for what the shooter is, I’m sure time will tell. I don’t see a need to jump to conclusions on that yet.

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        Who’s somebody on the right that’s not a fascist in your view? The craziest thing is that people are calling him a Nazi when one of the biggest goals of his organization was to stake a big tent and prevent people from being radicalized. He was a “constitutionalist” milquetoast conservative. With him being killed now his audience will certainly go further right.

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          That is kinda a strange way to counter my point that he is definitionally a fascist. Are you saying that if enough people are fascist then the none of them are?

          I am saying that the rhetoric that Kirk used fits the definition of fascist rhetoric. If everyone in the world meets that definition, then everyone in the world is fascist. That’s how definitions work.

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      2 hours ago

      ~~Kirk was definitionally a fascist.

      As for what the shooter is, I’m sure time will tell. I don’t see a need to jump to conclusions on that yet.~~

      Edit: duplicate post due to lag. Please ignore