The Charlie Kirk Thread

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korgguy1971 said:
I started watching Kirk's Cambridge event and found it difficult to view him as anything but a smug, arrogant, graduate of PragerU or the Kent Hovind Science Institute, overconfident kid high on his own supply. I don't know how Kirk had the audacity to claim "geez, you guys are easy" or to say to the first questioner, "THIS is why I came all the way to England?" I doubt he'd fare well against anything other than a pool of college students, and that's almost certainly by design. I'm going to try to find and watch more of his events or see if he debates a real scholar or intellectual.

This video, from a channel called "Rationality Rules" suggested to me by my phone, did a pretty good job of explaining his "style" and the myriad of logical fallacies he employs in order to make his points:

It reminded me of the venomfangX/thunderf00t "why do people laugh at creationists" internet kerfuffle about 20 years ago. And that pretty much sums up the current iteration of MAGA Christian Nationalism: unapologetically assert your views and do whatever it takes to bring about your worldview (regardless of whether or not it tracks with the actual teachings of Christianity), steamroll those who don't share your views without compunction, and couch it all in a cloak of false, God-fearing humility.
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If only Christopher Hitchens had stayed alive long enough to debate Charlie Kirk. Kirk would have not been so smug.
 
ChileG said:
And when cornered, he would answer like, “well, I guess I don’t like murdering babies as much as you do.”
It’s the kind of debate that would result in an F on a paper in college but gets a lots of “likes” on social media.
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Yes, the "debates" of his I've watched, he is simply more aggressive and talks over people, he doesn't listen and give full attention to the other position.
 
UNCatTech said:
I had heard of this before. Thanks for the article. I'm going to watch the documentary.
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Obviously, "homosexuality" is an anachronistic concept in the Hebrew Bible which, as I understand it, views sexuality primarily in terms of dominant and submissive partners. Basically, ignominy is addressed towards the latter.

In sum, the bible has no means for conceptualizing the power bottom.
 
UNCatTech said:
Are they all so ignorant that they really believe he is a master debater?

His fall back is the same we have heard for generations: my Bible says so.
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As someone previously said, he talks louder and more emphatically. Also, look what happened when he went to Cambridge, LOL. He might be able to have a go at Utah Valley State, but at Cambridge?
 
Zoo_View said:
Good for her if she repudiates her dead husband’s hate speech and takes TPUSA in a different direction than her hateful husband.
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Saw a podcast featuring both of them. The questioner asked them both who was more conservative. They laughed and Charlie said he was the moderate of the family.
 
Carolina Fever said:
So, too soon for someone to have a Kirk decoration or costume this Halloween?
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I expect most houses one would visit would look at a trick-or-treater wearing a Charlie Kirk mask and think, “Who is the generic-looking white guy? Is he sorta famous? Maybe a Marvel Comics actor? Some musician my kids like?”
 
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