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[-] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 95 points 1 week ago

I don't know who this man is, but his face is too small for his head.

[-] krelvar@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago
[-] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Huh. His face is ~7% too small. 107 and 108% look reasonable for that head.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Strongly disagree, 42% is the sweet spot.

P.S. Turn the sound on for that site if you didn't already.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

I think the pic is photoshopped. His real way is waaaaaay snaller

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

1000009078

I believe this is where I first saw him

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

A right wing grifter. That's all you need to know about him.

[-] ElectricTrombone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It doesn't help the fact that there was a meme where someone photoshopped his face to be slightly smaller. Then as it became popular and he started appearing in news more, a whole group of people became dedicated to altering every photo of him. It's possible that those images ended up in the top results of google.

[-] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 89 points 1 week ago

"It's about time the masculine energy in this country is ascendant," he proclaimed. "I'm not defending what this kid allegedly did. I am defending young men holding up old glory, getting out there in the streets, and saying, we're not going to take this anymore."

So, what the hell is he defending then? What exactly about the incident exudes "masculine energy"?

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago

The masculine energy of a rather hung dick called "old glory" that cannot be taken except by the most masculine of men who are out in the streets.

Gay butt stuff, obvs.

[-] grrgyle 22 points 1 week ago

Rofl not going to take what anymore? Thinking? Feeling? Being a mature and functional adult in a democracy?

[-] Delusional@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Exactly. Republicans won't stand for any of that.

Not that they stood for any of that in the past few decades.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

He's insecure and threatened by everything.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

But when men go out there and defend Palestinians they aren't doing this? It's not masculine to stand up for what you believe there?

[-] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

Eh, depends on who you ask. Personally, no, this isn't masculine. People are standing up for what they believe, and more importantly, their resolve come a place of empathy. Merely standing up for what you believe doesn't warrant much praise, imho, especially if your beliefs are demonstrably false.

[-] maculata@aussie.zone 44 points 1 week ago

Oh Charlie. My woodchipper aches for your hot body.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

Dickheads like this pitiful excuse for a human thrive on attention. Why give it to him? He's irrelevant.

He's not, which is entirely the problem. His kind gets stronger on the outrage attention cycle but that isn't the same thing as being ignorable.

Not anymore, at least, he doesn't need free press anymore.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Can you explain? I'm not following.

TPUSA became famous in large part due the free advertising generated from liberal and leftist outrage over their messaging, but in 2024 they no longer need that outrage to grow. They are now large enough a brand for their own community to generate that press for them.

You can ignore their shit stirring, but it won't cripple them, it will just mean you don't know what their enemy of the week is.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

it will just mean you don’t know what their enemy of the week is.

That doesn't exactly sound like a negative to me.

I say they're irrelevant because they have no experience in anything other than spreading propaganda to keep right wing idiots in a permanent state of fear and outrage. They argue in bad faith. They're neither interesting nor insightful. They have no accomplishments. As people, they're remarkably dull and uninteresting.

So again, why give them the attention they seek?

[-] Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago

Exactly, he's either a complete idiot or morally bankrupt (or both). He spreads false info sourced from 8chan. Never would've thought that kinda rampant idiocy would find a target, but it does. The less attention he gets the better.

Why know what your enemy is doing?

So you can prepare.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I already know what they're doing. Hell, I could write a ChatGPT prompt that would spit out the exactly same drivel as these clowns and save myself the time.

Ha, not a bad point, but now you know they're outright, irrefutably, no dogwhistles endorsing racism and can even point to a specific example if you need to.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The far right has been doing that for as long as the far right has existed. Strom Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, David Duke, etc etc.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

I've only heard of this Charlie Kirk. First time seeing and hearing him. Who in the fuck raised this guy?

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Charles and David Koch.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago
[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

and was fathered by a sentient half used roll of toilet paper.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Billionaires convinced him to drop out of college and run propaganda for them at college campuses.

[-] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago

Somehow YouTube algorithm showed me this dumbass’s video that was something like “Charlie Kirk destroys a college student with a great comeback”. I think I lost brain cells by watching it even halfway. His argument for being smart, even though he didn’t finish college, was naming couple of guys that the student might not know and saying how he got rich.

[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

“But to the left... he's a young white man, so it's worth destroying his life."

I had to scroll back up, because I thought he’d been kicked out of the university. Nope, he was just kicked out of the frat. Oh no, he might have to stay in a dorm or apartment, it’s the end of the world!

"And they're trying to destroy the rise of the frat boys," he added.

Um… good? Why would I care about frat boys? My university didn’t even have frats, and I somehow managed to graduate anyway.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

But did you get handed a job from a rich guy?

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 9 points 1 week ago

What century is it?

[-] joel1974@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Product of immigrants. He treats immigrants the way his grandparents got treated

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago
[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Correct, this is the politics community. That’s why I didn’t post it in the news community.

[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Why is his face so small?

[-] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Why are paywalled articles allowed still?

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

Because they’re so easy to get around?

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Very ignorant of Charlie.

[-] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 1 points 1 week ago

Hands up if you thought this was about Shane Vaughn for a minute.

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