• Duit@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Man, I was really hoping that some small town newspaper would mistakenly use this as his eulogy photo.

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    3 days ago

    They’re fascists.

    People just call them Nazis because Nazis are the most recent, prominent example of fascists most people are aware of.

    They act like Nazis, because they’re fascists, and so were Nazis.

    To be clear, all fascists should meet the same end as Nazis.

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      4 days ago

      I’d rather platform dead ones than living ones. It’s a nice reminder of how funny it was to watch him die.

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        Before long, his legacy will be just this one picture. A life wasted, cut short by your own decisions bud… See you in the next meme! XD

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        “Platforming” the way the left uses it generally means “I don’t want to see anything that worries or upsets me so I can stay in this safe-space ideological bubble, and it gives me something to form an intellectual argument about and feel like I’m doing something for our side even if it’s just pointlessly policing what people say or post.”

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      3 days ago

      I’m sure all the people on fucking LEMMY are going to see this meme and say “HMNN MAYBE I SHOULD LOOK INTO WHAT THIS KIRK GUY WAS ALL ABOUT” jfc

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          3 days ago

          The guy is being elevated to sainthood by the right, he was likely the leading contender for upcoming republican presidential elections. It’s very worth making and distributing memes making fun of his “legacy.” If you ignore people you don’t like, they tend to end up with a lot of power and taking away your rights.

          My only complaint is it’s being posted on Lemmy, which is preaching to the choir. It should be “platformed” on much larger social media sites.

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            He’s being elevated to sainthood to “own the libs”. The more people make fun of him, the higher he will rise in their eyes. If no one cared about him at all, he wouldn’t have had more than a week in the news cycle.

            If you want to really mess with his “legacy”, use his death to promote gun control. Not as a joke, but seriously. That would be infinitely more effective than any meme.