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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is too good -'His legacy is cringe': how Charlie Kirk became a meme among the young - even his supporters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/charlie-kirk-meme-young-supportersCrude jokes about the Maga luminary are exploding online less than a year after conservatives were suppressing any slander against him
The online noise also demonstrates how Kirks organization, Turning Point USA, has struggled to retain its grip on online discourse since his death even with his widow, Erika, at the helm and how quickly other rightwing influencers have sought to supplant him. (Turning Point did not respond to a request for comment.)
The jokes about Charlie Kirk are symbolic of what have been pretty seismic shifts happening within the online culture, said Eviane Leidig, director of research and outreach at the Center for the Study of Organized Hate.
A lot of young people [are] looking at him and the legacy of his messaging and thinking that its really cringe
Eviane Leidig
After his passing, there was really a power vacuum when it came to who was going to be the next big voice for young conservatives and for Maga, she continued. Figures such as Candace Owens and the white nationalist Nick Fuentes are among those who have jockeyed for clout.
AloeVera
(4,759 posts)Thanks
walkingman
(11,392 posts)-Gay people should be stoned to death
-most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane
-Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband
-NO one should be allowed to retire
-Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states
-British Colonialism was what "made the world decent"
-The guy who assaulted the Pelosi's should be bailed out
-Religious freedom should be terminated
-Multiple black politicians "stole white people's spots"
-MLK Jr was "an awful person"
-The Great Replacement Theory is reality
-Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID
-Vaccine requirements are "medical apartheid"
-Guns deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendment
-women s natural place is under their husband's control
-Parents should prevent their daughters from taking birth control
-George Floyd had it coming, the Jan 6th protestors didn 't
-The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake"
-Encouraged parents to protest mask mandates
-Mamdani winning in NY is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11
-Muslims only come to America to destabilize Western Civilization
progressoid
(53,635 posts)BurnDoubt
(1,995 posts)Just say whatever shit dribbles out of your mouth? And the wrong people hear the Hate.
Deny its Hate. Repeat the Hate. Embrace the Hate.
Sound Business Model.
Trad Wifee is runnin the Family Business while the kids stay with
Uncle Ernie?
ToxMarz
(3,223 posts)bmichaelh
(1,336 posts)The core "value" of MAGA is cruelty.
Look at the above lists of Kirk's opinions.
Charlie Kirk is on record that he thought empathy was a New Age word.
How MAGA Christians hate empathy and reconcile Sermon on the Mount, I am not sure.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,729 posts)That is all about not being an asshole.
Their focus is outward. They prefer to cherry pick books like Leviticus looking for verses to wield as weapons (without regard to context).
Levitical prohibitions on food and fabric impact them directly and are inconvenient, so those are ignored. Anything that can be wielded as a cudgel against another human being becomes the primary focus of "the message of Jesus'.