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🏳️‍⚧️ Perfidious Josephine Riesman @josie.zone

This!!!!! The average lib voter in the US and UK has never even HEARD of Charlie Kirk!!!!! Politicians choosing to honor him are making a terrible political bet!!!!!!

sep 11, 2025, 7:36 am • 344 57

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Tommy Soda @tommysoda.bsky.social

Exactly. Does anyone else think it's weird that most people you meet in real life have never heard of this guy yet online apparently everyone knows who he is and they're ready to start a civil war over his death? And all at the same time, too. To me it seems the propaganda machine is in overdrive.

sep 11, 2025, 7:58 am • 1 0 • view
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jampr.bsky.social @jampr.bsky.social

Who gives a fuck about the “average lib voter in the UK”? He was murdered in cold blood in front of an audience of college kids. Whether you agree or not with his message he was about openly debating ideas and was murdered for it. Politicians who don’t condemn this are committing career suicide.

sep 11, 2025, 7:47 am • 0 0 • view
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org

tapping the sign

sep 11, 2025, 8:04 am • 7 0 • view
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org

Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson didn’t release statements mourning and extolling Kirk because of their love for free and open debate. They did it because they perceive this to be an issue that keeps them on the good side of the American regime.

sep 11, 2025, 8:06 am • 4 0 • view
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jampr.bsky.social @jampr.bsky.social

That’s probably true. Politician do what they do. Which is anything required to stay in power and/or relevant.

sep 11, 2025, 8:11 am • 0 0 • view
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org

Anyway that’s why “average lib voter in the UK” is relevant here.

sep 11, 2025, 8:13 am • 1 0 • view
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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social

He was a white supremacist who advocated against minorities, women, and LGBT having human and civil rights while using the victims of school shootings political pawns saying they were acceptable loses to keep gun control laws away. He died as he mocked mass shooting victims in a racist manner.

sep 11, 2025, 8:43 am • 3 0 • view
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Afatgrandma @afatgrandma.bsky.social

He advocated for gun violence. Don't feel bad that he was one of the numbers.

sep 11, 2025, 7:56 am • 4 0 • view
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ReboundsMom. Keep Future Away from the Vatican! @reboundsmom.bsky.social

Just a spunky guy who wanted to have spirited debate about ideas like "black people can't be trusted to fly planes" and "Taylor Swift needs to submit to Travis Kelce".

sep 11, 2025, 11:41 am • 2 0 • view
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jampr.bsky.social @jampr.bsky.social

What’s your point? Obviously he was making a larger point about DEI and on Swift, although I disagree with his take, here is the context Ephesians 5:22 and 25 “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. … Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”

sep 11, 2025, 2:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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ReboundsMom. Keep Future Away from the Vatican! @reboundsmom.bsky.social

Why was his baseline premise that "black people shouldn't be trusted to fly planes"?

sep 11, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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juno rylee schultz @juno.bsky.social

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO

sep 11, 2025, 7:37 am • 1 0 • view
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Betty Ann @vegavannah.bsky.social

“I didn’t know who he was” and “Gun violence is terrible and we should pass better laws” are literally the only things that should have come out of their mouths about his death. These fuckers out here crying and lowering flags. I will make sure to help unseat you in your next election.

sep 11, 2025, 10:00 am • 2 0 • view
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Democracy lover @spottie999.bsky.social

I was quite surprised today on the school run in the UK with my two 14 year old daughters. I asked them if they knew who Charlie Kirk was. Not only did they know who he was but they told me what his views were on abortion. I was somewhat taken aback to be honest.

sep 11, 2025, 8:33 am • 4 0 • view
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Rookie 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @rookiesinc.bsky.social

🇬🇧 here, never heard of him until yesterday. Did his passing warrant a minute silence at the Yankees game, was he that influential? I’m just drawing comparisons from when a senior Democrat is targeted.

sep 11, 2025, 7:52 am • 5 0 • view
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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social

He was a genuine fascist.

sep 11, 2025, 8:10 am • 19 2 • view
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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social

People should hire you to write his obit.

sep 11, 2025, 9:42 am • 3 0 • view
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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social

And no, he was not influential enough to actually be a politician. Like this man was emphatically not elected to anything. He was just a loud asshole

sep 11, 2025, 8:11 am • 11 0 • view
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Rookie 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @rookiesinc.bsky.social

Makes me think that tRump will use this as an excuse to claim that cities are riddled with violence and send in more troops.

sep 11, 2025, 8:23 am • 2 0 • view
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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social

This occurred in a very republican part of the US. I have no doubt they are working on a way to spin it though

sep 11, 2025, 8:39 am • 3 0 • view
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Rookie 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @rookiesinc.bsky.social

Yeah, I checked the map to see if it was red or blue, strange. tRump will spin it somehow.

sep 11, 2025, 8:51 am • 1 0 • view
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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social

Yeah, in all likelihood, given the state of occurred in, the shooter was probably either a Mormon or a groyper. Or both. It’s much more believable it’s an angry neo Nazi who believed Kirk was a shill for Jews, or a Mormon mad for some reason than it being a leftist who did it, honestly

sep 11, 2025, 8:44 am • 2 0 • view
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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social

The US government declaring war on the Mormons would be quite funny ngl. The state he was shot and killed in is THE Mormon state. Like it’s known for one thing, and it’s Mormonism.

sep 11, 2025, 8:42 am • 7 0 • view
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artibartfast @artie.gay

The US government declaring war on the Mormons AGAIN

sep 11, 2025, 9:47 am • 4 0 • view
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Kaitlyn the Strange @omendreamer.bsky.social

Timmy Turner kneeling and praying next to his bed. The text reads
sep 11, 2025, 8:48 am • 1 0 • view
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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social

and the LDS church is not exactly what I’d call left wing so… it occurred in a very red area, but yeah they’re already blaming it on liberals and leftists

sep 11, 2025, 8:49 am • 5 0 • view
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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social

Until last year I honestly thought that he and Kirk Cameron were the same person.

sep 11, 2025, 7:39 am • 5 0 • view
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Twisted Spinster @danceswithpugs.bsky.social

My normie lib extremely offline mom texted me earlier asking who he was lol.

sep 11, 2025, 8:09 am • 3 0 • view
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Cleric Stanley @nurseboystanley.bsky.social

The dude made a point to argue that gun violence is worth it in America! It's not even ghoulish to say "he's just paying the piper for the America he wanted"

sep 11, 2025, 7:47 am • 10 0 • view
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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social

even funnier is when it’s the British prime minister. Like bro you weren’t under any obligation to make a statement about an American dude that was a fucking Internet personality And yet he did

sep 11, 2025, 8:06 am • 8 0 • view
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rubymcrae95.bsky.social @rubymcrae95.bsky.social

I had to Google, but once I saw his pic, I kind of knew of him.

sep 11, 2025, 7:50 am • 1 0 • view
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Hayloft Publishing @hayloftbooks.bsky.social

I’d never heard of Charlie Kirk until yesterday.

sep 11, 2025, 8:03 am • 0 0 • view
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Jeffery J. Manley @manleycomics.bsky.social

My girlfriend's boss told her about Charlie Kirk's death. Her boss is a big trumper... and my girl didn't know who kirk was. Before she could even finish telling me about what her boss said... I burst in with, "Don't listen to her crap opinion!" and then proceeded to shit all over Kirk.

sep 11, 2025, 1:25 pm • 2 0 • view