the over-the-top response to his death also made it apparent how vacuous his body of work was. no one seemed to quote Kirk positively, even on the conservative side!

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(The comparison is the Hunter laptops thing, where Giuliani probably actually had dirt on Hunter Biden that he’d paid hackers for, but his obviously fake story about *how* he got the information was so ludicrous that no one wanted to engage with it because it could make them liable)

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It *super* didn’t help that he was really obscure in the mainstream and no one doing that was at all willing to share literally anything about his views beyond the most vague offhand references. “Some guy who liked debating died” was what most of the average public got out of it.

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opportunism is one thing, but they wayy overplayed their hand with charlie kirk. they tried to make him a modern horst wessel but it turned out that jimmy kimmel was far more important to the general public. the whole "sob about an influencer or you're fired" thing was guaranteed to make him a meme

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You just know the joint fucking sucked too

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