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Tent where Charlie Kirk was murdered recreated at Turning Point convention — for selfies
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I feel like Charlie Kirk should be nominated for a Darwin award. Dude literally campaigned for guns, said it was Ok that some people die from gun violence and then got shot while sitting under a tent labelled "prove me wrong".
he had children
EDIT: which means he cannot get the Darwin award. this is not defending him.
Everyone always screws that up. The Darwin award doesn't just mean the person died from their own stupidity, it means they did the world a favor and removed themselves from the gene pool before passing on their genes. By that note, people who are unable to reproduce also cannot be eligible for the award.
I'm a parent too, and that's exactly why I am glad his disgusting voice was silenced in the most public and ironic way possible.
Sorry for ambiguity, I meant this in the context of Darwin award
Ah yeah good edit, I wasn't even considering that you could have meant it that way.
I decided to go look up the rules in order to contribute something more useful to this discussion, and it turns out that the mere presence of offspring does not disqualify one from the award!
Given their reasoning, I think Kirk would qualify. And given that his whole brand was about spreading stupid dangerous ideas to everybody's kids including his own, and then he died in a spectacularly ironic and public way, I think he should actually win one!
https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules.children.html
I mean, maybe. Depends on when JD got his couch nob in there.
So did John Wayne Gacy, what's your point?
Charlie Kirk's comment about "some gun deaths being necessary" was in response to a comment about school shootings involving small children, wasn't it? I don't remember exactly, why don't you look it up yourself?
Darwin award is for people who make themselves unable to reproduce.
I need to edit the comment in order not to sound like I'm defending him.
Yeah sorry I'm just used to people immediately jumping to defend this guy and make any negative comment about him illegal
no problem, I didn't think enough before posting
It didn't prove him wrong, it just made him one of the "some people."