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Initech

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14. Charlie Kirk didn't debate people - he baited them with impossible to answer questions.

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Wed Sep 17, 2025, 01:45 PM

Sep 2025

And then made them look like idiots on Youtube when they couldn't answer them and sold it to the people who bought Rupert Murdoch's attempts to destroy public education anyways.

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Vanity Fair: Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause [View all] AStern Sep 2025 OP

Not from me JustAnotherGen Sep 2025 #1

Excuse me. OldBaldy1701E Sep 2025 #2

All I did was read the headline BWdem4life Sep 2025 #10

If all you read was the headline . . . markpkessinger Sep 2025 #16

Kirk is a piece of racist garbage, and much of the MSM "redeemtion" of him is a disgrace. Hint, there are NOT lostincalifornia Sep 2025 #3

And the author, Ta Nehisi Coates, knows that as well or better than anyone . . . markpkessinger Sep 2025 #17

Great piece. Rec'd. The Nazi in The Blues Brothers (1980) summed this up underpants Sep 2025 #4

Far from redeemed EYESORE 9001 Sep 2025 #5

... Solly Mack Sep 2025 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Marcuse Sep 2025 #7

"...that he was pro-life, that he believed in public executions..." Wednesdays Sep 2025 #8

Anyone who says drmeow Sep 2025 #9

I've seen videos of him being reasonable during debates in front of others Mblaze Sep 2025 #11

Gag me with a spoon. Martin68 Sep 2025 #12

Very apt use of the phrase "Lost Cause" --- eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 #13

Charlie Kirk didn't debate people - he baited them with impossible to answer questions. Initech Sep 2025 #14

Lost cause? As long as djt is alive, there will be no other causes around, to compete w/ any and all djt causes. SWBTATTReg Sep 2025 #15

Excellent piece. I hadn't seen so much of TNC's writing around recently muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 #18