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JT45242

(3,629 posts) Sat Sep 13, 2025, 07:18 AM Saturday

Random thought about Kirk's killer [View all]

It hit me in the shower that he told his father that he did it because he had eliminated a fake MAGA anticipating that his father would praise him and be impressed.

MAGA family... kids drifted to Fuentes style MAGAworld and the son thinks this will gain the approval and respect of his father. But father is appalled because he is only Nazi-light...all the hatred and racism but doesn't want to admit he's a Nazi. So dad turns him in.

I've known a lot of Mormon kids who did crazy shit to try to win the respect and love of their cold fathers.

Curious if anyone else has drifted there.

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Random thought about Kirk's killer [View all] JT45242 Saturday OP

My thought about Charlie Kirk: Who the fuck is Charlie Kirk; sooner forgotten, the better. marble falls Saturday #1

Even if we all want to forget about him, this shit show isn't going away. Crunchy Frog Saturday #2

He's not living rent free in my brain. The useless shit has been evicted. Screw him. Let the MAGA fetishcize ... marble falls Saturday #4

He's not living rent free in my brain either, but this is being treated like a Reichstag fire, Crunchy Frog Saturday #6

And I refuse to let him become Horst Wessel. The difference is the prick I can't even remember his name ... marble falls Saturday #7

Nothing to do with him. Everything to do with Trump and his minions, and how they plan to take advantage Crunchy Frog Saturday #8

And I refuse to play into their corpse fetishizing. Let them have their little cult, acknowledging it ... marble falls Saturday #9

I think that's a stretch. Renew Deal Saturday #3

Agreed. I think he was every bit as shallow as the what's his name he shot and the rest of the MAGAts. marble falls Saturday #5

Yes he could have told his father, hoping for approval and praise. Irish_Dem Saturday #10