Karen Ostrom Kelly #wingnut #fundie

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Charlie Kirk was much more than a podcaster, he was not only an autodidact, thoroughly versed in the Scriptures, US and World History, he had faith of steel and the courage of his convictions. He was an amazing and effective communicator who could debate any PhD candidate. He influenced young people by instilling the importance and value of life and faith and the belief that the USA is the greatest country in the world. Charlie spoke the Truth and brought Jesus into the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

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He was an amazing and effective communicator who could debate any PhD candidate.

So why did he only ever debate unprepared pupils?

He was also a racist arsehole. Then again, I suppose this is par for the course with right-wing christians.

he had faith of steel

A small piece of lead destroyed that notion.

Charlie spoke the Truth and brought Jesus into the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

He had nothing of that level of influence. He was a little known campus hooligan who liked to do ambush interviews to catch unprepared. When in a debate against somebody knowledgeable on the topics he did badly.

Kirk was not well-versed in American history or world history. He knew the conservative, ‘America and white straight cis Christian men can do no wrong’ fake versions of history.

@Bastethotep #262984

He did debate some people that were prepared - once. When he went to Cambridge and tried to debate those students, they ate him for lunch. He couldn’t use his manipulation tactics - they saw right through them. They were far more versed in every topic, and all he had were the typical logical fallacies he employs that many Americans don’t recognize and that conservative Americans mistake for being a good debater. And he looked foolish and it was obvious that he was completely unprepared and, worse (for him), his posse wasn’t there to intimidate the people who disagreed with Kirk. Kirk did everything he could to try to get those videos out of the public eye and possibly even off the internet so he could go back to pretending he was the intellectual giant he pretended to be. No, he absolutely could not ‘debate any PhD candidate’. After this he went back to debating undergrads who were on their from one class to the next and didn’t have a chance to bone up on whatever Kirk was on about that particular day.

@Indicible #262988

Many of them think being racist and believing the old white savior garbage is being ‘well versed in US and world history’

Charlie also said that if having an above-zero, FAR above, number of shooting incident deaths a year was the price the American people had to pay for having the 2nd Amendment “for the protection of all our other God-given rights” then the people would just have to pay up.

He didn’t imagine that HE could be killed by a shooter when he said that, did he?

Karen Ostrom Kelly #wingnut #fundie facebook.com

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