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I found that distressing. I’m gonna assume OP manhandled that dude’s nuts after filming for my own sanity.

I can vibe with that.

I guess my question is more about the ‘challenge’ objects. Like I get wanting to put things places, but it’s the stuff that lands you in YouTube compilations due to ‘misadventure’, that clearly looked risky, that gets me.

Putting the OP bottles in places, or getting your nuts trapped in the slats of a park bench such that the fire department has to remove them, things like that.

Why can’t some people resist putting things in every orifice? There’s gotta be some innate drive to do this. Does anyone here relate? What’s the attraction? I want to understand. Seeing weird-shaped things is clearly appealing somehow.

Somebody’s going to wind up in the ER over these.

Flared bases, people!

Honestly, this sounds to me like something a sociopath would say, which is why I don’t buy it when these people are using the ‘full context’ defence here.

The difference between empathy and sympathy is subtle, yet important, and (I think) exposes that he was a sociopath.

I’m not sure how to explain what I mean other than that sympathy is passive whilst empathy is active. Sympathy exists at arms length, whilst empathy is truly felt. Or, perhaps, sympathy is cerebral whilst empathy is emotional.

Does that make sense? I think sociopaths can understand sympathy, and maybe can tell themselves they ‘feel’ it, but empathy is a foreign concept – and in Charlie Kirk’s mind, a weakness.

So, for me, the context actually makes this quote worse.

Man page me daddy.

It works, DON’T TOUCH IT.

For their sake, I hope you’re right.

e: and, putting myself in their shoes as a child whose father was both prominent and absent (though not dead), I idolised him well into my 30s. Raising a teen boy finally disabused me of his sainthood. He’s still the most remarkable man I’ve ever met, but he’s also fallible.
If he’d been dead, I may never have been forced to accept he’s human.

Depends. I expect his wife is just as alt-right-addled as he was, which might mean she’ll raise them to be little Nazis. I guess they might break out of that, and I hope so, but being raised alt-right with a prominent martyr to the cause as your father could seriously fuck you up. Don’t forget they’re very rich, so they’re insulated from the real world.

Context: https://bsky.app/profile/lillypip.bsky.social/post/3lyo2aq7qy22l

I feel bad for his kids, actually.

They’ll likely be raised to think their father was a martyr, so the poor things (like 1 and 3 years) will probably grow up in the alt-right-o-sphere where their dad was a martyr to the cause.

That’s very sad. They’ll likely won’t have had a chance.

Yeah, nearly every sentence he uttered could have ended with a bang. 💥

He was like a fascist Wile E Coyote.

This is the best use of this meme I’ve ever seen, bar none.

Make Fascists Afraid Again.

In infinite universe theory, there are nearly infinite timelines where this didn’t happen. We’re finally entering the good timeline.

Not a bad crossview.

Your other left.

I didn’t shop anything out – I got this from a ‘best of’ list. Thanks for the context!

Yeah. He lived a long time only to be hauled up like that. :(

Dr Who, series 2005 S1E2.