Asklemmy

I'd heard of him but didn't think about him often.

I had seen his face before, that was about it. He died, i looked up his Wikipedia, not sad about it.

I thought I did, because people were saying he was the "change my mind" guy and I remembered him from some internet memes a looonng time ago. Turns out that wasn't even Charlie's thing, he just kind of adopted it and was known for that. So yeh, I thought I knew who he was and turns out he was even less significant.

I did not. I mean I saw articles about things he said and maybe clips to because he was such an asshat but it just is part of the deluge of the bs stuff churned out there. I don't need to know who the lapdog du jour, is for each hateful comment.

I pretty much only knew the name and that he was a right wing propagandist like a Rush Limbaugh or Tucker Carlson or the like.

The vast majority of people I don't think really loved or hated him as actively as they are doing right now. This is just a moment for both sides to radicalize over what they see as either proof the conservative haters are all violent and need to be dealt with in kind, or for those that do want anti-conservative violence to call it "a good start."

I feel he met an end that isn't really much of a surprise, as he encouraged "his people" to oppress others and/or yo provide extreme reactions from his opposition. He encouraged violence, but it backfired on him.

Never paid him much mind before and not planning to start now. I am worried about what unrelated people are going to suffer the vengeance for one random person's actions.

My feelings on the public's general reaction is it's a more extreme version of what happens when a celebrity dies that most people probably already thought died years ago. People talk like they were the greatest thing ever when they either never watched the movies before or hadn't seen them or thought about them in ages. They're just fired up as an excuse for attention or to push an agenda.

But as I said, never listened to the guy, so I may be a little off, but he was filed under radical conservative in my mind and that was good enough for me.

Nope. In hindsight I think I saw some older clips of debating on college campuses - but I kind of just assumed that was the usual evangelist on a megaphone that I had taken to be normal for every campus.

Nope. I did know some morons out there thought mass or school shootings weren't a big deal and complained civil rights encroached on their feelings of white supremacy. Never knew his name specifically because it feels like there's a whole cluster of those idiots who no one ever taught the Golden Rule to. Be kind and treat all people respectfully.

I felt bad about him dying because having idiotic ideals doesn't mean he didn't deserve life, but I also kind of chalked the event up to darwinism. If someone constantly puts themselves in front of the masses promoting hate and violence, its only a matter of time before hatred and violence finds them. In that aspect, he probably wasn't fully innocent of the event himself as so many have made him out to be. I never heard of Hitler himself ever personally killing anyone, but his rhetoric and influence of others was the cause of plenty of deaths. Murder is always wrong.

He preached to the choir in the MAGA Church of Treason, Pedophilia, and Corruption. Good, decent, moral people have never set foot in that church.

my nana knows everything about the guy apparently she's a right winger.

Meh there was nothing important about him and no reason for anyone to care. On the other hand, there was another school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado, at nearly the same time, and THAT is what everyone should be focusing on. Of course the cantaloupe in charge still hasn't said a word about THAT because he couldn't make that tragedy about himself.

Yeah, I’ve never heard of the guy and people in America are treating him like a messiah, watched a few clips and he had some really terrible ideas, I don’t see the appeal to be honest.

I knew of him, because of my right wing friend.

Where are you from? Just curious. I heard of him only from a south park series.

I had seen memes of his face being small in relation to his head, but I had no idea of his ramblings. His name wasn't familiar to me before he met his end. I would not have minded never to have known him at all.

The guys been a hate-mongering fixture on the right for around a decade. Far more prominent than Shapiro.

I heard that George Floyd day is on his birthday, maybe they will have some thoughts and prayers on George's Day.

I also did not know of him at all. I did know who Ben Shapiro is. This week has been an educational one: I have learned about Nick Fuentes and 'groypers', Candace Owens, and that the change my mind meme guy is called Steven Crowder (I first thought it was this guy when I saw the video of Kirk).

The US political commentator that I do watch some times is Hasan, but not too often. The US lore goes too deep and moves too quickly, hard to keep up.

I knew there were memes of him with a distorted face, but I still don’t know why. Apparently his views on some topics are fairly racist, sexist, homophobic, in general I think…

but I guess he did support free speech which apparently the people who really loved him do not.

I probably agree with the dude on one or two issues but I’m pretty sure he was just another grifter for the republicans. No one deserves to die on the internet like that I guess, he did say some people had to die for second amendment freedoms though I have no clue

Like 98% of people had no idea (guessing), which I think is why a big % are not sure how to mourn or laugh. They do recognize the Change My Mind meme and sometimes Toilet Paper USA though.

Lemmy would likely have a different % than typical though. And even then, you always will see a comment like "don't use that meme, he's an asshole" and a bunch of TILs.

https://youtu.be/A8svtmshpUM

I knew he was "that guy". Though there are several people sharing the same "that guy" bubble in my head and I don't know which stories involved which actual guy. I do know one of them said something about having to scratch their ass frequently, so when the news broke out I told my wife: "someone shot the itchy ass guy".

The name sounded familiar but I couldn't place it. I thought he was some old guy.

Before the assassination I knew him as yet another right wing chud. The most memorable thing was the time he pretended to be black on xitter.

I'd never heard of him, but I'm not American. I saw a headline something like, "panic after Kirk shooting" and wondered if someone had shot up a church service in Scotland.

I wish I could say I didn't, but I knew who he was and what sorts of things he said.

Agree. I just saw him as one of the meme faces whose face gets minimized randomly on low effort memes; had no idea who he was until he died.

Brother why are you only talking about this now? It's very old news at this point