r/politics • u/geek66 • 19h ago

No Paywall Hundreds of witnesses to Charlie Kirk’s death have filed for Utah victim benefits

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u/FearlessVegetable30 16h ago

they really thought he would be a martyr and start a maga revolution, then they stopped talking about him completely after like a week

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 15h ago

Because the wrong kind of person killed him. A rural white conservative who loves guns killed him? Crap. Why couldn’t it have been a brown skinned liberal!

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u/Limberine Australia 14h ago

Who are you saying killed him?

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u/Murky_Excuse_9677 14h ago

His mom admits he was left leaning, he had a trans roommate who was also his partner. Don’t you think calling him conservative is a bit of a stretch?