I always confuse Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk
Hopefully someone else does too
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2026
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I always confuse Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk
They're easy to tell apart: one is still alive and wears a yarmulke. The other is dead and was antisemite.
One of them got shot in the neck for being an asshole.
I don't know anything else about either of them.
I guess someone should make a charlie kirk movie and take a swing at him and Ayn Rand by calling it the Fountainhead.
Naturally MAGA will clutch their pearls so hard their hands bleed and then in the exact same moment tell you to get over it snowflake (this movie) because it's a free country.
everyday my hatred calcifies for MAGA, they are unworthy of redemption
That's brilliant. Take my money.
Of course it’s offensive, because if it weren’t, nobody would talk about it at all
Ben Shapiro doesn't just talk shit, he films it too.
Ben Shapiro eats pieces of shit for breakfast.
It’s being talked about…. So, mission accomplished. The best ring to do with these ghouls is to ignore them.
It's offensive specifically because that'll give it free advertising by outlets like this.
It’s a free market. People can just not buy the product.
An analogy to my point is Trump's election in 2016; he was elected as the Republican nominee specifically because of so many media outlets constantly reporting on all of the outrageous things he said at the expense of less extreme candidates.
The major reason Trump was made the GOP candidate was the Pied Piper strategy employed by the DNC and Hillary Clinton. They intentionally raised up Trump because they thought he would be an easy opponent to defeat.
If you think conservatives don't have agency because you don't actually consider other humans as people, I can see why you'd choose to blame a Democrat for Republican actions.
Nothing about the HRC having negative juice and being a total neoliberal ghoul
What is it with the blue hair with the cons?
Also, I still laugh that cons constantly talk about masculinity and manhood and testosterone and so on, and then....follow Ben Shapiro?
That guy comes off like such a little dweeb. He sounds like Squidward, and then there was that time this genius went to Home Depot...
They are scared by people that are different, and even more so of people that don't conform to their idea of what people should do and look like.
Blue hair is different. It's that simple. It starts with blue hair, and next thing you know they'll be advocating non-violence, caring for the poor, or.. horror of horrors, they may not be strictly heterosexual!
No bottom for these people
The first shot takes the [sic] Melanie in the neck, below her covid mask. The second in the head, above her covid mask.
They are trying to send some lame underlying message that masks don't protect you at all.
The ones the majority of people were using didn't. They protected other people from you, so obviously conservatives don't care about that at all.
I hope her family sues him too