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Subject: Re: [OT] Charlie Kirk assassinated
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On Sep 11, 2025 at 9:11:49 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On 9/11/2025 1:56 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> 
>>  I saw him all the time on Facebook reels, which are intrusive little very
>>  short videos they force on you. I didn’t know his name. The stuff they
>>  showed on Facebook was very carefully culled to have him responding to some
>>  stupendously stupid idiot who would make some moronic claim along the lines
>>  of that men start menstruating as soon as they declare themselves as women
>>  so he didn’t have a lot of difficulty coming back at them.
> 
> I feel like there's a name for that sort of opponent. "Clay pigeon"?

That was always the complaint from the students that would come to the mic to
debate him-- that his encyclopedic knowledge of everything from American
history to biology to the Bible wasn't fair and he was just using both his
superior knowledge and superior rhetorical talent to 'beat up on a bunch of
unprepared kids' and make them look bad.

Of course that was nonsense. No one was forcing them to the mic. If they
wanted to step up and debate him on a subject of *their* choice, it was
certainly no excuse that he knew the facts and figures better than they did.
They could have researched what they wanted to say ahead of time and come
similarly armed. It's certainly not his fault that nearly every one of them
failed to do so.