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SunImp

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6. He did these bad faith debates just to own lefties & make fun of them for his social media

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:44 AM

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His youtube channel is filled with "Lefty owned", "Dumb purple haired feminist", "Liberal brainrot" videos. I don't think he ever went "I was wrong you've changed my mind on this". Channels like these are just tools for the right to dehumanize & vilify their opponents.

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On Charlie Kirk's debates. [View all] applegrove Sunday OP

IMO, Kirk didn't "win" the debates so much as he employed a series no_hypocrisy Sunday #1

Yes, there are those tactics NJCher Sunday #3

Limbaugh's choice of logical fallacies was argumentum ad hominum (personal insults) no_hypocrisy Sunday #4

Not to mention NJCher Sunday #7

Exactly. I've watched too many of his "debates" on YouTube Orrex Sunday #9

He's dead. Iggo Sunday #2

So we can't discuss his debating style 2.5 weeks after? applegrove Sunday #5

LOL. All that from "He's dead"? Iggo Sunday #16

This Kirk is no more. mr715 Sunday #18

He's being pumped up, but not by us. He's being turned into Horst Wessel, and that'll have consequences. Crunchy Frog Sunday #21

Why discuss him at all? Conjuay Sunday #17

So? niyad Sunday #8

I saw a booth dedicated to him at a Fall Festival in western PA yesterday Orrex Sunday #12

He did these bad faith debates just to own lefties & make fun of them for his social media SunImp Sunday #6

He was a piece of shit then, and a piece of shit now. Orrex Sunday #14

He got owned often enough by the students Johonny Sunday #10

Sartre's quote on anti-Semites springs to mind... sir pball Sunday #11

Damn. Nothing new under the sun. Orrex Sunday #13

Oscar Wilde had a good response for a time like this. Swede Sunday #15

Cambridge didn't go well at all. JanMichael Sunday #19

Just wrecked him. Totally. mr715 Sunday #20