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Johonny

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10. He got owned often enough by the students

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 10:19 AM

4 hrs ago

Don't make him debate even more educated people.

Kirk won when he could bluster and lie through a subject, which looks great on TicToc unless you know things. But often he didn't even survive with that. The dude had no substance, nothing worth saying, and won't be remembered because he isn't actually interesting. Move on.

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On Charlie Kirk's debates. [View all] applegrove 12 hrs ago OP

IMO, Kirk didn't "win" the debates so much as he employed a series no_hypocrisy 10 hrs ago #1

Yes, there are those tactics NJCher 10 hrs ago #3

Limbaugh's choice of logical fallacies was argumentum ad hominum (personal insults) no_hypocrisy 10 hrs ago #4

Not to mention NJCher 9 hrs ago #7

Exactly. I've watched too many of his "debates" on YouTube Orrex 5 hrs ago #9

He's dead. Iggo 10 hrs ago #2

So we can't discuss his debating style 2.5 weeks after? applegrove 10 hrs ago #5

LOL. All that from "He's dead"? Iggo 58 min ago #16

This Kirk is no more. mr715 32 min ago #18

He's being pumped up, but not by us. He's being turned into Horst Wessel, and that'll have consequences. Crunchy Frog 5 min ago #21

Why discuss him at all? Conjuay 37 min ago #17

So? niyad 9 hrs ago #8

I saw a booth dedicated to him at a Fall Festival in western PA yesterday Orrex 3 hrs ago #12

He did these bad faith debates just to own lefties & make fun of them for his social media SunImp 9 hrs ago #6

He was a piece of shit then, and a piece of shit now. Orrex 3 hrs ago #14

He got owned often enough by the students Johonny 4 hrs ago #10

Sartre's quote on anti-Semites springs to mind... sir pball 4 hrs ago #11

Damn. Nothing new under the sun. Orrex 3 hrs ago #13

Oscar Wilde had a good response for a time like this. Swede 2 hrs ago #15

Cambridge didn't go well at all. JanMichael 30 min ago #19

Just wrecked him. Totally. mr715 10 min ago #20