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      Probably. I get the feeling he’s more enthusiastic about being a propaganda head and will say anything for a buck or a spotlight.

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    I’ll save you the time of reading the article. Kirk is just going on a racist rant.

    He even starts by saying he’s not a racist because he likes a black person. Clarence Thomas of all people.

    Then he starts listing people of color who don’t count as Americans, and makes up whatever excuse is convenient. This one has dual citizenship, for example.

    It’s just racism.

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      Wonder what he thinks of all the US/Israeli dual citizens, including all the US citizens serving in the IOF.

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        Publicly probably lauds them for “defending western civilization” or whatever.

        Privately I’d say he thinks they’re either useful idiots or the key to the rapture.

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      He even starts by saying he’s not a racist because he likes a black person. Clarence Thomas of all people.

      Clarence Thomas who hates black people almost as much as Stephen Miller hates Jewish people. On brand for the microface for sure.

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    If Charlie Kirk is the barometer for what’s American, then I will gladly be called un-American.

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    People need to remember that conservatives are full of shit and always have been. They never meant so very many things, and just one of their lies is that they were only concerned about “illegal” immigration.

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      It’s not just immigrants at this point, he is implying that anyone who isn’t MAGA is outside of tolerable politics (unAmerican) and they deserve to get deported. Fascism.

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    Tell me you want a race war without telling me you want a race war.

    “I’m just asking a very simple question. If you’re not an American, that’s fine. Go back to your place of origin. I’m not going to hurt you. I’m not going to harm you. I’m not going to imprison you. Just go back. Hasta la vista.”

    The natural leap for his listeners is that if those people don’t go back where they came from, then they should be hurt. They should be harmed. Then he throws in a “hasta la vista” at the end. Hearing that come out of a white guy’s mouth always makes me think of Terminator 2.

    I very much doubt his fans socialize with any Spanish speakers, not that the phrase is in common usage by Spanish speakers from what I understand. So that movie is probably the first thing to pop into his audience’s heads too when they hear the phrase.

    Kirk rants about people he considers non-Americans, rants about them not speaking in English, says he won’t hurt those people if they leave the USA (which automatically implies he will hurt them if they don’t), then throws in a non-English phrase that his audience will almost certainly associate with a killing machine. Sure sounds like stochastic terrorism to me.