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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 10, 2025 10:22 PM)
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MAGA social media users are blaming South Park for the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday.
In the shock following the shooting, conservative critics pointed to the Aug. 6, 2025 episode of the cartoon called “Got a Nut,” in which Eric Cartman plays a version the late conservative influencer, as a factor motivating the attack.
In the episode, Cartman goes to college campuses for open “debates,” like Kirk. He also adopts Kirk’s hairstyle and mannerisms. The episode culminated with the awarding of the “Charlie Kirk Award for Young Masterdebaters.” Kirk described the parody as “hilarious” in a TikTok posted Aug. 7.
“You know what, f— it. Let’s blame South Park,” wrote one angry conservative commenter on X. “Blame the media. Blame leftist rhetoric. These people hate you and want to see you dead. If they’ll kill Charlie Kirk and piss on his grave, they’ll do it to any of us.”
Another posted, “South Park certainly fomented the hatred necessary to get Kirk assassinated.”
“Trey Parker and Matt Stone are responsible for this,” posted a third.
And the popular account Johnny MAGA wrote, “South Park attacking Charlie Kirk’s college campus events and mocking his Christian faith just a few weeks ago,” along with a clip from the episode, adding, “Monsters.”
The Daily Beast has reached out to Comedy Central for comment.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 10, 2025 11:00 PM)
There is no "left" to speak of in the United States. We have a far-right party and a center-right party. And, yes, they are paid by their donors to keep it that way. There is no other explanation for the Democratic Party's complete failure to adjust their strategy and messaging whatsoever after more than a decade of faux populism like the Tea Party and MAGA being politically viable.
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/.ㅤ — 6 months ago(September 10, 2025 11:04 PM)
both sides want big government to solve problems, if that's what you mean by "right".
then there's conservative ways to go about it and progressive ways to go about it.
that's what modern left and right are.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 10, 2025 11:10 PM)
In a libertarian sense, neither of them are "right." I only meant that Democrats in the U.S. are to the right of Conservative parties in most developed nations. Minus a handful of free spirits on both sides of the aisle (who are, of course, kept from gaining any real power or influence) the parties work for their corporate masters. The assigned roles in the current era seem to be the Republicans as the Harlem Globetrotters, doing whatever the **** they want to do, and Democrats as the Washington Generals, who do nothing to stop it.
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/.ㅤ — 6 months ago(September 10, 2025 11:18 PM)
i don't really care to debate about semantics when it's really just a uniparty
the globetrotters and the generals both need to exist for the plebs to enjoy the show
the sponsors need the show to distract the plebs
and when the plebs have guns, you need a really big show
