• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Four. He bankrupted 4 casinos, located in Atlantic City, between 1980 and 1995. That was literally the best time for every other casino in the country, and especially his neighbors. He stole so much he bankrupted four money printing machines.

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    Well, it seems Vegas has figured out the solution to their Taco-caused problems, and that is to double down on Taco by…honoring Kirk. I’m sure honoring a little-known Nazi podcaster will bring all that foreign tourism roaring back…

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      Just wait until the families realize the new profit avenues of robbing eachother’s understaffed establishments and their own for insurance.

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      I wish Kirk had been only ‘little-known’. Dude has poisoned the minds of generations.

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        I miss the days when the only weird group in the States was the westboro baptist church. Would love for hat little family clan in Topeka ks to be the only unhinged group out there again

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        Well, the kinds of people that were going to find him did indeed find him. Those of us with more political awareness obviously knew who he was.

        But it’s not like he had the pull of someone like Colbert or Kimmel…

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          Their reach was actually pretty similar although it is hard to make a linear comparison. The number I’m seeing for Jimmy Kimmel is that he averaged about 1.7 million views for his show. Charlie Kirk worked in a different platform and put out tons of videos, some only got 100K views, some were over 12 million. He has about 5 million followers.

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      I wish people knew they can just say nothing about him and be just fine. Anyone who doesn’t wish him death is kind of a cunt (sorry Bernie)

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        Charlie’s views were mainstream on the right. So when you say that, what the right hears is that you are wishing death on a third of our country. Bernie may or may not actually agree with you, but he isn’t stupid enough to say it out loud if he does.

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      It would be so funny if they drew fewer people in Vegas than they did in Oakland. Funnier still if the new stadium never gets finished and they have to move permanently to Sacramento. Maybe attendance there will improve if they actually admit they play there.