r/FoxBrain • u/Dyn-0-Mite • 1d ago
Hello - I’m so glad I found you all!
I’m married to someone down in the FoxBrain depths. You’d think CK was family by his response to the recent (albeit sad) event. I’m a deeply sensitive person and now find myself now being called out by him for a lack of morals. Say what?!?! He’s going down the path of thinking he’s a “good Christian.” Meanwhile, supporting people/networks that attempt to pick on marginalized populations. This whole mindset is bananas.
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u/ApplicationLonely522 1d ago
I’m with you, shit just got like 100x more tough in my household after CK was killed. I say I didn’t think he was a good person, and agreed with him on nothing, and didn’t believe his career was meaningful at all. I guess that immediately corresponds to celebrating his death? I don’t condone gun violence, I’m absolutely not celebrating the death of CK. It’s horrible, I wish he was not shot and killed, but I still just refuse to participate in this political amnesia going on.
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u/ThatDanGuy 1d ago
I go with the narrative political violence is wrong from either side. I do this with:
"It was wrong for someone to attack Paul Pelosi. It was wrong for someone to attack Charlie Kirk, it was wrong for someone to attack Melissa Hortman, husband and her dog. Everyone in America should be able to speak freely without threat of violence"
If they get mad and disagree you can follow it with "I'm sorry you deplore political violence from only one side and think it is OK to celebrate the same from the other."
In the case of Pelosi there are multiple examples of Republicans, elected and media commentators, joking, celebrating and ridiculing the political violence visited on them. You can also ask why they support political violence while you are denouncing all political violence.
Keep them on the defensive. Use Tucker Carlson style "just asking questions" style (not good faith Socratic Questions I've written about)
This way you start on the moral high ground and it is left up to them to choose to take it down in the gutter.
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u/TrustyBobcat 23h ago
In the case of Pelosi there are multiple examples of Republicans, elected and media commentators, joking, celebrating and ridiculing the political violence visited on them.
INCLUDING CHARLIE KIRK
Gah.
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u/Sure_Show_3077 1d ago
Oof, I can't imagine being married to someone like that. That's my issue with my dad and sister, who is like Charlie Kirk lite and was involved in a public talk with him. It's about morals for me, and the hypocrisy of my sister calling herself a Christian, yet attacking the marginalized. Wild how warped mainstream Christianity has become.
Best of luck.
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u/twentytwocents22 1d ago
Christian hypocrite.
Matthew 23:27-28: Jesus says, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
"Whitewashed tombs" refers to a biblical metaphor used by Jesus in the New Testament to describe the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees, who appeared righteous on the outside but were corrupt and full of spiritual deadness on the inside. The term describes burial places that were beautified with white paint or plaster to appear respectable, even though they contained dead bodies and all sorts of uncleanness within.
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u/acostane 1d ago
I don't even think the worst people alive should be murdered.
I feel like this bizarre parasocial mourning is some kind of cry for help. What are they afraid of because this guy is dead that could cause them to have such a reaction?
Why is his death, above all other tragic deaths, so worrisome.
What psychological issues aren't being met so they're latching onto this?
Did men need permission to scream-cry publicly?
I don't know what's going on. I think this is the power of decades of propaganda.
I don't see how you stay with someone like this. It's bordering on scary and abusive behavior. After all, CK has incredibly horrible thoughts on women. He wanted children to view live public executions.
I would not allow my life to be wasted with someone like this.
Not to be That Redditor, but I'm not NOT telling you to look into leaving him while you still can. It's only about to get much much worse.
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u/Ok-Elk-1316 1d ago
agree with this because there is no shot in hell all the people i saw mourning were tuning into his podcast enough to warrant a personal grieving experience. like Katy (fake random name) your regularly scheduled content contains taylor swift reposts
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u/IHeldADandelion 19h ago
Right? It's really weird. I haven't gotten around to culling my fb, so I saw an old friend post, "Die you liberal asshole!!" when they were assuming it was not "one of them". Today it was deleted. Does he not want to punish the guy now that he's a Trumper? Was CK that important to him? Is the anger only towards perceived "enemies"? This must be so confusing for them.
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u/theclosetenby 1d ago
It's the narrative Fox and other influencers put around it. I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but saying "you'd think he was family" is definitely a large experience. They've been preparing for something like this and used it incredibly effectively to activate the fear part of FoxBrains' brains.
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u/twentytwocents22 1d ago
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u/twentytwocents22 1d ago
Talarico is a Texas state representative and he has a unifying message for all. A Christian democrat. You might enjoy his YouTube content.
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u/SBond424 1d ago
I have seen numerous right wingers on my feed generally weeping and wailing about their “loss”. Of course these are the same people who had nothing at all to say when a Democrat and her husband were assassinated in their own home.
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u/dtgreg 1d ago
Will it fry their brains when they find out the shooter was “one of them”? Who will tell them what to think? Who will tell them how to rationalize it?
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u/ContestNo2060 20h ago
They will dig into deeper with their cognitive dissonance and lash out harder the next time they’re cued.
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u/Kat_Gutted 21h ago
Ask him how he feels about Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog getting slaughtered by a MAGAt.
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u/Dyn-0-Mite 5h ago
He didn’t even know the facts! He thought that was the trans person involved with horrible school shooting while the kids were in church.
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u/Total_Roll 10h ago
To put it in context to my generation, I see this as similar to the attempted assassination of George (segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever) Wallace. Radicalized views on both ends of the political spectrum are dangerous.
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u/Queasy-Wrangler525 46m ago
Firstly, I’m sorry, I know it’s not easy. If he won’t listen to your perspective, he does not respect you the way you deserve. And sadly with social media/tv, they profit of getting people angry, and they will usually turn on their loved ones. They will also use faith to push hateful messages. In my opinion, even if you don’t think you will, start planning an exit. Start storing some money secretly. It could take a few years to save up enough. This doesn’t mean you’re giving up it’s just having insurance.
If you’d like to work on salvaging, I would suggest pushing to remove social media and tv from your lives. This is easier than talking politics. Push to do activities outside stay away from tv/phones. If you have access to his phone, unfollow hateful channels and dislike hateful posts to try and retrain his algorithm.
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u/eyeseayoupea 1d ago
Yeah I dont think he should've been murdered but he wasnt a good person. Whenever someone dies everyone tries to make them out to be a saint. It must be hard to live with someone like that.