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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 14, 2025

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Earlier today, someone told me that Charlie Kirk once made derisive comments about Ryan Carson, a left-wing activist who was stabbed to death in New York two years ago. Googling "Charlie Kirk" "Ryan Carson" produces nothing promising. Can anyone confirm whether he really did say anything to this effect?

What's the point? If you can't find multiple sources with a casual search, then clearly it's not something that had been important about him, either as a person or as a public figure. Most likely he didn't say it, and somebody just invented it or perverted what he actually said to mean the opposite. Maybe he did in a stupid moment and deleted it, who knows. It doesn't matter. This only is relevant if you subscribe to the idiotic "inner demon" theory - which most of the social media peoples do, of course, because it's stupid - where nearly everybody is actually a vile demon, but you can't exorcise the demon unless you have "proof", and when they finally say something that you can attribute to a vile demon, that "reveals" their inner true nature and this is the only thing that matters about them now and forever, and you can ignore everything else, and proceed to the exorcism. You just need to be on the lookout when the demon reveals itself.

My search only found one related tweet.

I don't think it counts, but it wasn't (necessarily) made up from whole cloth by your friend.

related to this, can anyone actually find the whole MLK episode they did? I found an 8 minute preview beforehand, but nothing other than like a 1 paragraph excerpt

My first thought: "aha! I know how to find that!"

My second thought: "There is currently no publicly available evidence that anyone has found or posted the entire Turning Point USA episode focused on Martin Luther King Jr.; most online references point to either commentary, controversy, or short clips and discussions about the episode, but not the full unedited version itself."

Say what you will about AIs, they're the only thing that gets close to solving Russell's Teapot.

That means that a) either there are some secret repositories of content which a lot of people can access, but somehow nobody ever can publish anything from there and everybody who has access is bound by an unbreakable vow to deny their existence; or b) literally everybody discussing this does it without actually doing the basic thing like watching the content they are discussing. Which is extremely sad.

That sounds like it was expressing bafflement towards Carson's friends rather than the man himself. Close enough maybe.

It should be the job of the person making the claim to prove their position, not for the other side to prove someone didn't say something.

It was just mentioned in passing on a phone call, not in a written exchange.

I don't really get the point of this urge to either prove that Charlie, in particular, said x, or to prove that he didn't. Charlie said a lot of things, it's doubtful he meant all of them seriously; and most of his accusers are just ascribing every rotten thing ever said by a xitter Roman statue account to him.

I'm curious because I have an indirect personal connection to Carson.

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