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Setting aside the crazed "magic bullet/second shooter/faked with AI" conspiracy views on the Charlie Kirk assassination, are there any takes on it wilder than this one:
(And also, what do you even call this type of position/argument?)
Not exactly a take or an argument, but there's a billboard in my town with Charlie's face on it and the phrase "Well Done Good and Faithful Servant, Well Done." And it's sponsored by a prominent local Republican family. And every time I pass it I'm deeply uncomfortable, like passing Dr. T.J. Eckleberg on my way to the Hamptons.
The phrasing is weird. Who is speaking? Was Charlie the servant of this local Republican family? Or are they speaking/writing as God? Because that's just so disturbing and arrogant, you don't write as God. And how is it appropriate to say Well Done to Charlie at this time? I mean, sure, say the guy was a good guy, you can even say he achieves more as a martyr (Joe Hill or Horst Wessel as your opinion runs], but it's just so off-putting to say "Well Done" for dying. This wasn't Charlie doing well, this wasn't what Charlie wanted, he wanted to be alive raising his kids.
And why is a private individual sponsoring it? It would be one thing for the local Republican party, or even a local evangelical church, to do it. But just a guy? It's weird and self centered.
I'm bothered by it every time I drive by it.
It’s a quote from the parable of the talents, and is definitely meant to be from God saying that Charlie lived a righteous life and is now with God. That meaning will be patently obvious to any practicing Christian, and pretty clear to those of us exposed to a lot of the Christian memetic superstructure in American culture.
It’s a bit surprising to me that it’s non-obvious to you. That’s not meant as a criticism, more as an acknowledgment of my own blind spots. I suppose that the superstructure has significantly eroded over the last 50 years to the point that even the most basic points of the Christian memeplex are no longer part of the general culture.
I didn't mention the bible verse because I don't think it makes the usage any less bizarre in context.
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