"Charlie Kirk was important to a lot of losers in this country. There's a psychological reason for that. The same people who call college a scam are the same ones who love college football. These guys would have done anything to go to their favorite school and party with beautiful women. They wanted that life desperately, but they were either too scared to leave home or too low IQ to get into college. So they did what losers do. They pretended that college was beneath them, even though they were too scared to go. Then Charlie Kirk showed up, walked onto college campuses, and argued in bad faith with teenage college kids. He said lie after lie really fast. No one could keep up with his lies. If they did get close to proving what he said was false, Kirk would just talk over them like a bully. He didn't normalize debate. He normalized verbal abuse and bullying. Just like his audience of losers, who thought bullying people by speaking over them was an acceptable thing to do. A teenage college kid is not going to out-debate a 33-year-old man who has spent years practicing how to lie really fast, and then talk over people and scream fake news. He normalized verbal abuse and humiliation over real debate. But to the untrained eye, which every Charlie Kirk fan was absolutely untrained, it looked like he was owning the libs. Researcher Helger Schaustad at the Norwegian School of Economics studied what happens to people's perception of their goals after they failed to achieve those goals. He found that when people failed to get something they wanted, they did not accept their failure and move on. They rewrite the story in their head to protect their fragile ego. He called this the sour grape effect. These losers watched Kirk humiliate teenage college kids on camera, and thought that was the evidence that their failure in life was not failure at all. All they had to do is think everything Charlie Kirk thinks, and then they'll be smarter than all the kids who went to college. When Charlie Kirk died, they were not upset about the man dying. They were just upset that the whole you're cool if you didn't go to college excuse died that day."