Charlie Kirk’s sudden shooting at a Utah university has shoved a lot of his old takes back into the spotlight. And one of the oldest debates he loved to stoke has popped up again. Media coverage of the attack showed the event unfolded while Kirk was taking questions from a crowd, and subsequent reporting framed the incident as an assassination that sparked a massive manhunt. In the days after that shock, clips of Kirk debating basketball culture and the Michael Jordan versus LeBron James conversation began circulating again. And people noticed how those clips land differently now that his voice is gone.

Kirk’s GOAT rhetoric is the sort that gets clipped and replayed because it mixes history with provocation and leaves room for argument. In one viral reel Kirk went back and forth with a fa

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