I've been trying for hours to properly gather my thoughts about the events of today. I feel horrible for his family, I feel horrible for his children who have to grow up without a father. Political violence is a terrible thing, gun violence is a terrible thing.
It's ironic though, isn't it? That he was shot by a cisgender white male while he was in the middle of using trans and black people as a scapegoat for gun violence. The gun violence that he himself claimed was "necessary to protect the second amendment."
How do we even know the gunshot wound is what killed him? It could've been a fentanyl overdose. That's what him and so many other MAGA cultists like him have been saying about George Floyd for half a decade.
I have zero empathy for him. In his own words, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up new are term, and it does a lot of damage."
He was a disgusting human being, and the rhetoric he spread put so many lives in danger, and I believe him to be a massive cause of Gen Z's far right radicalization. I cannot mourn him.
I try to be a good person and live my life with kindness and empathy for everybody, I truly do. However, you cannot expect me to cry for someone who made a career out of demonizing people like me and people I care about.
Regardless, I think the fact that something like this was able to happen in the first place is more disturbing than anything. But again, let's not act like that isn't what he was so strongly advocating for. I'm also very scared of the precedent this is going to set going forward. One less fascist walking the Earth, but I fear that many more have been made as a result of this. I’m scared of the wave of violence that’s going to result to this, regardless of politics.
It's kind of fascinating seeing the way people talk about this. Calling his white supremacist views and fascist rhetoric "opposing viewpoints." They make it sound like he just advocated for pineapple on pizza, instead of the hate towards women and minorities that he stood for. Makes me wonder how people would react if the internet was around during the times of Nazi Germany or the Confederacy.
For nearly two years now, both the Democratic and Republican parties have been endorsing and funding the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Where's the empathy for the 70,000 Palestinians that have been murdered by the IDF since October 7th 2023? Many of whom are children, mind you. Charlie Kirk said there's no such thing as a Palestinian.
Additionally, three children were shot in Colorado today. Charlie Kirk would've called it "a necessary consequence to protect the second amendment," or he would've found some way to blame trans people.
Last night, a transgender woman committed suicide, at the same spot where another trans person committed suicide just a few months ago. The latter of which was only 16 years old. Many people online mocked these deaths, including Z-List political cartoonist and professional Shmorky impersonator Stonetoss. These same people are mourning Charlie Kirk.
Think about his family, yes. But also think about the thousands of families who lose children to the gun violence he said was necessary. Think about the families of the Palestinians who have been killed, the Palestinians whom he denied the existence of. Think about the families of the trans victims of murder and suicide thanks to the hateful rhetoric him and so many others like him spread.
but what do i know lol. I know about as much as politics as Donald Trump knows about his own kids. The Epstein birthday letter leak must be a really awkward way to find out your dad DOES send birthday cards.
Song of the Day: That Handsome Devil - Charlie's Inferno
"You can run from your demons until you are exhausted, one day you will have to stop and find out what they wanted"
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