The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right
Fuck that, they just assassinated two Dems in Minnesota.
Why aren’t people saying that and the rights reaction to it caused violence?
Why is the rights use of violence accepted as inevitable, but if anyone else does it, people pearl clutch and say it might make the right do what they’re already doing?
And besides all that:
We dont know who fired the shot
Two trump voters have shot at trump, why is it a foregone conclusion a trump supporter wouldn’t shoot at Charlie Kirk?
He preached exactly what happened to him.
So now you endorse his policies, when it suits you.
No
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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gosh i must be stupid i’ve never even heard of copability! the issue isn’t charlie and his behaviour. it’s the behaviour and statements of the people responding to that which is presently at question. you’re endorsing political violence and the withholding of empathy. you’re a good little disciple of Charlie.
I’m endorsing the golden rule. Charlie Kirk endorsed violence, racism and homophobia just to name a few. This is exactly what he wanted, just not to happen to him. The shooter thought Charlie wasn’t conservative enough, by the way.
withholding of empathy
Do you think there are any situations where it is reasonable to withhold empathy?
From my understanding the Kirk fellow was a demagogue who was happy to promote all sorts of vile ideas for personal enrichment.
From my time in the US, I understand that this sort of thinking is haram, but I have enough knowledge of comparable demagogues in other countries to not buy into the “sincere belief” gibberish.
If you take the articles content — rather than it’s title — as a warning for what comes next, it’s accurate and reasonable. What the article fails to consider is that what comes next was always inevitable. Republicans have spent months trying to create violent backlash. They needed an escalation — any escalation — to justify the greater atrocities they have openly planned. Declaring vulnerable minorities as dangerous and mentally ill, declaring political opponents the same, imprisoning American citizens and enacting an ethnic-ideological Final Solution in the US.
Kirk’s assassination wasn’t the start of this and it’s not the end of it. He was a convenient sacrificial pawn for the Trump administration and the violent, oppressive, bloodthirsty, goose-stepping nazi party behind him. It will get worse. Much worse. And then it will get worse still. As of November 5, 2024, the US was damned to violent, horrific ends.
If you cannot fight for your very life and your loved ones, find a way out now. Time is not on your side.
provide[s] Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent.
Donald doesn’t need a pretext. He literally sent the military to Chicago on a whim. Earlier this week. Before Charlie died.
Why are people so afraid of giving him a pretext? He killed ten people on a boat in the Caribbean for no apparent reason. A literal war crime.
Someone said Jacobin is the Happy Meal of socialist publication but I think that’s a slight against happy meals.
I wasn’t sure if people were only posting it’s worst takes, or it’s really gotten that bad. But every Jacobin article I’ve seen on here for months has absolutely missed the mark.
No, it’s absolutely not.
It was going to happen anyway. Look at how Trump was going to invade Chicago with the National Guard before this happened. Now he chickened out.
