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NYT publishes court documents for Tyler Robinson, alleged Charlie Kirk shooter (includes text messages between Tyler Robinson and roommate)
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Very admirable motivations. But this is simply the most dangerous thing you could do to your roommate and every trans person in the country. I wish these people could think for a second.
Yeah he's not wrong but his adventurism is just further making the Trump admin digging into wanting to do a purge of the left.
Like they weren't gonna do it anyway.
That's always been the plan. There's a major incident of violence every month in this country. They've just been waiting for one they can spin as part of an antifa plot or some bullshit. Part of the reason they are going nuts with ICE raids and occupying cities with the military is to provoke a violent response.
If the political opposition had any backbone they would copy the response the right always makes whenever another school get shot up. "Just because one irresponsible gun owner does something bad, doesn't mean all gun owners are bad" type shit. But they hate the left, so they will go along with it. Biden started going the way of political repression and free speech restrictions with the the anti-genocide protests.
This country is fucked.
If you don't piss off the nazis already indirectly genociding and legislating you into nonexistence (Florida is the vanguard for that, under certain easily met conditions you can end up getting the death penalty simply for being trans in the wrong place) then the nazis won't keep doing that.
You're right that this will definitely cause a major backlash but at the same time the implication that possibly fed up or unhinged partners, friends, relatives, allies may randomly and unpredictably pick up guns and start taking out these 2010s era GOP shock jocks and trolls (they all received funding from GOP billionaires pretty early) can be a deterrent. It used to be common sense that you can't be publicly incendiary and an extremist agitator against marginalized minorities unless you had damn good security.
Kirk etc all started as rage porn creators owning libs, triggering the libs etc and were begging for over the top reactions to get views. Charlie just peaked at his game.
Adventurism, I agree, probably not a great tactic or strategy. If for no other reason that, an adventurist that has relatives or close friends, there won't be a militant support network that can offer some physical protection against retaliatory violence.
But this guy didn't trigger the right wing pogroms against people who happen to be transgender. That's already been going on, and it wouldn't be less of a pogrom against the transgender community as whole or individuals specifically if he didn't end Charlie Kirk's life.
Any act of resistance to the pogroms, whether adventurist violence or attempts at peaceful non-violent education of the masses, are pretty much always categorized as an existential threat to the right wing project and given the same "its the end of the world!" treatment by the fascists.
And the simple ... beauty... of the situation is that all the fascists have to do is wait a bit for any push back against them to happen. I don't think its an issue of "not thinking it through for a second." When the right wing keeps doing really bad things long enough and somebody, somewhere, is going to think, "Welp, I guess I'm supposed to do something and I've got access to a gun and a member of the fascists is going to be sitting out in a public place in a week... so... I guess that's something I could do."
Not wrong.