chapotraphouse

I think the more interesting thing is that even among white people the vast majority seem to be either indifferent in a "Yeah he brought it on himself" kind of way, or entirely positive about it.

It's only among activists (liberal and fascist), the political class and their media sphere trying to drum up the idea and invent a false reality where people are majority disgusted by this. I'm just not seeing it. Most people simply do not care or do in fact support it.

white cishet man here being driven absolutely bizonkers by my young (22) black coworker doing the pearl clutching liberalism over kirk to the point he got the sous chef to be like hey shut up about it

I explained how kirk was a mercenary in a war of propaganda that directly impacted him, he was literally his fucking enemy, and he's like oh yeah I agree. But then persists in this "it's wrong to cheer for ANYONE'S death" shit. Nothing that I say is getting this kid to understand that eulogizing Kirk and not dumping on him at absolutely every opportunity just helps empower the fascist ideology he helped spread. In fact, the more I say, the more convinced he seems to think Kirk was GOOD, actually, because he clearly thinks Im a fuckin idiot

I really, really hope he comes in to work one day going "wow, i read some Lenin and it turns out literally everything you've ever said is correct" but for now it's literally like a 50/50 chance of me hearing a good opinion from this kid or something that literally sounds like it came from the 60+ year old ex military crackers i work with and it's fucking killing me

One of the talking heads on CNN literally said "marketplace of ideas" today and I wanted to scream. Vicious, stupid, cruel country.

It's just telling really it went from you shouldn't kill people who you don't agree with to here's why making fun of him is bad. Him being got by a groyper should be a warning to libs that no matter how much you cozy up to the alt right they will kill you even prob even easier than they do their own side.

Liberals love tone and decorum. Pretty much anything is excusable, if said or done within the proper etiquette.

And A black student was just hanged at a university

This is a white supremacist nation, and I am starting to feel like I as a white person need new people

And we still don't have a motive. Meanwhile a Nazi shot up his school on the same day.

i think it's an across the board attempt to marginalize and de-emphasize proletarian violence on capitalist administrators and their puppets. [note: i don't think the shooter was like some actual leftist, but he wasn't exactly the owner of a dozen apartment complexes and a car dealership.] the narrative and outrage is ringing more and more hollow at every one of these moments. these rich fucks who profit from misery and death are getting publicly got by not-rich randoms, and this is the PR response to get us to stop laughing our asses off at this barking jackal getting his vocal chords clipped.

every platform is crying foul, insisting this is terrible, no-good, awful, a sign of decline and polarization. and every politician is promising to crack down harder. on what? laughing at it? go for it. telling the pissed off mob not to laugh at the one funny thing that happened in the last week always works.

real facts: broke and powerless people are getting lit the fuck up for the profit and power of an elite few constantly, and we are meant to ignore that. we are gifted endless distraction from imperial conflict and told to not worry about the millions unhoused, warehoused and victimized by state security services for profit. that's just the cost of doing business, stop being a debbie downer, focus on the positive!

it's fucking ridiculous and the media machine is red-lining every platform to gaslight us into giving a shit about one rich certified public asshole while simultaneously ignoring and normalizing the hundreds that died for the rich at the same moment.

people who make their money being some kind of opinion giver on capitalist owned platforms are gonna have to tone it down, because "online" is their place of employment. the rest of us anonymous freaks can keep posting LMAO about the last one, this one, and the next. and laughing even more at the people who are trying to stifle the celebration.

Really need to make a Kirk version of the quote as a meme. That might help with this sort of thing a bit.

Really do think the reaction to this is the canary in coal mine for us, this along with 100k+ protesters rallying against immigrants.

Need to get out asap but I really doubt that will happen. This wasn’t a crossing of the rubicon moment but they definitely, desperately wanted it to be and now it is, which makes it even more ominous