(September 11, 2025 at 4:37 am)Belacqua Wrote: Yeah, I think that all the rhetoric against Trump makes some people forget that there are FAR WORSE people out there looking for power. And shooting the less bad ones are just going to give the worse ones more energy.
I doubt it.
Quote:Charlie Kirk was NOT my idea of a model thinker. But he consistently said that talking is better than violence. He was harshly criticized by the real Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists, for refusing to support a flat-out white ethnostate, for hiring non-whites, and for supporting Israel.
Supporting israel ain't exactly something that makes person moral. In fact supporting israel in light of it committing genocide means that one is scum or misinformed at best. Also he might have criticized neo-nazis (which also isn't exactly high bar to clear) but other shit he said made him a scumbag. Perhaps he shouldn't be killed but thousands die daily and no one mourns or eulogize them even when they're far better human beings.
Quote:Now all those extremists are going to say they have proof that liberals are violent murderers who will go to any length to stop free speech. And that means that his fans may well conclude that assassinations should be met with counter-assassinations. That's not going to make the country better.
Aren't they saying it already? Since when extremists need any reason to spout propaganda nonsense?
Quote:At a certain point we have to remember what happened when Sergei Kirov got killed. If Trump is as bad as people say, and he's ready to be the new Stalin, then he's been handed his Sergei Kirov moment.
Increasing the violence won't make anything better.
We also have to remember that one of theories surrounding Kirov death claims that Stalin was behind it.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
