By far the craziest thing anyone has said about that nazi guy getting a neck piercing was to blame it on democrats radicalizing the shooter. Democrats couldn't even 'radicalize' people to vote against their own annihilation under tyranny just because their name was attached. Like the overwhelming response from the voter base was to shrug and sit at home while their neighbors get disappeared to concentration camps. What radicalization? We haven't had real leftist political influence in this country since the communist purge during the Red Scare. I promise you the shooter wasn't a radical revolutionary.

This is a disgusting way to describe someone getting murder. Ask yourselves if Charlie Kirk had ever been violent in his life. He believed in free speech.

What do you mean? He was a lifelong advocate for gun violence on the side of gun violence. He told us not to mourn the victims, that their lives were an acceptable cost for keeping guns. He told us empathy was a new age term that's doing a lot of damage. All I'm doing is honoring his legacy the way he wanted me to.

Nah I'm just fucking with you. He said all that but he was talking about murdered children and the minorities nazis hate. He'd never say all that about his own self.

I have a couple questions

1. Where does he say that we should not mourn victims of shootings? I’m aware that he said that the cost of these lives is worth it to have Second Amendment Rights, but I don’t agree that he said not to mourn them.

2. What is the context of this statement of empathy? What I found was that he DID say that, but he said he preferred sympathy over empathy. Which makes sense. We can never fully understand each other, but we can feel sorry for the pain others go through. It’s egotistical to assumed we can fully understand.

And if we are talking about things we’ll never be able to find out, I would say that Charlie Kirk would still say you have the right to own a gun, even after his own murder with one.

Glad to help

1. April 2023 (possibly the 10th but I can't confirm the exact date) on the topic of mass shooting victims, many of which are of course children "We cannot allow them to emotionally hijack the narrative"

2. October 12 2022, while discussing bill clinton, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage. But, it is very effective when it comes to politics."

Further context is needed for this one because you're right, he did prefer sympathy over empathy. What he meant is that we should show a detached pity, rather than let ourselves be emotionally involved in other people's suffering. Trust me I know. My mom is the same way, and she's an upstanding Christian who even worked in child protective services. She left me to die homeless 20 minutes away by car while I pleaded for my life. She was very sympathetic the whole time i was slowly dying. That's the kind of sympathy Kirk is talking about. It's honestly worse than hate in some ways because it allows you to feel like a good Christian while you hurt the very people Jesus said to protect.

But back on track, to be clear, Charlie kirk was never pro gun. He was pro white people armed. There's a difference. He never spoke out against the racial disparity in who is allowed to be armed in this country without getting shot dead immediately by cops. Not unless it was in full support of the murder. With that in mind, let's continue with some more quotes

3. In November 2023, while defending billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who had endorsed an explicitly anti-Semitic post, Kirk said “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them,” and said that “the philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors in the country.”

He has also blamed jews for what he calls cultural Marxism, also 2023. Cultural Marxism is a well known nazi dogwhistle. Now let's get back into race. He sure loved to. I'm just gonna copy paste like I mostly have already because I'm not typing all that.

If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023

I could also find stuff about how he treats stoning gays as gods perfect law (anti gay is another comerstone of nazi ideology they blamed on the jews), but I think the point is clear. He saw threats in the face of everyone nazis hate, and wanted white people armed to face that threat even at the cost of children being gunned down in schools. He built his fortune on nazis, and when he failed to be extreme enough for them, they shot him dead.

His final speech was about mass shootings. He was trying to blame it on trans people. The last words out of his mouth were a racist dogwhistle.

Ironically enough, he is now also one of the victims of his own ideology. I didnt know they learned who it was when i typed the first post. I just call it like i see it and i was right. He thought he was safe in conservative Utah. But he was wrong. Most gun violence is committed by white conservative men. And that's exactly what killed him.

I don’t have all the time right in one sitting so bear with my here if it does sound not all connected.

1. “We can’t allow them to emotionally hijack the narrative,” is still not a statement to NOT mourn victims of shootings. It’s a statement of we can’t make/ force these decisions based on emotions. Which COULD be problematic in its own right, but I would agree that decisions like these need to be made using logic instead of emotion. I used to hate this rhetoric when I was anti-gun, but more dumb people with cars kill people than dumb people with guns kill people. Should we ban cars?

2. I’m sorry that your mother was so horrible to you that she left her own blood to die on the street. You’ve made it for a reason, you’re built of something stronger that your mother couldn’t kill. But I still want to say that his Sympathy is not the same as that. That is not true sympathy. True sympathy (in my opinion) is being human to/ with someone you can’t understand

3. You got this quote from “TRTWORLD”? I see that exactly on the website under subtitle “4 - Casting Jews as drivers of “anti-white” politics. There is a link to “Media Matters for America” under the subtitle “3 - The number one funding mechanism is Jewish Donors” that actually goes more into his view on the tweet that Elon Musk endorsed. Here are SOME of the quotes that I picked up from that site.

“Now I don't like generalizations. Not every Jewish person believes that. But it is true, the Anti-Defamation League was part and parcel with Black Lives Matter. It is true that some of the largest financiers of left-wing anti-white causes have been Jewish Americans”

“We came, we actually said it in a different way. We said, I'm glad that Jewish Americans are reconsidering their financing of cultural Marxism, and people misunderstood it intentionally and slandered us as being antisemites.

But listen to this. Tucker Carlson is completely correct by saying this, that the philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors in the country.”

Regarding the quotes he stated about those that are Black, I’m not gonna fact-check those. I can believe that he made those statements but not because he hates black people. Those quotes (the comment about “prowling Blacks” excepted) are about Affirmative Action. Affirmative action IS wrong. People who were minorities in the past (hate to say it as a non-white person, Black people aren’t minorities anymore. I’d say Natives still are but that is a different conversation) were able to get jobs without Affirmative Action as long as they were considered a person legally (which all races have been for a while).

Those statements could work for any group positively affected by Affirmative Action but Black people are the majority of so. Let’s say you only have two people applying to be Surgeons. One is white and one is not white, BUT only the white person is qualified. If Affirmative Action were involved, they would HAVE to hire the non-white person. I don’t think we are seeing the full consequences of Affirmative Action because there were plenty of non-white people qualified for positions.

Honestly, I do find his “customer-service” point to be a very weak comparison. You don’t have to be that qualified to work in customer service.

This was my fault for opening this can of worms, but I don’t think any of things he had said meant he deserved this vitriol. Really, very few people do.

By far the craziest thing anyone has said about that nazi guy getting a neck piercing was to blame it on democrats radicalizing the shooter. Democrats couldn't even 'radicalize' people to vote against their own annihilation under tyranny just because their name was attached. Like the overwhelming response from the voter base was to shrug and sit at home while their neighbors get disappeared to concentration camps. What radicalization? We haven't had real leftist political influence in this country since the communist purge during the Red Scare. I promise you the shooter wasn't a radical revolutionary.

This is a disgusting way to describe someone getting murder. Ask yourselves if Charlie Kirk had ever been violent in his life. He believed in free speech.

What do you mean? He was a lifelong advocate for gun violence on the side of gun violence. He told us not to mourn the victims, that their lives were an acceptable cost for keeping guns. He told us empathy was a new age term that's doing a lot of damage. All I'm doing is honoring his legacy the way he wanted me to.

Nah I'm just fucking with you. He said all that but he was talking about murdered children and the minorities nazis hate. He'd never say all that about his own self.

I have a couple questions

1. Where does he say that we should not mourn victims of shootings? I’m aware that he said that the cost of these lives is worth it to have Second Amendment Rights, but I don’t agree that he said not to mourn them.

2. What is the context of this statement of empathy? What I found was that he DID say that, but he said he preferred sympathy over empathy. Which makes sense. We can never fully understand each other, but we can feel sorry for the pain others go through. It’s egotistical to assumed we can fully understand.

And if we are talking about things we’ll never be able to find out, I would say that Charlie Kirk would still say you have the right to own a gun, even after his own murder with one.

Ya'll I'm genuinely concerned with how much I'm starting to not care.

Last November I was so so scared and sad because of what I knew would happen now because of the 🍊. I was so distraught and actually started reading a newsletter daily so I could at least be informed about the world going down in flames.

Now I read that very same newsletter and I can't seem to make myself feel anything about the horrible things going down.

Is this what our future holds? Even the best, most empathetic people getting beaten down by the absolute insanity that is occurring? Are we all doomed to indifference while people, OUR PEOPLE are dying?

So ...

But the real question is, “Was Tyler Robinson conservative?” His dad being conservative (who convinced his son to turn himself in) as no relevance to Tyler’s political leaning. Cause his dad didn’t shoot him

That “right-winger” had no record of voting, and the only indication of political-leaning with the information given at the moment is that he became more political as time went on. His parents were politically conservative (who convinced him to turn himself in) and his transgender partner (from my understanding they’re romantically involved) helped with the investigation. Got this info from CNN and CTV.

By far the craziest thing anyone has said about that nazi guy getting a neck piercing was to blame it on democrats radicalizing the shooter. Democrats couldn't even 'radicalize' people to vote against their own annihilation under tyranny just because their name was attached. Like the overwhelming response from the voter base was to shrug and sit at home while their neighbors get disappeared to concentration camps. What radicalization? We haven't had real leftist political influence in this country since the communist purge during the Red Scare. I promise you the shooter wasn't a radical revolutionary.

This is a disgusting way to describe someone getting murder. Ask yourselves if Charlie Kirk had ever been violent in his life. He believed in free speech.

Remember when there was massive criticism of Chris Christie asking for flags to be flown at half-staff for Whitney Houston. Anyway now you might get fired if you say it's dumb to fly a flag at half-staff for a guy who only made Nazi podcasts

As a Liberal, I know calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi is ridiculous. Charlie Kirk believed in the freedom of EVERYONE. He would not be able to put people in a gas chamber to kill them. If anything, he would defend your RIGHT to say that it’s dumb to fly a flag at half-staff for any person.

Side note: Respect should be given for anyone’s life, but Whitney Houston died from a drug overdose and was definitely not an active political figure. His life was cut short not by his choosing, trying to bridge communication between everyone without violence. A better comparison would he MLK Jr. if people want to make it about race. They did fly the flag at half-mast for him.

And Charlie Kirk definitely made it to Heaven for that one reply.

How to Emotionally Destroy Readers

✩ Gut-punches are about timing. You don't say “I love you” during the sunset. You say it in the middle of a burning building or right after they stab you.

✩ A single line of dialogue like “you were supposed to come back” hits harder than an entire page of poetic mourning.

✩ Don’t just break their hearts, break their sense of identity. Make them question who they are, what they stand for, and if it was ever worth it (That’s premium pain.)

✩ Let someone be forgiven… but not trusted again. That's the kind of heartbreak that lingers like smoke.

✩ Sometimes the most devastating line is the one they don’t say. Silence is a character too.

✩ Give them a moment of joy. Right before everything falls apart. Hope makes the fall hurt more.

✩ Someone saying “I forgive you” through tears? Powerful. Someone saying “I still love you but I can’t stay”? Absolutely soul shattering.

✩ If they die, don’t describe the death. Describe the aftermath. The coat left hanging by the door. The mug still on the table. The dog waiting.

not the same but this is the type of energy y’all have trying to tell people fanfics that contain dark content, triggering topics or problematic ships are bad and should not exist

actually I may have made something

The Bridge

There's a bridge. The path is well-worn. It has long been traversed. There are even guides to get across.

But it is still a scary trip. It is difficult to start. All you need do is put one foot forward. It is said there is a spot in the middle with the best view. You could meet me there. But I am happy to walk the full distance. Just tell me you will be there to find me.

Source: The Bridge

Rumi / Mira / Zoey by Jiunn Kuo

my dad's wildlife photography would do numbers on here

ok permission granted everyone look at this fat sandpiper

love playing fictional video game and doing whatever i want in fictional video game. because i'm possessed of the ability to differentiate between reality and fiction

besides purity culture rearing its ugly head, i'm 99% sure these terrible takes come from people who, like. self-insert in every single game they play. to the extent that they struggle to conceptualize characters apart from their Idealized Selves - who struggle to relate to characters who have different values and life experiences, biases and fears - much less inhabit those characters and explore their narrative. which is a failure of imagination. not something to brag about.

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

If the solution to your problems sounds like “we need a blank slate” it’s a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is “burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out”.

That’s not problem solving. It’s barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn’t just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.

Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.

Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to “us good, them evil; kill them.”

[image transcript:

Voting as Fire Extinguisher

When the haunted house catches fire: a moment of indecision.

The house was, after all, built on bones, and blood, and bad intentions.

Everyone who enters the house feels that overwhelming dread, the evil that perhaps only fire can purge.

It’s tempting to just let it burn.

And then I remember:

there are children inside.

—Kyle Tran Myhre. end id]

sliding scale of posts about Jesus being a carpenter who was nailed to a cross

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

Edinburgh - Scotland (by Neeraj Pramanik)

grassy path in sea breeze

The new ‘AI’ Scottish voice being used by ScotRail is being used without the consent of the voice actor.

Professional VA, Gayanne Potter wrote the following on Facebook.