"Protect your neck, kid."
Charlie Kirk had his life taken yesterday while speaking at an event in Utah. Given his importance to the Trump administration, being credited with giving Trump the youth vote, I can already see the mental gymnastics happening. I'm not somebody that wishes death upon anyone (well, except when I was watching 9/11 coverage live and was understanding just how much life was lost,) but even Mr. Kirk himself offered up how we should feel in situations like this.
Based on the views he expressed, nobody should be mourning the loss of this man, he is now just another statistic ensuring we keep our rights, and extending empathy is only going to cause harm. That is just simply the cost of having armed citizenry, right? Charlie Kirk was somebody that argued in support of this white male supremacy movement that's unfolding in front of us, his morals and ethics wove neatly with the predominately white "Christian" men that are currently protecting pedophiles.
It is my honest belief that if I did hold faith in a higher being, that I would feel like we're transcending to one of those "flood the Earth" situations. The level of unthinkable a lot of this has gotten to is, frankly, perturbing, and the mindless, nonsensical support of it really tints reality as some sort of fever dream. There are just too many people that have willingly forgotten the most important rule:
“Therefore, in all things, whatever you want people to do for you, so do for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Matthews 7:12
Should Charlie Kirk have been shot and killed? No. Was he somebody that contributed positively to society once in a position of influence? Absolutely not. He stood in support of continued societal harm in avoidance of perceived individual harm (gun laws mean losing rights, trans people having rights meant his had less value, etc,) until he received harm that was unavoidable. He got the acceptable result in his world view, and that's frankly all he's going to be remembered for.
Until next time.
