12-09-2025, 05:35 AM
I get what you're saying, Webbie, and I don't fully disagree. I'm not celebrating, just have zero sympathy. There was a decent list of various horrible things he believed that's been circulating but I suddenly can't find it. Forgive the boomer ass Facebook meme I'm using instead to give context:
Obviously this is not a proper source, but I can corroborate that I've seen the videos of him saying like three of the examples on this list alone. He's also said some outlandish shit like everyone gets worried when they see a black person piloting a commercial plane, or that he supports the Biblical punishment for being gay (which is being stoned to death publicly). Like how and why this guy got such a massive platform is baffling to me. And of all the people to assassinate, he's not even a target that makes sense honestly.
Now, context or no context, someone getting assassinated on a college campus while they sell merch and debate newly-former high schoolers is flat out wrong. The killer hit his target, but he could have just as easily missed and hit a random person. What separates this act of political violence from violence as an act of resistance is a certain level of organization and support from the people that would face the most unmitigated risk from it--The civilians in the crowd, in this case. They didn't sign up to dodge rifle rounds. But as for the one whose carotid artery did that all over twitter, I just can't have sympathy, he considered a person like me an abomination (only half white).
But this is where we're at, right or wrong. We can moralize about it all day, but this period of political violence is not going to magically end tomorrow. Realistically, it's only going to get worse. People will stop talking big about shit like this once the violence reaches them, and it's looking like it will. I was a very online teenager in the mid 2010's, the ultra-right wing of this country has been saying for as long as I can remember that this is what they want. What they think they'll get out of this, I don't know. Somehow if they kill all the black people and queer people, they'll achieve utopia. I don't know. They've successfully turned the GOP into their ultranationalist vanguard, and the Democrats are somewhere between useless to fully capitulating, or whining about people not blindly supporting Israel blowing up babies. Soon it won't be media personalities having high profile murders, it'll just be regular people. My only optimism is that, for some reason they really believe it'll be a cakewalk. It won't. There are so many goddamn guns in this country, and the Vietnamese kicked our asses with far less (tbf we were #3 out of 4 major powers they clapped in a century, but that's beside the point). At best it'll be a 20-year Balkanization that ends in nobody "winning".
But yeah. People from both sides love to talk big about this stuff on social media. In reality they have no idea how bad things can get.
Spoiler:
Now, context or no context, someone getting assassinated on a college campus while they sell merch and debate newly-former high schoolers is flat out wrong. The killer hit his target, but he could have just as easily missed and hit a random person. What separates this act of political violence from violence as an act of resistance is a certain level of organization and support from the people that would face the most unmitigated risk from it--The civilians in the crowd, in this case. They didn't sign up to dodge rifle rounds. But as for the one whose carotid artery did that all over twitter, I just can't have sympathy, he considered a person like me an abomination (only half white).
But this is where we're at, right or wrong. We can moralize about it all day, but this period of political violence is not going to magically end tomorrow. Realistically, it's only going to get worse. People will stop talking big about shit like this once the violence reaches them, and it's looking like it will. I was a very online teenager in the mid 2010's, the ultra-right wing of this country has been saying for as long as I can remember that this is what they want. What they think they'll get out of this, I don't know. Somehow if they kill all the black people and queer people, they'll achieve utopia. I don't know. They've successfully turned the GOP into their ultranationalist vanguard, and the Democrats are somewhere between useless to fully capitulating, or whining about people not blindly supporting Israel blowing up babies. Soon it won't be media personalities having high profile murders, it'll just be regular people. My only optimism is that, for some reason they really believe it'll be a cakewalk. It won't. There are so many goddamn guns in this country, and the Vietnamese kicked our asses with far less (tbf we were #3 out of 4 major powers they clapped in a century, but that's beside the point). At best it'll be a 20-year Balkanization that ends in nobody "winning".
But yeah. People from both sides love to talk big about this stuff on social media. In reality they have no idea how bad things can get.
Spoiler:
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