scoobdog

Doesn't appear that staff and unelected bureaucrats are keeping things going, and that's because the knowledge they offer isn't be listened to or utilized. Term limits do nothing other than force voters to not become complacent, and that's where the real issue is. Voters aren't voting what's best for everybody, they're voting what's best for themselves, and they're not learning any lessons from the failures that result.

When you're a college dropout, school is kind of insulting in general.

You take that back!

Why do they keep making his facial proportions normal?

Strange fruit indeed. And he somehow decided to do it in a public setting in the middle of campus, despite that being the most unlikely place a suicide victim would choose to end their life.

Nothing clean or easy about that. It would still have to be re worked to be an actual episodic ark.

… is taking full advantage of the sap who took a bullet doing his dirty work. Seems like everyone is having a blast except poor Charlie the prop.

A lot of this goes away when you have an environment where you can express yourself without validation or condemnation. An objective, neutral perspective keeps you balanced. Charlie Kirk wasn’t that by any stretch, but even if he was, he also wasn’t going to be in any position to help. The more culpable parties are those closest to him. Distress over having your personal connections attacked can be unsettling and traumatic, and if your family isn’t listening, you’re going to get more desperate and start taking more extreme measures. Again, this isn’t radicalization, it’s extreme coping behavior,

I love how even he has to admit that the clowns he’s shilling have no shot at winning. Dude is out in the fucking wild and he has no idea how he’s going to get people to do what he tells them to do.

Stephen King is a straight up dude.

The governor keeps using the term radicalized when the description suggest a very personal animosity with Kirk. In fact, it suggests it may not even be political.

My real issue is that they tried to make it like four back to back to back to back episodes and the pacing got distracting. You don’t necessarily care that there are charters that are unused because you’re supposed to know them anyway, but they still remind you that this is continuation of an episodic narrative and the arc has no real beginning or end.

It was really fucking long.

I wouldn’t even go so far as to say he believed half of the things he said. He heard without listening. He was always looking to say whatever was necessary to get a bunch of college kids to pay attention to him and, truth be told, it probably had nothing to do with his death. He was just an obnoxious kid from a privileged home who knew how to sell crappy lemonade out of paper cups on his front lawn. A useful tool for his “parents” (meaning Trump and his cronies, not his actual grieving father and mother) to display their power and relevance and to give credence to their flawed ideology. All the while, people who didn’t know him or particularly care about him would buy the lemonade because precocious kids like him are cute and make the awful things that come out of their mouths palatable. We shouldn’t be lionizing this babyfaced huckster, just mourning yet another victim of gun violence.

Context isn’t worth much when you say things to get a reaction.

I mean, celebrate isn’t the right word when it comes to them. More like put up security perimeters and distract them with specials at Taco Bell.

It’s Golden Week for INCELS.

Warms my heart.

No, but catching a 200 yard pass is pretty epic. I hear they’re electing him into the Arizona Cardinals ring of honor at halftIme of the memorial service.

Like stilgar said, she learned the most important lesson: how to monetize tragedy. The pics of her mourning over her husband are performative theater. The fact she would share an otherwise personal moment suggests she’s doing it not because she loves her husband but because she is signaling that she is taking his mantle.

Peer reviewed or not, it does dispel some misconceptions people have with climate change, namely the idea that earth is turning into a giant oven (Packard).

Knowing he’s Mormon, this guy would have appreciated rather than resented Kirk for that.

By the way, a quote from a LA Times article on Kirk’s martyrdom encapsulates this perfectly: “He listened without hearing.” It means he would take the words of his opponents and twist them to his own purposes.

I doubt it’s completely true. Kirk was frequently espousing some form of ethnic superiority, so the possibility he ran afoul of established white supremecist organizations is highly suspect.

I'm starting to see a few op-eds where the writer is disingenuously extolling Charlie Kirk's willingness to go to people and have them confront him. The message, of course, is that he was putting himself out there and the left wasn't engaging him honestly. Charlie Kirk was not engaging in dialog. He was doing what loudmouths do - he was going to universities, setting up shop in the middle of the school's quad, and challenging whoever would pick up the mike to speak to justify themselves to him. The videos are all out there for people to see: that isn't having a dialog, it's debate by combat and there is direct correlation between that style of debate and unjustified violence. Charlie Kirk was not a hero, not even to his fellow conservatives. He was an opportunist who was using his activism as a means to build a business and raise his profile and at the expense of creating a meaningful exchange on the issues that mattered to people.