Left right and center all know deep down that "the left" is all of America, democracy, morals. While "the right" is a disease.
That's why this is more shocking than everything else, right? Of course there's people on the right that will celebrate a lib being shot. But we've had plenty of time to normalize it.
But for actual Americans to laugh about an assassination? Now that's serious shit. We can't be saying mean things about CEOs, guys. It's wrong to say hurtful things about racists and fascists. This is a dark chapter in an otherwise sunny book.
A half baked idea I want to see implemented is using local LLMs to generate the most vile / ragebait / unhealthy responses to trending topics and then use that like an inoculation.
ie in natural settings humans are better at detecting dead ends / performative rhetoric / etc. But online it's different.
I think it's a bad idea but I can't stop wondering considering LLM bots, dead internet theory... I'd like to have a taste of what others might be cooking.
You figured it out! I used the phrase most likely to annoy "blue no matter who" tribal members. "Blue maga" isn't going to listen anyways. Might as well control their reaction.
I might get a bunch of stupid replies and one serious one and if I prompt you guys like so it makes it easier to tell at a glance when I check my inbox.
People like Charlie Kirk are capable of all of it.
He debated some people fairly. Rare for them to debate adults, but it's easy to find them arguing with youth. Charlie wasn't stupid and he could navigate through common topics with something approaching grace.
He also performatively debated, like when he was shot. He doesn't listen to facts, he's hoping to say punchy phrases for the cameras, he's hoping someone makes an ass of themselves. It's a product for his customers that harms society.
He also went to safe spaces like podcasts and got very loose with it: conspiracies, hatred, divisiveness, violent rhetoric. Nobody could challenge him there.
He also engaged in unapologetic racism, like recently blaming a black fire chief for kids drowning somewhere else. No debate, no engaging the public, literally just being evil.
I think when people say Charlie was basically good, they are talking about very specific parts about his life. I get TPUSA ads about Kirk destroying stupid trans kids. It was Charlie's hatred that got the most play. I'm just trying to be objective about it.
Microsoft also works with American intelligence, like other corporations. They won't even fix zero day exploits without first letting the NSA know in advance. Telecoms have black rooms whose entire purpose is to siphon data directly to the authorities, Microsoft probably has a whole building.
I think Kirk is already forgotten. We're dealing with a talking point like Mr Potato Head going woke or Gulf of Mexico. If it's popular the topic sticks around. But nobody cares about Kirk, the actual person who lived and had various opinions.
Hamas wasn't in charge when Israel first started the genocide. And Hamas still wasn't the government even after the genocide had been going on for a long time. Hamas is not normal.
The world thinks Palestinians / Arabs need to be hand held. Like they're brown / Muslim, therefore they vote for terrorists?
The timeline is so insane. So many countries didn't (or "couldn't") help Palestine. For such a long time! And now they're back to fix things. To clean out the terrorists. Right before fucking off for another round of genocide?
All these countries would be fucking disgusting extremist warzones with turbo Hitler bin Ladens if subjected to what Palestine has gone through.
Basically all us do not shoot people we disagree with. 300,000,000 million citizens and a glut of weaponry, doesn't he get what Charlie Kirk meant by this is the price we pay? You will never plug all the holes, and we massively increase the chance a gun slips through along with the killer, and this is what will happen for as long as our culture and laws stay the same.
Take all the people Charlie Kirk has debated. Consider the surface area. All the people who must have had guns. And yet essentially every single person didn't kill him.
There were more people debating him peacefully that day than trying to assassinate him. He was having his ideas dismantled by simple logic, as always, and ignoring it, as always. He just happened to be shot that day. They act like life is a simulation that's meant to bend the rules for them rather than subjecting them to the same roll of the die as everyone else.
We're gonna have to form human relationships with artists like a bunch of squares