White kid from conservative family shoots conservative personality.
conservatives threaten black schools
a wave of prominent conservatives talking about WAR WERE DECLARED!!
random conservatives walking around on the anniversary of 9/11 making threats against "the Democrats" while looking at innocent people
conservative lizards insinuating "the left's reaction" is somehow a nefarious development a couple months after they made fun of a governor being assassinated, which was preceded by conservatives making fun of the attack on Pelosi.
We're going 120 mph into fascism and then Charlie is killed and they go "now you've done it! This is a turning point!!" and increase the speed to 130 mph.
Dealing with conservatives is an endless sequence of "this is common sense, but how does that relate to Trumpers?"
Anyone realize that Charlie Kirk is already being forgotten?
Most people rightly remember him as an asshole. Whatever good he did is outweighed by the evil and hate he peddled.
Conservatives are calling for war, like always, because a really nice guy was killed for sharing opinions: making up reality like always. Who was this nice guy named Kirk?
The real Charlie Kirk has been silenced and immediately memory holed. Like I'm going to believe Charlie Kirk is a martyr when conservatives marked me for death for CRT and "trans ideology." They rally behind the dumbest shit. Can a conservative who has no morals even have a martyr figure?
Or all the shootings that are normalized and have people commenting things like "let's not make this political."
How many minorities have been shot for knocking on the wrong door or using a stranger's driveway? By shooters amped up on what these political figures are saying?
Why wouldn't people kill each other based on rhetoric like "Democrats are demonic and they're trying to fuck your children and erase white people" or "there's a huge child raping conspiracy involving tons of powerful people and now that I've said this you need to immediately forget about it you stupid fucking bitch"
Other people can argue about morality but I am obsessed with how things actually function. I'm obsessed with the "exploits" we allow.
ie murder is illegal. Telling others to commit murder is illegal. But it's legal to use words and ideas to rig a Plinko game so that if someone was crazy enough to play, they'd drop their chip exactly where you wanted.
These deaths happened awhile ago, when people started upping the ante. Just takes awhile for the crop to grow.
Telecom black rooms, Flock mass AI surveillance, NSA secret catalogue of zero days... we control the internet backbone and a lot of traffic flows through our country just because it's cheaper to route that way.
That's why we have fusion centers right? You can't use your fancy spy tech without people parallel constructing a plausible scenario for how someone was really caught.
Maybe they know where the shooter is right now and they're just waiting for people to finish the story. Social media post, a call to an old friend, have a tip placed anonymously, suddenly they find him at McDonald's.
If people want me to vote blue then surely they must disagree with the idea that Democrats have been continuously moving right.
How can Democrats dominate the popular vote and enjoy all this success when times are relaxed, yet we end up here? Now when times are precariously tough, voting blue is supposed to help?
Who knew "Vote for the lesser evil." was a synonym for "Vote Gavin Newsom." If I make a moral judgement and choose a lesser evil like accelerationism or nonviable third parties, suddenly "choosing a lesser evil" is wrong. People want to dish out top-shelf rhetoric with the force of a cannon but get mad when you take it seriously.
Hollow Knight seems like mainstream game industry shit to me. Solid game, massive hype, lots of sales. And I wouldn't even remember it in a couple months if not for other people.
It's like how Shovel Knight is a really good platformer but then you play it and it's... just a good platformer. An indie gem! But also, something you've played before.
You know what AAA companies didn't do 20 years ago? Dwarf Fortress.
I think they're "partying" because Israel has machine gunned civilians in boats carrying aid. Israel considers it "self defense" to kill these people. They shot up a boat and killed 10 innocents and when the world got mad... they sent Turkey $20 million to fuck off.
It's an efficiency equation for Israel. The tiniest thing can tip the scales and then you're dead because it was a better play for Israel compared to letting these Freedom Flotillas intrude on their plans. You gotta party before some bomb with a cringey name like "David's Scrote" turns you into spaghetti.
Imagine being racist and wanting to enjoy it instead of making it political. In the US it's culture war shit. In Europe you can go to a football match and throw bananas at the black players and it's chill. It's just easier to be casually racist in Europe because racism doesn't exist there, and if it does, it's not as bad as America.
Great observation! You're definitely not alone—people have noticed a shift in internet discourse in recent months. This is likely due to the rise of AI. Would you like to delve into the societal effects of a dead internet?
People should look at something like Inform 7 and everything that has gone into making software understand natural speech. Even a basic LambdaMOO parser takes awhile to set up.
Now it's free to map basic language to functions. My 4b models use less ram / CPU than watching a 720p music video. Sucks people overhype AI because transformers are really cool.
No, I screwed up the details. Might as well have said a store clerk in Idaho.