What Now?
I must admit two things: one, that there’s actually a lot of decent leftists in this world, many of whom are not only refusing to celebrate Charlie Kirk’s death, but are speaking out against those that do. Among those are Bill Maher and Cenk Uguyr. Two, it’s deeply satisfying to see so many leftists getting fired from their jobs for celebrating Charlie’s death.
They’re claiming that they’re being fired for criticizing him, of course. No, it’s one thing to say that even though he’s dead, you still didn’t agree with his views, but it’s quite another to say that you’re glad he’s dead, think the world’s a better place without him, that his wife should have also been killed, etc. That’s not mere criticism – that’s reveling in the death of an innocent human being.
Furthermore, they’re all claiming insane shit like “he supported stoning gays” (no, he didn’t), and was trying to “eliminate” various minority groups (also not true). There’s so much nuttiness that I can’t possibly contain it all here.
The shooter came from a decent family, and didn’t look like your typical gender blob, with Kool-Aid hair, a trillion piercings, hideous clothes, etc. He also was a student at a technical school, and people are wondering how he ended up crazy enough to shoot Charlie Kirk?
The answer is the Internet – namely, places like Discord, Reddit, and yes, even 4 Chan and 8 Chan, where disaffected leftist weirdos can all congregate and whine about everything under the sun. I think that’s probably how Tyler Robinson was radicalized enough to go out and shoot someone.
In the years before Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X, a lot of hay was made about how the draconian moderation policies of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram was necessary for public safety. Of course, the vast majority of political shootings and violence in general has come from the left, not the right. January 6, 2021 happened and this became an excuse to crack down on social media overall, especially with regards to sites like Gab and Parler, of which was taken down in the wake of that total hoax due to them being stupid enough to host the entire site with Amazon Web Services. Parler has come back, by the way. It’s been back for a couple of months, and when it came back I was shocked. It seems really buggy as I can’t even log in because their dumb authentication codes aren’t working.
It hurts me to say it, but I think moderation is actually needed – for sites like Blue Sky, Discord, Reddit, etc. Any website where lots of leftists congregate needs serious moderation. Thing is, the whole concept of content moderation was only ever meant to be a tool to keep conservatives and libertarians from organizing and spreading ideas. Leftists say some truly evil stuff on sites like TikTok, who apparently don’t care if people celebrate the assassination of a public figure as long as it’s not a leftist. TikTok, owned by Chinese company Byte Dance, does not care if you say vile things about Christians, Republicans, etc. But mock a tranny? You get banned.
I am looking forward to the FBI seizing Tyler’s devices and seeing where he was posting, and what he was posting. I hope that material is publicized. TikTok, Discord, and Reddit (and others, obviously) are total free-for-all echo chambers where leftists routinely discuss the murder of people they don’t like. I’ll bet Tyler was planning this assassination with his buddies online.
If they’re going to force moderation onto sites like Gab, Gettr, and Truth Social, the same needs to be done with Blue Sky, Reddit, Discord and TikTok – and leftists cannot be allowed to celebrate or glorify violence or bigotry against white people, Christians, straight people and anyone else they hate. The people Tyler interacted with online and the content he consumed absolutely radicalized him enough to kill. We cannot let leftists radicalize each other again or someone else is going to get killed.
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