If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
Shit’s already been ignited from the other side, not just with a torch, but with flame throwers.
You can either give in, and accept that democracy is dying and USA is now a fascist country… or you can resist.
No fascist ever softened from being unopposed. On the contrary, they will take softness as weakness, and exploit to take more power.
No fascist regime has ever been overturned by peaceful means.
Why would we mourn him? We don’t need to. We can decry violence while also pointing out that he’s stoked the internecine strife that led to his murder. If sandy hook isn’t enough, maybe they’ll wake up when they start dying
– Jeff Sharlet
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/jeffsharlet.bsky.social/post/3lyiw5khpqs2l
The argument would have been not to kill Charlie Kirk in the first place, but that ship has sailed, so…
Whatever’s going to happen as a result, is going to happen whether or not his death is celebrated online.
That is just so wrong on every level.
Shit’s already been ignited from the other side, not just with a torch, but with flame throwers.
You can either give in, and accept that democracy is dying and USA is now a fascist country… or you can resist.
No fascist ever softened from being unopposed. On the contrary, they will take softness as weakness, and exploit to take more power.
No fascist regime has ever been overturned by peaceful means.
Why would we mourn him? We don’t need to. We can decry violence while also pointing out that he’s stoked the internecine strife that led to his murder. If sandy hook isn’t enough, maybe they’ll wake up when they start dying
True, Nazis and fascists deserve a bullet. Many have forgotten that and consider those ideals a valid political opinion.
Fascism has no place in a democracy, it will slowly destroy us if no one pushes back.