@thtlibertychick We used to have meaningful discourse, a battle of conflicting ideas that was respectful or, at least, courteous. These conversations led to growth: either you learned something or strengthened the defense of your own beliefs. Everything now is groupthink.
@LauraLoomer@POTUS Sooo, let the influencer who takes foreign money police the other influences who take foreign money? I'm sure there won't be any bias... No thanks.
@Strandjunker "...is a direct result of a 23 y.o. YouTuber uncovering the fraud which shows he was likely involved in the murder of the lone Democratic state rep who questioned the financing." Fixed it for you.
@Tim_Walz I don't think this was the "own" you were hoping for. What Shirley has uncovered only gives you more motive for what most critical thinkers already suspect you orchestrated.
@DrSusanOliver1 The Brady Bunch measles episode aired in 1969. Just because the vaccine had been introduced did not mean its use had yet become commonplace. Yes, my parents had "measles parties," where friends got together so they could get it and be done with it. Your hyperbole is ridiculous.
Forgiveness is a Biblical command...Reconciliation is something that happens when the offending party recognizes their guilt and repents. You don't reconcile with people celebrating your death.
So for those on the right tripping over themselves to make nice with those downplaying, or outright celebrating Charlie's death, understand that we see you for what you are. Cowards.
You're not "standing in unity," you're not "living out your Christian faith" you are manipulating scripture to avoid conflict.
The same chapter in Romans that commands us to NOT return evil for evil also calls us to ABHOR evil.
We are to OVERCOME evil with GOOD, not make it more comfortable so you can avoid discomfort at all costs.
@BillyBaldwin A radicalized antifa member with anti-fascist and socialist rhetoric on his gun and remaining bullets who has a partner currently transitioning from male to female, but not a democrat?!? Do you care about truth AT ALL or do you just look for details that confirm your bias?
I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.
But we aren't "one people" are we?
The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.
We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.
I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.
And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.
I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.
It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.
Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.
And the other side murdered him.
Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.
I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.
Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.
I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.
I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.
I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.
There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.
But then there will be a reckoning.
My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.
So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.
Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.
Ours is just beginning.
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