Ray Peters

Retired after 21 years in the Air Force. Die-hard fan of Detroit sports & the Wolverines.

[Toledo Mud Hens @MudHens]

Congrats, JV 👏

The Hens are honored to have played a small part in your legendary career.

Here's to a great rest of your final season!

[Detroit Tigers @tigers]

Closing out a legendary career in the place where it all began.

[Ray Peters @ray_peters]

@WatchDSN @daniellabruce_ I absolutely love this whole interaction.

[Ray Peters @ray_peters]

What's the game you hate to play and why is is Phase 10? #raindelayquestions @tigers @jasonbenetti @andydirks12

[Ray Peters @ray_peters]

The Tigers rally to win the game. Are you going to A) Fist Bump, B) High Five, or C) Full-on Chest Bump? @andydirks12 @jasonbenetti @tigers #raindelayquestions

[Ray Peters @ray_peters]

@jasonbenetti and @andydirks12 are cracking me up today. The @tigers have some of the best announcers, both TV and radio, in all of sports. @Dan_Dickerson

[Ryan McGee @ESPNMcGee]

For the record, Dan Hurley's first f-bomb of this natty was at the 16:55 mark. "What the f---!" in reaction to the foul called on Silas Demary that resulted in a pair of FT made by Michigan

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

Our troops get to eat steak once in a while? So what. I applaud the DoW for ensuring they eat like the champions they are.
Lib media lunatics pick the strangest hills to die on.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[M2 @Amer1can_Barbie]

To all the gutless retards crying about how Congress didn’t declare war…

We glassed the place before breakfast.

That’s not war - that’s complete and total obliteration.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[Toledo Mud Hens @MudHens]

Spring (Training) has sprung!

@tigers pitchers and catchers are in Lakeland and a new season is officially in the air 🔥

[Ray Peters @ray_peters]

@TarikSkubal Man, our rotation is going to be 🔥

[Ray Peters @ray_peters]

@ArthurBroa64840 @RetroMoviesDB The fact that I had to scroll so far down to find Summer Glau blows my mind.

[Ray Peters @ray_peters]

@Bubblebathgirl @libsoftiktok 4 seconds. It took her exactly 4 seconds to turn her response to Trump. Zero accountability, 100% redirection and projection.

Pathetic.

[Woodward Sports Network @woodwardsports]

Tigers Fans are willing to do WHATEVER it takes to keep Tarik Skubal 😂

[Ray Peters @ray_peters]

@mgoblueradio A Michigan transplant thanks to our United States Air Force listening to the game from sunny Evans, GA.
#michiganwolverines #goblue #USAF

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American is realizing everything he’s been told about Charlie Kirk has been a lie

“You made me watch Charlie Kirk. You said he was a racist. I wanted to see how racist he got. He wasn't f*cking racist”

“I'm looking for him being racist clips. I'm looking for him being misogynist clips, and you know what I've come to realize? Is that there are a bunch of f*cking idiots out there, preaching shit that they don't know nothing about.”

“The more and more I watch Charlie Kirk's videos, the more disgusted I am with the nation. The more and more I'm disgusted with the side that's cheering his death”

“Somebody assassinated a good man, and all these f*cking retards cheered — he was so intelligent”

[Steve Loftus @LoftusSteve]

I didn't really know anything about Charlie Kirk

Until this week Kirk was a name and face I would occasionally see someone retweet on here and I would scroll past. I'd seen 2 or 3 short videos taken from Tiktok of him debating some low IQ college student but that was it.

I'm generally not interested in MAGA. I broadly believe in many of their goals, but find much of the rhetoric and policy implementation to be self defeating. To me Kirk was another Ben Shapiro or Tim Pool. All MAGA, all the time.

Immediately following his shooting my shock was political and societal. Another step down in what seems to be the never ending descent of American, and thus Western, society. Another sad day for free speech, no matter what you thought of the man's politics.

Then in the following hours my timeline was filled with videos of Kirk as a father, and my heart broke. I saw a man that was clearly devoted to his family and who loved them, and was loved in return, a great deal. I felt that love forever torn apart. I saw a daughter that would never run to her father and wrap her arms around him again.

The following day I saw more videos on here, and out of respect and curiosity I watched them all. Maybe they would make some sense of why someone felt the need to end this man's life and rob his children of a father. They did not.

Contrary to the tweets spreading through X as some kind of justification, what I found was a man who was deeply religious. I man that had a true belief system, and not one that he bent or shaped to fit to modern society. For example. he absolutely believed that homosexuality was a sin because that was what the bible told him, but he did not hate or think less of those people. Many of his close friends such as Peter Thiel and David Rubin were gay.

What I see when I watch the videos of Kirk is a fan of deep faith who put that faith above everything else. I see a man who treated everyone with compassion and civility. I see a man that was friendly and open and honest.

Honestly, I see a man that is braver and better than I. Not because he put himself in danger by wanted to talk to people, but by handing himself completely over to a belief system that I've never been able to get my head around. Like many of us, the idea is alien to me.

I can't say I don't watch his videos with a tinge of jealousy. What I see is a man who was completely happy. A man confident in his faith and who led his life accordingly. A man who not just believed, but acted on his belief.

At a time when so many people seem empty and depressed, it's hard not to be a little jealous of a person that seemed so fulfilled.

With this in mind, it's been incensing to see him slandered on here by people without any of the faith and none of the commitment. To see people take the man's faith and turn it into something twisted and hateful.

I knew nothing of the man in life, but I will try to listen to him more in death.