@wayofftheres Agreed, but we aint getting any younger and I don’t want this to be my kids battle. When are we going to acknowledge they will never leave us alone and act upon that reality.
The GOP and corporate America might THINK they have a grasp on the simmering anger Americans have for this country being taken over by foreigners.
I’m warning both entities now: You have no idea. Get on the right side of this issue quickly.
@wayofftheres@Gruntpa Can’t wrap my head around this whole thing. Who wins? Who really has the incentive/motive? Is Bret Weinstein right, is this to destroy the Trump administration/legacy? Is it worse, are the puppet masters trying to cause a US civil war? If they try to arrest Kent it may get ugly.
@Snakeeater36 2 just doesn’t have the numbers. 7 and 8 seem like clear favorites. That little portion of Florida happens to make a big difference and 7 edges out 8 imo.
@OfAthenry@crusadepepe@DissidentSoaps My honest guess would be a larger number leave conservative than are initially conservative. The problem is very few kids entering college are initially conservative. Most don’t understand or think about politics at that age and are very impressionable.
@crusadepepe Learn a trade from the engineering side. Be at the leadership table and still get fulfillment from building things. Never lose respect for the trades, take every opportunity to get hands on, but also get to influence and/or make large scale infrastructure decisions.
@ROCKBETHENAME@OKState420@sanpellyenjoyer ✋I’m one and know a handful of them personally. Some people have integrity and aren’t willing to be parasites on society. Nevertheless, for every one of us not abusing the system, there’s at least 10 milking it for all they can. Sadly, it’s usually the ones who never did shit.
@peterboghossian Don’t care to silence them, but that doesn’t mean we have to listen. They should be shunned from polite society until they change their ways. When their communities (including workplaces) reject their degeneracy, then maybe they will change.
@JesseKellyDC@Txp_RBI_Xctuxl I really want to make a crayon eating joke but I remember how many retards in my platoons couldn’t shoot worth a shit so touché.
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.
@0xPickleCati@benshapiro Who is we? This feels like it may be the straw that broke the camels back. The side that has done the killing professionally may have just been pushed too far.
@wayofftheres@BerzekSavant@BravoKiloActual If things ever did somehow get this fun, and you’re looking for a handful of rotary wing pilots (who could also source the aircraft), this would be a fun couple weeks off work. Purely hypothetical of course.
@FischerKing64 This one hits home. I went from a high performing small consulting firm to public sector engineering. 75% could leave tomorrow and it would only help. I’d clarify that the few people who are carrying the load in the public sector are drowning though.