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Is it possible for a dick to tingle at the sight of a trans without having any beliefs about transgenderism? Of course it is. Therefore, it's possible that Robinson wasn't steeped in any belief system. You're conveniently making leaps to a conclusion you want to be the case, but you can't know yet. This doesn't address or refute my point about murder at all. From the little info we have, this dude appears to be low in neuroticism. He's possibly an ISTP. These people are often highly physically competent, stoic, and lone-wolf types. I know a couple of these types. They could murk your ass and easily suppress it and not make a big deal about it. They're more stable than I am. lol. I think you're doing a lot of projecting, because we don't have enough info about his ways of the thinking yet. You may turn out to be right, but it's too early to tell.

What do you mean by "believe in transgenderism"? If someone is gay, they don't have to "believe in being gay". This isn't computing for me. It's not common, but It's possible to be a relatively stable murderer. The human psyche is very dynamic. I explained why we simply can't know most of what you're claiming and you're not refuting anything I said, so I feel like you didn't process or address any of my points.

That position is completely understandable and nothing to necessarily denigrate. But there are other ways to solve these issues than allowing billionaires to bullhorn extremely divisive and violence-inciting rhetoric. The people are being used as pawns by powerful billionaires seeking power and influence. That is the issue here, and it should be clear it's a much more pressing issue than immigration. Humanity is being split like never before. This is much more dangerous than any immigration issues.

Based on the current reporting, it appears that Robinson felt attacked by Charlie. Robinson appears to have been in a relationship with a trans person and he didn't like Charlie going around making people hate the thing that he adored. This isn't necessarily politically motivated. Robinson may not have cared that Kirk was successfully spreading anti-trans sentiment. It might just be that he found Kirk so repulsive that he wanted to end him. It's possible it's more that than the prevention of the spread, but it's probably a mix. We don't yet know the primary driver of his actions, and we don't yet know he was influenced by the "radical trans movement", as he might have just naturally been into trans people without being swept up in any movement. If you read his text, he sounds very much stable and there's no tell of ideology that I saw.

Did it ever occur to you that you lost the second dates because you weirdly start discussing your political grievances on the first date? Most women aren’t interested in a man who, the majority of the time chooses to focus on grievance. If you can’t even contain it for a few hours when meeting a stranger, that’s probably a turnoff.

Calling the arsonist secondary because there was a drought is backwards. The arsonist is the primary cause of the fire we actually got. "Well, look at all this dry brush bro!" This isn't how we do causal analysis. The drought didn't make the fire inevitable, the arsonist did. To focus exclusively on the conditions and to ignore the primary causal factors is part of the interesting phenomenon I was talking about. It comes across like a right-leaning centrist cope. I’ve been very close with conservatives my entire life. They were always the same. They never cared much about politics until Trump started entertaining and polarizing them in 2016. A very bad influence took up the position of most powerful man on the planet and stirred shit up, polarized people and hardened tribes, and showed other leaders how to sow division for their own personal gain. Without acceptance and embrace of this degenerate as the leader of the free world, reality would be fucking night and day different. Consider you have a brother who is a decent guy and one day he befriends a known criminal and conman with a very despicable character and they become best friends for 10 years. They hang out several times per week. What is the likelihood that your brother’s life would descend into chaos and be unrecognizable after those 10 years? You see, if you do the above thought experiment in earnest, you should then be able to accept the reality. At the very least, shift the majority of the causal weight to Trump, because that’s accurate. AI analysis:

Right, which is why I said what you omitted from my quote.

This seems to confirm that he was dating the trans he was living with. So this will go down as radical left attack. He doesn't sound batshit or anything in the texts:

This shit is cringe as hell Notice the full population of heaven in the background. Everyone just stands around all day in front of a stage adoring Jesus. In this instance, the whole of heaven is watching Kirk and Jesus have a talk up on stage. Since there's tens of millions in heaven, there's no telling where Billy Graham was. I'm guessing front row.

Lol, wtf is wrong with this guy?

There are some things that don't seem to make sense, specifically with the gun, but we shouldn't buy into anything yet.

@zazen You're far more knowledgeable on politics than I am, but the way I see it is we don't have to be super politically-knowledgeable to understand the dynamic at its root and we don't need sophisticated theories, but I'm open to being wrong. In essence, entity A and entity B must live together in the same shared reality. If one of the entities wants to implement ideas that are actually detrimental to the survival of both entities, and the entity with the bad ideas is incapable of seeing it, even in the face of evidence and reason, that is the real problem. The right consistently has worse ideas and motives, and it's not even close. The right is usually highly unreasonable in what they want. Many of them want you to carry your rape baby to term because some debunked religious belief. They want to ignore climate change because everything is in God's hands. Most of them are all for a strong man to force their way of life onto everyone else. These are much bigger problems than some left idealism. These absurd positions seem to mostly be born of truth-rejection, ignorance, and propaganda, moreso than a response to the left.

It’s the gravity of centrism. It seems that in every “centrist” take, the left is the actual root cause. Very interesting. The real problem of humanity is the problem of cowardice. These “centrists” are a pretty strange phenomenon if you think about it. There’s this different flavor of willful ignorance, defiance/iconoclasm, and stubbornness. It’s like it is the same cowardice of the right but they’re using a completely different strategy to deal with it.

Yes, absolutely disgusting. No one man should be able to run around and act like this. Doing it in one county is bad enough, but now he’s gonna go throughout the world trying to turn everyone to his way…. That’s insane. I mean, if he was spreading peace and helping people grow, I’d be all for it, but he’s spreading anger, fear, hate, grievance, and victim mentality. Worst part is he’s using unconscious humans as pawns.

You misunderstand the elements actually pushing people to the right. There are some legit problems with immigration. There’s nothing wrong with talking about those problems and seeking solutions. These problems could be dealt with in a way that is not violent, bigoted, and racist. So ask yourself, how come the problems aren’t being dealt with in that way? You’re conveniently ignoring two key aspects of the reality. 1: human nature and it’s susceptibility to propaganda and influence. 2: Trump, Musk, and their ilk have learned they can acquire enormous power by sowing division, and so they are actively stoking the flames of the culture wars for their own benefit. You have to include these two facets of reality in your overall estimation. It’s not as simple as “good, decent people are just responding naturally to a threat”. In this case, hateful sentiment has been nurtured for several years and effectively disseminated via influencers and propaganda. If you remove these aspects, the reality would be totally different.

Yeah, good point.

Charlie Kirk would force Christianity onto every man, woman, and child in this nation if given the chance. He would make freedom of religion a thing of the past. He would make anything LGBTQ illegal and would dole out harsh punishment for any offenders. He wasn’t just a guy with strong beliefs - he was on a mission to spread and even force his beliefs onto as many humans as possible, and he was working at the highest levels of government and influence to make these things and more an actual reality. Mainstream media would have you believe he was this nice, well-behaved, respectable, well-meaning young man who was just enjoying his life and having good faith conversations with people, hoping to change their minds to his way of thinking, but this is far from the reality. You have to either lack knowledge of the reality or be unconscious as hell to admire such an asshole.

I think these "passive enablers" are the ones who actually widen the Overton window the most.

Well said. Also, it's not a very accessible term. If you want to tell someone "hey, that's fascist", the vast majority of people won't have a clue wtf you're even talking about, and explaining it to them makes you look unhinged and out of touch with normal people. Probably best to just say "they're doing X".

Jesus. A top Fox host said the fix for homelessness is “involuntary lethal injection” - “just kill ’em.” The thing to understand is this isn't just one man's opinion - it's rhetoric that a good slice of the right would like, or at least can get on board with. The left calls shit like this out for what it is all the time and when things get heated, idiots pop up talking about "both sides should tone it down.". I'm all for de-escalation when things get heated, but you don't meet "kill them" halfway.

Exactly. Resisting truth out of fear.

It's not intellect they lack, but courage. Most of them are more than cognitively capable, but reflection is very risky for them, so they tend to avoid it. This is why I say cowardice is at the core. They reject things like evolution, not because they're dumb, but because they're afraid to part with their religion and other self-deceptions.

"prominent", as in key, influential and powerful figures who can actually affect change and move hundreds of thousands or millions of people. Some nutty professors are not prominent. If you were to collect the top 50 influencers and top 50 politicians for each side and analyze their messaging honestly, you would see a huge difference in terms of divisive and ideologically antagonistic rhetoric, and it wouldn't even be close. You can't take people who have very little power and are not even known by 10,000 people and compare them to the right-wing figures we're speaking of.

This should hopefully clear it up for anyone uncertain: https://x.com/Cobratate/status/1966495134029083065