charlie kirk assassination – DS https://www.anglinarchive.com Daily Stormer Historical Archive Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.17 https://www.anglinarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/cropped-favicon-32x32.png charlie kirk assassination – DS https://www.anglinarchive.com 32 32 Ten Days After the Assassination of Charlie Kirk, A New World Order is Coming Into View https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/09/19/ten-days-after-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk-a-new-world-order-is-coming-into-view/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

When Charlie Kirk died last Wednesday, I saw people having complete meltdowns, and felt it was my job to be the voice of reason. This came across as crass at the time, as people were really full of emotion at the time. If you were one of the emotional ones, and you go back now and read those articles today, I am certain you will have a different opinion of what I was doing there.

Yes, it was crass, but the crassness was a response to the emotionalism I was seeing everywhere I looked. What I was trying to do, hoping to do without much hope it would work, is ground people by pointing out that this might be emotional for you, but all that means is that the government is going to use this to push an agenda on you.

Here’s some of what I wrote the day after Charlie died (you can skip this, I hate quoting myself, but I need to make this point):

What I have seen, however, is that people are having a really, really serious emotional reaction to Charlie Kirk getting assassinated. Like, I read Twitter, and people are having emotional breakdowns, freaking out, calling for some kind of Super Patriot Act.

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Right now, the Trump administration is building up this internal army in the form of ICE, and much worse, he is making these deals with Palantir. There were various social media accounts calling for Palantir to be “unleashed” on illegal immigrants. Now it’s calls for the entire power of the federal government, including our militarized law enforcement and Palantir, to be “unleashed” on “the left.”

How did that work out when the full force of the state was unleashed on “international terrorism”? Did that work out good for you? Did it work out good for the country?

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To all of you having this emotional reaction: I admit, I do not understand what you’re going through. It seems to be very difficult. I don’t understand or respect that, but I can accept that it is what it is. But please. Relax. And think about what it is you are calling for. Look at this massive movement of all of these social media accounts demanding the federal government be unleashed on the public. Does it feel maybe a bit artificial? I mean, even if you’re feeling it, are you able to see how maybe there is something a bit nefarious going on here?

Can we think maybe just one step ahead here, and consider maybe what the consequences of giving intelligence agencies, paramilitary law enforcement, and private military contractors the ability to “hunt down domestic terrorists” might turn out perhaps not so good? Maybe it could in fact be like, the worst possible thing imaginable?

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Anyway. Whatever. I guess I hope you enjoy your experience with these dark forces you are calling upon. And after all, who knows? Maybe the US federal government are the good guys this time and they’re really going to help you stop trannies or Islamofascism or whatever? Could be. Could be.

Screenshot this I guess so you can come back and mock me after giving over massive new powers to the government results in a great outcome, where your stupid woman emotions are satisfied after Israel and Peter Thiel build you a utopia where no one ever gets shot with a gun again.

And then:

The narrative from the right is daunting, with Trump in his video paying tribute to Kirk using the opportunity to call for some kind of unspecified crackdown, which we can only assume means even more egregious restrictions on speech and more military and militarized cops everywhere. There is a huge astroturf campaign to do the exact same thing the left did to the right when they claimed that “speech causes violence,” and therefore “speech is violence,” and therefore free speech shouldn’t exist.

Then, of course, as I’d said, on Tuesday, Pam Bondi, the perplexing Attorney General, came out with an announcement that we now have new hate speech laws in America, which she is going to enforce against anyone who is saying… whatever it is they might be saying.

That is wild, and really more than I was expecting. “Hate speech is not free speech” is an ADL-coined phrase that has been floating around on the left for decades, and was considered anathema to conservatives. Conservatives tend to believe in free speech, and they also tend to be aware that according to the Supreme Court, in multiple rulings, there is no such concept of “hate speech” in the United States.

But she, or rather the people who tell her what to say, apparently believed that the Charlie Kirk assassination video was emotionally distressful enough that the government can now roll this out.

As the day progressed, she partially walked it back, saying she just means “hate speech” as in violent threats. Violent threats, if they are immenent and actionable, are already illegal, and no one ever called that “hate speech.” She also said that people celebrating Charlie’s death was “hate speech” which she classified as illegal – in the clarification!

Again, this is way beyond what I was predicting. But there it is!

Just to be clear, Bondi is not any kind of ringleader here. Just watching her, you can see that this is a person who would struggle to be the manager of a Walmart, and would probably be out of her depth as the shift manager at a gas station. She has no idea what any of this means, and it is all coming from people behind the scenes.

But here’s the thing: The Big Guy is also on board. In an interview where he was asked about Bondi’s rollout of new “hate speech” laws, Trump gave tacit approval, saying that Charlie, who was obviously against hate speech laws, would support these laws now that he’s dead.

The apparent implication there is that if there had been hate speech laws in America, it would have prevented Charlie’s assassination, which obviously makes no sense.

Trump’s other comment so far on the issue was a kind of jokey thing about how the media should be charged with hate speech.

That isn’t really very funny, especially in light of the other clip, where he appears to endorse it.

It should be really easy to just say “no, we’re not doing that, she was misquoted” or whatever. So that is the direction things are going in, at the highest levels. Trump has already established a precedent where he is able to just make up laws out of nothing and no one can stop him, so it seems likely he’s going to try to enforce some kind of hate speech code. It’s certainly what his handlers in Israel want.

It makes no sense how Charlie’s death was even related to previous notions of hate speech, given that all of those related to a protected group. “Hate speech,” the term which Bondi and Trump are using, is an established term which means “criticism of a person based on their race, religion, or sexual orientation.” Multiple countries in Europe have laws which use this term, as defined. If Trump and Bondi want to come up with some new form of illegal speech, which has to do with criticizing people for their political positions (which would be the only thing that would relate to Charlie’s death), why not come up with some new term for their censorship program?

And how do you make it illegal to criticize someone’s political beliefs? That doesn’t even make any sense. That would be like, more or less 100% of political speech. It is difficult to imagine political commentary in America that isn’t in some form a criticism of the other side.

So, I think what you obviously have here is a situation where the Israel lobby wants to push through the “hate speech” laws that we’re all familiar with, the ones that make it illegal to criticize Jews and Israel (as well as blacks, trannies, and immigrants) while claiming it is somehow related to Charlie Kirk.

If We Compare Them to the Power of Government, Trannies on TikTok are Not Really a Very Big Threat to Anyone

I don’t know how many trannies or “far leftists” there actually are. I don’t think there are very many. I think it is possible they can do an assassination, as with Charlie Kirk (though I am coming around to the theory that the Jews did it). They can riot and break some store fronts. But they are not a massive military threat. Most importantly, they present nothing even close to the threat that the US government, which is controlled by Israel and Silicon Valley, present to the American people. Radical trannies present less than 1% or 1% of the threat the government presents.

Trannies present less than 1% of 1% of the threat black people present, frankly. This is seriously not a big issue. It’s been made a big issue by the media, but the idea that you have to beg the government to take your rights to protect you from trannies is absolute lunacy.

Therefore, to me, as an impartial observer, the idea of calling on the government to take away your rights to protect you from the trannies sounds completely insane to me. I can’t process how anyone of good conscious would think that is a good idea, which is why I can only really assume that the people calling for that are bad actors.

Full disclosure: the stream Nick Fuentes spent the first several years of his career more or less copying everything from me directly. Which is fine, I supported it. I supported him. He then got involved with Richard Spencer, who I believe is an FBI informant, and then with the confirmed FBI informant Charles Johnson (Johnson bragged about being an FBI informant). I’ve always had a hard line that I won’t support anyone who is involved with the FBI. The reasons for that should be obvious. But all I did was post on my semi-private chat forum that I would no longer be supporting him, because I don’t support people involved with the feds. He started attacking me on his show and implied he had blackmail material on me, which was utterly bizarre. I demanded he reveal it, on the semi-secret forum which he was reading to see my comments about him, and he instead just continually said nasty things about me, despite the fact I never posted about him on this main site. I didn’t post about him because in my experience, no one really cares if someone is an FBI informant, and exposing that doesn’t really do anything. I have no idea why people are not more concerned about that, but they aren’t.

I just wanted to lay that out for the sake of openness. It doesn’t relate to anything I’m going to say here. Well, the fact that he’s associated with the feds might relate. But that’s for you to decide, dear reader.

He’s become a kind of centerpiece of the Charlie Kirk assassination situation, and appears to be the heir apparent to the “young influencer” throne of Charlie Kirk. He’s gained hundreds of thousands of followers since the event.

When I was telling people this whole spectacle around the Kirk death was a government psy-op, I also pointed to the fact that Fuentes, who is supposed to be “far right,” was aggressively whining and calling for aggressive government action to shut down trannies or whatever.

He was pretty openly calling for some form of hate speech laws, demanding people be punished for their speech.

Here’s the first concerning tweet:

It’s obviously impossible for the government to ensure that some random person never murders another random person ever again. That is an insane comment. But the implication is obviously some kind of Ultra Patriot Act. It’s the same language used in the way of 9/11.

Then this:

You’d think anyone would see that and think “whoa, hey, slow down there. What?”

What would “crush left wing terrorism” involve, exactly? What are the potential things that this could imply? It’s a pretty short list, and everything on the list involves giving the government new and expansive powers, both to spy on people and to punish people for things they haven’t done yet.

And then:

At this point, anyone who isn’t in a complete state of total derangement is saying “hey, whoa, hey, hold up there buddy – did you just say you want to arrest people who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death? Because I don’t understand what that even means.”

Having read his posts and listened to some of his show, I think it means exactly what it says it means: he is calling for the arrest of people who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death. We have never heard anything like that before. I was completely shut down in 2017 for joking about – arguable, celebrating – the death of a fat woman at the Charlottesville rally. Millions of people laughed at this. And then I was totally deplatformed from everything forever. But I don’t remember even the most insane tranny calling for me to be arrested. This is something totally new that we’ve never heard from an “influencer” who now has 900,000 followers on Twitter. It is the most extreme call for government tyranny we’ve seen, ever.

But then look at this individual’s next tweet, in response to the above Pam Bondi tweet:

How is that not literally exactly what you were calling for?

What did it mean when you were saying people “must be held accountable” for cheering Charlie’s death? It is definitely not currently illegal to do that, so you were calling for some new form of restrictions on speech. But what. You just didn’t want it to be called “hate speech”?

Of course, it doesn’t really mean anything because none of this gibberish means anything, so I suppose it’s best not to think too much about it.

But here, following the timeline, he then tweets @FBI (!!!!!!) calling on them to arrest Jackson Hinkle for legal speech! Or, at least, for speech that was legal before the death of Charlie Kirk. We don’t really know what speech is legal now.

Here he is threatening Jackson with prison.

This is snitch level 9000. I never even imagined anyone could become this much of a public snitch and be celebrated for it. (Please see my premises relating to fake reality overriding classic reality to get an idea how this is possible.)

He went on to make it clear he is against free speech and wants the government, which by the way, as far as I know, he still argues is controlled by Israel and Silicon Valley, to crack down on speech.

The left, for what it’s worth, never actually made a major push to make speech illegal. Not in the way that Trump, Bondi, and Fuentes are doing. This is so very far beyond anything the left did. They just tried to get people banned from everything, and in some cases, sued them. That was very bad, but this push to arrest people, these new “hate speech” laws, newly minted top influencers tagging the FBI to arrest people for legal speech, this is all new. That should be understood.

All that is insane. But it is basic sellout type behavior. People didn’t care he was a fed. But a sellout? Is that something people will tolerate? Well, normies will. That is the goal here. He’s being groomed now as the new Charlie Kirk. He’s got an edgy past, where he was copying my shit, and that gives him some kind of street cred, but now he’s the “give the government the power to arrest people for speech” guy.

And here we get to the real meat:

It’s not about Israel! It’s not about Silicon Valley! No, no! Look over here – the trannies are the threat!

This is where it is all going. The government, which is run by Israel and Silicon Valley, is not the real threat. The real threat is trannies. And if we have to give up all our rights to a government controlled by Israel and Silicon Valley to protect us from the trannies, then so be it! It’s a small price to pay to stop this tranny menace!

At here’s where we take the shill train straight to Kook Town: this individual is promoting Russian bot conspiracies.

Whoooooooaaaaaa! Heeyyyyyyyy!

Russiagate is back, baby, and this time it is the edgy far-right guy doing the investigation!

That is some of the most hardcore “yikes” I’ve encountered in my day.

Here he is on video claiming anyone questioning the official story is a RUSSIAN!

Frankly, I thought the story made sense as just a tranny. But the extent to which this is being exploited by the government and shills like Fuentes makes me wonder.

Seriously, regardless if you believe the official story or not, trannies are not some massive threat, and Russia doesn’t have anything to do with anything. That, like “hate speech,” is a Democrat talking point that these people apparently think worked for the other side, so they might as well pick up the ball and run with it.

And this Fuentes character isn’t just some random Mexican I have beef with because he works with the feds. I wanted to get that out of the way at the beginning, reveal a potential conflict of interests in the coverage, but I would be saying this same thing if I had nothing to do with him ever. Just look at it.

You’re basically witnessing a coronation.

He is now on all the big shows, he is being defended by Matt Walsh and all of his supposed enemies. He just had a big appearance with Russell Brand. He is going mainstream, and he is saying the things necessary to go mainstream – “don’t worry about Israel and Palantir, the real threat is trans ideology!” and “Russia is behind all of this anti-Israel stuff!”

Here’s Ian Miles Cheong defending him.

That’s obviously the end of the argument. Honestly, I could have just started with that, and it would have explained the whole thing. There is nothing more damning than being defended by that guy.

This is all completely staged. You are witnessing the birth of the new shill of shills. That’s why he got all teary over Charlie. He’s in place to pick up all the Charlie fans. He’s cool with the youth, you know. Just check out his zany sense of humor. I don’t have any specific clips on hand, but just watch one of his four hour streams, and you’re going to see zany like you never thought humanly plausible.

Speaking of teary, Sam Hyde, another “far right” figure, one of the only ones left really, cried on video and called for some kind of Ultra Double Patriot Act to stop the trannies.

I like Sam Hyde, I even love Sam Hyde, but that is some of the cringiest tripe I’ve ever seen in my life. This is not the look for your brand, bro. You don’t want to be crying on video, firstly. No one wants to do that. Like, literally no one other than maybe women who are trying to get their boyfriend arrest for DV wants to be crying on video on the internet. And this idea, again, that the trannies are the real threat and the government – one more time, the same government which is entirely controlled by Israel and Silicon Valley – is going to save us from the tranny threat. What even is this? How many people have even met a tranny?

You can show these videos of people celebrating Charlie’s death on TikTok, but I think 80% of the people who were celebrating that posted it on social media. I do not think there is any kind of massive tranny threat.

Sam says that if Trump doesn’t like, send the military to arrest everyone against Charlie Kirk in the next two weeks – he keeps saying this two week deadline – that the world will end or everyone will die or something. It’s wild. It’s almost like parody.

Remember when Reagan was shot by a guy who was in love with Jody Foster? Can you imagine if there were calls to give the government huge new spying, censorship, and policing powers to crack down on people in love with Jody Foster? Honestly, that sounds ridiculous, but there were probably more people in love with Jody Foster then as there are radical trannies now. I mean, she looked great in Taxi Driver.

Wait, hold on. My producer just notified me that Jody was only 12 in Taxi Driver, and said I should retract that statement. But we’re just going to keep moving.

With Sam, I don’t want to attack Sam. Everyone shits the bed once in a while. I have. Not like that, ever. But you know, sometimes you miss, I guess. People are also saying he stopped doing steroids recently and that can definitely make you emotional. So, okay. I’m not putting him in the same category as Fuentes.

But what do we have going on here?

This is at best a mass hysteria like coronavirus being exploited by the same bad actors.

Tucker Carlson as a Voice of Reason

Maybe Tucker Carlson is some kind of secret agent as well, I don’t know. I have no idea. But I can say his response was measured and reasonable.

Unlike Fuentes and a lot of these other creeps, he said we cannot tolerate any form of restrictions on speech as a result of this event, and basically said people should rise up if Trump tries to push this through.

Tucker’s whole show about Charlie was touching and helped me to understand him better and sympathize with him. He had an Orthodox priest on saying that it’s our belief that the dead should be let to rest for forty days before we start making any kind of judgements about what the death means. And Tucker’s explanation of Charlie’s behind the scenes with him about Israel was convincing.

Tucker is doing a kind of “I’m not saying Israel killed him of course, WINK WINK WINK.” He is definitely on that train, but he’s not just going to say it, because that’s not really his style.

I’m still not totally convinced Israel did it, but I will tell you, the lone shooter theory is looking less and less likely as I look at how aggressively this whole machine is using this event. Of course, they’re going to use any event, but this has become such a big thing that it seems like something you wouldn’t wait for to happen randomly.

I think what is very likely is that the tranny was in Discord channels, and was groomed by someone from some intelligence agency who explained to him how to do all of this. Again, lone gunman is technically possible, but just look at what is happening. It is Kirk Crackdown Mania.

Who’s Left?

What voice of reason exists now? Frankly, I thought Sam was one, then a few weeks ago he interviewed Fuentes, and I was like “ugh.” Then he goes full Kook Train to Bonkersville (please bring your own tissues) with this Charlie thing.

I am not seeing a voice of reason, at all. Tucker is the closest thing. And I’ve certainly aired my complaints about him, which are many, and some of which are rather serious.

I think Theo Von is our man. And that is why, through the powers invested in me by being the only remaining member of the original alt-right, I am hereby anointing Theo Von as the absolute leader of the right-wing.

I can’t go out on that joke. Too stupid. Not really funny at all, actually. Though to be honest, I sometimes do feel like Theo is only person on the internet who isn’t completely full of shit. But you know he’s like, close friends with RFK Jr. And what does that even mean? What are they talking about? What would they have to talk about, other than for RFK to send through government talking points? Tim Dillon is having meetings with “JD Vance” (fake name, btw).

The problem is:

  • People love money
  • People don’t want to go to prison or be murdered

“You can have a bunch of money and we won’t put you in prison or murder you” is the ultimate deal. It’s an offer you can’t refuse.

Unless you’re me, I guess. But I am deranged. Seriously. I’m one of the sickest people I know, and I was even before this brain tumor. I do not consider the fact that I’m the only one among these hundreds of internet people that has actually kept it real to be a sign of integrity but rather a symptom of mental illness. Because I will tell you, from 15 years of experience: this is totally fucking pointless. It is something to suffer for a purpose, there is value in that. Suffering for no purpose at all is just stupid or insane. For me it’s mostly the latter. I would like to think.

I should have started a landscaping company.

Anyway, I hope everything works out

I’m sure it’s probably all fine.

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No wonder the shooter missed his face

Apparently, seeing some guy get shot in the neck is traumatizing for many people. I don’t really know why, given the level of desensitization we’ve all experienced. I mean, it really seems kinda nuts, the fact that this is being considered such a big deal.

I really would have preferred if the Yankees would have held a moment of silence for Iryna Zarutska, a brutal murder victim who wasn’t trying to destroy my country for the Jews.

But okay.

The thing here is, Charlie Kirk was playing a game which he apparently didn’t understand the stakes of. When you are involved in politics, and you are out there encouraging wars and celebrating killings, you are voluntarily involving yourself in a game where people die. To imagine that you are able to work to get untold numbers of people killed by promoting the mass murder machine, and yet somehow never have to worry about that coming back on you, is totally confusing and deranged.

He was promoting and celebrating the deaths of people all around the world, mostly Israel’s enemies, but others as well, and the idea that a person can do that without understanding they are making themselves a target is obscene.

Personally, I used to get death threats from Ukrainians all the time. It was not something that offended me, as it just seemed like something that would obviously happen. Obviously, I don’t want to be killed, so I take precautions, but if I ever were killed, I would understand, while bleeding out, that I played the game and knew the stakes and that’s the way the cookie crumbles. I would not expect people to whine about how unfair my death is, because frankly, it wouldn’t really be unfair, would it? If I’m supporting other people dying, which I certainly have been during the Ukraine war, I’ve involved myself and understood the implications. I would hope only that the Russians would vow revenge, which they’ve done for all civilians who have been murdered by Ukrainians.

The crocodile tears over Charlie Kirk’s death from people like washed up basketball star Barack Obama, Israeli dictator Bibi Netanyahu and bulbous forced meme Nick Fuentes are truly repulsive.

I agree that how we respond to this moment is important. I wouldn’t include “watershed” or “profound” in that sentence. But if you respond like a faggot, you look like a faggot, and people will think you’re a faggot.

People die, bro. Sometimes they get shot in the neck and blood squirts out like a fountain. It’s not really that big of a deal, and if the person is a sickening shill for the Jews, it might actually be sort of hilarious. Not hilarious to me of course because I’m a really good person and I want everyone on the internet to know that I’m a really good person who is really upset when anyone dies. But some other people might find it hilarious.

Charlie Kirk was one of the single most fiendish men working in American cultural manipulation. His evil acts go far beyond being literally the only non-Jew under 50 promoting the super-hardline Zionist narratives like “there are no starving Gazans, it’s a staged hoax and “Israel has never targeted civilians.” Like, literally no one says that sort of stuff anymore, and hasn’t in like a year, and he was out there just reading Netanyahu press releases as fact every single day.

But let’s go back a bit. Much has been said about Kirk’s advocacy for using sanctions to force people in Africa to have gay sex.

But at the same time, he was aggressively attempting to manipulate the American right-wing young into accepting homosexuality as compatible with Christian values. He brought all kinds of homosexuals into his “Turning Points USA” group and promoted them and would berate people who claimed this was against Christian values.

Bizarrely, while for most Israel shills, the tranny issue is the only thing they really stand hard against, Kirk said that he is fine with trannies he just don’t want non-binaries. “There are two genders, pick one” he said, telling trannies just to stick to classic trannyism instead of believing there is a “gender spectrum.”

That is notably much further than the likes of Bari Weiss or Ben Shapiro have ever gone on the tranny issue. Typically, these Israeli agents decide, “well, we can’t just only talk about Israel all the time, so we need some other issue,” and choose the tranny thing. Kirk couldn’t stick to that.

He was a key proponent of the idea that “America is an idea” and not a real country. Here he is speaking in Israel in 2019 saying that America is just “ideas,” but that Israel is a real country because it is holy.

At one point, he called for fifty million “legal” immigrants. He also invented the “staple green cards to diplomas” meme.

I believe that was in 2020. I don’t know if he backed down on that, maybe he did, but he never apologized for it.

Literally, this man’s entire career was about manipulating American Christian values, flipping them on their head, coercing people to believe the opposite of what right-wingers have always believed. At least, that was his main goal before October 7th, at which point he pretty much just only talked about Israel and how we have to support them genociding Gazans or we will have Sharia Law in America.

Oh, and he was supporting all of those other wars too. Most recently, he was spamming Twitter about how great it was Trump blew up that boat he said was a drug boat without any evidence, praising the Cuban spy Marco Rubio as a hero for killing these randos as part of a plan for regime change in Venezuela.

And of course he was promoting regime change in Iran.

The one war he was actually against was the Ukraine. Some people are now saying a Ukrainian could have assassinated him, and that is actually possible. It seems more likely it was a tranny or an intelligence agency who is going to blame it on Iran. It’s possible that it doesn’t matter who it was, they will just blame Iran.

People are calling it “ghoulish” to celebrate Kirk’s death, and I suppose celebrating anyone’s death could be considered “ghoulish.” But getting assassinated doesn’t someone make you a good person, regardless of what you did in life. We’re all of course against political violence for some reason no one has really explained and have to keep saying that, so of course I too must say “I am so against political violence for some reason,” but America is better off without Charlie Kirk. And he is going to be really, really hard to replace. Again, I cannot think of any non-Jew under the age of fifty who is willing to go around talking about “Israel is our greatest ally, they’re fighting Hamas over there so we don’t have to fight a Hamas invasion of America, there aren’t any war crimes, the food blockades are a hoax, no one is starving, most moral army.” He was on the level of Sean Hannity. You don’t see anyone doing that.

But no, I don’t feel sad Charlie Kirk died, and I’m not going to post some social signally thing about “oh woe is me, political violence, oh the horror, can’t we just vote for change???”

You can post six million pictures of his wife and kids. I’m not doing the bit with the rest of these people.

A New Era of Political Violence?

I’m not the only one who’s been saying that because democracy is a totalitarian system where the public has no ability to petition grievances – they just tell you to vote for one of two parties that are basically the same – if there are significant grievances that people want petitioned, when they realize these grievances cannot be petitioned, they are going to start shooting and blowing things up. Actually, I think pretty much everyone with any basic comprehension of human realities has been saying that.

Because it is something inevitable, there is no real way to assign any kind of value judgement to it. You can say “violence is bad,” which seems childish and without any intrinsic meaning. You can certainly say “I wish it wouldn’t have come to this,” but again, it was always going to come to this. Democracy can work if people don’t have any real grievances, if you give them a job and a house and a car and a wife and a dog. They will not think very much about the government. But as soon as things get hard for people, when people get frustrated, and they realize that they have literally no ability to use the system to change anything, they are going to become violent.

Now you have the Luigi thing. You have this Charlie Kirk thing. Who knows how bad it is going to get, but it’s obvious that there isn’t going to be less political violence going forward.

It feels a bit like complaining about the weather. It’s hard to really know what else to say.

In terms of the political implications, yes, I think it will lead to more police state type measures, but then more police state type measures will lead to more violence by random individuals. A police state can’t really stop that. Maybe a Palantir pre-crime system can stop some of it, but the more you push on people with these kinds of openly tyrannical measures, the more people are going to feel they’ve no opinions, and the more violent they are going to become.

I’m sure there are a lot of simulations about how this will all work, but the simulations are mostly going to be done by companies that are trying to sell physical and digital police state equipment to the government.

I think it’s safe to say that it’s not going to be a very fun time. Beyond that, predictions are difficult.

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