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Why I’m in favor of political violence in a post Charlie Kirk world.

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There is a huge difference between civil unrest and political violence. Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination wasn’t political violence, it was civil unrest. Abe Lincoln’s death wasn’t political violence, it was civil unrest. I know civil unrest sounds like I’m down playing the deaths, however, historically political violence has been known as war. While war should be scarce, it’s historically done us good. Revolutionary war, the civil war, world war 2. Without political violence we would all be goose stepping and speaking German.

However trite civil unrest sounds, it’s vastly downright from war. Civil unrest is when you get a tough climate and tensions rise within. Sometimes the catalyst for war itself, however, that’s isn’t always true.

Charlie was a martyr for Christian values or conservatism, he was assassinated for ego and valuation. Charlie clearly wasn’t a Hitler in training and attempting a political overthrow, he was a father and a husband that wanted the best for his children.

However, he is a martyr for stupidity. Ivory tower dumb fucks we call millennial, with 80s yuppie entitlement issues that seem to think they in the midst of a war, like it’s the 1960s. To compare the two would be an egregiously ignorant thing. Blacks were oppressed in the 60s, along with other minorities. There isn’t any way to hide it. What do we have now but micro disagreement. I’ve said this in my 20s and I’ll repeat it in my 40s, you can’t compare civil rights to the gay marriage movement. Sammy Davis jr couldn’t hide his skin, and while I disagree with the idea that gays should have to be closeted, such was far from real repression. Real repression is when you’re a homosexual college student and you get dragged by the back of a truck for no reason like Matthew Shepherd.

Trans “rights” is not a real issue , they’re just trading one set of rights for another.

Gay marriage isn’t a real issue , because love is more important than people giving a fuck about you.

Blacks and other minorities have been integrated into society for 60 something years, they’re not repressed.

The palatines aren’t repressed, you’re anti Semitic and need to grow up.

What we do have a real issue with is the looming threat of a third world war among other real issues going

The only thing Charlie’s death did, was reveal a bigger overall narrative of mental health issues among the millennial cohort than ever before.

Let’s start focusing on real issues again. As a line from one of my favorite scenes says

“we can’t be consumed with our petty differences anymore.” -President Witmore Independence Day

My condolences to Charlie’s family, friends and fans.

Stay metal 🤘

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Elitest Snobbery 101 or No, you don’t own that!

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     Progressive, what a scary word! The right tossed it around as another word for the Socialist, leftist embraced its use as a euphemism for communism, but it in no way does this word mean socialism or communism. So what exactly does progressive mean? It means to advance, to progress and to move forward.

     Why then, is it becoming a bad word like Liberal was made out to be in the 1960s? What is so collectivist about that word? Surely a business man who expands his business and creates more jobs for Americans is being progressive, is he not?

     If being a progressive is a bad thing, then those of you who are in opposition to progress must be regressive, right? You wish to go backwards in our country and bring back years of horrible oppression towards people of difference, archaic laws that squelched human rights and dignity or downright hurt others, then? What’s that you say? You are not for regressing. Oh, so that would make you a progressive, would it not? You want to move forward then, right?

     The difference is only in how we agree to do it. Everyone is a progressive. We all want to move forward and better ourselves. Isn’t that what life is about? If we didn’t progress, wouldn’t we all still be living with our parents? That would be one huge collective house hold, the likes America hasn’t seen since the 1800s.

     So we must advance the dialogue in this country, not use fear to sway public opinion. Those who would seek to influence public opinion with propaganda must be called out and chastised for it, not heralded. Words cannot be high jacked by just one party alone, nor can they be used to slander individuals for their thoughts. Words are not meant to be owned by just one individual, they’re here for all of use to communicate with one another. Humans are meant to use them to form whole sentences, which create paragraphs, which exhibit meaning, in order to use them to elucidate on ideas, refute abhorrent trains of thought or otherwise engage in a civil discourse that propels the narrative forward. The next time you hear someone use progressive like it’s a bad thing, remind them that our country was founded by progressives and built up by progressives. That city you live in? It was built by progressives. That car you drive? It was built by progressives. God himself, if you believe in him or her, was a progressive.

     It’s time to take words back and use it in its proper context, along with other words being blindly molested by nefarious actors, looking to get a quick blip of emotion out of otherwise, rational humans, if not for desire to be team players. Being progressive is not dirty, socialistic or communist. It’s the American way. American exceptionalism is built on American progressivism. After all, we all want what is best for America, don’t we?

     So are you progressive or regressive?