Vice President JD Vance credits the assassination of Charlie Kirk to the reason he and his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance decided to have a fourth child.
I don’t think it’s true though, which in a way is even creepier.
The basic problem here is that this whole western fascist, white-supremacist technofeudalism thing is entirely divorced from reality. There’s no logic, no morality, no philosophy - nothing but emotive gibberish slaved to the shallow self-interest of lunatics. So they just spew whatever lunatic garbage they spew, because their brains are broken and they can’t do anything else, and their followers just sop it up, because their brains are also broken and they can’t do anything else either.
There’s much to criticize about past ideologies and religions (which IMO are just two variations on the same basic theme). They did a lot of harm and included a lot of stupidity and lunacy, but at least they made an effort to have some sort of moral and/or logical underpinnings - to have something solid around which they were built.
This one though? There’s nothing at all there. There’s no central philosophy - no underlying morality - nothing. There’s just gibberish and poison and junk and sludge. And the broken-brained assholes spewing it and the broken-brained assholes sopping it up.
And the rest of us, unable to even wrap our heads around the sheer scale of the lunacy, scrolling day after day in a constant state of “What the fucking fuck?!”
This is fucking creepy no matter what.
If it’s true, it’s creepy.
I don’t think it’s true though, which in a way is even creepier.
The basic problem here is that this whole western fascist, white-supremacist technofeudalism thing is entirely divorced from reality. There’s no logic, no morality, no philosophy - nothing but emotive gibberish slaved to the shallow self-interest of lunatics. So they just spew whatever lunatic garbage they spew, because their brains are broken and they can’t do anything else, and their followers just sop it up, because their brains are also broken and they can’t do anything else either.
There’s much to criticize about past ideologies and religions (which IMO are just two variations on the same basic theme). They did a lot of harm and included a lot of stupidity and lunacy, but at least they made an effort to have some sort of moral and/or logical underpinnings - to have something solid around which they were built.
This one though? There’s nothing at all there. There’s no central philosophy - no underlying morality - nothing. There’s just gibberish and poison and junk and sludge. And the broken-brained assholes spewing it and the broken-brained assholes sopping it up.
And the rest of us, unable to even wrap our heads around the sheer scale of the lunacy, scrolling day after day in a constant state of “What the fucking fuck?!”