yea, ignoring it won’t work this isn’t like other less deep dissonances. it’s like turning on the lights in a theater where the incels have been gooning to djinn for a decade. dimming the lights again doesn’t make them forget that moment of revelation. we must be the ones who explain the impossible.

i think this is called "growth"

In manufacturing consent for the violent persecution of trans people by the state Charlie Kirk threatened the safety of Tyler’s beloved and in doing so wounded his masculine honor. Retribution was the only way to restore Tyler’s lost honor and so honor demanded Kirk’s death.

I think another bigger part of it is that if this is indeed what happened then the killing ceases to be a transgression against the social contract but instead a fulfillment of that social contract.

Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically

holy greentext

damn. i wouldn't have managed better than "more like black-and-tan-sky"