This is the cost of the culture that Charlie Kirk built.
This is what happens when a nation worships guns and is taught to fear each other more than they fear power.
Political violence has always been here. It's just that everybody is going to feel it.

Political violence has been a daily reality for indigenous people, black Americans, Trans individuals, and Palestinians.
The difference now is that the people who thought they were safe, who thought violence was only something that happened to other people, are feeling it too.

We dream of a world without violence, but we live in one that demands it. Fascism can't be voted out or petitioned away or debated into irrelevance. It must be confronted, and every confrontation under fascism is never peaceful.

It's easy to condemn political violence when there's a hand on a trigger. It's harder to condemn everything that put the gun there in the first place. Or the tax dollars funding a genocide or a policy that disappear people who don't look like Charlie Kirk.

Saying there is no place for political violence in America is a hollow as giving a thought and a prayer between the shooting at Uvu and the school shooting in Colorado. America was built on political violence. It continues to enact political violence every day.

Regardless, he was trump's ally, a faithful servant to a regime that glorifies violence is something that good men do. Fascism is here and part because of Charlie Kirk. Fascism is violent. But America has always been violent.

Did he see his own life as a fair trade? How about his wife's husband? How about the father of his children? But it's not just the policies that may have cost him his life.
I'm not sure if Donald Trump would have been elected without Charlie Kirk and his influence on Gen z men.

He profited off of this rhetoric at the expense of others' humanity. Charlie Kirk created the culture that killed him. One where gun violence is so normalized that even children are seen as collateral damage.

Straight, white, cisgendered men. He even convinced some marginalized people they could gain power by aligning themselves with these systems. Patriarchy, white supremacy, Christian nationalism.

However, if you spend all of your time advocating for policies that create a hostile environment which is a petri dish for political violence, you cannot be surprised when the monster that you made shows up to devour you.

When that deity knows what it would take to convince every single person on this planet. That is cruel, it is inhumane, it is not kind and it is not generous.
That is not a god worthy of worship."
- Richard Lael

Agreed, it's mainly Rafael's stance on immigration.

Now that we're waking up, you're shaking in your boots, begging in your boots, while still refusing to understand.
So let me make this perfectly clear;
We Owe You Nothing!

You think we owe you softness after surviving the sharpness of your silence?
Nah... you weren't taught emotional intelligence. You were taught control. You weren't raised to love women. You were raised to own them.

You cry "not all men" but refuse to say anything to those who prove us right. You beg to be seen as different, but when it's time to stand with the women who raised you, loved you, or warned you, you disappear.
Silent, entitled, angry.

You call it bitterness when it's boundaries. You call it hate when it's healing. And every time a woman dares to name the wound, you call it drama. You want the benefits of a changed world without doing any of the changes.