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Yep. Many of the condemnations have described Kirk’s assassination as “senseless.” It’s an interesting word. I’m assuming they either mean it serves no purpose or that it could not have been anticipated. The words I would use to describe the assassination are words like devastating, or tragic. Charlie Kirk’s death is tragic on two levels- the private human tragedy of a wife and children who lose a husband and father in the most shattering possible way, and the tragedy for American Democracy. I brought up the Reichstag fire earlier. This ain’t that, but what they have in common is that it doesn’t really matter who did it or even what their motive was. What matters is that it provided power and energy to drive historical forces in a certain direction, to drive Europe to war. It “made sense” in the context of its moment. Assassinations are like that and in some ways that’s what separates them from murders. The Minnesota lawmakers were assassinated because their murders fit into “the way things are going,” as people say. They fit into the de-civilizing shift from politics to other means. Frank Ferdinand was assassinated. So were Lincoln, Anwar Sadat, Ghandi, Allende, Yitzhak Rabin, and so on. Marinus Lubbe may have set the Reichstag fire but he’s not a major character. He just played the role of “arsonist”. Even though Gavrilo Princip set events in motion that took 100 million lives, he’s not widely seen as a major villain. In Serbia he’s a national hero, but mostly he’s just the guy who happened to play the role of inevitable spark that sets the world on fire and if it wasn’t him it would have been somebody else. Did Lubbe set the fire? Did Jefferson Davis orchestrate the conspiracy to kill Lincoln? Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? Does it *aftually* matter? When Princip pulls the trigger all the pieces are in place for World War. When Lincoln died the pieces are in place to roll back reconstruction. When Kennedy goes to Dallas the pieces are in place in Vietnam, big business is eyeing Vegas, and the largest generation in history is already starting to think out loud about whether the whole structure of society is a meat grinder. My point is that until we know who did it, we won’t know the specifics of why Kirk died. But we intuitively understand why, because it sadly, tragically fits into the way things are going. We don’t know how this chapter of history ends (it will end, but we don’t know how or when), but it feels like we’re in the climax, the moment when things get really bad. But they don’t have to! There have been other times when it felt this way. There’s always another chapter. The farmer’s son falls from his horse and is injured. People console the farmer. “We’ll see,” he says. War breaks out and the army doesn’t take his son. People are happy for the farmer. “We’ll see.” You know my point of view and my posture here remains the same. It goes bad a long, long time: I walk in the sunshine, I try to be a good neighbor, I buy Green Tips, and pray to never need them. My priorities are to do good, work hard and have a good time. With any luck my grandchildren will tell their kids about their silly old grandfather, a jolly old soul with malice towards none who armed himself for reasons which, in retrospect, made no sense.
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Gross dude, gross.
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Didn't lose any ground! Red Sox play the Yanks starting tomorrow and SEA/HOU still have a 3 game series to go next weekend. I was thinking the number for the Rangers was 86 (9-6), but after the results last night I think it might be 87 (10-5) or 88 (11-4; yikes!).
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Its hard working in a tech office where at least 30% of the folks who work around me were either not born, or too young to remember anything about that day. and even the "kids" that are 29/30 today, they may vaguely remember that their parents were acting weird, that they got picked up early from school/pre-school, and that the TV was constantly on showing the towers falling over and over.... but they processed it differently in the almost quarter century. to them it was something that happened to their parents (unless they were directly impacted). They remember that we were basically at war with the Middle East for the next 20 years, but not the impact of the day it happened we were on a group call when someone mentioned it being Sept 11, and it went quiet for a tiny second, and one of the younger guys just immediately starts jumping in and asking tougher questions about the call topic, and the older guys on the call just had to kind of mentally move on quickly. Im sure the greatest generation dealt with the same shit on Dec 7 1965.... the kids remembered the war, but not the day brought us in it
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Sigh. They were always going to get their Reichstag fire and martyr. Law of averages and all that. They were waiting for it, and now they are running their play. I find FASCINATING the outcry about “we must stop the hateful rhetoric that leads to politician violence!” People like my family are demonized as vernin and invaders (including by the subject of this thread). RESULT: slaughter of dozens in El Paso by a man who openly stated he was killing invaders. Calls from the right to “tone down inflammatory political rhetoric”: zero. Jews are demonized by many of this same voices as engineering an immigration invasion as part of a “great replacement” plot. RESULT: mass murder of Jews at Tree of Life, by a man who stated that was his reason for doing so. Calls from the right about toning down their rhetoric…zero. Buffalo, and the murder of black people who were demonized as leeches bringing down our society. Same situation. Assassinations of sitting legislators in Minn, motivated by their “leftist” actions which harm our country. Same situation. So, forgive me if I find the calls of “dangerous political rhetoric is bad! It must stop!” from the very same people who revel in it as disingenuous. They’re not wrong. They’re just disingenuous. If they actually believed that, they would have criticized the relentless tide of political rhetoric - including by the subject of this thread - demonizing brown people as invaders poisoning the blood of our country. They don’t believe that. And that’s a big problem. It’s why we are where we are, and there’s no going back. This climate is what we want. I’ll remind you of Brisket’s Laws: it only gets worse, and there is no bottom. This relentless plummet never should have started. Because this is always, ALWAYS, how it ends. This is going to be used to repress, through abuse of government power, and outright force and violence, the “evil opposition” (as people within the admin are already calling anyone who opposes them). This is how it ends. This was always going to be how it ends. You’ve gotten what you wanted, what was inevitable when you decided to walk down the road of hate and demonizing rhetoric. Plenty of us said we shouldn’t do that. Our warnings were not just ignored, they were mocked. So be it. Here we are. It’s pretty awful, isn’t it? Don’t worry. It gets worse.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
UTPhil2006 replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
Just gonna snag one piece of your post -- I actually do think we get a rate decrease in a hungry RE market and prices get more fine tuned and RE sees a bump. Especially higher end homes where that .25 lower rate makes a bigger difference. I think lenders then push 1-0/2-1 buydowns and such which sellers will gladly agree to and we have a decent fall season which sellers sorely need -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter remains at large]
Im_smarter_then_you replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
Please let that be bs -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter remains at large]
Willfully Horn replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
The post I made said his platform was peaceful, but not the content of his rhetoric. I can’t understand this for you, so do your best to understand the distinction. If you think racist remarks are peaceful, say so, and stop putting words into my mouth. -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter remains at large]
Nicole44 replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
I’ve always heard it be said (About Last Night) a pro is how you think of yourself. So it makes sense on this board that many think the shooter is a professional. -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter remains at large]
ImNotMarkinson replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
holy crap. this is only getting worse.
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