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It feels more real because Kirk was a part of the firmament, he occupied a dunbar slot essentially. Having someone just... Killed like that, is fucking shocking. It's frustrating because he was starting to come around on a lot of issues, it makes his death VERY suspicious.
That said I don't think the Israelis would've killed him because they wouldn't have needed to, they could've just threatened him or blackmailed him, or just tolerated a slight deviation to make it less obvious that they're in control. This was almost certainly some Democrat pig, probably a boomer (hence htem mistakenly arresting a different boomer) who has been totally gaslit on these issues.
But also, this is a distinct sea-change in the country's state. Normies are fucking furious and/or horrified. It's really incredible to watch, it's like they've all just realized for the first time that gay communists ACTUALLY want to kill them all for not being tranny lovers. Or even for not loving them enough.
I've said before that you cannot project your attitudes and mindset onto normies. Normies are RADICALLY more likely to act than we are. /pol/ and other online Politic junkies tend to be high information but low agency, we rarely get involved because knowing the scope of the game being played makes individual action seem pointless. That's why only schizos or truly despairing terminally online types go shoot up walmarts or churches or whatever.
Normies on the other hand are entirely rooted in meatspace. We could get serious violence as a result of this, and believe me when I say that when normies snap and riot, they do it in big numbers, like herd animals. They don't understand how pointless it is, so they go harder on it--which ironically causes it to actually impact things because they're too irrational to be dissuaded by violence or consequences.