This Charlie Kirk shooting is making me think a lot about the ending of Nashville.

The established star presenting their directors’ idealized, outdated vision of the American homeland, the shooter angry at the syrupy faux tradition of it all and at the petty pageantry going on between the jackals behind the curtain, the system not knowing what to do when their star is taken out and pushing another star into the show to fill the gap and keep up the illusion, and the new, rawer tune from a more marginalized perspective that rises up to entertain the audience, and the show goes on, the audience more defiantly apathetic than ever…

I think Kirk’s murder is a nail in the coffin for the “let’s debate in good faith to own the libs, facts don’t care about your feelings” era that started in 2015, we’re heading for something uglier, more radicalized, civic nationalism is declining as a political force and identity politics and traditionalisms (Islamic, Orthobro, Tradcaths) are coming to the fore. People already knew this was coming, of course, but the reckoning’s definitely happening now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjnRX__xyMs

> i know im blogging like a faggot today, today’s events are making me feel