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I wasn't much of a Kirk fan, but his murder has left enraged for the last day and a half. I think the reaction, my own and the rest of America's, is so visceral is for two reasons. 1) While he was pretty tame and a MIGA shill, he genuinely seemed like a nice guy. He wasn't out there calling people niggers just to get reactions. He seemed to want to try to foster civil discourse on college campuses. 2) He was literally the kind of conservative "the left" keeps demanding of us. They claim to want open dialogue and to use words not violence to solve our differences. He was that, if nothing else. He gave people with whom he fundamentally disagreed the opportunity to speak, would respond, and they might have a productive exchange. And they fucking murdered him anyways and danced on his grave before he was even in it. Republicans just asked for a moment of silence in the House and Democrats threw a huge tantrum. Millions of people, people you live next door to, go to church with, see at your kids soccer practice, etc. all took to social media to celebrate this man's brutal killing. The reaction to this is a collective understanding by anyone who isn't totally psychotic that the whole "they hate you, want your kids raped and brainwashed, want you to die, and they think it's funny" meme is absolutely true. It's the realization that there is no political solution that includes these people. This is the collective realization that the left must be denied life, liberty, and property at all costs, because today it's Kirk, tomorrow it's the rest of us. And it's the realization that our political system has been pushed to the brink, that if we can't deprive the left of life, liberty, and property through existing power structures, that things are about to get ugly.
