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 (DIR) Post #Ay53Mo3Upbm5croFEW by Steve@ferral.cat
       2025-09-10T22:38:31.462084Z
       
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       So I been traveling the past week and just got home and turned on the news.  Whereon I encountered a woman who had an unfortunate collision with a tube of mascara screaming at me about how Charlie Kirk’s murder was the greatest threat to Free Speech this country has seen. I wonder where she has been for the past many months or years while trans kids were legally silenced by state laws, and people simply protesting the actions of Israel are have degrees and jobs striped from them, while uniformed agents of the State arrest and detain others? I then changed the channel to see a besuited ‘liberal’ go on about how “political violence has no place in America.” Again, I wondered where he has been as the State has violently detained or deported people for speaking Spanish or merely appearing at a court hearing to review their legal visa? I wonder if he’s even aware of the political violence being done to minority communities around the country by masked thugs empowered by the government? Of course, it was then I realized, he and others, only meant non-sanctioned political violence. Sanctioned political violence has a long history in America, Violence by the State (which is always political) against Black and brown people, against indigenous people, against queer people is as American as apple pie. Let us not hide in euphemisms: Charlie Kirk was a hate monger: he thrived on engendering hatred in others towards the most marginalized citizens. He milked, cleaned and sold outrage and animus, and made a substantial living doing so. Kirk’s murder was almost certainly political, but for a man who trafficked in the politics of hatred, this only seems apt. While I do not celebrate the murder of anyone, I can only smile, and see the irony in those decrying political violence against a man who regularly called for it.