TitaniumButterfly
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TitaniumButterfly
3d ago
We should get a drink sometime. And that's mine, by the way.
TitaniumButterfly
3d ago
I'm just sitting here asking myself if OP's usage of "embarrassed" in the opening paragraphs was even wrong. It's been bothering me for like two days now and I want to figure it out on my own.
TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
Whale cancer.
TitaniumButterfly
5d ago
Not so common anymore.
Could pregnant women getting to dosage wrong be the cause?
We'd have to establish that there is actually a problem before looking for a cause, right? Which as I understand it we have not done. Autism is not becoming more prevalent afaict. Diagnostic criteria have repeatedly been broadened and public attention has been drawn to the issue, but that's not the same as things getting worse.
'Black' and 'White' are not proxies for class but for ancestry, and there are plenty of people with light or dark skin who are not from the same ancestral groups as the central cases of those categories, in this case Northwestern European or Sub-Saharan African.
Our language is seriously out of date. Skin color is an increasingly-bad proxy for these things in our increasingly-admixed world, but concluding that race is simply a proxy for class or culture would be a major mistake.
TitaniumButterfly
6d ago
No shade to our Protestant brothers, but Catholics have the longest and most robust intellectual tradition.
Four out of five dentists Patriarchs disagree...
TitaniumButterfly
9d ago
To be fair, they weren't supposed to have the vote.
TitaniumButterfly
9d ago
Yeah, I was going to say, Jeopardy isn't over until Hoff gets his day behind the podium.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
Yeah, the FBI department that deals with this is gonna be working overtime for a while.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
Grok cleared both those posts as lucid and even handed before I posted them
Am I getting old? Because... I don't even know how to explain to you what I find so wrong here. Yeah. Yeah, that's why I feel old.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
I think the usual joke goes "And then one day, for no reason at all..."
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
I think about this sometimes. Whatever else can be said, a large store of dark rifles remaining in the wild would rapidly lose any meaningful import as the people who know how to use them cycle out and the next generation cannot be trained.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
My guess is that his source was good but someone perhaps asked him to hold off on announcing it.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
You're replying to a filtered comment.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
I'd be interested in a pool, if it weren't so ghoulish, and if I thought at this point that the shooter will ever be conclusively identified. But if they still don't know who it was, idk how they ever will. Might be some really impressive surveillance/detective work here. We'll see.
My money would be on trans-woman, since in my experience they're the majority of extreme leftists who also happen to be competent with long guns.
I emphasize that we do not know yet.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
I think of what future President Vance is learning.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
It is now official, from several major sources including Kirk's spokesman, via the NYT, that he is dead.
Lord, have mercy on him, his family, and all of us.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
If you've seen the guy they arrested, he looks like he has terminal MSNBC brain. Old white boomer who's brain has probably been soaked in MSM propaganda about Kirk for years.
Yes, that's accurate. But latest indication is he wasn't the shooter and the shooter is still at large.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
Right, idk how you keep a brain alive even with transfusions if the pipe leading to the brain is missing.
Keeping him alive at all would be astonishing but even then it's hard to imagine that he'll ever truly recover.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
Kevin's a personal friend and I wouldn't expect him to jump the gun like that. On balance I'm reserving judgment. He may have had a good reason.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
Latest I'm hearing is that the old white guy they had in custody turns out not to be the shooter and a manhunt is on for the real one. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-shooting-charlie-kirk-event-utah-rcna230437
Throwing my hands up here. This is chaos. I'm gonna take a walk. Any of you is welcome to join me in solidarity.
TitaniumButterfly
17d ago
His vascular structures looked torched from the video, supposedly it was a rifle round.
Police say the shot came from a building 200 yards away, which certainly indicates a rifle.
Crem says he was alive in the ambulance on his way to the hospital. That was 27 minutes ago, no further updates atm.
ETA:
Bennett's Phylactery now says dead. DELETED
Lord, have mercy.
The killing themselves really gives me the spooks. No matter how I try I just can't imagine myself in that person's skull. Or at least it's a looooooooooooong reach. It feels so weird to me that my mind starts looking for alternative explanations. Could these be catspaws of some agency with off-market brainwashing tech? That has got to be the gold-standard assassin on at least some significant level, and if they're cheap enough maybe it doesn't matter so much whether they're good shots. The ones without that aptitude end up in one of these instead of going for the President.
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