Charlie Kirk assassin was living with trans roommate

[ThatZanyFatball]

May have been lovers, and sounds like he knew ahead of time that it was going to happen.

Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson lived with transgender partner: source

Marriott isn't exactly wrong about nihilism, especially when it comes to young gamer bros, but I think he's working backwards from his conclusion. And his conclusion as always is that we have to hang onto the failing regime at all costs.

What if - I make this only as a very tentative suggestion - what if the failing regime is the problem?

But Trump was supposed to represent the kicking down of the failing regime...
So the nihilists should be happy now.

The failing "regime" is a problem. But no-one has (yet)clear ideas for how to fix the problems so there is a lot of thrashing around. I would say that neoliberalism.is the regime that is failing. There are others out there who say the problem is Liberal Democracy itself. They are fringe but the more this continues the less fringe they are.

At least the UK, for all its faults, does have a tradition of pulling of quite drastic reforms when it really needs to (one nation Tories, Earl Greys reforms, Keynes, Atlee. Often in response to looking at other countries having violent revolutions. that's lower case reform by the way.

So you're claiming the FBI is corrupt and does what the President of the day wants? That's conspiracy theorist nutter stuff.

What does any of that have to do with this? Sorry but you do sound gullible and rather taken with conspiracies.

Lots of us here though have had daughters sucked into the GI stuff, in a more typically female way. Those with less support may be more at risk, but it's not all about that.

There have been boys who end up living in their parents basements playing video games for a few decades - the brother of someone I know was like this 25 years ago - lovely family, two caring parents, nice community.

I think it is true that boys need to push back at something. And often that something is authority, it seems to be a big part of the adolescent male experience to need to both push against it, but also find and accept legitimate social authority and find their own place and role.

It's been a problem for a while, maybe since the extension of adolescence in the 20th centur and the creation of the teenager. But it's much worse now with an extended childhood, often well into the 20s, and the online world is there to put out all kinds of crazy ideas and love bombing, and gaming has changed in a way that makes it severely and deliberately addictive.

It's not good.

I would argue that conservatism is in fact as collectivist as some kinds of leftism - the grassroots low level kind, with credit unions and cooperative fish plants and such.

It's fundamentally about differernt sectors of society working together for the whole, with both rights and responsibilities to the other parts.

Neither is particularly big on unfettered capitalism with movement of labour or capital, and both tend to be very tied to place and the land and community.

Both tend to see that there should be laws and social structures to constrain bad human impulses and encourage good ones, both economically and socially.

There you are with your extreme conspiracy theories again. The majority of us are left wing and are speculating on hard right trans terrorism.

It's a shame you aren't more aware of the politics of the moment. It would take too long to explain, and kindly you may need a bit of time to understand it all. Maybe read a little more into and around the subject of gun violence , in particular statistics, trumps links to epstein, why he is so desperate to deflect from epstein and why he needs to exploit this ck situation. Watch a little more diverse media outlets, it will help to broaden your understanding of current affairs. It will be a struggle but I'm sure you'll get there in the end. 🙂

What does Epstein have to do with a trans roommate? You sound very unwell.

Wilful ignorance, look it up , you seem to be suffering from it.
RTFT.

Why do posters who want us to "educate" ourselves never tell us what sources we should look at? Which "diverse media outlets" is TinyTim talking about?

I think most posters on this thread live in a country where politicians (and princes) don’t survive contact with Epstein.

However, given that Trump has already been held liable for sexual abuse and already has a criminal record, I’m not sure why you think the Epstein files would bring him down

Ate you imagining a resignation? Another impeachment?

Large and small state is an economic thing. And I am not sure that is particularly important.

Let us say the UK decides to keep everything the same except to spend 5% of GDP extra on the military... have we become more left wing or right?

To me the size of the estate is relevant, but it's more about the extent to which you support progressive taxation, redistribution and state services for the people (left), and the extent to which you believe in few regulations, more neutral or regressive taxation (like we have now to a large extent) (right).

The right supports the freedom to do what you want more than the left, but the left supports the freedom to live your life without grinding poverty and no access to education or healthcare.

Trumps threats restrict free speech on the usual media outlets other than media that wholeheartedly agees with him. Eg fox news Few other mainstream outlets either tackle what is going on at all eg recent anti trump/oligarchy rallies. I went to social media to find the influencers who challenged and agreed with my viewpoints, somewhere in the middle will be the truth. Of course there will be the crackpot theorists , the clearly mad and many many click bait headlines but ultimately you will find the ones who align more with you and what you believe to be more educated viewpoints. To be fair there are still some mainstream news reporters with some credibility I occasionally listen to, but not daily or even weekly. Depends what they're reporting on and if I have the time. I'm not here to advise you exactly who to watch it is your choice, but for me a fantastic resource was youtube.

Jamie, I think that is what people mean by large state, not just raw government spending but taxation, services, benefits, more government control not relying on pure market forces (e.g. minimum wages, rent controls, equality laws).

Educate yourselves!

How?

Youtuuuuuube!

Right you are.

But what if the people go and find different sources to you and/or draw different conclusions? If you want to make a certain point you need to provide a reference to the source surely, otherwise you have no idea where people go to educate themselves. I've been wondering about this for years, ever since "it's not my job to educate you" became a thing in online discussions. If you don't provide a link/reference to the material you think is useful how do you know people educate themselves in the way you'd like them to?

Mattteee...

.... Get off Fox News before you lecture me on widening my media content because Id put money that I read more shite across the political spectrum and from different sources than most and I've made a point of suggesting people read more from 'the other side' for many years on here.

You are still talking shite.

His family and those who associated with him all say he’s very left wing and hates Christians and conservatives. They would know him best.

Watching YouTube and Fox news is not having a diverse input of news.

You are deliberately missing my point.

He clearly has right wing influence even if he's left wing now BECAUSE OF HIS FAMILY UPBRINGING.

You can never escape where you come from and how it shapes you.

How interesting that you think you know my intentions. Are you a mind reader now too? 🤔

You are clearly on an agenda and I will not be engaging with you further.

Trump will never resign, only if he became very unwell and unable to function. Impeachment from what I can see has absolutely no merit given it has not curtailed his disregard for the rule of law whatsoever.
My feeling is that whatever is in the epstein files must be very very bad for him to be SO resistant to releasing them.He knows that even his base could potentially take a dim view of the depraved antics of epstein and trump. While he will always have his loyalists no matter what, he knows alot of his base would struggle if his antics were particularly bad. Therefore the midterms could take a hard hit , even with his gerrymandering, and that would be abhorrent to him, a lame duck president with the potential to be impeached and possibly legally challenged due to all his illegality.

On a basic level it's saving face, no sullying his 'reputation' ( in his eyes anyway) getting his nobel peace prize, plastering his face everywhere with paintings, head busts, renaming buildings/institutions with his name, and building edifices that will leave his greasy mark, all while grifting billions of dollars for himself and his family. He has to keep the oligarchs happy so he will ensure the policies that enrich them further will continue. Stephen Miller will ethnically cleanse the country and the man on the street will struggle to bring home a working wage. Project 2025 having removed all workers rights . As for womens rights well there won't be many.

The release of the epstein files might bring some justice for the women affected . Trumps name is all over the files and it isn't because he bumped into Jeffrey in a coffee shop. The old goat might die before the end of his presidency but the justice will be that his position in history will be a more honest reflection of the kind of 'man' he really is.

Yep I don't like him 😐 😆

It’s a very 2017 TRA phase!

I was told to ‘educate myself’ about sex & gender, so I did, and found out I’m a terf!

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