Even this prick's targeted victims open with 'it's so terrible he died like this,' when, ehhh. He was a school shooting apologist who was shot at a school. He got done unto. You're allowed to be neutral.

He never gave a shit about free speech or debate - he just yelled at people. He spat bigotry in a cocksure tone of voice, because that's all conservatives think is real. That's all they think you're doing. When they publish shitlists of academics who've told right-wing teenagers they're objectively incorrect, and parrot the language of discrimination and prejudice - it's because they don't know the difference. There is no such thing as "objectively incorrect," in their worldview.

Reality is a team sport, to some people. Their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. All that has ever mattered is ingroup loyalty. There is no other force in their moral universe.

This tribalist mode is humanity's default. Recognizing when people are stuck in it is even more important than addressing their specific terrible beliefs. No argument can work, until they are led to figure out, words mean things.

Don't worry, she jumped on the GoFundMe grift train faster than anyone would've guessed, so she'll be fine. The kids, well, that's a whole different set of WTF that's been brewing since their conceptions. 😶

Charlie Kirk may have been for debates he could win. And it’s the same as any radio show: vet the opposition first. You don’t even invite them until you know them inside and out. Turn their mic down and talk over them so they raise their voice, and turn it back up so they sound aggressive, then passively aggressively talk them down to gain the moral high ground. And if they start making sense, cut to commercial.

If all that fails, put them on a list and demonise that list.

The process through which I was placed on TPUSA’s list was anathema to public debate. Instead of writing an op-ed in response to my New York Times op-ed, or inviting me to a public debate on these issues, TPUSA instead added me to an online list that is — as I explained in another New York Times op-ed back in 2016 — essentially a new species of McCarthyism.

Maybe we didn't realize the extent back then, buy by now I think we all know the playbook for a speaker to accuse their opposition of the speaker's offenses.

In this case, it is easy to check that, yes, Kirk SAYS he's for debate, but we can check records to see there are no Kirk/Yancy debates, yet there is a TPUSA list (rather than give them hits, here's an old archive page).

Trump and his sycophants are implementing political repression, censorship, and politically targeting free speech, which means that those of us who believe in democratic speech, in dissent, in open and critical debate, are being targeted, are being silenced, are being marked for further violence. This is not new for Trump.

Again, we just saw the FCC threaten ABC over Kimmel, and Trump himself has opined that criticizing him should be illegal and networks should be punished for allowing it. They just sent troops to Portland to stop demonstrators?!? That's not a free democracy! That's Fmmhmph[CENSORED]