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Abhcán's avatar

The Pax Americana was far from ideal but was a hell of a lot more preferable to heavily armed dictatorships and old-school imperialist invasions. I hope that us in the remaining democracies cam get our collective act together in time to respond.

As for Fuentes and his merry band of thugs, they definitely took issue with Kirk.

https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-charlie-kirk-anyway

https://scholarstage.substack.com/p/bullets-and-ballots-the-legacy-of

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Neal Rauhauser's avatar

Fuentes was running a radicalized youth insurgency against Kirk, it started in 2019. He beat a plowshare into a sword, sharpened it, and now he's shocked, shocked I tell you, to see the object of his averse attachment executed live on TV. The LE response to this is normally a beheading strike, but in this case they fret about the youth vote. Can't have it both ways, it's like trying to stick your elbow in your ear. The beheading strike can not be stopped and picking Shapiro to replace Kirk seems like a tacit admission they have no traction with the kids. Bad for the country and I'm pleased I have no dog in this fight.

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Valence's avatar

We care what you think!

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Neal Rauhauser's avatar

You and 700 other subscribers. And maybe my words reach a few others and provide fine adjustment to things they were going to do anyway. Today that feels like fighting a wildfire with a Supersoaker.

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Sam Ray's avatar

Another way to look at it is malignant narcissists all turn on each other in the end.

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Neal Rauhauser's avatar

I was looking at the macro level - Kirk hierarchy, Fuentes network threat. Networks take on the character of their leaders. There is a whole discipline of evaluating the leaders and figuring out what they will do. Not my area, know some folks who do this, but nobody close enough to count as dispatchable when something boils over like this. I 100% agree with you on the character disorder angle, it started with reality TV vermin a couple decades ago, it's now how we make decisions. This killed Pax Americana and that's just the beginning of the trouble. As a society we're going to need to rediscover Guy Debord, and that's gonna put a lot of noses out of joint.

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Sam Ray's avatar

So idk who Guy Debord was so looked him up. He's way too abstract regardless of viability to catch on in 🇺🇸. With the exceptions of survivors, most still don't grasp the basic concepts of narcissist psychology, even when it is currently 🔪ing & destroying their lives, & is the best way out of this mess. With $100 mil, CNI could fix it. 🤷‍♂️

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