I am amazed at the blogs and Substackers and commentators who do flips and turns of convoluted reasoning that would stump a philosophy major to deny the politics of the guy who murdered Charlie Kirk.
Let’s try some common sense. Who more likely supported Mr. Kirk a conservative or a liberal? Who more likely hated Charlie’s position on most every topic, a conservative or a liberal? Who is more likely to go bat-shit crazy snd murder a man in public, one who supports the public figure or one who disagrees with Kirk’s every position.
If you are still in the “I don’t know” camp I guess you are a modern Loyd Christmas, “so you’re saying there is a chance!”
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Darn that Occam! Darn him!
Joe, I get the point you’re making but history shows it isn’t always so cut and dry. John Lennon’s murderer wasn’t politically opposed to him—he was an obsessed fan. Same with Reagan’s shooter, who claimed he admired him. Supporters and admirers have sometimes been the ones to lash out violently. That doesn’t mean this case wasn’t politically motivated because it could have been.
Those shooters did not claim to hate their target, Kirk’s did in writings.
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…
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