Another Shooting

The alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk appears to be an elderly white man in footage being dragged away by police with his fallen pants around his ankles. The impression I have of his repeated attempts to stop and kneel is that he's trying to pull his pants up but the cops just keep moving. I'm reminded of the now commonly repeated story about the English army at Agincourt shitting themselves in the midst of a battle that was later immortalised as a great and glorious triumph. I wonder how this guy's pants falling down will be used or will it be edited out, either to show him as more heroic or a less pathetic threat.

I saw the footage on an X account of a Jewish woman who admires Charlie Kirk, whose Wikipedia entry calls him a believer in "the antisemitic Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory." I'd heard conservatives use the term before though I never would have thought it an antisemitic theory considering that Marx himself was unmistakably an antisemite. I've been looking for something this morning that would explain to me how the belief in Cultural Marxism is antisemitic but have been so far unsuccessful. Many sites and articles just seem to reiterate the claim in multiple ways without supplying evidence.

The shooting of Kirk follows a couple weeks after the shooting of two Catholic school children by a shooter who left behind several disturbed statements including the unmistakably antisemitic "Six million was not enough."

Trump himself was shot before the election. Left and Right live in different realities concerning the January 6th event when a crowd of Trump supporters entered the U.S. Capitol Building. One of the people, an unarmed young woman named Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed, an incident that also differs in the apparent reality experienced by the different political factions.

It doesn't surprise me that people on the Left are committing so much violence against those on the Right. Leftwing rhetoric in the U.S. has become increasingly violent towards the Right for twenty years. I've spoken against it again and again and rarely received encouraging responses. Trump's crimes and corruption are clear yet they're obscured when people are doing shit like this.

X Sonnet 1960

The boiling bubbles pop above the pot.
Below, the flame forbore the need for gas.
The sun's obscured behind a human spot.
A deadly game began about an ass.
The iron grid was fast and barely seen.
A cross of fire carried blood and lead.
What strangled thoughts would prod the jumping bean?
Who seeks a spark among the ghastly dead?
As smoke dispersed, the room was tattered drapes.
The chairs were broke and people crawled away.
Beyond the door, the creatures hid in capes.
A street was filled with glass and strange dismay.
Like shivered shades are human lives at dawn.
The movie veil has dropped and hearts were gone.