0:01 Over the weekend, Charlie Kirk's alleged
0:03 murderer was caught. His motives are
0:04 indecipherable, and he is not
0:06 cooperating with authorities. I assume
0:08 you've already seen my first video on
0:09 Charlie Kirk's death, but I'd like to
0:10 reiterate that what happened on that
0:13 regular day in any Town, USA, was
0:15 appalling, even for America's standards.
0:16 Every nation has had its moments of
0:19 self-inflicted shame. That's undeniable.
0:20 But what other developed nation
0:22 routinely flirts with staying there?
0:24 What other developed nation insists on
0:25 degrading their democracy did that of a
0:27 third world banana republic where
0:28 assassinations are seen as just another
0:31 campaign tool? As an outsider, I can
0:32 assure you that the rest of the
0:34 civilized world has always looked on in
0:35 morbid curiosity at the United States
0:37 who seem to not only tolerate but expect
0:39 a certain level of political violence in
0:41 its democratic process. As if this were
0:43 almost an experimental element of free
0:45 speech. But the fact that the commentary
0:46 almost as quickly as the bullet had
0:48 exited Charlie's neck immediately
0:50 shifted to questioning whether or not
0:52 Charlie Ko deserved to die or further if
0:55 violence is now justified I think anyway
0:57 if you will pardon the phrase is a
0:59 turning point when John F. Kennedy was
1:01 assassinated, leaders from across the
1:02 aisle and newspapers, regardless of
1:03 their affiliations and leanings,
1:05 condemned the act and somberly called
1:07 for national unity. Not that this was
1:09 needed as the citizenry itself by the
1:11 faroff minuscule fringes were already a
1:13 mourning. There wasn't an air of
1:14 partisanship about it because they were
1:16 civically minded enough to know that
1:17 they weren't just mourning a national
1:18 tragedy. They were mourning an attack on
1:20 the presidency itself, an attack on an
1:22 institution vital for the democratic
1:24 process to function. No one had to tell
1:26 them this. They knew it. They understood
1:28 that Kennedy's assassination was bigger
1:30 than politics. It was civics. That this
1:32 wasn't just an attack on the player, but
1:34 an attack on the game itself. How quaint
1:36 that all seems now. As if civic decency
1:38 is a historical heirloom like a town
1:41 cryer bell or trier hat. For in today's
1:42 America, before the government was even
1:44 caught, before we even knew his name,
1:45 let alone his political leanings, you
1:47 had leading Republicans and media
1:49 figures quick to blame the Democrats and
1:51 calling for reprisals. Due to the
1:53 inundation of American politics that the
1:54 world consumes with relish, I think I
1:55 have a taste for what the average
1:57 American feels when there's yet another
1:59 school shooting. You're not shocked that
2:00 it happened. You're shocked that you're
2:02 no longer shocked. Charlie Kirk would
2:03 have had to have been one of the
2:04 Republican party's most effective
2:06 political warriors. Unlike most
2:07 commentators who take the coward's
2:08 position of, "Oh, I think they're all
2:10 the same." Charlie proudly wore the
2:12 title of Republican as a badge of honor.
2:13 He was a true believer in the cause. And
2:15 yet, as his body lay limp, they used his
2:17 carcass as a ragd doll to chuck into the
2:19 grinding mill of endless point scoring
2:21 processed into the new cycle. As if it
2:23 was a perfectly normal response from a
2:25 mainstream parliamentary party in a
2:27 western democracy that could gain
2:28 government, let alone is in government
2:30 to turn it into a partisan point as
2:32 unthinkingly as a reflex. Australia's
2:34 current ambassador to the US is a former
2:36 prime minister of ours. He would have to
2:38 have the exact opposite opinion to
2:40 Charlie Kirk on virtually any issue.
2:42 When he was shot, his response was, "The
2:44 death of Charlie Kirk today is deeply
2:45 distressing. There is no space for
2:48 political violence in any democracy. My
2:49 thoughts and those of all Australians
2:51 are with his family and loved ones."
2:53 Compare that response to Trump's who was
2:55 supposedly one of Charlie's best
2:56 friends. I can assure the Americans
2:58 watching that the response from
3:00 Republican leadership in Australia would
3:02 have been reserved only for the fringe.
3:04 Here you would have heard it from barely
3:05 elected swill in the rightfully reduced
3:08 crossbench like Ralph Babbot. That's the
3:10 same level a mainstream party is on now.
3:13 Crossbench swill, confoundingly with a
3:15 majority in both houses. I'm not going
3:16 to pretend, though it would be
3:18 personally convenient to do so for
3:20 maximum online engagement, the Democrats
3:22 return served. I'm more than happy to
3:23 note because it's important that
3:25 Democratic leadership was consistent and
3:28 uniform in their condemnation. If only
3:30 the leadership had anyone left to lead.
3:31 The usual Democratleaning commentators
3:33 that are of note in both the old and new
3:35 media followed what is the unequivocal
3:37 sane response template. They expressed
3:38 sympathy for Charlie's family, condemned
3:40 the act, said there's no room for
3:43 violence in a democracy. But to who?
3:45 Granted, their videos performed well,
3:46 but all of a sudden, the feed was filled
3:48 with a flurry of new commentators that
3:50 were previously non- entities competing
3:51 in viewership with the stalwarts because
3:53 the base was not buying what the saying
3:55 was selling. They wanted people who
3:57 reflected their view that I honestly
3:58 thought would have been relegated to
4:00 fringe forums, but apparently it's
4:02 mainstream opinion now. They wanted
4:04 someone to justify the Chardan Freud
4:06 they felt over Charlie Kirk's death. I'm
4:08 not including memeing on Charlie Kirk's
4:10 death in this. Dark humor is employed by
4:12 some of the best people in society.
4:13 Paramedics and nurses that are
4:15 confronted with horrific deaths on a
4:17 daily basis use dark humor as a coping
4:19 mechanism because by its nature, it is a
4:21 tacit admission that the event itself
4:23 was twisted. I'm talking about the sea
4:25 of chronically online freaks who
4:27 sincerely think that Charlie Kirk's
4:30 death is deserved. always with the same
4:31 pattern that these hypocrites have
4:32 smuggly derided for years in
4:35 Republicans. I'm not a racist, but their
4:36 version is confoundingly more
4:38 unsettling. It's I don't condone
4:40 violence, but the butt is followed
4:42 always by eight paragraphs explaining
4:43 why they think that it's not only
4:45 justified, why they think they're
4:47 morally superior for justifying it,
4:48 always with the fig leaf camouflage
4:50 spllayed over the top, which is, "I said
4:52 I don't condone violence, therefore you
4:54 can't accuse me of condoning violence."
4:55 You will see what I'm talking about in
4:57 these very comments. long elaborate
4:58 paragraphs always followed by the
5:01 template of he said X, he was insert X
5:03 label. Very often they try and make
5:04 themselves out to be the victim of his
5:06 hateful tirades because Charlie getting
5:07 sniped to the neck is obviously about
5:09 them. Of course, some of them are so
5:10 noble in fact that they don't even have
5:12 these opinions for themselves. They have
5:14 it on behalf of ex agrieved minority
5:16 that Charlie kills with his Instagram
5:18 reels. They might have even chucked in
5:20 insert X country has political killings
5:21 all the time and yet you never talk
5:23 about that. In fact, even caring about
5:25 this is the Chronically Online's
5:26 favorite dismissal. Some sort of
5:29 right-wing grift. Awful lot of words to
5:31 say I condone political violence. On
5:33 that last point, the reason Charlie's
5:34 death is significant and not in country
5:36 X is that the United States is not
5:38 country X. It is supposedly the leader
5:40 of the free world and it plunging to the
5:42 democratic doldrums of a Colombia or
5:44 Pakistan where killing is as acceptable
5:46 in the so-called democratic process as
5:48 voting. That's globally significant.
5:50 rightly or wrongly from the endless
5:52 brainwashing of friends repeats. The
5:53 rest of the world looks to the United
5:55 States for cues of normality. Speaking
5:56 of Pakistan, you will notice the
5:58 political and religious assassinations
6:00 there are like the democracy sausage in
6:02 Australia. It's part of the process.
6:04 You'll notice that every single time a
6:06 MU is killed, it follows a very similar
6:07 line of reasoning to those justifying
6:10 Charlie's death. This MUI said X. He was
6:13 insert X label. If anything, my sect of
6:15 Islam is the real victim. So be sure
6:17 Americans, Charlie Kirk's death is not
6:20 the end of democracy. But it's that kind
6:22 of democracy that you're heading for.
6:23 Naturally, like with everything else,
6:25 these people will fall back on blaming
6:27 their favorite nebulous flavor of the
6:29 system. Some will blame the gun lobby,
6:31 economic inequality, the radical left,
6:32 which appears to be a cheap rebrand of
6:35 the 50s retro charm that is communism.
6:36 Again, it's deeply concerning, but not
6:38 surprising that many suspect that it's a
6:40 false flag operation staged by the
6:42 government. Yet time and again you have
6:43 the killer come from comfortable
6:45 economic circumstances. While commentary
6:47 on the so-called politics, if we can
6:49 even call this event political, is
6:51 widely consumed by the middle class or
6:53 higher. The problem is not the man. The
6:55 problem is the everyday man. This is
6:57 something that is deeply sick within the
6:59 citizenry of the United States. And like
7:01 all mental patients, of course, they
7:02 want to externalize the blame into some
7:04 invisible enemy that only they can see.
7:07 Many will claim that the man was quite
7:08 literally the man. rationalizing their
7:10 shardan Freud by saying that this is the
7:13 society that Charlie Kirk wanted. So did
7:15 you. Only 67% of millennials and just
7:17 44% of Gen Z, that is less than half of
7:19 Gen Z, think that violence is never
7:21 acceptable against an elected official.
7:22 What's the common denominator within
7:25 these two demographics? They're the ones
7:27 that are the most online. In fact, you
7:29 have a third of American students, not
7:31 exactly an economically disadvantaged
7:33 cohort. University is a thoroughly
7:34 middle class endeavor. And yet you have
7:36 a third of that widely comfortable
7:38 cohort believing that violence is an
7:40 acceptable response to speech. They're
7:42 not all watching Charlie. There will be
7:44 all sorts of barely coherent non-Ch
7:45 Charlie related ideological
7:47 justifications across the quote unquote
7:49 political spectrum justifying violence.
7:51 And I can assure you very little if any
7:53 of them held the exact same poisonous
7:55 combination of talking points as Tyler
7:56 Robertson because they've got their own
7:58 Reddit forum for that. They've got their
8:00 own personal curation of ex-
8:01 commentators that gaslight their rapid
8:04 descent into Pakistani style extremism.
8:06 The point is that a third of them think
8:09 that Tyler had a point. The only point
8:11 uniting them is that up to a third of
8:14 Gen Z can all agree that Tyler was
8:16 acting within the acceptable democratic
8:19 bounds. Children are our future. And
8:20 that's what we're witnessing. The
8:22 sprouts of that line of thinking.
8:25 Everything about this was internet-aged
8:26 brain rot. This was an internet
8:28 celebrity making content for a
8:30 chronically online audience killed by a
8:31 chronically online man with memes
8:33 engraved into his bullets that are so
8:35 indecipherable to authorities that they
8:36 still don't understand what his
8:38 political ideology was. And that's
8:40 because I can assure you neither does
8:43 he. His ideology is what political
8:46 scientists will one day refer to as slob
8:48 souprained. It is nothing more but the
8:49 result of American culture colliding
8:52 with 21st century brain rot. As is now
8:54 becoming a cliche, the global experiment
8:55 of social media is not even two decades
8:57 old, and it's already proving to be the
8:58 human equivalent of when you put a
9:00 dolphin in a tank in SeaWorld and its
9:02 own echoes bounce off the wall and
9:04 slowly drive it insane. We have our own
9:06 echo chambers that we voluntarily put
9:08 ourselves in. You can blame anything you
9:10 like on the demise of the US in recent
9:12 decades. Every boogeyman is probably
9:13 going to have some level of validity to
9:16 it. But that mindset right there,
9:18 Charlie had it coming, that's going to
9:20 be the nail in the coffin. It won't have
9:22 the effect that they think it'll have
9:23 either, as has already happened. He's
9:25 become far more influential than he ever
9:27 was alive. He's been elevated from
9:29 commentator to martyr. What did you
9:30 think was going to happen? Is that
9:32 mission accomplished? Is it Tyler? This
9:34 is being seen as permission for more
9:36 violence, which of course is going to be
9:38 condoned and draw sympathy from, as
9:39 potentially half of his generation
9:42 thinks Tyler has a point. I know this is
9:44 of no concession. In fact, it might even
9:46 come off as gloating and perhaps it is.
9:48 But I was the target of a failed
9:49 assassination attempt. What always made
9:51 me feel like Australia is a good place
9:52 is the fact that even my political
9:53 enemies, and I can assure you I have
9:56 many, they came out and publicly
9:57 declared, even if it was for internet
10:00 clout, that it was unacceptable.
10:01 Regardless of how self- serving and
10:03 click-thungry the performance was, the
10:04 performance still had to be performed to
10:06 an audience that believed that political
10:09 violence cannot ever be justified. It
10:11 cannot be rationalized. Yes, we have
10:12 violent political outbursts every now
10:15 and then. Every country does. But it
10:17 will find no safe harbor here. It is a
10:19 line in the sand that the general public
10:22 will not cross. What's startling is even
10:24 many Australians who would have agreed
10:26 with the basic premise of our democracy
10:28 not condoning the violence not condoned
10:29 the violence buted their way out of
10:31 Charlie's murder. And that's because
10:33 America, just so you know, you give off
10:34 the cue to the rest of the world that
10:36 this is how your democracy should
10:38 function. These people clearly consume a
10:40 lot of your media bile and that's what
10:42 your media bile has taught them. As you
10:44 will expect, these chronically online
10:45 freaks, due to their confounding
10:47 solicism, expected that I would make
10:49 them feel okay for having the sick view
10:51 that Charlie had it coming. And because
10:53 I didn't, they freaked out. QA
10:54 paragraphs justifying in their own minds
10:56 why they're morally superior for
10:57 thinking that Charlie deserved to die.
10:59 But I said, I don't condone violence.
11:01 So, I'm right in both ways at once.
11:04 Unsubscribed. If only that were true. I
11:06 know that they're basically a heroin
11:08 addict for Twitter. they will be back
11:09 because they enjoy finding reasons to
11:11 have fits over. But believe me when I
11:13 say I sincerely wish they didn't come
11:15 back. I don't want an audience filled
11:17 with the likes of you. I don't want to
11:19 pander to your mental derangements for
11:21 views. There are many others who do, but
11:22 I don't want to be subjected to an
11:24 audience capture that is that easy to
11:26 please, that monetizable due to the
11:29 amount of content they consume online. I
11:31 don't want to be held captive to those
11:33 freaks. I would hope that I'm striving
11:35 to appeal to the same, those who
11:36 actually believe what I thought were
11:38 basic conventions like it's not okay to
11:40 shoot someone for an opinion and it's
11:42 certainly not okay to shoot someone else
11:44 as some sort of retort. For any American
11:46 that is watching that belongs to this
11:48 ever shrinking voting block it appears
11:51 to be these days that is the same. I'm
11:53 sorry that this is happening to your
11:55 country. I truly am. I think it must
11:57 have been a gradual decline where all of
11:58 a sudden you felt an air of oppression
12:00 that you couldn't feel before and that's
12:02 because a nation's atmosphere is made up
12:04 of its citizens. I'm sure that you've
12:05 gradually grown fearful of what you can
12:07 say around your friends, family, work
12:09 colleagues, and neighbors because that
12:11 half of the country doesn't just sprout
12:13 out of nowhere and any one of them could
12:15 be the next Tyler Robinson. I can't say
12:17 that I would be surprised either if this
12:18 is how the great American experiment
12:20 ends. An attention fractured
12:22 kaleidoscope of echochamber narcissism.
12:24 But unlike Charlie Kirk, you don't have
12:26 to prove me wrong. I hope I am. If I'm
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