In following my 48-hour rule, I'm not reaching any conclusions about who murdered Charlie Kirk or why. I'll just give my thoughts on what's bothering me about what's going on, from both sides.
This isn't liberal vs. conservative, black vs. white, or anything else like it. 🧵
This isn't liberal vs. conservative, black vs. white, or anything else like it. 🧵
Bottom line: liberals and conservatives should be able to live and work together without looking over their shoulder at each other.
Blacks, whites, Latinos, and Asians should be able to live and work together without looking over their shoulder at each other. 2/12
Blacks, whites, Latinos, and Asians should be able to live and work together without looking over their shoulder at each other. 2/12
Russians and Ukrainians should be able to live and work together without looking over their shoulder at each other.
Jews and Muslims should be able to live and work together without looking over their shoulder at each other. 3/12
Jews and Muslims should be able to live and work together without looking over their shoulder at each other. 3/12
The problem is, government NEVER works that way, regardless of whether the people in charge are conservative, liberal, or whatever. Government furrows borders between people, not just the literal borders hallucinated by official mapmakers after a war. 4/12
Government forges the rift between liberal, conservative, and libertarian; between black, white, Latino, and Asian; between Russian and Ukrainian; between Jew and Muslim. Because government IS violence, and politics is the art of using violence to further your ends. 5/12
The mainstream media is a complicit puppet in this, constantly bombarding us with a stream of fear and hate and division, turning us into fools who don't see the beauty of the world, and the reasons to look at the future with optimism. 6/12
Politicians and pundits destroy personal accountability in the minds of the public, so that we sympathize with the aggressor and ignore the victim, or cheer on the hate and calls for violence—which makes the pleas after the fact of "violence is not the answer" ring hollow. 7/12
People always ask libertarians, without government, who would build the roads, or defend the weak, or ensure justice, or help the poor, or whatever their pet policy is.
The fact is, government never does ANY of those things. 8/12
The fact is, government never does ANY of those things. 8/12
The more accurate question is: without government, who would forge hatred? Who would wage wars? Who would impoverish people with debt and inflation? Who would corrupt justice and get away with it?
And the answer is: no one would or could, because no one would stand for it. 9/12
And the answer is: no one would or could, because no one would stand for it. 9/12
That's the very reason why government has to keep us looking over our shoulders at each other, fearing each other when we should be loving each other. Because otherwise, we might realize who the true enemy is. 10/12
And the solution is very simple: The only thing that needs to happen for government to exist is for people to stop believing in it. Because then, people properly see them as a gang of violent thugs, and they lose all their power overnight. 11/12
And to be honest, if we could have a world like that, it'd be worth giving up a few roads! 🔚
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