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John Haupt's avatar

And our educational system actively plants the seeds in our youth that create the terrorists and their enablers.

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James Schultz's avatar

I should know. I went out with a teacher to The Captain's Tavern. Without ratting anyone out, the topics discussed were of the following:

*Social media

*Charlie Kirk

*Trump shutting down an atrophying Department Of Education

I kid you not.

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James M's avatar

Great insight on the decentralized aspect to this.

Also, keep in mind the truth of Ephesians 6:12.

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Steve Stewart's avatar

Good comment! As I see it, behind these frighteningly effective political strategies is a singular antiGod (anti-Christ) design. Their desperate design is dismantled, as you reminded us, through the effective prayers of God’s children.

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robert agajeenian's avatar

It is also very important to go after the money source. All the Gates, and Soros, the thousands of NGO's, all that ilk needs to be brought down to size - public exposure and humiliation. And quickly.

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RAM's avatar

How money and logistical support get distributed to assassin types should be part of the investigation.

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

Yes. The Ryan Routh trial has come and gone and we STILL don't know where he was getting his money or where his arms and other equipment came from.

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James Schultz's avatar

Agreed.

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

Great summary. I would add, just grab an American flag and a MAGA hat and go walk by the ICE center in Portland. Pretty sure folks will figure out what Antifa is real fast.

https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/when-you-dont-know-what-antifa-or

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Ralph Joly,  Ph. D.'s avatar

Insightful as always, delivered in a dazzling prose.

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Mark In Houston's avatar

This analysis is excellent and greatly informs the process by which such political violence is germinated and promoted. It is not yet well understood by the Trump Administration and the conservative political structure against whom it is primarily aimed. Chris, your analysis is also aligned with that of Karlyn Borysenko who has gone to great personal efforts to drill down into understanding the highly decentralized mechanisms of the left in promoting anarchistic revolutionary activities (www.decodetheleft.com). Your and her analyses need to be understood and acted upon by the current administration.

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Brian Villanueva's avatar

You're missing an important element: civil consequences for inspiring violence.

I understand why you resist this. You're mostly a libertarian, Chris. But there's no solution to Left-wing political violence that doesn't include interrupting the meme process itself. "Social consequences" aren't enough. On the plus side, civil penalties would be easy to implement. On the minus, they will likely be used against us in the future. But it's necessary.

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Juju's avatar
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I’m tired of the fear mongering tactic “but they will use that against us next time they are in power” because they already have! During the Biden years, and they were prepping for modifying the first amendment, claiming it wasn’t pertinent to the modern era, broadcasting that online speech must be regulated. The minute they lost power they flipped and began to abuse the very thing they sought to control. I have a suspicion the dire warnings of their ability to use it against us next time was their own narrative plant, knowing we would soak that right up.

I think gloves need to come off. It has crossed a line and we are fighting the true fascists of our era and we need to quickly squash them.

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George Shay's avatar

Brilliant. Must read for right-minded policy makers and voters.

My favorite line: “Nelson, a microbiologist specializing in human excrement, is full of it.”

I wholeheartedly agree with your proposed action steps, but I have come to conclude, as I think Charlie did, that this is a problem that calls for a spiritual solution. All the problems you mention amount to sin. Such souls will be healed only by faith.

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Peter Cohee's avatar

These phenomena are soon to become a severe test of the 1st Amendment. At what point does verbal incitement to violence begin? Is Maxine Waters guilty, for example? Since the right thing to do in 1933 was to assassinate Hitler, is calling someone Hitler or a Nazi now an encouragement to assassination?

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James Schultz's avatar

If Hitler is referring to Trump, yes, they're basically asking to murder Trump for not toe-ing their lines ideologically. It might be easier to bring handcuffs instead of a gun.

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Melissa Fountain's avatar

Thank-you again. Torrance Stephens has it right "...just grab an American flag and a MAGA hat and go walk by the ICE center in Portland. Pretty sure folks will figure out what Antifa is real fast." EXCELLENT.

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Rosemary Eshghi's avatar

Great analysis, Khris, on the evil hand that directs stooges to do its will.

I would emphasize your comment regarding family relationships. Families should be keeping an eye on their members who are suddenly disinterested in relationships therein, and on those family members who are enabling the stooges.

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ContentCatz's avatar

There is only one sustainable way to end a memeplex like this, its not repeating the mistakes that were done in Europe post 1945 and repeated post 1990;

Believers and opportunists need to be physically removed from existence. Jail, Therapy, re-integration.... dont work on those infected with memetic viruses. The Nazis after 1945 that survived went on to form the FDP from which the Green party rose, adapting their socialist belief system to the new power structure. Some went to eastern Germany and integrated into the SED. After the GDR fell the SED was integrated by Kohl back into the FRG - looking at Germany today all problems arise from those three parties and their opportunists. You don't show mercy to teleological materialistic universalistic collectivist cults as a pluralistic democracy, else they will reform and attempt to reach their ideological memetic goals again. This might sound barbaric and brutal, but unless you want to have perpetual attempts at subversion of institutions, that last act of barbary is necessary

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James Schultz's avatar

What about the lethal injection?

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David Robinson's avatar

This is the only way the left can take down the America we all know and love - bit by bit, planting seeds of revolution.

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Deidre K's avatar

The pretense that antifa is just an alike minded ideology has been a great con perpetrated on western civilization. The devil is in the details.

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Steven Brizel's avatar

This is a superb analysis of the left both in macro and micro terms. One should always consider the preeminence of the left in media , academia and culture as well as the Big Law portion of the legal world and far too many corporate boards and structures

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