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[boglerdude]

Author is as expected. Elizabeth Spiers is a media strategist and writer in Brooklyn. Claims to have been sexually assaulted in college. Culture war is gender war.

Forum was down for a day I worried for Vinny

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[Smith1776]

One of my former coworkers got fired from her (new) job after glorifying Kirk's assassination:

https://www.rebelnews.com/edmonton_drag ... mier_smith

Yowza. I used to work right alongside this person.

[Smith1776]

Here are my Geekbench results for my new Core i9-14900KF CPU:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/13864833

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Not too shabby!

[boglerdude]

Bunny Lebowski? Where were you working. Is there something you need to tell us

[Smith1776]

Bunny Lebowski? Where were you working. Is there something you need to tell us

Hahahha I wasn't even aware of her, er, extracurricular activities until the story broke.

[yankees60]

I read his excellent book. Here is what he had to say:



Michael Fanone’s Statement to the American People on The Death of Charlie Kirk:
“Charlie Kirk is dead. Shot in the middle of a speech at Utah Valley University.
I am not going to sugarcoat it: I have nothing but contempt for Charlie Kirk’s politics. He made a career out of poisoning young minds with grievance, conspiracy, and hate. He profited off division. He defended the indefensible. He celebrated cruelty. I don’t grieve for his ideas, and I won’t sanitize what he represented.
But here’s the thing: violence has no place in American politics. None.
I know what it’s like to be on the business end of political violence.
I felt fists, flagpoles, and tasers on January 6th. I heard men scream that they were going to kill me in the name of Donald Trump.
That day taught me something too many of us are still trying to ignore: once political violence becomes acceptable—once you decide that your enemy isn’t just wrong but expendable—you don’t control where it leads.
If you cheered this shooting because you hated Kirk, you’re no better than the mob that chanted for Mike Pence’s hanging. If you shrug it off because it happened to the other side, you’re part of the same sickness that’s rotting this country.
The truth is, we’re running out of safe spaces for disagreement. Universities, statehouses, even the Capitol itself—each one has been marked by the threat of blood.
Democracy doesn’t survive in that environment. Free speech doesn’t survive. We don’t survive.
Charlie Kirk’s death doesn’t make him a martyr. It doesn’t redeem his politics. But it does mark another line we’ve crossed in this country—a line that should never have been crossed in the first place.
I’ll say it again: violence is not politics. And if we don’t reclaim that principle right now, we’re going to lose the very thing that makes this place worth fighting for.”
—Michael Fanone is an American law enforcement analyst, author, and retired police officer who worked for the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia 2001–2021.

[dualstow]

One of my former coworkers got fired from her (new) job after glorifying Kirk's assassination:

https://www.rebelnews.com/edmonton_drag ... mier_smith

Yowza. I used to work right alongside this person.

Interesting