The thing is everyone that would ever be inclined to believe that of Charlie Kirk already knows. To call him out posthumously doesn’t tend to sway people that listened to him, it makes those people double down.
Ironically, this strategy probably makes the most of his death. People get to see the risks his behavior incurred while also seeing a peaceable path to de-escalation.
If he wants to engage the right in any meaningful way, he has little choice because Charlie was made into a martyr.
The best practical outcome may be messages like this and recognition the killing was infighting, not a leftist move. Maybe the broader conservative movement figures out you can’t stir up violent extremism and expect it to consistently point in the direction you would want.
I get the frustration, but he managed to get a bunch of right wingers to share and endorse his message. He got right wing people to commend a message that included calling out January 6th.
The outcome did more for getting right wing people to work toward tamping that down than focusing on calling them out ever would. Call them out when they are their most scared and they get defensive and escalate. Recognize their troubles right alongside their sins and you get a more productive response.
Right, but it says “Mario”, and that was not the first game that featured the character.
Judging from the transcript, they are specifically talking about a fatal stabbing on a bus in Charlotte.
They’ve jumped all over this because:
Bonus points, they threw Thom Tillis ® under the bus, because he actually said that maybe sometimes he didn’t fully agree with Trump.
he’ll be the oldest president in history upon leaving office.
That assumes he makes it 3 years. I’m not so sure that his health will hold out that long.
Of all the people I was worried about materially contributing to the mess, Charlie Kirk was pretty low on the list.
He said vile stuff, but he was not himself a wielder of power. His rhetoric and words had power, he did not. His death in this manner has given strength to that rhetoric and those words without removing any of his meaningful influence to the system.
Better that these folks suffer the fear of what they court, to have their own MAGA fanatics turn against them with violence that scares them, but leaves them largely intact to have them retreat from their position without becoming martyrs.
Now if some folks actively wielding the power in harmful ways meet some ends, I might have a little less mixed feelings about it.
I will confess to perhaps not celebrating, but appreciating the connection between his sociopathic stance on gun deaths and he himself joining a group he himself said we shouldn’t be so concerned about.
Yeah, worried about this and the punishment doesn’t fit the crime, and too much room for his death to be weaponized, like you say.
Would have much rather him taken a few to the vest from a handgun from a pissed off obviously MAGA person. Give him some pain and a good scare to have him realize personally just how risky the hornet’s nest is that he is stirring. Something that might be a close enough call for others to see without becoming a rallying cry and a clear link to the violence of the rhetoric without a chance to blame ‘the other’.
I will have empathy
How dare you dishonor his memory.
Or the neck hit was more chance. There’s an assumption that the shooter hit precisely where he was aiming, but it could have just been where the bullet happened to hit, close to the amining point, but not exact.
Yeah, without knowing context, you might think it’s someone admitting that we need gun control, but no, his point was that we shouldn’t care about the gun deaths so much…
If they had a minute of silence for him, to be fair they’d need to have a minute of silence for every American gun death, and then they could never say anything.
Glad to see you have chosen to honor him by not having empathy just as he said.
To be fair, he probably was constantly being cursed/hexed by someone or another.
So back when I rented, it was only two landlords and only three years and it was fine, so I was spared the slumlord experience. In fact, my second landlords were a very nice couple, and when I got laid off they actually waived that months rent to help me get sorted.
However those slumlords do exist, trying to evict in face of rent controls, being stingy with maintenance. They however still may be cheaper than a 30 year mortgage, especially if they have no tenant. A tenant might face an aggressive rate hike with the landlord betting they don’t want to move out, losing the price advantage relatively quickly. Ultimately if a residence is empty, the owner is aware the tenants are likely cross shopping properties they could mortgage instead, so they have to be somewhat competitive then. So they are very happy when the real estate market holes prices because they can extract higher rents from the property they aren’t having to buy in current market conditions. They aren’t saints and may treat their tenants like crap, but they are subject to price competition, depending on the market they are in.
From what I see on EV conversion kits, basically the regenerative braking is just a feature of the accelerator pedal that just makes “engine braking” a normal usage model. Blended braking from the brake pedal is not viable.
EV conversion is a thing complete with regen braking, but it’s highly impractical and expensive compared to just doing a new car.
Of course the original question was about a hybrid upgrade kit, which I’ve never heard of. I could imagine a modest battery with an electric motor/generator replacing a torque converter to convert engine braking to regen braking…
It’s not only unprofitable, it’s just flat out more expensive, and with the compromise of smaller batteries. Expect to pay as much as a full EV would cost just for the hardware kit to convert a car and get only the drivetrain modernized before considering labor cost. Expect a compromised end product because they have to settle for components that fit meaning a tiny battery.
It’s really only a market for iconic classic cars that are irreplaceable, not a practical upgrade for a boring random car. While in theory it seems nice to reuse the car, in practice is probably better to just leave the car alone, let it be used for spare parts out of a junkyard, or recycling the materials.
To be accurate, ev conversion is a thing, but like you say, it isn’t a conversation you do to save money, it’s to preserve some iconic classic with an EV drivetrain. Costs more than getting a new EV and then you end up with pretty modest range because the batteries are relatively tiny
So a rich person with their classic car might do this, but the daily driver market just buys a whole replacement car.
Of course if you do find yourself in need of a single char wildcard or by extenaion a fixed length wildcard, you just don’t have that in fish.
Because if there’s one thing the extreme right has been needing it’s an excuse from Bernie Sanders to act they way they do.
There’s no version of a message from Bernie that would sway the extreme right. His message managed to get right wingers to endorse and share a message that cited the following events as unacceptable:
Even among the incidents where a right wing figure was the target, most were committed by a right wing perpetrator or apolitical motives, with only one or two of them credibly left-wing in origin.
So you have an audience of conserveritives that are not “ride or die” with MAGA but might have considered the Nick Fuentes types a bunch of useful idiots that can advance their perspective and be a risk only toward the people they don’t like anyway. I think this is just the event and message for those folks to realize just how dangerous these extremists are to them that they try to weaponize on their behalf. Maybe it can’t work, but a message from Bernie Sanders coming out hard against the right wouldn’t have done anything vaguely productive.