As I wrote before, no celebrity or politician or CEO should be assassinated by anyone with weak ideas, at least not here. That kind of behavior should be reserved for other places that are given to barbarism that results from fear of opposition and diversity.

All that said, it still does happen here, sadly. It’s surreal sometimes, because I don’t always experience it directly.

Another thing that’s surreal is trying to understand why anyone, regardless of their affiliation, would listen to or pay any kind of attention to someone like Charlie Kirk. I knew of him, but I never watched any of his videos. He was just another political agitator. He was like Kanye West to me. Never heard any of his music, but I heard that other people talked about him.

All I really know is that he was a father and a champion of MAGA sycophants. And even then, that’s all just public information. He could have been a trans man with an inflation fetish for all I really know. But it was wrong and horrifying that he was killed. To his fans, I’m sure it was saddening, and to his critics, there’s plenty of them sneering from the sidelines.