Ben
@benctc.bsky.social
Hockey podcaster at Circling the Cup (a San Jose Sharks podcast). I primarily care about the three h's: Hockey, History, and Hboardgaming. Working teacher (history/interdisciplinary sciences).
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It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.
September 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.
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The bar for what it takes for these people to say the gloves are off and they’re going to start a civil war the next morning or to get Mike Cernovich to say Nazi shit is not so high that it requires someone being murdered to clear it. It’s an inch off the floor. Everybody breathe for a second.
September 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The bar for what it takes for these people to say the gloves are off and they’re going to start a civil war the next morning or to get Mike Cernovich to say Nazi shit is not so high that it requires someone being murdered to clear it. It’s an inch off the floor. Everybody breathe for a second.
The South FUCKING SECEDED because they thought a Republican administration that explicitly vowed to stop the *expansion* of slavery, but not slavery where it existed, was an existential threat to their way of life. It was in the long run, probably, but they chose violence over giving up slavery.
September 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The South FUCKING SECEDED because they thought a Republican administration that explicitly vowed to stop the *expansion* of slavery, but not slavery where it existed, was an existential threat to their way of life. It was in the long run, probably, but they chose violence over giving up slavery.
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I don't feel any particular joy in Charlie Kirk getting shot. It's not the sort of thing I celebrate.
But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.
But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.
September 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I don't feel any particular joy in Charlie Kirk getting shot. It's not the sort of thing I celebrate.
But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.
But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.
Cops gun people down on the regular, and we generally ignore it, but Conservative Butt-Head gets shot, and that's our country coming apart at the seams? No. The seams are already ripped.
September 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Cops gun people down on the regular, and we generally ignore it, but Conservative Butt-Head gets shot, and that's our country coming apart at the seams? No. The seams are already ripped.