The non-falsifiable premise killed Charlie Kirk.

gracejoy · 9/14/2025, 11:27:52 PM · permalink

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saarnok · 9/15/2025, 2:00:00 AM · permalink

In my opinion a significant reason for the extreme tendency toward violence on the left is the abandonment of religious beliefs. It almost seems that people require believing things which can't be objectively determined. Some more, some less, but with most people they seem to just *need* articles of faith to believe in.  
  
In addition, it seems the percentage of one's mindspace which can be founded on these beliefs can approach totality. Just as one can simply believe things, the negative is also true. We can also simply disbelieve in an equally non-objective fashion to prevent the formation of inconvenient ideas.  
  
We saw in the realm of "holocaust denial" that debating with those who refuse to simply accept "The Holocaust" as presented must not be debated, their narratives must not be examined lest we contribute to their evil. Then we saw the same thing with "global warming", "racism", "vaccines" and I'm sure a host of other examples should we but recall them.  
  
"Conservatives" typically apply a greater portion of the mental real estate to explicitly religious concerns, enabling the exercise of non-falsifiable premises for the most part outside the visible world while being informed about human decency from a seemingly transcendent source which is resistant to morphing from treating everyone decently to treating only those who share your beliefs decently.  
  
On the left there's very little of their non-falsifiable premises outside the day-to-day world. Reality is to be as they define it, hence the relentless policing of language and words. Word's meanings are what THEY say they are, today.  
  
Kirk was murdered by a radical lefty in coordination with his trans lover and a group of trans/furrys, because his perception of male and female could not be swayed by declarative statements of people who genuinely believe they define reality.  
  
I found it amusing that anyone even entertained the idea that perhaps he was killed by a right winger. Not because it's absolutely impossible, but because the likelihood is so vastly overwhelmed by the likelihood he was killed by exactly the sort of person who actually did it.

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