The pandemic, or rather the handling of the pandemic, IS the reason. People lost confidence in a lot of institutions during the pandemic.

People have been making jokes since weeks after 9/11, and too soon has been a meme the whole time. I’m assuming and hoping that it still will be in 100 years.

Does it matter? Under what circumstances would these actions be justified?

Well it’s literally a definition thing. You can argue that they aren’t true believers or something asking those lines but Catholicism is literally, by definition, a Christian faith.

Lol really going to bat for the other half of the established ruling class aren’t you.

Nothing actually happened. It’s like the jd Vance couch thing.

Ah, a proponent of the wet market theory I see.

What was the racism part?

Being pro free speech has nothing to do with willingness to change your opinion. Rhetoric and philosophy are both contained within the free speech bubble. Also there are no ideologies that are free from the potential of stifling others free speech, which is why it needs to be vigorously protected by everyone, all the time.

I’m not familiar with this conspiracy, but it sounds spicy.

Charlie Kirk got murdered for saying offensive things.

That’s his whole shtick. He has been outraged and animated for his entire career.

Do you understand what point he was making about gang violence and how that related to the discussion on mass shootings? In any event it wasn’t a black person.

Race has nothing to do with it at all…

No, just it’s a stupid take and always has been. Anyone with an ounce of objectivity is at least waiting for something more definitive and not simply going with what they would love to be true.

I can’t find anything saying he was killed by the right. Seems like all of the evidence suggests he was left wing motivated.

Yeah maybe. I assumed he said it because he took issue with the concept of affirmative action in general and wanted to talk about that.

They said it’s because they are black, themselves.

Those specific women said that they wouldn’t have got where they are without affirmative action. He interpreted that to mean that they were admitting to being lesser qualified.

THEY said they only got there because of affirmative action. I assume Michelle Obama meant that her husband wouldn’t have been elected if not for affirmative action as well, which i disagree with.