Artificial Intelligence Christopher Hitchens Is 'Keeping It Real' About Charlie Kirk

 

"The immediate rush to sainthood; this grotesque canonization currently underway across right-wing media, is an insult to both history and intelligence. Trump's posthumous Medal of Freedom. The flags at half staff. The sudden amnesia about Kirk's actual legacy. It's all part of a passion play, where the protagonist's sins are forgotten the moment he becomes useful as a symbol rather than a person.

Kirk was not some innocent victim of random violence. He was an architect of the very toxicity that ultimately consumed him. For years, he built his brand on catastrophising every cultural disagreement into civilizational conflict: Professors weren't just liberal, they were Marxist indoctrinators. Diversity programs weren't just misguided, they were anti-white racism. Every campus protest was the beginning of a communist revolution. He didn't engage in debate. He declared war and now his allies want to pretend he was a peacetime casualty.

The hagiographies now being written conveniently omit Kirk's greatest hits. His 'Professor Watch List' that targeted academics for harassment. His deliberate misrepresentation of campus events to fuel outrage. His transformation of confused 18-year-olds into culture warriors convinced they were under existential threat. He weaponized victimhood while claiming to oppose victim culture. Creating safe spaces for conservatives while mocking the very concept. Demanding free speech for himself while attempting to silence others.

What's particularly galling is watching the same figures who enabled and amplified Kirk's divisiveness, now positioning themselves as voices of reason, calling for unity. These are the people who cheered when he turned 'owning the libs' into a business model."

 

Rainbow-Colored Naziism (It's Only Wrong When I Say It)

"If I was a dictator, [NewAgers are] one of the first groups of people that I would eliminate."

How is it that I can start this blog in 1985, talking about the NewAge Movement and how much harm it's caused - not just to the world but to me personally: I've lost a marriage, family, friends, employment, you name it - but today, in 2025, saying NewAge is horrible has morphed into the punchline for a Bill Burr bit? 

    

I'll tell you how: because I've put it all together and the Bill Burr's of the world haven't - and the fascists know it - so I, a black man, will catch hell for decades while Bill Burr doesn't, because Bill Burr's no threat. Consider, in his previous Saturday Night Live monologue, he said "white women" were who's responsible for the backlash to "woke":

"The way white women somehow hijacked the woke movement, generals around the world should be analyzing this....somehow, white women swung their Gucci-booted feet over the fence of oppression and stuck themselves at the front of the line."

Notice: he was analysing it, but (apparently) still hasn't put together those "white women" are NewAgers, putting themselves at the head of the line that's supposed to be for me, but using it to bury me, instead. Not only for noticing but saying something about it. It's truly remarkable.

  

Remarkable because, if you put Burr's observations with those of Norman Finkelstein, about all the trouble "woke" has been causing for minorities, then you can start to understand the authoritarian era were in, and not only how it got started but by who. It was the actions of NewAgers, already wrongly cancelling people like me, who brought us the authoritarianism of Donald Trump. 

     

Conspiracy theorists are suggesting the CIA is using AI chat bots to keep Americans from analyzing things online, but why would that be necessary - or realistic - when the nation's already embraced a long-running religion that's been keeping Americans from thinking for the last 20 years, resulting in an American Civil Rights Movement that, today, is used to defend white South Africans?

 

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That's Entertainment 2024 (And Throughout The Ages)

 

 I'm from a different time and place, so you'll have to excuse me. 

   

 But 'Bravo!' to True Classic t-shirts: the over-arching concerns of modern life have rarely been so well-depicted. 

   

 OK, I take that back - I forgot Tender Dracula - but, still, it's a good commercial. 

   

 AI's getting good, now, too. 

   

 HBO just dropped 8 seasons of This Week Tonight online, and that's nothing to complain about. 

   

 Especially when, today, you can couple it with Mystery Science Theatre 3000, anytime, too. Wow. 

   

Follow that with the album named something "that showed up on an ouija board at one time."

   

 After whatever society's taking wears off, of course - and then we're solid. Until you crash the car.