Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior situation of violence to establish their subjugation.
Tyler is staying solid, not cooperating. He did what he’s supposed to, not talking to the pigs. When a radical falls taking direct action, they need and want our support. So long as they keep it solid, we should give it. That’s what keeps us sustained, is us. I don’t know all of his motives, but what I do, is that he took bold direct action on part of leftist ideology. I have two trans partners, I have trans people I love in my life, women, minorities, immigrants I love, and I will always defend them and eliminate threats to them.
So if he saw Charlie Kirk as a threat to trans folk he loves in his life and decided to take action and eliminate it, well, then, solidarity, sibling. ‘Cause let’s be honest. Kirk was thirty one, and in four years, that dude would’ve run for president and been worse than Trump 2.0. So the only question is, would you kill baby Hitler? And if not, would the world be better if someone had killed baby Hitler?
Those of us who cannot rely on the state to protect us or save us because the state wants to kill us and enslave us, that’s the goal, that’s the endgame. Christian nationalist white supremacists, they align with the state, and they want us dead, deported, in closets, and enslaved. Make no mistake, it is us against them. With more and more countries moving right, who can us turn to? Feckless liberal centrists like Gavin Newsom or AOC? Lifelong useless Democrats like Bernie or Biden?
Who?
Us, that’s who.
Charlie Kirk was a direct threat to us, and he has been dispensed. It is what it is, fuck optics, or “this may incite the right,” ’cause they’re already incited by our existence. They don’t need another excuse. They already are coming for you. France’s national front, Germany’s AfD, Japan’s far right, Viktor Orbán, Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump, Bukele, Modi in India, Italy, Egypt’s military dictatorship, Indonesia, I could go on. The world is moving right, fascist, and populist. They’re all blaming immigrants for the general failures in the inequity of capitalism. They’re increasingly oppositional to queers and want us back in the closet or dead. They’re all complicit in an ongoing genocide.
We’re frogs in boiling water. We must act before it’s too late. Before long, the powers and mandate of ICE and DHS will grow and will include all undesirables, just like the Gestapo, and unless you’re a cis heterosexual white male, you’re on the chopping block, too. Check points, stop and searches, I hate to paint a dystopic picture, but the writing is on the wall.
So if someone decided to try to cut the head off of one of the mini snakes in this grass, for the ones he loves, then right on. The absolute least bare minimum we could do is support him, write him, make sure he’s got money on his books, help find a lawyer, not some fascist state representative. Of course, it’s not all we could do, but it’s the bare minimum.
Wherever you stand on the spectrum on the use of force and violence against the state doesn’t matter. What matters is that we don’t as leftists undermine the action of other leftists. Fuck their forced dichotomy of this being the “wrong way to express dissent.” Fuck that. We’ve had the ballot since the ’60s and hasn’t changed a thing. The bullet is much quicker and more effective, gratifying, too. Resistance is essence, and everyone has the right to liberate themselves and their people, their own way, and perhaps together we can liberate each other.