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Peace Has Been Murdered, and Dialogue Was Shot In the Throat
Postcards from the Barsoom Substack ^ | September 10, 2025 | John Carter

Posted on 09/12/2025 9:06:01 AM PDT by packagingguy

Thanks in part to Kirk’s tireless efforts, the left has been steadily losing the war of ideas, and with it their hold on the mass mind. They no longer have the ability to define the boundaries of the Overton window, because every single one of their claims has been shown to be baseless, deceptive, and destructive of both individual lives and society itself. Since the advent of mass media the left has had the ability to delineate the acceptable boundaries of discourse; since the rise of social media, and the advent of the meme war, this power has slipped through their fingers. Truth has leaked into peoples’ brains, and the people have realized that they have been lied to shamelessly on an almost incomprehensible scale about almost everything that matters. The people have seen the left for what it is, a malign force that delights in their humiliation, that glories in their annihilation, an influence whose special talent is to take the best impulses of people and twist them into something self-destructive and foul. And so, the people have turned from the left, and coalesced into into an opposition that has become determined to put an end to the left’s tyrannical parasitism. Not all the people, to be sure. But a lot of them.

(Excerpt) Read more at barsoom.substack.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: charliekirk; civildebate; civility; essay; irynazarutska; kirk; liberaltruth
I've been waiting for John Carter to publish something new for quite a while. Now he has posted again on Substack.

He's talking about the stabbing of Iryna Zarutska and the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

As usual it's a long article if you have some time to read it, or bookmark it for later. It's worth your time.

1 posted on 09/12/2025 9:06:01 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

How did nazis and fascists deal with those they disagreed with? Oh. Right. They killed them.


2 posted on 09/12/2025 9:10:02 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”-Obama

Kirk’s sharp wit and tongue was too much for them, so he was shot.
“”When the debate is lost, slander(and murder) becomes the tool of the loser.”— Aristotle


3 posted on 09/12/2025 9:16:15 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970S!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Aristotle quote is appropriate given he was a student of Plato, who was student of Socrates. Kirk was murdered because he was convincing the youth to examine their lives and beliefs through open debate and that is bad for leftists. The Athenian mob murdered Socrates for doing the same thing.


4 posted on 09/12/2025 9:25:04 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"The past is prologue."

-- Somebody Famous

5 posted on 09/12/2025 9:26:46 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: packagingguy

They will not back down from violence. Do we return the favor? Not advocating this, but given the loathsome enemy, what other options?


6 posted on 09/12/2025 9:33:43 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Texas Eagle

Thought it was communists that did that...oh wait, pretty much the same thing.


7 posted on 09/12/2025 9:34:24 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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To: AndyTheBear

There’s a fine line between Communism and Fascism. I have never fully understood the difference.


8 posted on 09/12/2025 9:58:18 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: packagingguy

I believe the bullet impacted his vest and fragmented up into his throat


9 posted on 09/12/2025 10:04:17 AM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: packagingguy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhSy-6VqIww


10 posted on 09/12/2025 10:04:18 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: RightOnTheBorder

good point


11 posted on 09/12/2025 10:05:36 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Da Coyote

the stuff is coming from the universities and specifically from the cultural marxists professors.

These are the guys who need to lose their jobs and their standing.


12 posted on 09/12/2025 10:52:13 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: piasa

I have a consoling thought that maybe 2400 years from now scholars will be reading about the life and death of Charlie Kirk and how, like Socrates created fertile ground for Christianity in Greece, Charlie laid the foundation for a return to Christianity in America.


13 posted on 09/12/2025 10:58:22 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: packagingguy

Schumer, AOL, big media, et al, killed Charlie Kirk with their labels of Hitler, fascists, Nazis, killers.


14 posted on 09/12/2025 11:00:10 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: Texas Eagle

Goebbels explained it.

Communism owns the means of production.
Nazism\Fascism owns the man who owns the means of production.

See the difference?


15 posted on 09/12/2025 12:56:17 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Texas Eagle

Fascism is Nationalist marxism is internationalist.


16 posted on 09/12/2025 2:04:42 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & subvertion )
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To: Az Joe

Someone demonstrated just that on Twitter, using a 5.56x45. But the same could happen with a .30-06.


17 posted on 09/12/2025 4:47:25 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy
Read the whole thing on your recommendation. Glad I did. The cartoon was nightmarish by itself. This thought of his stands out.

Decarlos Brown’s half-brother is also career criminal with a rap sheet as long as his arm. So was their father. One cannot help but observe that if the father had been removed from the gene pool before he could spill his cursed seed, every single victim of his monstrous sons would have been spared.

Although he urges everyone to watch it, i haven't and won't, do not need to see it to know the depravity.

18 posted on 09/12/2025 4:55:03 PM PDT by Kudsman (Emulate Charlie, not the left.)
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To: packagingguy

We’ll know soon enough


19 posted on 09/12/2025 4:58:20 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: packagingguy

And the left actually tries to blame this on the right! LOL

Can’t make this up.

Some of the best whacko ideas I have heard:

—Trump had Kirk killed because he needed a hero.

—Trump had Kirk killed because Trump raped little girls (reference to Epstein I believe) and he was about being that out.

—There is no reason why Kirk died, today they can save someone with an injury like that.

—Trump was shot in the ear but Kirk died, obviously this is all set up.

—Kirk is a victim of his own stance on gun control.

These people are nuts!


20 posted on 09/12/2025 5:07:30 PM PDT by Red6
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