Blazing Reader,

Before Charlie Kirk's (possibly faked) assassination, I'd never heard of Bluesky. It's a social media alternative to X. However, it seems poorly named. It should be called Darksky. Here's one example of why:

"everyone is like [shoot] Ben Shapiro next or Joe regan (sic) or whatever yeah that'd be cool but how about [shooting] JK Rowling next"

Apparently, Bluesky is run by a genie who grants three assassination wishes.

That's not an isolated comment. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of posts inciting murder of public figures. I don't understand how this hasn't triggered a massive number of police investigations and arrests. It's one thing to say they are glad Kirk is dead; it's another to call for the murder of others who share his ideas.

Chase Hughes, author of The Behavior Ops Manual, argues that the Democrat versus Republican psyop — which has gone into overdrive since Charlie Kirk's death — foments a dehumanizing view of "the other side." In a YouTube presentation, Charlie Kirk’s Death Exposed the Biggest Scam in History, he says:

"Because once you're locked into tribal thinking, you're going to swallow anything, you're going to believe any lie about the other side, you're going to cheer when other people suffer, you'll excuse things that you would never excuse in your own neighbourhood and it was one of your neighbours."

He argues this has been done intentionally so that you never turn your attention to the puppet masters.

"You share more in common with someone across the [political] aisle than with a billionaire donor or media executive pretending to speak for you. I don't think they want you to see that. They need you divided. They have to have you blind and full of rage because a united, sane, connected public is the one thing they fear."

You can watch his full presentation on his The Behavior Panel YouTube channel.

John C.A. Manley

PS And if you missed it, here's my previous post on Charlie Kirk's death where he argued the same point as Hughes: Charlie Kirk on why people believe the "other side is so evil that they lose their humanity"

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.