Ken Klippenstein: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin

Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin 

Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

Ken Klippenstein Sept 6, 2025

Tyler Robinson (left) camping at Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada

Reprinted From Ken Klippenstein on Substack

“Hey guys, I have bad news for you all … it was me at UVU yesterday.” Thus Tyler Robinson messaged his friends on Discord, seemingly apologizing for murdering Charlie Kirk. “I’m sorry for all of this.”

I obtained this and other Discord chats I’ve decided to publish (the legacy news media, as usual, refuses), along with new information I’ve learned about Robinson from the people who knew him best.

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Screenshot of leaked Discord message from Tyler Robinson (username: zealous_monkey_55095; other usernames redacted)

Trump and company portray the alleged Utah shooter as left-wing and liberals portray him as right-wing. The federal conclusion will inevitably be that he was a so-called Nihilist Violent Extremist (NVE); meanwhile, the crackdown has already begun, as I reported yesterday. The country is practically ready to go to war.

“It’s been so terrible and seeing it from an inside perspective is so frustrating,” a friend of Robinson’s since middle school told me. The childhood friend, who asked not to be named for fear of threats, provided me with the above non-public photo of Robinson on a camping trip (a favorite activity of his) to corroborate their relationship.

“I think the main thing that’s caused so much confusion is that he was always generally apolitical for the most part,” the friend told me. “That's the big thing, he just never really talked politics which is why it's so frustrating.”

The picture that emerges bears little resemblance to the media version. Robinson, I am told, though quiet, was a well-liked person with a supportive family. The friend group who he interacted with on Discord, far from some kind of militia camp or Antifa bunker it’s been portrayed as, represented a range of different political views but mostly talked video games.

Yesterday, FBI Director Kash Patel said in an interview that Robinson “subscribed to left-wing ideology,” citing his family’s remarks to investigators. But those close to Robinson say there was a lot his family didn’t know about him.

“Their ideas are based on someone they didn't fully understand,” the childhood friend told me. Though the family was generally supportive of Robinson (a claim corroborated by his mother’s Facebook account, brimming with praise for Tyler) they didn’t seem to know about his relationship with a transgender person named Lance, the friend said.

When I asked if his family would have been accepting, the friend replied: “I don't think even Tyler knew the answer to that question, which is why he kept it so low key between themselves.”

Tyler’s bisexuality, the friend said, was coupled with openness on LGBT issues. But his wasn’t some cookie cutter lefty position on every or even most issues, his friends say.

“Obviously he's okay with gay and trans people having a right to exist, but also believes in the Second Amendment,” the friend said, referring to the right to bear arms.

The friend described Robinson as fairly typical of a young man his age from Utah: someone who loved the outdoors, was a gamer, and into guns.

“To all of us he just seemed like a simple guy who liked playing games like Sea of Thieves, Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers 2, loved to fish and loved to camp,” the friend said. “It really did seem like that’s all he was about.”

The phrase inscribed on one of the bullet casings from the shooting — “Hey fascist, catch!” — though widely reported to mean he was a man of the left, is in fact a reference to the Helldivers 2 game. Three arrows initially believed by federal agents to be a reference to Antifa are also a reference to Helldivers.

Private Discord messages shared with me by a friend of Robinson’s confirm that Robinson wasn’t some political martyr. A search for posts of Robinson’s containing keywords like “Biden” and “Trump” turned up just one hit each. The Trump post was a passing reference to the 2019 impeachment inquiry. The Biden one came on the day of the 2020 election, where he provided an update to another friend asking about the status of the vote count.

The childhood friend is a member of multiple Discord chats with Robinson. He described the group as trying to grapple with Robinson’s motive just like everyone else.

“Even the goodbye message he sent in one of our servers [where Discord chats are hosted] was so hard to believe, we all just thought, what a weird joke to make … then the news came out and we all were calling each other saying check the news,” he said. “Yeah I don’t know what makes a person like him decide he’s going to drive 260 miles upstate to shoot someone like Charlie Kirk, then come back like nothing happened. It leaves a lot of room for speculation and theories which is why I think they’re so rampant.”

Part of the confusion he attributes to Tyler’s quiet nature.

“He was a really smart guy but super hard to read, stone cold poker face and you could always never be confident assuming anything.”

When I asked if he opened up to anyone, the friend replied: “As far as we knew he was opened up.”

Despite his verbal reticence, Robinson was not a loner, according to his friends. Far from the stereotypical outcast shooter driven to violence by social rejection, he was apparently amiable and well-liked.

“Everyone who knew him liked him and he was always nice, a little quiet and kept to himself mostly but wasn't a recluse,” the childhood friend said.

“Regardless of the horrible actions that took place we must take this moment to remember that God is a living and loving God who loves all his,” a Discord post from another friend posted the day after the shooting reads. “While Charlie Kirk's politics were not acceptable to some l ask that we all say a prayer for him and his family during these confusing times.”

“The last message is religious in nature which just goes to show the apolitical nature of the server, we all have pretty differing views on politics,” the friend said of the discord post. “We all just exist as friends and just play stuff.”

Cat memes, weather updates, home improvement and the odd Garfield reference populate Robinson’s posts.

“I’m going to eep pretty soon, very eepy,” he said in one post, an intentionally silly misspelling the word “sleep” — a common Gen Z convention.

Screenshot of another Discord chat where Robinson went by the username “Bedbuge Inspector”

The federal government, the Washington crowd and corporate media (based in Washington and New York) see the country in wholly partisan terms, Republican versus Democrat, Red versus Blue, old media versus social media, liberal versus conservative, right versus left, straight versus gay, and on and on. Charlie Kirk’s assassination (in Utah!) should remind us of the actual diversity of the nation, and of the cost of polarization that demonizes the other side.

No one in Robinson’s group is cheering or justifying the murder in any of the messages I reviewed. They’re just struggling to understand what their friend did. But Washington has become obsessed with the Discord chat, convinced it’s some kind of headquarters for the murder and cauldron of radicalization and conspiracy. Today FBI Director Patel vowed to investigate “anyone and everyone in that Discord chat.” 

What I see is a bunch of young people shocked, horrified and searching for answers, like the rest of the country.

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Ken Klippenstein: Charlie Kirk Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown

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Charlie Kirk Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown 

How buying a T-shirt led to government monitoring 

Ken Klippenstein

Sept.15, 2025

T-Shirt worn by alleged gunman 

Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat. The Atlanta man, who asked not to be identified, says the post was merely a confirmation that he had purchased the same T-shirt that the accused killer wore (from an Illinois-based online shop).

The police officer told him that he was following up on an active FBI investigation of Kirk’s assassination, and warned that due to the political climate, posting such a photo was ill advised. The Atlanta man was confused and disturbed, he told me, that the police learned so quickly of his purchase and also knew of his private Discord post.

Discord has made clear that there’s no evidence that the alleged shooter used its platform to plan or communicate anything about the attack. Despite this, pundits and politicians across the political spectrum this weekend created an orgy of fearmongering about Discord and other social media platforms, as well as the Internet in general. 

Yesterday, Utah Governor Spencer Cox called the Internet a “cancer”; today he added that “cancer probably isn’t a strong enough word,” likening social media to the equivalent of “fentanyl” in destroying young minds and taking lives:

We have seen an escalation in violence that has been happening across the country. … I don't think a governor, I don't think a president, and I don't think anyone can change the trajectory of this. It truly is about every single one of us.

And I can't emphasize enough the damage that social media and the Internet is doing to all of us. Those dopamine hits. These companies, trillion dollar market caps and the most powerful companies in the history of the world have figured out how to hack our brains, get us addicted to the outrage which is the same type of dopamine, the same chemical that you get from taking fentanyl and get us addicted to outrage and getting us to hate each other.

I've seen it in real time since the death of Charlie Kirk. I've seen it in every corner of our society. The conflict entrepreneurs are taking advantage of us and we are losing our agency, and we have to take that back. We have to turn it off, and do you have to give it back to the community and caring about our neighbors and bettering ourselves, exercising, sleeping and all of these things that this thing takes away from us.

Social media has become a punching bag in the wake of violent incidents like these. But Governor Cox’s condemnation of social media does not, somehow, apply to his ongoing use of accounts on Facebook, Instagram and X / Twitter. He means “bad” social media like Discord.

In other words, he wants people to see social media in national security terms, a battle between that which is innocent and that which is dangerous — plainly between sanctioned and unsanctioned speech.

On Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel gave a sense of the massive scale of the national security machine’s response. “Last night, we had a total of approximately … 7,000 leads,” Patel said. “As of this morning, thanks to your great work, we have over 11,000 leads that were called in to the FBI, and we are running out every single lead that we can.” (This represents the most tips received by the FBI since the Boston Marathon bombing, as Governor Cox has pointed out.)

Patel is in effect saying that anything, even just the purchase of a T-shirt, is a lead.

It makes sense that investigators might be interested in discovering an accomplice or a conspiracy. But when an investigation jumps from Utah to Illinois to Atlanta, it also makes sense to ask the authorities what exactly they are investigating. 

Social media companies are generally forbidden by law from divulging users’ private communications to the government without a traditional legal process (e.g., court order). But there’s an exception: in perceived emergencies, social media platforms can proactively and “voluntarily” hand over private messages in response to what’s called an “emergency disclosure request” (EDR).

Discord, I am told, did not respond to any EDR here; but when I asked them directly if they’d provided law enforcement with information to traditional legal process, they declined to respond on-record.

As the Atlanta man recounted to me (and corroborated with screenshots), on the afternoon of September 11, he purchased the shirt off eBay from a seller based in Naperville, Illinois, before posting his ironic find in a private Discord chat with several close friends of his. On the following evening, a day after alleged suspect Tyler Robinson was apprehended, he received three calls from the police.

“He explains he is with the Naperville Police Department on behalf of an ongoing FBI investigation,” the Atlanta man told me, “that I committed no crimes and am in no trouble, but he needs to know why I sent a picture of the ‘terrorist,’ which I had to correct him on.”

The police officer did not seem to realize that the Atlanta man hadn’t posted a photo of the shooter, just another T-shirt with the same design. But the cop did know he’d sent the image to the private chat. Given that the call came from the same city as the eBay seller, it wasn’t clear how that police had access to his private Discord chat.

The FBI, or the intelligence community, evidently is monitoring Discord private messaging, even from people who have broken no law. 

Though unfamiliar and thus scary to types like Governor Cox, Discord is an extremely popular American chat app with over 200 million users. Far from the niche cesspool of radicalism it’s been portrayed as, the app is basically just WhatsApp for gamers — a group that may once have been a subculture but is completely mainstream today. 

What its users may not know is that Discord responds to about twoemergency disclosure requests daily from law enforcement “when it has a good faith belief that an emergency involving an imminent risk of death or serious bodily injury requires disclosure of information without delay.”

As Discord told Congress, it responds to emergency requests in under an hour on average. (One Discord employee says the process is getting even faster.) In such cases, Discord does not notify users that its communications have been handed over. The man in Atlanta only knew about the authorities having access to his Discord communications because the cop who called him let it slip.

In the days and weeks ahead, we will see plenty of statements like Cox’s, and we will see plenty of pundits and politicians demanding that something be done about social media: that we need to watch it more closely, that we need to collect more, and that we need to pressure bad companies and users. But it appears that more is already being done; behind the veil of secrecy.

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Ken Klippenstein: “NFL” Shooting Wasn’t Random

“NFL” Shooting Wasn’t Random

Another manifesto gets censored in a case that needs transparency 

KEN KLIPPENSTEIN

AUG 04, 2025

Gunman Shane Tamura

A shooter travels to Manhattan planning to target corporate executives he blames for his health issues. He leaves behind a note that law enforcement won’t release and the news media is happy to quote from selectively but won't publish. 

Sound familiar?

The parallels between Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old Nevada man who killed four people in a Midtown Manhattan office one week ago today, and alleged assassin Luigi Mangione are uncanny. Unlike Mangione, however, Tamura’s victims had nothing to do with his reported health issues. As a result, his rampage was framed as a random act of “senseless violence,” as President Trump declared. But former friends of Tamura’s that I talked to say there’s more to the story: that his suicide note’s reported claim that “football gave me CTE” is plausible, given his many years as a high school football star.

Trump statement calling Tamura a “crazed lunatic”

“Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy,” or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated blows to the head. Often seen in contact sports like football, one study by Boston University found CTE in 99 percent of deceased former NFL players it examined(!), as well as 91 percent of college players and 21 percent of high school players. Early symptoms like headaches, mood swings, memory problems and confusion typically begin within 10 years of head trauma.

Authorities have said that they believe that Tamura intended to target NFL headquarters but took the wrong bank of elevators in the building. 

Two former high school classmates describe Tamura to me as “popular,” recalling someone who was friendly and outgoing — far from the stereotypical loner gunman. 

“It was definitely a shocker seeing him on the news; [I] would never think of him of all people to do something like that,” said one former classmate. “When I knew him, he was pretty normal. Wasn’t ever really weird.”

The former classmate, himself now a scientist, says he thinks the shooting underscores the importance of taking seriously CTE as a public health issue.

“I do think the NFL and health scientists should take CTE injuries more seriously after this,” he added. “Sadly it’s never taken seriously enough.”

The classmates, while clearly horrified by Tamura’s actions, are also able to appreciate the likelihood that there’s a public health dimension to the shooting. Wouldn’t it be nice if our elected leaders were capable of that kind of nuance? That’s certainly how I feel about it, and why I hope that the media publishes the notes he left behind: not to glorify anything but to understand what happened and how it might be prevented from happening again.

What little we know about the writing Tamura left behind reportedly includes three separate references to CTE:

• “You can’t go against the NFL, they’ll squash you.”
• “Study my brain please I’m sorry.”
• “Terry Long football gave me CTE and it caused my to drink a gallon of antifreeze.”

Terry Long, who played as an offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 80s and 90s, committed suicide in 2005 by drinking antifreeze. An autopsy revealed that Long had been suffering from CTE. 

Yesterday, it began to surface that Tamura had reportedly suffered debilitating headaches for which he met regularly with a neurologist and other doctors; he was also twice held involuntarily for mental health reasons. Tamura was also reported to have started playing tackle football at age 6. 

ESPN reported a source close to the family as saying that “Tamura would talk about younger players needing better equipment and safety” (something even the most high-profile fans of the sport like the late John Madden called for); and that he said “he believed he had CTE but also knew that it could be diagnosed only posthumously.” 

The deaths of four innocent people is, of course, awful. But you have to be aggressively incurious to shrug this off as “senseless violence,” the implication being that there’s nothing that could have been done to prevent it.

The incuriosity here about what could inspire such an act by someone whose former classmates uniformly describe as a nice guy — not just the ones I talked to but all of those interviewed that I could find — reminds me of the national security state’s clueless approach to threats.

The most glaring example of this is the FBI’s new threat designation, “Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (the existence of which I first reported here). In example after example, the government so labels actions which, like Tamura’s, are of course horrifying; but even a cursory look reveals that they are hardly random or without meaning. 

It’s not just the FBI. National Guard sources have told me that they were getting briefings warning about the “nihilistic violent extremist” threat amid the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, something that’s about as politically-laden with meaning as one can imagine.

The idea that tragedies like mass shootings happen for no reason at all because life is just random like that, what can ya do — now that’s nihilism. 

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Luigi Mangione is a Victim of Violence. Johnson was Perpetrator of It

Luigi Mangione

Richard Mellor

Afscme Local 444, retired
HEO/GED

12-11-24

Here's the reason for the bourgeois, or big business media's, obsession with Luigi Mansion's assassination of the United Healthcare CEO. 

Workers are supposed to feel sorry for the guy Mangione shot and see Mangione as the crazed assassin. Most workers will not shed a tear for the corporate millionaire while at the same time recognizing that he has a family, children, and so on and feel for them; this is not a bad thing. It is not weakness, it’s what makes us strong and the corporate CEO and his class colleagues weak. 

 

We are human and so are the captains of industry; we are the same species. But as Marx so eloquently said, “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.” This is what makes workers different from bosses, from the purchasers of labor power, as we are the sellers of it. We are the same species but we are also different. Isn’t that what the materialists call the dialectic?

 

The owners of the mass media, want to blame the victim of violence rather than the perpetrator of it. Without a doubt, any CEO of a major corporation is by far a more efficient and prolific killer than Luigi Mangione. As far as I know, Hitler never killed anyone and Charles Manson either.

 

It doesn't matter to me if Mangione killed the CEO just to get his own back as a very sick patient in the barbaric US health care system. Oh. I'm sorry, a very sick customer in the US healthcare system, I can sympathise fully with it. What I will take issue with is certain people who will claim that Mangione is some sort of revolutionary and that this act will be the spark that sets off the revolution that will rid us of the capitalist system and usher in a better, egalitarian society based on human need and cooperation.

 

I have been away for a few days without much access to media so I am not familiar with the latest developments about the assassination and the motive behind it. If it turns out that Luigi Manzione, a young man from a bourgeois background assassinated a representative of the ruling class in the belief that it is through this method, individual acts of violence that, capitalism can be sent to the garbage can of history; he was terribly wrong. 

 

As a revolutionary Irish friend once said to me as a criticism of the IRA’s methods against the British occupation of Ireland, (the north) “they won’t be able to bomb the British out of Ireland” And capitalism will not overthrown without the intervention of the working class internationally.

China's Report on Human Rights Violation in the US.

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This is a post from Arnaude Betrand on X (Formerly Twitter). He publishes quite a lot of interesting material on China. He is also involved in Traditional Chinese Medicine and his website Me&Qi is here. Here is something from today. His Twitter handle is @RnaudBertrand This is a forward to a Chinese report on human rights violations in the US. The forward itself is interesting enough. It gives us some idea of how another world power views the U.S.

 

Arnaud Betrand.

May 30 2024 on X

 

You probably didn't know this, but every year China issues a "Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States". This year's was just released: https://psg4-wordview.officeapps.live.com/wv/mWord.aspx?ui=en%2DGB&rs=en%2DGB&WOPISrc=http%3A%2F%2Fpsg4%2Dview%2Dwopi%2Ewopi%2Eonline%2Eoffice%2Enet%3A808%2Foh%2Fwopi%2Ffiles%2F%40%2FwFileId%3FwFileId%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fdownload%252Echina%252Ecn%253A80

 

They're extremely detailed about it and often quite spot on. To me the most interesting aspect about it is that you always hear the US lecture every one about human rights but never the contrary: this highlights the fact that all countries have their own human rights issues, and also often brings much needed reflection on what human rights are.

Let me past the foreword of this year's report:

"The human rights situation in the United States continued to deteriorate in 2023. In the United States, human rights are becoming increasingly polarized. While a ruling minority holds political, economic, and social dominance, the majority of ordinary people are increasingly marginalized, with their basic rights and freedoms being disregarded. A staggering 76 percent of Americans believe that their nation is in the wrong direction.

Political infighting, government dysfunction, and governance failure in the United States have failed to protect civil and political rights. Bipartisan consensus on gun control remains elusive, contributing to a continued surge in mass shootings. Approximately 43,000 people were killed by gun violence in 2023, averaging 117 deaths per day. Police brutality persists and at least 1247 deaths were attributed to police violence, marking a new high since 2013, yet the law enforcement accountability system remains virtually nonexistent. Taking up less than 5 percent of the global population, the United States accounts for 25 percent of global prison population, earning the title of a "carceral state." Political infighting intensifies as parties manipulate elections through gerrymandering, leading to "Speaker crisis "for twice in the House of Representatives, further diminishing the government's credibility, with only 16 percent of Americans trusting the federal government.

Deep-rooted racism persists in the United States, with cases of severe racial discrimination. United Nations experts point out that systemic racism against African Americans has permeated the U.S. police force and criminal justice system. Due to significant racial discrimination in the healthcare sector, the maternal mortality rate for African American women is nearly three times that of white women. Nearly 60 percent of Asians report facing racial discrimination, with the "China Initiative" targeting Chinese scientists having far-reaching consequences. Racist ideologies proliferate across multiple sectors such as social media, music, and gaming, and spill over across borders, making the United States a major exporter of extreme racism internationally.

The United States is witnessing intensified wealth inequality, with the phenomenon of "Working poor" becoming more pronounced, and the economic and social rights protection system is seen as ineffective. Long-standing disparities in the distribution of income between labor and capital have resulted in the most severe wealth gap since the Great Depression of 1929. There are 11.5 million low-income working families in the United States, but the federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009. As of 2023, the purchasing power of one U.S. dollar has declined to 70 percent of its value in 2009. Low-income families struggle to afford basic necessities such as food, rent, and energy, leading to over 650,000 people experiencing homelessness, reaching a new high in 16 years. "Working poor" has shattered the "American Dream" for hardworking individuals, contributing to the broadest wave of strikes since the beginning of the 21st century, occurring in 2023.

Women and children's rights in the United States have long been systematically violated, with constitutional provisions for gender equality remaining absent. The United States remains the only UN member state that has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In April 2023, the U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to guarantee gender equality. In the United States, approximately 54,000 women lose their jobs annually due to pregnancy discrimination. Over 2.2 million women of childbearing age cannot access maternity care. At least 21 states have enacted bans or strict restrictions on abortion. Maternal mortality has more than doubled in the past two decades. Sexual violence is rampant in workplaces, schools, and homes. Children's rights to survival and development are in jeopardy, with many children excluded from healthcare assistance programs. Gun violence remains a leading cause of child deaths, and drug abuse is rampant among youth. Forty-six states have been found to underreport around 34,800 cases of missing foster children.

The United States, a country that has historically and presently benefited from immigration, faces severe issues of exclusion and discrimination against immigrants. Practices of exclusion and discrimination against immigrants have been deeply ingrained in the U.S. institutional structure, from the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the internationally condemned “Muslim Ban” in 2017. Today, the immigration issue has become a tool for partisan gain and political blame-shifting, with politicians disregarding the individual rights and welfare of immigrants. Immigration policies are simplified into partisan positions of "If you support, I oppose," ultimately becoming political theatrics to manipulate voters. The immigration crisis falls into a vicious cycle, with immigrants and children subjected to widespread arrests, human trafficking, and exploitation. The hypocrisy of political polarization and the hypocritical nature of American human rights are glaringly evident in the immigration issue.

The United States has long pursued hegemonism, practiced power politics, and abused force and unilateral sanctions. Continuous delivery of weapons such as cluster munitions to other countries exacerbates regional tensions and armed conflicts, resulting in a large number of civilian casualties and severe humanitarian crises. Extensive "proxy forces" operations undermine social stability and violate the human rights of other nations. Guantanamo Bay prison remains open to this day."

 

The Texas Massacre at Robb Elementary School

Richard Mellor

Afscme Local 444, retired
GED/HEO

5-27-22

 

I am sure that there will be some, including friends that disagree with me here and those that agree but think I am not being realistic, that what I suggest will never happen and that we have to do something now. I understand this sentiment and agree we can take some half measures and do some things, like better gun laws, that may temper some of the worst abuses that the so-called free market imposes on us. But our goal should be to make everlasting changes.

 

I once read somewhere that while the idea of revolutions or social transformation of the present is normally seen as almost impossible, after they occur they are remembered as the inevitable reaction to social crises. Also, I try to keep these video thoughts short and there were other points I would have liked to make.  So I’ll add a couple of them here.


One thing when we are talking about violence is to consider how many people die every year in the US because of the pathetic social services we have and in particular, health care. These deaths far outnumber gun deaths you can bet on it. And as Cedric Johnson points out in the preface of the book, The Panthers Can't Save Us Now,  nearly all of the Democratic Party leadership who are screaming about gun laws and safety and how horrible this crime is, and who "took a knee" against racist policies, during the height of Black Lives Matter movement "...have openly opposed Medicare For All, free higher education and the expansion of other public goods."

 

Another important cause of the despair and alienation that consumes people in society is that there seems to be no solution; so there is no hope at all. Combined with all the reasons I refer to in the video this is devastating. Seeing no alternative, people seek solutions in all sorts of ways like religion, hero worship, narcissism, sexual obsession and so on. Religion, which promotes the destructive idea that human nature is selfish, rotten and inherently evil and the escape can only be found in the afterlife assuming you worship the right deity is the most common.

 

In this state, all sorts of conspiracies can find root like the fear that foreigners, people that don’t look like you or speak the same language or worship the same god are about to consume you. The prevalence of identity politics is part of this escape and is an attempt to undermine class solidarity, workers seeing ourselves as having distinct class interests with millions upon millions of others, of being a class un to ourselves, this is a terrifying prospect to the ruling class and proponents of capitalism and the so-called free market. We are in a struggle for the consciousness of the working class. If you want to see how important class is, consider the image of Michelle Obama with her arm around George W Bush referring to him as her “friend” and “partner in crime. Our enemies know all too well what class solidarity is and practice it religiously.

 

As one person commented on Facebook today:

"CLASS is not a demographic. It's not a liberal categorization that fits into intersectionality. It doesn't compete for attention or resources with marginalized groups.

ALL WORKERS of ALL MARGINALIZED GROUPS have CLASS in common.

 

Class politics serve us all."

 

Working class unity is the only solution to eliminating the added oppression marginalized people suffer, or what socialists refer to as the “specially oppressed” peoples, and we fight for all marginalized groups within the framework of uniting the class. We cannot transform society without this approach. But this is different than identity politics or intersectionality, an individualistic reactionary approach no matter what its supporters say or write about it.

 

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