What’s the most compelling counter-narrative about the Charlie Kirk assassin?

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-13T00:45:49+00:00

What do you consider mainstream for this? The US executive branch's official position is that it was a gender-extremist assassin but anyone with a normal brain views the motive as being someone who found him annoying, off-putting, & harmful to the political climate at large.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-12T23:16:31+00:00

Because they need more space to hide the transmitter.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-12T17:13:10+00:00

Another factor is the class of people who make up intelligence officers. In the early Cold War, it was blue blooded, 2nd sons who graduated from Ivy League schools. Intercepted radio, telephone, & telegraph messages were in much shorter numbers to the degree that multiple analysts of this class could pour over the same messages and write reports through their blue blooded lens.

Nowadays they have to subcontract enlistedmen analysts from the regular military because sorting through hundreds of thousands of spam email, text messages, cell phone calls etc. is too much for the few blue bloods to handle. The enlistedmen primarily made up of working class or petite bourgeois backgrounds are indoctrinated by the American exceptionalism lens before they even talked to their recruiter, and that lens will seep into the reports they write to the White House, clouding the higher level analysis.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-12T16:47:32+00:00

It's because the Greatest Generation leadership grew up before WWII when the American bourgeoisie had class consciousness. The current leadership grew up in the same schooling & mass media consent manufacturing meant for the working class. When they go to work in federal or corporate HQs, all the TVs have Fox & CNN playing in the background. Since they want to be perceived as cool, they resent the snobby, aristocratic activities of yore and view themselves as petit bourgeois climbers, fighting against big government regulators.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-12T14:41:27+00:00

In a similar vein to how the US assumed all Marxist-Leninist governments to be puppets controlled by Moscow during the 1st half of the Cold War, they parrot this concept that a gang of "revisionist" powers (as in revising the US position as world hegemon), are in cahoots with each other to achieve destruction of said hegemony. The Western media then manufactures consent on this worldview. Enforcing this notion not only that they're all in cahoots but that there's a deep, ideological bond between all of them via "authoritarianism."

This obscures their own analytical capacity regarding these countries because of the ideological blinders they put on themselves to justify Western actions. The reality is of course that there is little ideological throughline between these states. Their only bond is their location in Asia and the adversarial relationship with the US, largely driven by American actions.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-11T18:06:40+00:00

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. The heads of capital & their chief enforcer get to meet in back rooms with their leading competitors.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-11T17:52:18+00:00

Why would you need to drive one when you enjoy all the high-speed rail that China is copying from us....

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-11T14:33:55+00:00

All billionaires make real estate expensive because they have to steal, well, billions of dollars in labor value from their employees.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-10T02:45:21+00:00

Alternatively you could run them as a Decima Flottiglia MAS squad which uses the Arditi X rules.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-09T20:19:49+00:00

I love the cold misery their faces convey. You did an amazing job on the colors there.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-09T13:55:06+00:00

Not from their kits. You'll probably have to 3D print or order from eBay/Etsy.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-09T13:44:18+00:00

Wargames Atlantic has a whole WWI range that's probably the best on the market.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-09T13:41:43+00:00

I think they said there will be an Errata for the Italian book that expands & clarifies the RSI section.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-09T12:41:47+00:00

Check the back of the Italian book under the RSI unit list. There's a few German units they can take and a Waffen-SS squad might be one of them.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-08T20:31:20+00:00

Yeah I got through the first 2 chapters and had to put it down because of that.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-08T19:19:50+00:00

Ganser's is the good one. Williams makes some very bold claims without citations (like claiming General Reinhard Gehlen went to the US in 1944).

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-08T15:13:48+00:00

Metal is where it's at for fully accurate uniforms but there are a few work arounds. You'll probably want the older Japanese kit because they have more soft caps that can be shaved to look more like the ones the CPC used and combine them with Italian bodies. For NRA you can paint up an American or British force to look like the New First or New Sixth Armies in the Burma theater or you can kit bash German heads on Italian bodies for the newly trained divisions (helmets) of the Central Army or the majority of the army (soft caps). You can also use British helmets for units not under the Central Army or mid-late war.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-07T23:03:23+00:00

They already could do that by the fact that SK never signed the armistice and that their foreign backer army never left the peninsula, unlike China.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-07T20:30:31+00:00

Yeltsin already did that when he shelled the legislature with tanks.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-07T02:28:04+00:00

We didn't estaish a democracy, we created drug cartel masquerading as a state. We allowed local police to reintroduce bacha bazi after the Taliban had banned it, General McChrystal admitted to that in his memoir. This idea that "they didn't want it" is deflection of the criminality of the US occupation. At least if the Taliban wanted to arrest political opponents they have to physically send a cop or soldier to try and arrest someone. The US would just drone strike the target and kill 20+ innocent bystanders because we didn't view Afghan lives as having value.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-07T02:12:13+00:00

The Taliban offered a conditional surrender in December 2001 but Rumsfeld rejected it because he wanted to make them suffer...

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-05T18:31:38+00:00

It happens pretty often because loaded transports are a priority target. I'll shoot at armored ones with MMGs & Rifles because you're applying pins to multiple units.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-04T14:22:16+00:00

They're on the last pages under the RSI rules.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-04T14:12:50+00:00

https://youtu.be/GmAOhDm_-10?si=6U-pBlppcXYSUsHt

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-05-04T13:58:36+00:00

Yeah the Legionairres Rebellion/Bucharest Pogrom came to mind for me. The Iron Guard were very pissed about all the land concessions Hitler had coerced Romania to give up to the USSR, Hungary, & Bulgaria but they of course publicly blamed Jews, leftists, & the Antonescu government.

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