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Facism and Heresy - Words Matter

2025-11-01T06:27:33Z

This is a short reflection/semi-open letter to a friend I’ve been having a conversation with for a couple weeks

Name-calling in a rhetorical exchange is such a school-yard bully, low IQ, desperate, degenerate move when it’s used in lieu of data… I have 2 scenarios in my head that bring light to one another.

Warning

Today the words “Nazi” and “Facist” are so over-used it’s moved beyond sickening to boring.

However, the usage of these words has led to violence, and a lot of it in my opinion. The dangerous rhetoric is a key player in the multiple Trump-assassination attempts, various acts of violence against other conservatives, specifically, (because who else does the Left call a Facist except anyone remotely moderate anymore), and most notably the murder of Charlie Kirk. I find the rhetoric super dangerous because I’m not a politician, but boy can I tell you for sure that Charlie was a moderate, and if they came for him then consider my reflection: Reflection - They Can Come For Anyone.

One of the problems I see here is that many people can’t define “Nazi” or “Facist”. To the Left, these words just describe someone they disagree with, and it’s turning out - ultimately someone they think would be better off dead.

It reminds me of a kid at a summer camp I worked at about 10 years ago. The camp was all about Christian apologetics - great times, good discussions, lots of great content, etc. One year there was a 17 or 18 year old boy here, super fundamentalist in his beliefs… no harm no foul here. But he demonstrated a habit of calling anything that differ’ed from his interpretation of a passage of scripture as heresy. Now… here’s the thing, it’s not heresy to not be a young-earth-creationist. But something that is true is that people have been put to death over heresy in the history of the Church…. and yet this kid felt comfortable labeling anyone a heretic who was more fluent in Hebrew than him…

So what do I see? - There’s similarities between that immature kid and practically anyone using the words “Nazi” or “Facist” to describe American politics right now - are the same type of person to me. That person feels a deep care for the thing they think they’re protecting, but in reality they’re participating in a violent pattern of history that they do not understand

So to us today, in or out of the Church, involved or not involved with politics… We need to recognize that words matter. And to carelessly use words that eventually excuse violence is at best, ignorant. There’s nothing wrong with ignorance, but a good measure of a man is what he does when his ignorance has been pointed out… Will you be apart of the solution? Or continue to fan the flames?

Reflection - They Can Come For Anyone

2025-09-11T05:34:00Z

At some point in the recent history of my country, political tensions began increasing exponentially between our 2 parties, and I had hardly cared until right around 2021/2022. There were policies and patterns emerging in the public sphere that were troubling to me, and I’ve sense developed some hard opinions.

A man was just murdered for holding opinions openly that are not much different than mine - at least as far as the innate divisive nature of the opinions… I want my country to be safe, I proudly fly the American flag, Jesus saves me every day and although America isn’t a Christian nation I feel blessed that God put me in this country, I value open-debate, and I’ve just so happen to come to hold fairly right-leaning social positions…

and they killed this guy for it

Charlie Kirk was murdered for daring to challenge college kids around the country to think critically about what narrative they are force-fed through media and school

The political landscape of America isn’t Left vs Right… I mean it is, and in that dichotomy unfortunately I am on the Right, but this isn’t Democratic values vs Republican values, and I’m not a Republican and most Leftists aren’t actually Democrats… these “sides” have both been co-opted by wicked people… In what I’ve learned, I would’ve said Dems had it right up until the mid 2000s, and idk what happened but since the 10s-onward the media and honestly a majority of democratic elected-officials are the ones CRANKING UP THE VIOLENT RHETORIC. Conservatives are likened to Hitler in the media, Charlie himself was called a faccist (what a retarded thing to say… accuse the guy who built his career on good-faith debate of being a police-state supporter) and people with national platforms are daily accusing those on the Right of being hateful simply for wanting to have debate, for not bowing down to identity politics and non-arguments.

Charlie is a martyr for freedom, and a victim of the violent rhetoric the media has been pushing against the Right ever since Donald Trump became the boogy-man.

I value my privacy and I believe in what I believe in… I’m not ashamed to publically be known for any conviction I hold, but if they killed Charlie for anything he belived, they’d kill me too.

And who is “they”? Charlie was shot 16 hours ago, I have seen no evidence that the shooter was a democrat or even on the Left… but what I have seen on social media is proud Leftists celebrating the killing of a young dad, husband, Christian, and activist for publically encouraging people to debate and to bow to the better argument, not the stronger more violent opponent…. I don’t know anything about the man who pulled the trigger, but I do know that a disturbing number of people are comfortable putting their face behind a campaign of assassination and fear. They’re comfortable with it because it’s socially aacceptable to call for violence against some groups of people, primarily the one group that is constantly villianized in absolute ignorance - White Christian Men… If you don’t agree with this then I would say you are blinded… Christianity is openly mocked, and you wouldn’t notice if you wouldn’t notice… whereas other religions are so openly protected it’s become comical to me. When’s the last time you felt comfortable making a joke about Islam or Judaism compared to Christianity? Even if you wouldn’t joke about any of them, you know you’d be safe to criticize one publically, and the other 2 you’d face consequences for. And these are the things these lunatics celebrate… they love that another White Christian Man was removed from God’s green earth…

These poor people

I’m not complaining necessarily about Christianity’s lack of priviliege in the public sphere and my heart breaks for people who hate - period…. to hate someone for a difference of worldview or opinion to the point of openly celebrating their death is one of the saddest and most sickening realities I can think of.

What can I do after this? Charlie was just a regular guy. It’s one thing to have the attempted-assassination of Trump sweapt under the rug, or to brush it off as a targeted attack against a powerful man. But Charlie wasn’t a politician… he was just a guy with a job, who went around having conversations. The violence against the Right is stochastic in nature, but increasingly present as public figures continue to use hitler and nazi-fueled language against people they disagree with…

Paired so closely in time with the news of The slaying of Iryna Zarutska who was attacked randomly by a man who, all unconfirmed allegations aside, had been arrested 14 times for violent crimes. And yet, in my country of freedom, a violent criminal was free to murder a refugee fleeing a war-torn region… (if you watched any videos you’ll see 4 or 5 people witness the attack, and then do nothing as Iryna sorrowfully dies, alone and unaided in a foreign country… the victim of a monster)

Charlie commented on this event, I have the same feelings about the climax I thought it led to after years of under-reported race-fueld violence against white people, and he was called a racist just for noticing patterns…

If they shot him for saying something about any of his convictions, for believing he should be allowed to raise his family in safety, to attend church, and to openly debate for the sake of the better idea - they’d shoot me to… and celebrate.

I take as much comfort as possible, however minimal, knowing that Charlie loved Jesus, and that his family has the hope of resurrection in the name of Jesus to see him again… But 2 kids lost their dad, and a young woman lost her husband, lunatics celebrate, today is just another day, and if someone would come for a normal guy like Charlie, they’d come for you too.

💭 Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

2025-06-25T11:04:29Z

Here’s my thought on Notes – 06:11 Sun 22 Jun 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

I see that most of the tech world, at least in public, leans left… which is fine. I think politically I’d have leaned left in the 90s/00s if I had been old enough to pay attention and understand.

But the sold-out hatred for Elon and Trump is wild to me… Nothing makes the reality of propganda in 2025 more clear to me than the manufactured hate of 2 guys who the Left USED to love… I’m not like all in on either guy - but the politically driven hatred which has led to physical violence against both of these guys is insane….

Dave’s ending thought here “We’re entering a Misinformation Age” is funny to me… Misinformation has been around forever - the CIA has admitted to an absolutely hilarious amount of things that over the years the government (US Government) had denied and the news had been complicit in covering up - right up until it was just undeniable and finally “ok ya everyone we did do that mind control experiment - BUT WE’LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN”… “ok ya everyone we did know the Taliban has been on the receiving end of millions of US dollars every year but don’t worry about it”… But for everyone to NOW get all up in arms over 2 guys the news will not shut up about, is just comically out of touch with history to me…

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