Thank you. I did not know about the capitalized and lowercase race identification- this is so blatant. How is this murder even about race?? Well it is now.
I once heard a black minister. Say that, we will always have racism as long as we use the words, black and white. Even in our most basic terms we start with opposition.
that's what haunting me these days. the way she curled up on the seat, as if she was trying to be as small as possible, hiding her eyes, desperate and dying. heartbreaking.
While horrifying, what is the difference between this murder and every other that happened last month? Is it not the outrage? And I agree it’s pretty much the same with George Floyd
I think Charlie Kirk, who I loved by the way, was not really justified in his confidence that the perpetrator was acting out of racial motives. I don’t know what the guys motives were. But neither did Charlie. He had schizophrenia, and his crazy violence looks to me exactly like paranoid schizophrenia, where they hear voices and believe that they’re being instructed to do things. Paranoid schizophrenics are also extremely violent against themselves. The most common delusion that they have is some kind of religious belief system that they’ve constructed. It’s possible the voices in this guy’s head told him that she was a demon or a witch, perhaps because she was white and a woman, maybe because she was just a woman, or maybe because she was white and white people are offsprings from the devil. G. K. Chesterton said that journalism tells you what a man was doing, it’s fiction that tells you what he was thinking. The error that assumed Derek Chauvin was racially motivated with George Floyd is the same possible error here. It’s ill advised to assume that you know the motives of someone who is mentally ill with paranoid schizophrenia.
Based on video evidence it’s quite clear what the murderers primary motive was. After the killing took place the murderer was literally recorded having said “I got the white girl”.
It’s quite safe to acknowledge that race was a primary factor in his motive to kill her.
You don’t know that. Schizophrenics are psychotic. He could’ve been racially motivated, but any honest person knows that they don’t know what a psychotic person is thinking, and saying I or we got that while girl doesn’t mean that his motives weren’t insane.
I have no interest in this guy’s motives, no dog in the fight in preferring of one of his motives over another, what he did was inexcusable, deplorable, horrific, on any motive, and he should’ve never been near anyone in open society. I’m merely pointing out that he’s psychotic. And yes he said something like I or we got that white girl, which you could assume that that means he killed her because she’s white. Or he could’ve said WHY he did that, which he didn’t say, he only specified who he killed as he was muttering to himself.
Paranoid schizophrenics don’t have rational thoughts or motives like sane people do, that’s the point. And the second point is that only he knew his motives, anyone else is just pretending, and I’ve seen too much of that and almost no consideration given to how paranoid schizophrenics operate and have extremely irrational violent outbursts that seemingly come from nowhere to onlookers. One of my very best friends became a paranoid schizophrenic, and he put a shotgun in his mouth. I talked with him a lot prior to his suicide, and he was operating completely within a delusional state all the time. His was religious, where he had these strange delusions of grandeur and delusions of persecution that he would vacillate between. He had just told his mom that his little nephew had a certain homework assignment due the following Monday at school, and then went into his room and shot himself. So no, their behavior isn’t normal or rational, and they are constantly acting within the delusion.
Thank you for your clear words! This type of reporting is not an isolated case. In a comparable crime in Germany—in this case, the perpetrator pushed a teenager in front of a train—there is not only little reporting; the names of victims are often not mentioned; photos are rare, which leaves the victims faceless, and in this particular case, the investigation was even closed and covered up, which only came to light two weeks later.
This has only caused partial outrage, as there are already politicians who suspect “discrimination” against the perpetrator and warn against his “dehumanization.” There is a method to all this. Anyone who falls victim to this as a member of the wrong victim group can not only expect no help: their death itself is swept under the carpet so as not to challenge the narrative. It is appalling, brutal, and inhumane.
I remember a while back when you were first telling me about how wild Germany has become... sad to hear it's only gotten worse. Stay safe out there, friend.
It’s not called losing followers — it’s called aligning with your true audience.
By the way, I don’t live in the U.S., but when I used the public transport system in L.A., not a single ride — whether bus or subway — felt “normal.” After 8 p.m., the city felt like something out of The Warriors movie. I honestly can’t understand how the government has allowed it to get to that point. Is it like that in every major city? I think we are livng in a post left-right reality. Hope more people could apply other more updated frameworks when talking about the public life.
I'm convinced that many/most american urbanites live in a kind of constant state of apathetic stupor, when they're not actively enamored with living among their captors - like a city-wide kind of Stockholm syndrome. The lie is that cities are just awful, and you're very cool for being able to put up with how awful they are, and it's worth it because cities have culture or opportunity, or something.
The lie becomes reality when everyone seems to just accept that living in certain high density urban areas means you will be confronted with non-stop human misery, trash, violence and filth. But it's totally unnecessary. Cities don't have to be hell on earth, and you shouldn't inure yourself to misery, ever.
Crazy how long it took me to hit "publish"—I hate that. I guess the important part is that I did, that you read it and it resonated, and in turn gave me the encouragement to keep saying the obvious things out loud. Wild times for sure.
Excellent essay. You highlighted the main reason I very rarely watch or read legacy media. ‘Reframing’ the truth - especially something as horrific as this terrible murder - to further an agenda. I also am horrified at the passengers. What a sad commentary on the state of our culture. 💔
So the killer said that a material planted in his body by the government did the killing, not him:
https://youtu.be/-FU_E1XXqSA?si=pAUPeEJ-JlTK6f94
This is my point, we shouldn’t assume that we understand the mind or know the motives of people, much less people who are psychotic.
Thank you for writing this. It all must be said.
USA needs to turn it off and turn it on again.
Thank you. I did not know about the capitalized and lowercase race identification- this is so blatant. How is this murder even about race?? Well it is now.
I once heard a black minister. Say that, we will always have racism as long as we use the words, black and white. Even in our most basic terms we start with opposition.
that's what haunting me these days. the way she curled up on the seat, as if she was trying to be as small as possible, hiding her eyes, desperate and dying. heartbreaking.
While horrifying, what is the difference between this murder and every other that happened last month? Is it not the outrage? And I agree it’s pretty much the same with George Floyd
Thank you Stepf for boldly voicing this, thank you for illuminating this unfathomable tragedy. RIP Iryna 💔
Iryna's death was preventable and sad. Be safe out there ST.
I think Charlie Kirk, who I loved by the way, was not really justified in his confidence that the perpetrator was acting out of racial motives. I don’t know what the guys motives were. But neither did Charlie. He had schizophrenia, and his crazy violence looks to me exactly like paranoid schizophrenia, where they hear voices and believe that they’re being instructed to do things. Paranoid schizophrenics are also extremely violent against themselves. The most common delusion that they have is some kind of religious belief system that they’ve constructed. It’s possible the voices in this guy’s head told him that she was a demon or a witch, perhaps because she was white and a woman, maybe because she was just a woman, or maybe because she was white and white people are offsprings from the devil. G. K. Chesterton said that journalism tells you what a man was doing, it’s fiction that tells you what he was thinking. The error that assumed Derek Chauvin was racially motivated with George Floyd is the same possible error here. It’s ill advised to assume that you know the motives of someone who is mentally ill with paranoid schizophrenia.
Based on video evidence it’s quite clear what the murderers primary motive was. After the killing took place the murderer was literally recorded having said “I got the white girl”.
It’s quite safe to acknowledge that race was a primary factor in his motive to kill her.
You don’t know that. Schizophrenics are psychotic. He could’ve been racially motivated, but any honest person knows that they don’t know what a psychotic person is thinking, and saying I or we got that while girl doesn’t mean that his motives weren’t insane.
Yes we do know it’s literally recorded on video it’s more than enough to ascertain at least one of his motives. Your denial speaks volumes.
FYI Schizophrenics can also be racist people.
Here you go:
https://youtu.be/-FU_E1XXqSA?si=pAUPeEJ-JlTK6f94
He said that a material that was planted in his body by the government did the killing.
I have no interest in this guy’s motives, no dog in the fight in preferring of one of his motives over another, what he did was inexcusable, deplorable, horrific, on any motive, and he should’ve never been near anyone in open society. I’m merely pointing out that he’s psychotic. And yes he said something like I or we got that white girl, which you could assume that that means he killed her because she’s white. Or he could’ve said WHY he did that, which he didn’t say, he only specified who he killed as he was muttering to himself.
Paranoid schizophrenics don’t have rational thoughts or motives like sane people do, that’s the point. And the second point is that only he knew his motives, anyone else is just pretending, and I’ve seen too much of that and almost no consideration given to how paranoid schizophrenics operate and have extremely irrational violent outbursts that seemingly come from nowhere to onlookers. One of my very best friends became a paranoid schizophrenic, and he put a shotgun in his mouth. I talked with him a lot prior to his suicide, and he was operating completely within a delusional state all the time. His was religious, where he had these strange delusions of grandeur and delusions of persecution that he would vacillate between. He had just told his mom that his little nephew had a certain homework assignment due the following Monday at school, and then went into his room and shot himself. So no, their behavior isn’t normal or rational, and they are constantly acting within the delusion.
And I guess we’re supposed to believe it’s just a coincidence that those voices didn’t tell him to kill any of the other 6 people within arms reach?
Thank you for your clear words! This type of reporting is not an isolated case. In a comparable crime in Germany—in this case, the perpetrator pushed a teenager in front of a train—there is not only little reporting; the names of victims are often not mentioned; photos are rare, which leaves the victims faceless, and in this particular case, the investigation was even closed and covered up, which only came to light two weeks later.
This has only caused partial outrage, as there are already politicians who suspect “discrimination” against the perpetrator and warn against his “dehumanization.” There is a method to all this. Anyone who falls victim to this as a member of the wrong victim group can not only expect no help: their death itself is swept under the carpet so as not to challenge the narrative. It is appalling, brutal, and inhumane.
I remember a while back when you were first telling me about how wild Germany has become... sad to hear it's only gotten worse. Stay safe out there, friend.
Spot on! Thank you for putting it into words.
I was hoping you’d write about this after seeing so many posts from you on X yesterday. Thank you for using your platform to say the things out loud.
It’s not called losing followers — it’s called aligning with your true audience.
By the way, I don’t live in the U.S., but when I used the public transport system in L.A., not a single ride — whether bus or subway — felt “normal.” After 8 p.m., the city felt like something out of The Warriors movie. I honestly can’t understand how the government has allowed it to get to that point. Is it like that in every major city? I think we are livng in a post left-right reality. Hope more people could apply other more updated frameworks when talking about the public life.
I'm convinced that many/most american urbanites live in a kind of constant state of apathetic stupor, when they're not actively enamored with living among their captors - like a city-wide kind of Stockholm syndrome. The lie is that cities are just awful, and you're very cool for being able to put up with how awful they are, and it's worth it because cities have culture or opportunity, or something.
The lie becomes reality when everyone seems to just accept that living in certain high density urban areas means you will be confronted with non-stop human misery, trash, violence and filth. But it's totally unnecessary. Cities don't have to be hell on earth, and you shouldn't inure yourself to misery, ever.
It really doesn't have to be like this.
Thank you for this. What a world we live in to feel this much gratitude for someone brave enough to point out the incredibly obvious.
Crazy how long it took me to hit "publish"—I hate that. I guess the important part is that I did, that you read it and it resonated, and in turn gave me the encouragement to keep saying the obvious things out loud. Wild times for sure.
Excellent essay. You highlighted the main reason I very rarely watch or read legacy media. ‘Reframing’ the truth - especially something as horrific as this terrible murder - to further an agenda. I also am horrified at the passengers. What a sad commentary on the state of our culture. 💔
There's always an agenda. Even on the "side" you think you're agreeing with. Sad indeed.