Just want to put this prediction here for my future self:

All the hysteria and grandiose claims being made about Kirk’s death, how everything will change and how the “Movement” will thrive now etc etc., is so blatantly stupid and shortsighted as to be embarrassing. People simply cannot think long term or outside of their current emotions.

What will happen? Nothing. People will flail, and that’s it. It’ll make the year-end news summaries as a blip. The media will talk about it for a bit, until the next shiny object appears. I give it two weeks, if that. Then it becomes a secondary story. Information about the shooter and his trial will make news, but not front page, and by year’s end all of these world-is-ending tweets will finally be seen for what they are: the usual irrational, short term hysterics that are typical of the snowflake Right.

Meanwhile, in another part of the catastrophe:

This is not a very happy video. But Ukraine is losing more slowly than Russia. Not very consoling, really.