{"id":4222,"date":"2025-09-15T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:04:54","slug":"a-short-post-to-help-you-understand-last-weeks-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2025\/09\/15\/a-short-post-to-help-you-understand-last-weeks-event\/","title":{"rendered":"A short post to help you understand last week&#8217;s event"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@aidanetcetera\/video\/7549640789652032790\" data-video-id=\"7549640789652032790\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" >\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@aidanetcetera\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@aidanetcetera?refer=embed\">@aidanetcetera<\/a> It was a shitpost. Check out Know Your Meme for more of the history on it, or john ganz, or my newsletter <a title=\"kirk\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/kirk?refer=embed\">#kirk<\/a> <a title=\"owo\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/owo?refer=embed\">#owo<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Aidan Walker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7549640817112025858?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Aidan Walker<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to wade into the political realm anymore, but, over the past few days, it&#8217;s become pretty clear a lot of people don&#8217;t understand the memes used by the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk. I post these two videos only for understanding of what they mean in case you are struggling to wrap your head around them. Aidan Walker does a good job of clearing things up in his two videos in a clear and concise manner.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@aidanetcetera\/video\/7550331697045294358\" data-video-id=\"7550331697045294358\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" >\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@aidanetcetera\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@aidanetcetera?refer=embed\">@aidanetcetera<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>thank you to the commenters who pointed this out! i originally cut out the part where i explained this for length, but it\u2019s important context. <\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Aidan Walker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7550331719883885334?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Aidan Walker<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I understood about 90% of the references, but I fully recognize most people I know would not. In case you can&#8217;t view them here, I&#8217;ve linked below where you can watch the videos.<\/p>\n<p>Video 1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qcMYjtFWE7U\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@aidanetcetera\/video\/7549640789652032790\">TikTok<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Video 2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cgnu2H-r4Uw\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@aidanetcetera\/video\/7550331697045294358\">TikTok<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;ve got a couple of things written, but not proofread. It&#8217;s the Fall, so flashbacks are interfering with my life a bit more than usual. I&#8217;m also trying to deal with something with my mom&#8217;s estate. I&#8217;ll get at least one thing up by the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@aidanetcetera It was a shitpost. Check out Know Your Meme for more of the history on it, or john ganz, or my newsletter #kirk #owo \u266c original sound &#8211; Aidan Walker I&#8217;m not going to wade into the political realm anymore, but, over the past few days, it&#8217;s become pretty clear a lot of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-politics"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}