I think you’re missing what I was trying to say. I’m not reading conservatives. I’m reading liberals talking among themselves in public places where they make up the vast majority of people. Like Sanityville feels safe for us to say what we are thinking, there are places like that for liberals.
Here is one example:
"It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”
That are Charlie’s words from 2023. He himself was claiming that some gun deaths are worth it so I am sure he’d be okay with this one as well.
I’ve seen quite a few people saying something like that. Then this:
I had never heard of this guy and thanks to the Streisand effect I learned that he was a piece of shit. And now het gets canonised like MLK?! Tells you a lot about right wing America.
But still: murder is murder.
That’s obviously not celebrating the murder, but it gives you a feel for how people were talking about Kirk. Another:
While I don’t condone violence at all, if you advocate for gun violence, you reap what you sow.
If you preach extremism, don’t be surprised if you’re met with extremists.
You can’t claim to have given your life to Christ when you openly preach hate. This man was a devout preacher of the gospel of Supply-Side Jesus. Kirk and his ilk are the types that if the actual Jesus of Nazareth appeared in middle America, they’d call him a commie sand n-word and call ICE.
Kirk was the epitome of a bully albeit one who bullied others under the guise of "debate”.
I have a ton of sympathy for the children shot at a school yesterday. If I want to really feel bad, I feel for those who were shot with assault weaponry at Sandy Hook and likely died and bled out in the same way Kirk did.
Just because he was a rich white “christian” dude with a blonde wife, doesn’t mean he wasn’t a reprehensible piece of shit.
Meanwhile, in the same thread, there are a couple of conservatives speaking ominously… more “scorched earth” as you mention:
Your lies aren’t worth discussing anymore. They killed the man who was open to debate.
Charlie was the moderate right, and how you speak about him after his death makes it clear what you think about me and my family.
You people have taken the moderate option off the table. The time for dialog is over.
This was all on a thread that was heavily moderated against talking this way. All of these comments were hidden. It is much more cavalier in less moderated places, not surprisingly.
None of those quotes above were mocking, per se, though this picture I saw elsewhere could be, and is at least making light of it.
Anyway, my point is that, not surprisingly, the party that has given itself to promoting death has a lot of people celebrating the actual death of Charlie Kirk. Are there people on “the right” that promote abortion, too? Of course. Are there people on the right that celebrate death in other ways, too? Yes. Are there plenty of people on the left who won’t celebrate Kirk’s assassination? Yes. But I don’t think this is conservatives whipping up a frenzy over just a few of the worst people on the left. It appears to be a fairly sizable group to me, just from what I’m seeing.