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The people going "fuck yeah I love that he died from gun violence" are showing their hands. Just liberals with no real moral compass. The same ones that cheer for genocide Joe. Those are apparently the "extreme leftist" right now that the media is eating up.
Meanwhile, the real leftist are just responding, to people saying how "great" he was, by asking one simple question.
Oh? What views of his did you like?
Because for every "free speech" answer there are 20 quotes from him to the contrary.
I feel like liberals get too excited when something like this happens and just turn into blue maga.
It's really simple. All you have to do is ask simple non-aggressive questions. You don't need to do anything more than that. Your coworker or normie friend is just repeating what they heard from the media. You can dismantle that calmly without saying he "got what he deserved!".
We all know he got what he deserved. But you don't start with the conclusion when you're talking to normies. You let them come to that conclusion on their own.
I mean, there's also the hilarious irony of someone who argued there shouldn't be any gun regulations because of school shootings and the cost that is "some deaths" being killed by a school shooting while under a giant banner saying "prove me wrong" while in the middle of blaming minorities for most killings.
It'd be like a huge homophobe dying because he choked on a huge dildo.
There's inherent schnaudenfreude in someone hateful dying in such incredibly ironic way, and certainly different than a person cheering on the death of someone else who didn't harm others, didn't advocate the harm of others, and simply existed, as the right wing usually does.
Damn, troll. Daddy really upped your word quota for the day, eh?
Yeah. Trying to explain to people how to counter the narrative the right wingers are actively using to manufacture concent for state violence against anyone to the left of Reagan.
It shows me that the liberal idiots saying "I'm glad he's dead. Woohoo! Let's go!" Aren't actually in the crosshairs of this fascist administration. The people actually out in the street with risk of getting arrested aren't putting targets on our backs anymore than they already are.
Like, what is the troll? Saying that it's better to literally just point to Kirk's literal racist garbage instead of feeling "powerful" because he's dead? What good is that doing beyond making you feel good?
Damn, the libs really didnt like getting a correct analysis lmao blue maga is dead on. A lot of yall just want your team to get away with the same stuff republicans do with no structural analysis of the reason things are so shit for everyone.
I wonder, was it blue maga that triggered them or genocide joe? They are still salty they threw away their last chance to win an election over a genocide.
It's really gotta be those parts of my comment I guess. It's less about what I said and more about HOW I said it. But I can't be shocked liberals are all in the aesthetics anyway.