Like for over 50 years American right wingers have been fuming about the liberals having managed to turn one of "their" guys into an American icon and the conservatives have mostly had to at least pretend to respect him and his legacy in public and they've felt humiliated and emasculated about it the whole time

Now they want to make the liberals bend the knee and force them to slobber over one of their guys or risking getting fired

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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't think so, I really think that it's entirely possible that a bunch of apolitical people are genuinely shocked by the reaction to Kirk's assassination. Obviously the conservatives are going to take advantage of this and recruit, but when grillman sees preschool teachers saying "I'm glad that guy got shot" on their local Facebook group, it's going to freak them out and they won't want to associate with that. The big driver here is not the conservatives, but the reactions of the apolitical/moderates/centrists/"normies". Without them, all the equivocation by conservatives (including comparisons to MLK) would have zero effect.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 5 points 13 hours ago

I am surprised by how many normies I've seen just not care about the guy's death. I guess that's what happens when you make people less sensitive to "political violence" because of the violence either perpetrated by the state (like with cops or the wars abroad or the genocide) or ignored by the state (like with school shootings or the social murder of the capitalist health care or housing systems) every damn day.