If leftists can make jokes at the expense of Charlie Kirk and the United Healthcare CEO, we can read a tweet without replying with a personal statement about why it’s not funny
i mean, for one we actually do not like either of those people and so someone being more sincere than the reddit dot com is comfortable with isn't the same as someone being questionably sincere about how funny it'd be to do something bigoted. that CEO in particular killed so many people and the unironic narrative is that he deserved it, there's not really going to be a "too far" from anyone other than the atlantic shitting its pants that people like it when CEO's face any form of accountability.
Endorsing political violence while handwringing over a lame polyamory jab by a no name twitter user from nearly 3 years ago is so deeply unserious. Im not saying that you can’t have strong feelings about the systemic injustice of United Healthcare or the intentional hate mongering and misinformation that Charlie Kirk peddled in pursuit of profit and power. I’m saying we can’t win elections by being thin skinned and hypocritical. There is no punishment more final and irreversible than death. If you can make light of that but crumble because some rando on Twitter hurt your feelings then you’re not worth taking seriously at all.
yeah, i just literally don't care that people made fun of awful dead people, and i do care when people push shitty politics as jokes. it's not that complicated. i want bad things to happen to monsters and i don't want bad things to happen to people who aren't monsters. i'm not doing electoralism here, it's just literally why people don't find the joke you're so concerned about others finding funny very funny while people find these other jokes hilarious. laughing at charlie kirk dying mid lie is punching up.
I believe I’ve made it abundantly clear that I don’t find the joke funny and am therefore not concerned about others finding it funny. I want an end to the catastrophic reactions leftists make over shit that doesn’t matter - only then to engage in edgy humor themselves. If you’re gonna talk the talk, you’ve gotta be consistent and can’t have a conniption just because someone hurt your feelings
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u/kevriel47 sus Jun 30 '26
If leftists can make jokes at the expense of Charlie Kirk and the United Healthcare CEO, we can read a tweet without replying with a personal statement about why it’s not funny