people quote or reference reprehensible things he actually said.

Violence isn't the right way to deal with people like him, but I will not pretend that he was a good man.

Showing once again the high road has value. Trump doesn't seem to know how to handle thoughts, prayers, and decency.

A commentator on MSNBC implied that Kirk got what he deserved and lost his job for it, so there's that. Pretty tactless, in my opinion.

There have also been a number of TikToks circulating where people are openly gleeful and happy about Kirk being murdered, so there's also that. They're out there if you care to look for them. I wouldn't describe it as mass joy or anything, but each individual one is absolutely reprehensible.

But "the left" isn't celebrating his murder, that's true enough. Neither the left nor the right is a monolithic entity.

must be taken with a grain of salt.

No doubt the people celebrating his murders in these videos are on the left of the political spectrum, though. Equally without doubt, they are reprehensible.

I prefer literacy. I guess that makes me some kind of snob.

were done by Russian or Chinese bots. Krasnov/Miller dismantled the department that searches for foreign cyber-ratfuckery.

I would take exception to a detail of their description. Kirk wasn't "delivering" a speech. He was trying to antagonize individuals and provoke others in the process.

celebrating.

my reverse psychology posts on X, just trying to help

the killing.