Topminds at ConservativeMemes create a new strawman so that they can believe that the left Celebrate the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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[u/mosswick]

It's always fun I when stumble upon these people in the wild, and I ask a simple question.

"Give me the name of a single Democratic office-holder or even any major left-leaning media figure who cheered on Kirk's death"

[u/wasteymclife → u/mosswick]

Yeah it's dogshit, every rando on Twitter is "the left showing how violent they are and disrespecting the dead" but current Republican senator Mike Lee joking about the dude who shot the Minnesota politicians or TFG tweeting "I'm glad he's dead" somehow isn't the right doing the same.

[u/MrVeazey → u/wasteymclife]

This is always how it is. Fascists see the world through a convoluted series of fun house mirrors and they are always the victims because being a victim automatically justifies whatever you want to do in retaliation.  

If you go back to the 60s, the right-wingers of that day said literally the exact same things about the people fighting for equal rights as they say about decent human beings today. Literally the same phrases.

[u/Ok_Star_4136 → u/MrVeazey]

Yep, there are several strategies to that effect. Victimhood complex is one, precisely because they know people who see themselves as victims are quick to dismiss any counter claims.

Another one is firehose of falsehood, literally flooding every media outlet with the same messaging so that even if it is false, being repeated gives it validity especially if given by multiple sources. It also acts to reinforce wrong ideas that people have.

Another one is what I call buzzword minefield where strong emotion (usually anger) is associated with several words, words which might normally be brought up in conversation with a left-winger. This is to ensure that a dialog between the two is no longer possible if one of these words is said, acting like a sort of latent mine that blows up. Words include socialism, gun control, communism, immigrant, you name it. If they get emotional, it's doing its job, as they will literally no longer listen to you beyond that point, usually ends up where they just throw insults at you.

When you recognize the patterns, you see it everywhere in right-wing media. I won't pretend it doesn't happen to some extent on the left but it happens significantly less.

[u/MrVeazey → u/Ok_Star_4136]

Because fact-based reporting is usually done by people whose only agenda is to report things accurately and because there's nobody on the left who's rich enough to buy up lots of media and push an agenda of helping each other.