And here Tyler thought: if I kill Charlie Kirk I'll be treated like Luigi!
Nope. You just justified more of it!
I've been thinking about that comparison a lot, as many have been citing it since the murder. The thing is, I don't know that they're really comparable at all, in a way that really shows how far the current left has drifted from any kind of coherent political framework.
Maybe some of you remember this better than I do, but my friend group is actually fairly politically diverse IRL, as (like Charlie, I like to think) I'll talk to anyone as long as they're not insane and willing to be civil. As I remember it, the feelings about that killing were fairly non-partisan in dispersal because almost everyone either left
or right has had some kind of experience with getting fucked by health insurance companies, and United Health appears to be particularly bad even considering the industry. I saw plenty of conservatives express a bit of schadenfreude at that one because they'd been given the runaround trying to get their grandma's surgery covered or something.
Charlie Kirk, though?? That gravedancing, on the other hand, is coming
entirely from one very specific section of the left, which is why IMO it's so much more polarizing.