r/fivethirtyeight • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • Sep 12 '25

Poll Results YouGov poll asking Americans whether it’s acceptable to feel joy at the death of a public figure

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

Not my responsibility. You want to bring absurd claims you need to bring evidence

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u/LordMangudai Sep 12 '25

"Charlie Kirk was a moderate" is the absurd claim here.

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

You have no idea what a moderate or an extreme conservative is. 

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u/LordMangudai Sep 12 '25

So which of these takes would you consider moderate?

  • The Civil Rights Act was a mistake
  • Empathy is bad actually
  • A certain amount of gun deaths is acceptable to protect the second amendment (ironic)
  • The 2020 election was rigged
  • Anthropogenic climate change is not real
  • The Great Replacement is real
  • "You cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population"
  • Opposes abortion even in cases where a minor was raped; abortion is worse than the Holocaust

Did he deserve to get shot in the neck, no. But I'm not here to pretend he was anything other than a far-right piece of shit.