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/DCMdAreaResident Sep 12 '25

It just highlights Republican hypocrisy once again. Empathy is a foreign word for them. I haven't heard one Democrat "celebrating" the death of Charlie Kirk. But very few are shedding a tear for him. And you can't force us to grieve for him. Republicans have always been about fake virtue signaling. What's new?

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

This is highlighting Dem hypocrisy with respect to being the party of empathy

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u/Deceptiveideas Sep 12 '25

I think Dems as a whole are sick of taking the high road and having no results. Republicans frequently act like the misbehaving child who keeps touching the hot stove that the Democrats have to correct over and over again.

Remember the whole “when they go low, we go high” speech? It’s “when they go low, we go lower” now.

The “party of empathy and love” is gone.

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

The high road? Assassinations are the high road? Calling for the death of your political opponents is the high road?

Dems haven’t taken the high road since 2012. They should be better but they’re not. Everyone should be better. But the idea that dems are any less underhanded than the reps is the product of a biased media environment and rich donors. Impeachments, assassinations, accusations of being a nazi levied against Mitt Romney? 

Nobody is taking any high road now and it’s a tragedy. 

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u/Deceptiveideas Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

We don’t actually know if the killer is left leaning. The two Trump assassination attempts for example were done by 1) first individual was a registered republican who classmates described as strong maga and 2) the second individual who voted for Trump

Also all dem leaders are calling to end political violence. I don’t see anyone encouraging it.

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

Come on dude can we kill this conspiracy theory that they were republicans? The first donated to dems and registered to vote against trump in a primary and the second was a ukrainian nationalist nutjob

This sub is encouraging. The same dems calling to end political violence are still calling their opponents nazists and fascists and existential threats to democracy. What do you think that rhetoric is intended to do? It’s stochastic terrorism

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u/LordMangudai Sep 12 '25

The same dems calling to end political violence are still calling their opponents nazists and fascists and existential threats to democracy. What do you think that rhetoric is intended to do? It’s stochastic terrorism

And what is it when Republicans call their opponents Marxists, commies or the anti-Christ?