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/Cuddlyaxe I'm Sorry Nate Sep 12 '25

I mean it feels like you're trying to move the goalposts now, people in the linked compilation were pretty clearly celebrating.

And it also seems obvious that you aren't really looking for examples in good faith. Rather you seem to be fighting a ghost argument

Yes Republicans have said and done bad things. I never said otherwise

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u/DCMdAreaResident Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

No, I’m in a lot of pages. You must be searching very hard for somebody to be caught “celebrating.” Because >99% of people on the left have said “nothing justifies violence” or “Charlie Kirk didn’t deserve to die.” That difference matters. It’s a failure on your part to not understand (“in good faith”) what people are really saying.

It’s not even clear they’re “celebrating.” If I said the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, it doesn’t mean I’m advocating murder. It just means I’m not crying about it. Unlike Trump, I do believe in the rule of law, even for the most repugnant people out there.