I'm wondering if there are parallels where commentators have so quickly and viciously mocked the victim of a crime like this. It feels somewhat new but I recall when George Floyd was murdered 5 years ago the boot lickers disgustingly tried to blame drugs or his health, and when Heather Heyer was murdered by a car attack in 2017 trolls pointed to her health.

Recine makes a good point here IMO - plus when Erika came out with those leather pants she looked too couch-like for JD to resist. It was I think Taylor Lorenz' video on Charlie Kirk where she makes the point that his whole job was to go out there and say the thing, whatever the thing is that has the most invective and is most inflammatory towards whatever minority they're trying to bully that day, and for having so publicly made that his identity people genuinely did not care when he met his end. She also says that it is natural that another chud grifter will always come next to stick their head up and replace him.

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

This goes back to even Michael Brown. People were freaking out over the desecration of memorials for Renee but cops did the same shit to Michael Brown. They had dogs piss on flours/candles/pictures around town. They would dismantle and destroy stuff. It's one of the first things they do when something like this happens. Trayvon was pretty quick too.

The wealthy need to do atrocities in order to maintain power and wealth. However they need some kind of popular support because a state apparatus is needed to hoard and protect that level of wealth. The people who have been propagandized to hate the state in a libertarian sense, are now needed to support it. Watching a white lady get gunned down by feds would cause a dissonance. The wealthy need people who can break down the libertarian ideals so that the dissonance is dismissed. Basically they need fixers who can make the hypocrisy work.

This is where people like Walsh and Kirk come in. The dissonance can be dismissed if the victim deserved it some way, or is part of the enemy. State violence against an upstanding member of their cohort is bad, state violence against the enemy is normal. That's what the state is supposed to do. Therefore they demonize victims to this end. The victims must have deserved it in some way. They were bad people and the state under their control only punishes bad people.

This creates the downward spiral in decorum we have noticed over the past two decades. The more they rely on this method, the more it diminishes "discourse" on the right. At some point it becomes completely incoherent and dysfunctional. Couple that with industrial technology and organization, you get mass atrocity. Couple it with social media and spectacle? Idk what the fuck is going to happen. It's not going to be great.