Ladies and gentlemen, it seems we are in the midst of a Great Cull. In the days since the fateful bullet that took Charlie Kirk’s life flew, a throng of infuriated conservatives has trained its attention on the many people stupid enough to have posted TikToks or tweets or Instagram comments celebrating his murder. Outlets like the New York Times have already written stories about the ravening horde of MAGA fans out hunting for retaliatory scalps, and for once I have to say they aren’t overselling the phenomenon. People really are under a lot of stress right now, and they’re lashing out.
My social media feed — which I am responsible for curating, to be fair — is a very weird place at the present moment, full of negative energy. Seemingly 40 percent of the tweets I see are calls to fire some person or another for their reaction to the killing. (Another 20 percent of the tweets I see are from people gloating over these people being fired for their reaction to the killing.) Pictures are posted with names and the companies they work for, and readers are exhorted to contact their employers.
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