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People could also just not comment on the guy's assassination. Going on Twitter to criticize the guy 10 minutes after he gets internally decapitated live in front of his kids (rather than just saying "what a senseless tragedy" or just remaining quiet and saving the takes for a week later) does in fact amount to saying "he deserved to get shot" and both the intended audience and their political opponents are correct to interpret it that way!
Maybe you'd have a point if we could all collectively agree to wait for a week before opining on this sort of thing, but top conservatives like Musk and Trump almost immediately blamed "the left" (basically half of the country) for this attack. You're effectively demanding unilateral disarmament.
In the light of what blue sky looks like now, are they wrong?
Bluesky is not representative of liberals as a whole, and especially not top Dem leaders (with perhaps the exception of Ilhan Omar).
Bluesky is the official twitter replacement for people who hate Musk (aka, Democrat voters). Reddit, one of the biggest websites on the internet, has essentially banned twitter in favor of bluesky via moderator coordination, and so now theoretically apolitical places like /r/nfl and /r/mlb will only link to bluesky.
It's the representation of Democrat voters online. Maybe not as a whole, but absolutely their online presence.
It is not. That's pure weakmanning. It's a representation of a specific faction of woke Democrats that like censorship, credentialism, and catastrophizing.
It's the purest, most concentrated and distilled Democrat space on the internet. It's the essence of the Democrat party, its beating heart.
Sure, the whole party is dilute with normies, but it's the people on bluesky that determine the flavor of the party.
It would be equally easy to say that e.g. the Groypers on Nick Fuentes' comment section are the "most concentrated and distilled Republican space on the internet", and that it's those people who are determining the flavor of the party.
People claiming it's fair to paint small, hyper-sectarian factions as "the REAL outgroup" would be wrong in both instances.
Yes, one can say obviously false things as easily as one can say possibly true things. That doesn't make the obviously false things true nor the possibly true things false. It doesn't move the needle one iota.
Reddit is rather obviously far more mainstream than Nick Fuentes's comment section. If one were holding out Bluesky itself as a representative of the mainstream left, that would be somewhat more comparable (though still not, because even Bluesky has a wider audience than Nick Fuentes's comment section)
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