despite all the MAGA sloganeering over Freedom and touting Kirk's support for open "debating" and not wanting to be restrained by any politically correct "wokeness".

They scream about their right to free speech, up to and including calling for murder of "them dam libruls", but anybody else...OMG, THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!

Because that strikes me as encouraging violent rhetoric, and, in turn, actual violence. Something should have been done about it sooner.

That this is different than when conservatives got fired when their employers got pictures of them at Klan rallies, etc. (And you can) people shoukd have been smart enough not to do that because ultimately, it doesn't matter what you do, if your employer thinks your actions coukd hurt his business, you're going bye-bye.

I've been pretty active on Threads. I haven't been criticizing Kirk but the right's reaction to his murder, and I'm tlalocw there as well.

We've had the internet for a few years now. We should be aware of this phenomenon.

I'm retired now, but thinking back on my working days (since the early 1970s) I never had a boss or supervisor who cared one spit about my personal political views. But there were always strict rules about not talking politics in the office, or around customers. If you're dumb enough to do it, you do it at your own peril.

On the other hand, I never squabbled on social media in a way that would reflect back to me, either. Somehow the youngers don't understand why they should take precautions to preserve their own privacy.