Will I celebrate?

There can be a lot more to say about death, disagreement, and disinformation, as well as dehumanization. I will get to that, though I think next week's posts are going to go in a different direction.

First I want to address the other point from the previous post, where part of the justification for Trump celebrating Mueller's death was how hard liberals will celebrate Trump's death:

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2026/04/but-is-that-celebrating.html 

There are a lot of those posts, with non really being that quotable. 

I could be bothered by people making assumptions again, and assumptions that have a vilifying tendency. However, many liberals replied confirming that they will celebrate. Gleefully. 

While there is still a dehumanizing element on the one side, I'm not getting too excited over this one. It was a lie to say that liberals were celebrating Charlie Kirk's death, but the future celebration is only a predication and may well be an accurate one.

(Though if you want to read a bizarre fantasy with replies showing other participants in the mass delusion, here you go: https://x.com/afshineemrani/status/2035869038723887304) 

With all of that being said, I don't picture myself celebrating.

This is not that I am a superior person and above such petty things; if anyone deserves their death celebrated, it's this guy.

He has caused an appalling amount of damage, from physical structures to protocols that acted as guidelines to agreements that increased safety to loss of human life. 

If he has not been the only cause of many people becoming more ignorant and more hateful, he has certainly enabled it.

Therein lies the problem; when he goes, the wreckage will remain.

There might be some sense of relief that he can't do anything else. I find it hard to credit him with any charisma, but there must be some to explain the cult-like devotion. Vance does not have that, but he will still have the endorsement of the evil tech bros that made him the choice, and again, institutions are in ruins.

It would be nice to think that it could help some things, but there will be so much to fix and so many obstructionists -- on the right and the left -- that I don't see any celebrations in my future.

Maybe there will be a shift in the struggle.

I won't begrudge anyone who does get some satisfaction out of it, but I don't think it can be a lasting satisfaction.

I mean, unless it's just joy that someone you hated died. I don't know how much satisfaction you can get out of that. The point is that it won't fix things.

There is a sorrow with that, but that's been here for a while.