A mass “doxing” effort to track down, intimidate and harass people perceived not to have sufficiently mourned the killing of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was endorsed on Monday by JD Vance.

The US vice-president guest-hosted Kirk’s podcast on Monday and said that people who “see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder” should “call them out”. He added: “Hell, call their employer. We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there is no civility in the celebration of political assassination.”

  • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    I really think that Vance’s defining characteristic is that he’s an asshole.

    Yeah, to some degree he’s power-hungry and to some degree he’s greedy and to some (minor) degree he’s an ideologue and so on, but I think when it really gets down to it - if you dig all the way down to the core of his personality - he’s just a plain old tedious, obnoxious, punchable asshole. And probably has been his entire life.