I suppose 'capacity for repression' is a better way to say it. That was supposed to be more demonstrative of the nature of media in class struggle (and how it doesnt change no matter who controls it) instead of calling socialist systems repressive

And because of that transparency, it actually has lead to, among other things, significantly better media literacy. In the west people take the news headlines at face value because we have free press, so therefore whatever you read is probably true. In reality, its just as obscured, censored, and biased towards the bourgeoisie as socialist state owned media is to their state. However in such societies, people know that going into it and therefore think more critically about what they read. Where in the west we see people believing every little thing they see on facebook, people in socialist states are more incentivized to go out and actually educate themselves because they are under no illusions of an infallible free press.

Both systems are equally as repressive (granted towards different parts of society), yet the outcome is fairly different.

Yep, its based on a vibe or the idea of 'solidifying their position' when there is absolutely no material gain the right has from this, if anything they lost one of their main propagandists (which granted is only an issue for them in the short term, if even that). Their position is not 'solidified' and their grounds are not 'stronger,' the resources at their disposal, the propaganda they wield, and the industry they command is the same regardless if this guy is dead or alive. Hell Trump, Vance, Shapiro, everyone on the far right could die tonight and it would not significantly strengthen or weaken their long term political power, it would only cause short term confusion

Your position is solely based on vibes of what sounds like should be correct. This is something people implicitly accept as true without any critical thinking. It feels correct, its what everyone else is saying, and it aligns with how historical development is traditionally understood so it checks off the bias box as well. But make no mistake, this is an idealist view of the world. You absolutely cannot strengthen material power and material goals through ideals alone. Rhetoric does not create material power.

But lets just say that yes, youre correct. That his death really will somehow strengthen the far right overnight (as if they didnt already have the backing of the bourgeoisie with little challenge) and werent already deploying the national guard to major cities. Lets say such a thing not only is possible but even significantly beneficial to the far right as you describe. Would they not just orchestrate a similar event themselves to create the justification anyway? If they really needed it then theyd just do that. Ergo, Kirks death means nothing, because otherwise it wouldve been someone else and the outcome is identical. Because this was the trajectory regardless, and no ideals, rhetoric, sense of petty revenge can change that. No one man can change that by being dead or alive.

Your take is fairly unmaterialist and ignores class struggle in favor of individualism and vibe based idealism

the fact that I actually had to google if that was a Goebbels quote or a Kirk one is scary

there really is an xkcd comic for everything

Political violence is absolutely not what the Reich stood for and we shouldnt let it devolve into it

Specifically look at the wording of 'In conformity with the interests of the toilers, and in order to strengthen the socialist system...' in the soviet version. Working class speech is protected, working class media is protected, the ability of hte working class to gather is protected, etc. Anti working class perversions of these things are the issue. Someone trying to own media privately to peddle anti communism and/or to personally profit is a problem. Someone trying to gather with the goal of organizing a counter revolution is a problem. Really its the same shit liberal states do but the opposite, where they are more than happy to prohibit proletarian speech and working class demonstrations. Socialist states however never felt the urge to dress it up in nice words and were pretty straight up about it.

At least this is all the concept and the goal. This isnt to say there have been 0 mistakes ever, or that it worked as intended all the time, this is just the general idea behind these things.

If they really needed it, they wouldve staged a shooting of this caliber. Theyve done it before and theyll do it again

This is a completely unmaterialist take. This has absolutely 0 material effect on the situation. Stronger grounds to do what they wanted in the eyes of whom? Libs who werent gonna do shit either way? Conservative who were gonna eat up whatever they say regardless? Genuinely what is materially affected? This is a position based on the vibes of what sounds like should be true, not a realistic material analysis of the situation

Its sad but true. Hes gotta be a contrarian. He went from making high effort content of genuine academic quality in terms of research and analysis to just being against what everyone else is. I still think he has some good things to say every now and then but he took the ragebait too far and thats 90% of his politics now

Man BE is on a streak of bad takes lately its kinda sad.

I dont understand this position. Does anyone really think the far right just, wasnt going to do anything before? Like they were waiting for something like this to happen? As if Trump wasnt already deploying the national guard in major cities? Like come on, the ruling class does not act out of petty revenge, and by this logic there is no actual action communists can take because anything can serve to provoke the far right.

And werent people saying this same thing about Trumps failed assassination last year? And nothing happened

Too many Americans are scared of things changing and want to just put the blame on whatever. They want to cling to the idea that the path we are on could somehow be avoided if X Y or Z didnt happen. If this event somehow changes what you think the future holds then you havent been paying attention.