Is this the "typical conservative" nowadays?

[Archae]

This asshole on another message board ran with a story about Fred Rogers being a "sniper."
(He wasn't.)

When someone pointed out this story was false, the "conservative" wrote this:

"Too bad - I like the thought of him having been a sniper."

"Imagine in his voice "OK Mr Gook I'm gonna need you to stay still for just a minute while I blow your fucking brains out."

Is this today's "conservatives?"
Afraid so...

[Binkie The Clown]

1. I think a "typical" conservative would have doubled down on the falsehood...

...rather than admit he had fallen for fake news.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Conservatives Have Their Own Humor..

...This Is A Very Small Minded Sample.

[jberryhill]

3. And Captain Kangaroo was a navy seal!

[retread]

4. Around here this is a "typical conservative".

[FraDon]

5. Certain personalities prefer

to be the dirty-trickster, the behind-the-scenes manipulator (Atwater, Manafort, Stone). I've heard from a confidential source (ok, Karl Rove) that these folks have their own private circle in hell.

[anneboleyn]

6. Mr. Rogers work for childrens television a phenomenal legacy. And his idea that television for

kids could feature educational topics as well as emphasize empathetic human relationships was just so brilliant (and I admire his passionate commitment to this project for so many years). It’s beautiful how generations of kids have been enchanted by his show.

I don’t think this idiot’s comments represent the “typical conservative” these days. I think it’s more related to the long-standing phenomenon of “shit posting” that certain internet trolls love to do for attention.

Unfortunately saying things like this is a fairly common habit among internet “shit posters” or “edge lords” (as they call themselves) as they like to make inappropriate, violent, grotesque, racist, ridiculously sexual and/or sexist, inflammatory, etc posts to get attention from other posters. Their primary goal on political sites is to divert attention from a topic being discussed by posting something appalling and tangential that will get a reaction. I imagine the poster you cited is mainly trying to get other posters worked up and to get attention (they love negative attention).