My point is what I’ve said. Nothing in the rest of your post approaches or addresses what I’ve said. Think about that.
Can’t tie specific deaths to Rumsfeld under this kind of logic, guess he’s off the hook.
Oh yes, you absolutely can.
So we’re back to it’s OK to be mean about Kissinger, Rumsfeld and those kinds of evil dudes…but the people telling their thousands to millions of listeners that the vaccine is worse than covid are fine because…?
I know you’ll say you’ve said why, but I still don’t see it.
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Could be more or less depending no how loosely or strictly you define “full potential”.
A lot of people don’t have a ton of full potential. Growing up I knew plenty of rich kids who had every opportunity available. Nevertheless, their full potential was not that great.
Kissinger, Rumsfeld etc were sovereign-level actors influencing if not determining policies that didn’t simply lead to, but necessarily entailed the deaths of tens of thousands of people, to no good end. This Valentine guy was some shock-jock yahoo nobody ever heard of before he got covid. You don’t need me to tell you the difference between them. You know the difference between them.
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My point is you shouldn’t have to be one of history’s greatest monsters to receive scorn.
I’d also like to point out every person like this has 100 strikes against their record before COVID. You’ve been a right wing personality for 30 years? You were 100% for the Iraq War. You have been awful to immigrants. You have a terrible record with the LGBTQ community. They’ve had every deplorable take my entire life. This is just the first time it had a potential for consequences.
I’ll have a little sympathy for normal people who haven’t been monsters but have been brainwashed by social media. The problem is they’re reading links and watching videos from dudes like that.
What if we just laugh at this guy’s death because was a dumb fascist blowhard and not because of his idiotic anti-vax takes?
You probably should have to be to be the subject of one-upmanship regarding the extent of the misery you suffered in the course of dying.
Go ahead and laugh at him. Try to restrain yourself in fondly imagining ways he might have suffered more before dying, is all I’m saying. You know it makes sense.
I think the objection is not so much laughing at his death at it is wishing him a more drawn out, agonizing, and painful death.
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Celebrate death order if OK
First Hitler (Yes)
….
….
Last Gandhi (No)
Pretty big continuum in between.
Where do we place the following groups or individuals?
US war mongers?
KKK?
Taliban educated girl killers?
Right wing radio hosts?
Mike Richards?
?
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My mom is a nurse. She for the last year and a half or whatever told me about a coworker that would tell patients covid was fake and it’s just the flu. She would tell my mom she was a terrible grandmother for not coming around her grandkids because covid isn’t real. All the usual nonsense these people spout. My mom informed me that this coworker was in the icu with covid. I asked her if she found it funny or had a revenge or whatever feeling about it. She said no, and that she felt bad for her and just hopes the coworker takes it series now and stops spreading nonsense. Her response changed how I feel about laughing about these types of people dying. Its pointless to dunk on them.
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You know, people remember Raul Julia as being an extremely talented actor, but when you ask them what movies he was in, they usually can only come up with his role as M. Bison in the live-action Street Fighter movie.
Ah yes, gotta blame all your opponents for the words of one guy. Can’t let that opportunity go to waste.
While Gandhi is way down there, I don’t think he is dead last. He was quite the racist in his younger days. I’m not clear on whether he ever regretted that or it just became a non-issue because he went back to India where there were no black people.
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I assume you knew what the discussion was about before you weighed in. Would you like me to stop giving you that kind of credit? I can do that, if you’d like.
Pff, anyone who doesn’t instantly throw out The Addams Family is well sus imo.
Virtue signaling by defending proud murderers is fucking evil. Seriously what the fuck is even happening here. Oh noes the Covid killed a proud Die For the Dow Jones guy! I’m tearing up!
Also quite the skeeve; had young women sleep in his bed with him so he could practice resisting temptation or some shit.
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Wow did not see the anti Gandhi takes coming.
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