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rain wrote

Then, Reagan died a slow, horrible death from Alzheimers. I would anticipate gay celebration of cosmic justice, but I see none. Why?

Lots of reasons I suspect, but for one it’s because there was no justice there. He lived a long, full life before he died a horrible lingering death - that he would have died from no matter his actions. That’s not justice.

Now if he had caught AIDS (even if from medical contamination) and then died due to medical research having been hampered by his administration? That would have been cosmic justice and I would have laughed my ass off.

I still wouldn’t have celebrated in any traditional sense though. By the time he died he was irrelevant. For all the people he had hurt in his life he just didn’t matter anymore, and I try not to waste my emotional budget on people who don’t matter. Likewise, if Trump dies now I would throw a party, but because we are actively fighting him and it would actually be a meaningful victory - even if provided by the cosmos. Once out of power I don’t need to give him that rent free space in my head.

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twovests OP wrote

This makes a lot of sense. I appreciate your response, and that "he didn't matter any more" thing made a sense.

I do have to admit that Reagan takes a lot of space in my head. I keep learning about bad things which are new to me, and I constantly find a throughline which runs through Reagan. It's not super often there's one guy you can point to for so many bad things.

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cowloom wrote

He may be mostly irrelevant now, but I'll still be partying when baby bush kicks the bucket. It absolutely would've been better if he'd been held accountable for his crimes, but short of that, I'll still be glad to learn that I no longer share this planet with that cretin. I'll take what I can get.

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