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cowloom wrote

Reply to comment by rain in Did people take pleasure in Reagan's slow death? (Content warning for ableism, AIDS, alzheimers and dementia, and whatnot). by twovests

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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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by rain in Did people take pleasure in Reagan's slow death? (Content warning for ableism, AIDS, alzheimers and dementia, and whatnot). by twovests

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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rain wrote

Reply to Did people take pleasure in Reagan's slow death? (Content warning for ableism, AIDS, alzheimers and dementia, and whatnot). by twovests

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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neku wrote

Reply to The group chats that changed America by Moonside

One participant in the groups described them as a “Republic of Letters,” a reference to the long-distance intellectual correspondence of the 17th century. Others often invoked European salon culture.

I genuinely think every participant in these group chats should be ******** ** *****. They think that they're intellectuals but their positions are so weak that they can't express them in public for fear of the "woke mob".

The political journalist Mark Halperin [...] said it was remarkable that “the left seems largely unaware that some of the smartest and most sophisticated Trump supporters in the nation from coast to coast are part of an overlapping set of text chains that allow their members to share links, intel, tactics, strategy, and ad hoc assignments. Also: clever and invigorating jokes. And they do this (not kidding) like 20 hours a day, including on weekends.” He called their influence “substantial.”

A bunch of middle aged men who think PC has gone too far are in group chats making jokes that they don't want the general public to see? I could never have guessed.

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by WRETCHEDSORCERESS in Serious question, for those who know more about Catholicism and its influence on the world: Should we be concerned about the passing of this pope? by twovests

Nothing to apologize for, I appreciate this post a lot. Your perspective is showing me a lot of things I didn't know about before (I didn't know "Vatican 2" was a thing, for example, or what a "childrens crusade" was) and I appreciate having this perspective.

I have nothing to add, only a "thank you for posting, this is a very good post"

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