Democrats rolling out polite eulogies while more and more sex workers are revealing Graham basically used anti trans and anti gay posturing to make sure he had continual access to minor or close to minor workers . He stoked panic so these women had to sleep with him But glad he was nice to you

Trans people: they're trying to genocide us Republicans: we're trying to genocide trans people Historians: they're trying to genocide trans people Genocide Prevention Groups: they're trying to genocide trans people Liberals: well hold on maybe it's a good genocide though

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In the waning years of the Soviet gerontocracy, they had a phrase "Гонки на лафетах" — loosely translated as "Race of the hearses", it referred to the repeated spectacle of an aging and infirm Soviet leader dying, having a lavish state funeral, and being replaced by someone just as infirm.

When It Happens, if any Democratic politician utters a single word for him other than pure contempt and scorn, I will be waging a holy war against that person for the rest of my natural life

Elected dems be like, "I worked with prolific serial killer Samuel Little and while we disagreed on many things, including his murder of 93 women, behind the scenes, he was charming and personable. He will be missed."

Sounds like the kind of place where "I defend rapists" isn't the kind of thing which would torch a relationship Which is a superb way to communicate that you don't find rape disqualifying

oh no, he’s found our secret antifa plans subreddit

"it's so divisive to oppose violent bigotry can't we all just learn to respect our differences!?"

For the people he victimized this is the only justice they'll get. What does it say about you that care more about the life of a violent bigot than the people that are now dead because of him

He liked to blow up innocent people in the Middle East due to their religion and skin color, Sheldon. It was his main goal in life. He was *gleeful* over the idea that Trump would hurt so many human beings that we would run out of bombs, Why are you posting this? Who is it for?

i see the rumor mill is suggesting the ailing and unpopular nazi pedophile president is going to make a statement soon on how prior elections were invalid so i feel that now is a good time to bump this one

Asked what he thought about parents not vaccinating their children on the grounds of parental autonomy, Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist and polio survivor, says: “That is utter bullshit.”

JK Rowling signed the Harper's Letter just so you know how full of shit everyone who signed it was.

Human decency precludes showing empathy towards violent bigots and rape apologists

Violent mass murderers like Graham get pilloried in death because more often than not that's the only justice their victims receive You strike me as the kind of guy who'd go to the mattresses to protect a friend accused of rape or abuse

You seem to hate immigrants quite a lot though

Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”

A lot of the divide on "does the right have agency?" Is explained by people who have lived in an evangelical dominant environment and those who haven't.

What noise is this? Not dead? Not yet quite dead?

"blood and soil" but with a rainbow pride flag on the camps

It’s called elevated horror, T. It’s when the dracula is actually that your family sucks.

Right, particularly where it involves public figures who have massive impact on millions of lives. If it's wrong to speak ill of them at the time of their death it's also wrong to eulogize them in a way that carefully avoids mention of their misdeeds

The thing about being ruled by a gerontocracy is that cohort mortality is a probability density, meaning all these fuckers start dying around the same time -- in clusters. The same Weibull Distribution "bathtub curve" explains why batches of light bulbs and hard drives all die in the same month.

The only thing the poor and dispossessed have in this world, in which rich power-hungry demons suppress every attempt at justice, is the knowledge that those powerful people die too, that they can't escape at least some of the same laws governing humanity. So shut up also

As a US politician you can routinely call for, and use your considerable power to vote for and agitate for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people around the world and it doesn't count as killing them for some reason. A person who does that is not a killer for some reason.

“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.

cyclospora can be spread via produce such as vegetables, making mitch mcconnell more dangerous than ever

politicians want everyone to speak well of terrible people who died because many of them are terrible people who will die

Befriending terrible people doesn’t help you understand them better. It blinds you to the damage they do to the people you represent. You know them *less* well as a result of your personal affection.

This is part of why “my good friend across the aisle” is frequently enabling behavior. By framing it as a polite “disagreement” they normalize GOP policy goals and behavior, white wash the harm Republicans cause, and make it seem like GOP work is respectable.

“What I loved about Senator Lindsey Graham is that we belonged to the same social class”

Iranians not chillin today let’s goooooo

My hot take is that regarding Congress like it's analogous to some normal workplace with colleagues who are all ultimately on the same team is exactly the thing everybody is disgusted by, because politics and policy are real to them, because they are not smug cloistered fucking nitwits.

Plenty of people mourned the passing of Jefferson Davis and we have a whole lot of derogatory terms for those people as well

If I had a medical colleague who was actively harming and trying to harm our patients, I would be constantly campaigning for him to be fired and held accountable. I would absolutely not engage in hagiography once they died, I’d celebrate that they could no longer do harm

I don't give a fuck that Graham used to be friends with Democratic senators. He was a bloodthirsty bastard who cheered the killing of Muslims and sold his souk to the fascists to be able to push it more effectively. I don't care about any other part of him: his choices caused mass death. That's it.

My colleagues that I disliked didn’t enable a regime that murdered millions of people and actively work to strip the rights and humanity of me and my fellow Americans. I’m fucking allowed to hold *my elected representatives* accountable for buddying up to ghouls.

Good morning to the New York Post reporter who's here for the inevitable "Bluesky Liberals Cheer Graham's Death" article that is surely dropping by lunchtime

Straight white people hate minorities more than the people working to harm minorities Graham belittled and lashed out at a rape victim, if that's the kind of person you'd be civil to then it's fair to say you hate rape victims yourself

Daniel lemme know how you'd treat a colleague whom you knew to be a violent bigot and rape apologist

MARK ANTHONY: "You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honorable man." BLUESKY: "Wow, so you're saying you think it's good that Brutus killed Caesar?!"

It’s one of the true pleasures of the job - historians get to skip the whole “this isn’t the time” commentary and have at it. Graham was a plague on the Senate, a chickenhawk, and one of the most accomplished hypocrites in this country’s recent history.

When It Happens, no matter where you are or what time it is, the ear-splitting noise of the mass celebrations outside will be impossible to miss.

He was instrumental in getting Roe overturned. He tried to overturn the democratic results of the 2020 election. He has unapologetically pushed for billions of our tax dollars to be used to kill Palestinian civilians and was giddy to spend our money killing Iranians. He was the worst of humanity.

That Democrats see mass-murdering fascists dismantling the country as nothing more than "colleagues they dislike" is why we've been in a non-stop plummet. Incredible this is still debatable, by people who ostensibly oppose fascism, ten years into this?!?

“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes.

Lady just use slurs it's simpler and more honest

On a related note, the fact that they dismiss this point not by claiming that it doesn't violate the child's rights, but by arguing that children either do not, or should not, have rights is even more instructive. The utter contempt for youth is the point, as it is the main leg they have.