It makes me mad at myself, but his fear and confusion in that moment was cathartic. You have to hurt a lot of people eyes wide open to actually deserve the suffering of witnessing your own mind and sense of self crumbling from the inside, but Reagan was and McConnell is on that list.
We at least got to witness him experience a tiny sliver of the shame, pain, and terror of the Americans he inflicted his cruelty on for decades with a shit eating grin so he could cut his own taxes and that of his country club friends on the backs of hard working, struggling human beings.
No sympathy for the devil. I’ll remember you this way, Mitch. Now go fade away you spooky, sociopathic fuck.
Don't let schadenfreude and tribalism blind you for the reasons for disliking this person. You don't win in politics if your opponent dies from old age, you win by shifting the forces that decide elections. Cheering on the... lets see here... inescapable march of time on a human's body invites much the same onto yourself in the future. That is, don't laugh at old people deteriorating if you don't want younguns in the future to laugh at you or your grandma. It's a journey that we all take, and I feel like it should have some dignity in it.
I wish he and his family good health, and that the political structure around him fades into history.
He's an objectively bad person. My grandma isn't, and I try not to be. If we are, you can make fun of us when we get that old too. (and I ain't no spring chicken)
I don't just disagree with the man's politics, I recognize that he has played exceptionally dirty, and is responsible for policies and appointments that have hurt people, many of whom are far too young to even know who he is or what his politics are, many of them his own constituents. His hand in raising up Trump and fanning the flames of the damage Trump did is just one of the most recent and visible details. Dehumanizing entire segments of the US population is literally the only thing his entire party does with their political power. That's it.
He has legitimately damaged the fabric of this nation, and I have no tears to shed for his deteriorating health. He and those like him need to exit the corridors of power - I'm not in the slightest picky about the mechanism of that exit.
Some people are objectively harmful to democratic countries and the principles they are built upon or even the world itself. If death is the only thing that can remove them from a position of power where they can futher harm the country and the people in it, I have absolutely no problem with seeing them on the way there. Good ridance!
If I ever get as vile as these people and negatively impact thousands if not millions of people then feel free to cheer my death.
Not explicitly, no. It’s just a red flag that if you engage with this person it will be unproductive and frustrating.
Conservatives wish death on pretty much all liberal politicians every now and then, sometimes on live television, and no one even bats an eye. A handful of leftist internet comments have “ding dong the witch is dead” vibes and you start clutching your pearls.
i believe the cause for the rift in american politics is that both sides (i mean both) consistently forget that we are all people that generally want to do the right thing. the source of discourse is differing ideas on the best way to achieve that right thing.
when those differing ideas are misconstrued as due to people being ‘evil’ is both incorrect and in bad faith.
it’s disheartening to watch people wish misfortune and misery on those that think differently than themselves, that’s what i’m trying to express.
I’ve never thought about it like that. Internet comments expressing a bit of schadenfreude really are morally equivalent to ripping civil liberties away from millions of people! Thanks internet commenter!
I don’t intend to have a back and forth with you, I have reason to believe it would be unproductive and frustrating.
Maybe just consider that people have no better recourse to judge a person than their actions, and mitch has done terrible things. His motivations, and whether or not he is “evil” or just generally trying to do the right thing, are irrelevant in the face of his destructive political actions. People aren’t happy that an old man had a seizure, they are happy the old man might not be causing harm much longer.
it’s disheartening to watch people wish misfortune and misery on those that think differently than themselves, that’s what i’m trying to express.
What's disheartening is that you want to handwave away the damage this man has caused as "thinking differently." This is the sort of false equivalence that nets you the other comment you received, which you bemoaned as some sort of "learning experience". Wringing your hands about "both sides" is worse than an empty platitude when one side is actively trying to dismantle civil rights, among other things.
Something I've noticed - folks who do this only do it in threads where left-leaning people or US democrats are angry. Will you be the first person to prove me wrong on that? Are you in some maga thread somewhere telling them to be a little nicer, too?
I said something along the same line on Mastodon and got eaten alive all because I refuse to celebrate a moment like this. I despise the guy, but I won’t lower myself to celebrating a possible stroke.
Really bugs me too. It’s vulgar and mean-spirited. I say this as a transfem who is an explicit target of discriminatory republican policies.
Making fun of someone because they’re old is unacceptable. That’s civility 101, if you claim to be a democrat and do this kind of thing you’re a fraud imho
Tolerance is a peace treaty, them wishing for and enacting policies that would lead to the deaths of people like me and the people I love means that my ability to tolerate them is gone.
I will happily read this guy’s obituary and the obituaries of his cohorts.
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