Nobody says “Won’t someone think of their kids?” when celebrating a mass shooter or a drug kingpin or a foreign dictator being deposed. It’s a shitty argument here, too.
Nobody says “what about their kids” when a poor single parent stealing food to live ends up in jail and their kids in foster care.
Those criminals would have raised their kids to be criminals, too. It’s good the kids will be taken away to be raised by a system that will [checks notes] orphan them, abuse them, and raise them to be institutionalised. That will totally fix the problems of generational poverty and waste of societal potential, preventing those kids from becoming adults who have to steal food so their own kids can live.
Yeah I never heard anyone say “won’t someone think of Osama bin Laden’s, like, 30 fukken kids?” Genghis Khan had so many goddam kids that we’re still finding bits of Mongol warlord genome stuck in random places like it’s craft glitter. Fuckin’ Leopold II had four kids, went off to make people-hand soup down in the Congo, and then had three more kids while he was doing it! This is not necessarily an indicator of virtue, folks!
fukken
Short for ‘fukkeng’, obviously; whatever the hell that means. Sounds like a city in China.
Nobody says “Won’t someone think of their kids?” when celebrating a mass shooter or a drug kingpin or a foreign dictator being deposed.
I’ve heard it said unironically a few times about dictators we’re allied with who have a sudden fall from grace. The Shah of Iran, the Batista Regime in Cuba, and the brief failed Jeanine Áñez coup in Bolivia all leap to mind. I’m sure we’ll get some kind of “President Yoon was a cool dude with a family why is everyone in South Korea so mean to him?” Op-Ed sooner or later. We just stuck the head of Al Qaeda in Syria in charge of the country and I don’t doubt we’ll get a bunch of “Damn, what a cool guy I can’t believe he got got his family will be so sad” stories if he ever accidentally swallows a hand grenade in a power dispute.
And I can’t count the number of articles, TV Shows, and movies that try to lionize the CIA. They’re some of the biggest drug runners on the planet. Hell “Charlie Wilson’s War” might as well have been “Dr. Heroin the Child Rapist or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Mujaheddin”.
And then you’ve got the real heavy hitters like American Sniper and Rambo II. Talk about celebrating mass shooters.
If you don’t want people to celebrate your death, don’t live in a way that makes people want to celebrate your death.
What’s the saying? You shouldn’t say anything about the dead unless it’s good. So he’s dead. Good!
You shouldn’t say anything about the dead unless it’s good. So he’s dead. Good!
this sounds like a joke from an 80 year old jewish man.
Thing is that cuts both ways. Lots of us would be happy if certain politicians came to an “untimely end,” and just about as many would be pissed as hell. “Doing good” is too often up to the eye of the beholder.
I mean, I can feel bad for his kids (especially if they’re too young to understand, no idea how old they are) and still be of the opinion fuck that guy. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Grief is not a conscious decision and we do not get to choose who we will mourn for and because of that, I do feel for them, but the rest of us are under absolutely no obligation to mourn along with them.
It’s hard to grow up with no dad.
It’s also hard to grow up with a dad who’s a bottom feeding scumbag.
Brian Thompson was a scumbag. We can’t say whether it will be better or worse growing up without him. We can only say that if he wasn’t a scumbag, he’d probably still be here.
Truth is, people celebrated before we had any idea who this guy was. He wasn’t famous or a public figure before he was killed. People didn’t hate the man that died, nor his kids.
People cheered because of what he represented. People didn’t celebrate his death, they celebrated that it made his type of person look like they aren’t untouchable.
Anyone who has kids and wants to leave a good legacy for their kids will now have to take into account whether they want their kids to end up like this guy’s kids. I know I won’t be accepting any c-suite jobs any time soon, but I’ve turned down jobs in the past because they didn’t align with my morals.
Same, I turned one down earlier this year. No amount of money would make me hurt people like he did.
There are a lot of situations out there where people, myself included, say one thing but when it comes down to it, they’d do the same thing if given the chance. I try to be cognizant of that but this is one time where I can absolutely say I wouldn’t be in that situation. I’ve turned down jobs for much less. Granted I wasn’t offered anywhere near the kind of money this jagoff was making but money isn’t a factor when it comes to something like this.
Could not care less about some trust fund kids.