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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
You don't have to sympathise with a dead person to think that figurative or even literal grave-dancing might be a bad idea.
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Aug 25th 2018 at 4:13:55 PM
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyI can certainly see both sides of the gravedancing thing. On one hand Republican policy often kills people, and do people who kill people who they are supposed to support as a byproduct of their policies are considered pretty low on my list of people I'd vote for or feel sorry for. On the other hand, that is a terrible way to go, and while his policies may have had terrible side effects they could also be made in error and he was not the sole or even the biggest cause of these effects sometimes, and ignorance, even deadly ignorance I feel is a lesser sin then active malice. Plus he often did help people, and actually sacrificed for his country.
Maybe it is just me comparing him to our current Hitler Youth leader in charge, but I can't find the will to not feel sympathy for him. I understand others who can however, and I won't make a judgement if you feel the effects of his policies outweigh the good he did for the world.
R.I.P. is all I will say.
@Obama's tweet: Class act as always, I miss him as our leader.
Edited by Wildcard on Aug 25th 2018 at 10:16:29 AM
Really, it's not even about deserving anything. Some people can't just go "I don't care."
This.
I don't really feel sympathy for or about Mc Cain but I don't see any benefit to going on about it or for that matter questioning those who do.
This too, it's just not a good idea that will lower the quality of the discourse in the thread.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Aug 25th 2018 at 10:15:41 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangLikely so. Unlike John McCain, she's a good person.
He was selfish, corrupt, grotesquely racist, a hypocrite and did all he could to assist his party in destroying political norms to make white supremacy the law of the land, foisted Sarah Palin on us and helped open the door that one day led to Trump. He was a terrible person.
I am still sad for his passing and for his family.
I think anyone who stuck with the Republican Party as long as he did can't be called a good person. There was a time when I believe it wasn't completely awful but that time passed a long way back.
I don't blame him for Sarah Palin, that was a stupid political move and everything I've read shows how much he hated the woman.
I note he refused to run a campaign on white supremacy, which I'm scared would have worked in hindsight.
And he enabled the Republican party for years with only a minimum of pushback....but he did push back a few times where it counted.
So I save my hatred for other people.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Mc Cain strongly represented the foreign policy ideas that were seen under Bush (with the exception of torture), as such people who see such foreign policy as monstrous are likly to see Mc Cain the same way.
Edited by MarqFJA on Aug 25th 2018 at 7:17:35 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Mc Cain genuinely didn't think the Bush administration's policy was a failure. What seems obvious to a thinking person is going to look cryptic to a Republican.
Re: His death, I'm sorry his family had to go through that and brain cancer in general is a terrifying disease that no one deserves to be stricken by. That said, I'm not sorry he's gone. He spent thirty years staking out a false reputation as a moderate while dog whistling his way into the GOP elite. He brought Sarah Palin into national politics, coarsened our discourse, acted as a spokesman for idiotic wars, and on the domestic front did his part to make our economy wither for everyone, but the rich. We're better off without him, just as we're better off without any Republican currently in government.
Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Aug 25th 2018 at 12:56:34 PM
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Obama would have won almost certainly no matter what but the problem with Mc Cain was he wasn't nearly as extreme enough for his party at that time.
A big issue in the Trump primaries.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.2008 was pre-Tea Party. The Republicans were vile, but the neocons were still the powerful faction, and Mc Cain was their standard bearer. The rest of the field wasn't that much more radical than he was. That came later, when it looked like Obama's presidency was intractable.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Obama is a truly great man. Better than most of us, certainly better than the likes of me - he devoted all that to his fallen foe.
I'm a coldhearted man, but I have to be astounded by these people. I just can't comprehend them - and that kind of makes me happy that this is so.
...I really think this is the end of an age. John Mc Cain was for all his faults decidedly not a chickenhawk, he was a spirited challenger, toward the end of his life he dedicated it all to screwing up the Trump Agenda on health care and such, and admittedly, while I'll never understand the reasoning behind it, I do appreciate the sheer comic relief gold he brought to us by introducing the world to Mrs. Sarah Palin.
...whose family seems to be disintegrating. Dammit, Palin, STAY FUNNY. I NEED YOU FUNNY.
You keep telling yourself that, while I laugh at her neologisms and bizarre references. She's a one woman political slapstick routine whenever she shows up to talk - the only one who seems not to know is her!
I love it, and every late night tv show has a running list of amazing Palin jokes, though really as Tina Fay showed, you don't need to change much to make her fucking hilarious.
This is why I love her. Never go away Caribou Barbie.

Mc Cain's reputation would look a lot better if Citizen's United didn't utterly gut Mc Cain-Feingold.
It's still would probably be a bad reputation.