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She could've just not posted anything about his death
Between her and Ezra Klein, I'm starting to think politicians and pundits who don't really stand for anything are afraid they'll be forgotten about if they don't chip in their two cents on anything and everything.
Those two are just as dead to me as the dead villains they insisted on lionizing.
Centrist Democrats seem to have a compulsive need to virtue signal at every opportunity. They don’t have good policy so they have to prove their moral superiority, which might have worked a decade ago, but just makes them look spineless now.
Tbf she’s practicing what she preaches by saying something. Christian values would be to ‘love your neighbor and enemy’. Personally, I think she still truly believes in Biden’s of message bipartisanship being possible.
As a person, she showed dignity and respect for someone that held views that were quite different from her own. A leader tries to build bridges rather than more walls.
That’s true but we have limits. Torture and War Criminal are over the line. Showing dignity and respect for Hitler should not be a tweet.
She would have saved us from chaos and violence though.
Those things are two different conversations.
I’d say it’s more about the people still around than the man himself. Each death can be a tragedy to someone, in this case it would be his immediate family, his friends, and the people in his community that like the Cheney the person, not necessarily the politician. Harris wanting to help with the pain those people are experiencing is a kind gesture to those people. Salt in the wound isn’t going to have any effect on Cheney, but it will on those still here that are experiencing pain from his passing.
Personally, I don’t want to be like those on the Right. I would rather live a life where each person’s life has value innately. Those who’s lives were negatively impacted and abruptly ended by the man’s policies have not experienced justice either. I can only hope we learn to be more caring than those who came before us to end the cycle of greed and violence.
You're right, each person's life has innate value. He caused the end of a million innocent lives. The value of his life is in the negatives.
You can offer condolences to the family without praising a pile of shit
Words of affirmation about the positive aspects about the man are not praises of his unjust actions. Building bridges sometimes involves seeing the good in the bad. People in Red, Purple, and Blue states that are diehard Republicans are people we will and do encounter every day.
Finding areas to build common ground helps to foster a stronger community. The common ground in this case being the loss of human life is awful, even for people that are strangers to me or may see me as an enemy. I believe that showing love in life and in death matters if we want to break down the barriers of separation.
It's absolutely a way of handwavling the evil he did. It makes light of the abscess he was on society.
I'm not talking about your average voter, many of whom are victims of disinformation. I'm talking about a man who knowingly orchestrated a massive death toll through fraud and deceit, in exchange for money and the chance to abuse power.
Some people should not have theit free positive traits mentioned, as they were inconsequential compared to their atrocities.
I'll also point out maga don't like Cheney, they think he's a rino. Democrats don't like Cheney because of the war crimes and corruption. No one actually likes Cheney, there's nothing to be gained by finding someone move to say about him. Just say nothing.
I disagree about the hand waving part.
I’m not saying he’s a good man by any stretch of the word, I’m that there’s not an issue with one person showing dignity to another in death.
I agree to an extent, that extent being the actual death of the person and speaking about aspects of their life where there was commonality at the time of their death.
It’s not about gaining something. It’s about showing humanity to the people that knew him in his personal life. Showing you care about people dying isn’t a bad thing.
The problem with this is that none of it is rooted in reality. Pretty much everything you've said is just jibber jabber about your discomfort with being mean.
The right is not motivated by this gentle soothing of their pain. They don't even remotely care about it. They gleefully jeer at us every time someone tries to take a hammer to a democrat's head, every time black democrats in congress are murdered, every time Mexicans bound in chains are loaded single-file onto planes; they do not believe in this kindness you are affording them. It does not affect them.
When they complain about the public reaction to things like Charlie Kirk, they say those things because it bothers us, not because they care.
What this means is that the right gets to view themselves as strong, self-actualized, Roman warriors for ~~racism~~ freedom, and we are always putting the ball gag in our own mouths.
It is a culture of disempowerment. I'm not saying Harris should be jeering necessarily, but she should not be doing whatever the hell this is. It serves no one.
This is just making a mountain out of a mole hill, imo. We don’t need to be like the Right about everything. I understand your sentiment but we can’t take a minute to say it’s a person that died?
I’m not saying we can’t be justifiably upset about bigotry and hate that comes from the other side. In fact we should be. But there are some things we can have standard about still and where we don’t need to mirror the worst offenders on the Right.
I don’t see it as having some kind of self-gag for showing empathy about death and the ways people lend a hand to others when they personally experience grief. There’s a billion justifiable things to say about who Cheney was and the magnitude of his actions as well as the harm caused, but that doesn’t mean need to jump on people wanting to show an ounce of kindness to his family and friends.
I’d say Harris isn’t even relevant to the main conversation to a degree. I doubt she wins the next primary if she enters it anyways. So her extending an olive branch couldn’t hurt imo.
Then don't celebrate war criminals, genocide, etc.
People on the right hate regular people for shitty reasons. That's not what's happening here.
Where is the celebration?
I said I don’t want to be like those on those the Right for their callousness.
I’m not saying you can’t hate the guy, I just don’t think it’s worth nitpicking a person, who is a politician, showing kindness after someone has died.
Yeah I’m sure all the people whos families died as a direct result of Cheney are glad American politicians are being so nice to him after he died to save his families feelings.
It cost her absolutely nothing to just stay silent, friend.
This isn't building bridges though. No Republican is going to be moved or softened by this statement. It's going to actively alienate the people who are supposed to like you though. The best move is to simply say nothing at all.
All this bullshit tells me is that those in power are still seeing this as nothing but business, like what we're going through is simply a contract negotiation. No hard feelings. That they can watch their colleagues cause the death and misery of thousands and then leave that at the door and go grab a drink with that person.
It may or may not be building some bridges, I can’t say you’re wrong because there is a lot of truth in what you are saying, unfortunately.
The fact that politics is treated as a team sport by the Right, where this type of message of caring from Harris and other Democrats will just go to fade into the void, is part of the problem with the media and political sphere we have allowed to fester.
I feel that social media has opened the door to too much open hostility to acts of kindness. Strategizing around a best move politically rather than having an open heart, even to people that may hate you.
I think having an open heart means treating your interactions with others like it isn’t just business. I’m sure many politicians do have issues with the selfish and self-centered actions of one’s peers. I don’t think that necessarily reflects on the way people show kindness to one another when they experience a personal hardship or how they interact with their families. Maybe it’s Democrats trying to chip at the cold exterior with some of the Republicans; I personally don’t think politics will always be like they currently are where media plays up the divide.
It was Harris' choice to post this publicly for people to react to. If it was simply about being kind then it could've been a private communication to the Cheney family directly.
It was performative at its core and woefully out of touch as well.
And people have agency for how they react as well. Being open about it can be seen as saying that it’s okay to show care for one another in times of personal tragedy. He was someone that Harris knew personally as well.
I’d say it’s pushing against-the-grain rather than out of touch. There is so much need out to play sides about every aspect of life. Some things don’t need to be about scoring points.
What leadership role is she in right now? I thought she was on a book selling tour.
I’m speaking to her actions, not her current role in public services. There’s something very apparent that is missing in government today and that thing is leadership.
Murder and war crimes are only "differences of opinion" among the worst criminals.
Those aren’t the views that were just “differences of opinion” that I was talking about. I was talking about what she said.
Christians really love to preach how moral they are by praising pedophiles, racists and racists, don't they?
Fuck you respect and values. Respect is earned and values are knowing how to embrace the good and distancing yourself from the bad. Not your Hollywood version of it.
Ok.