I remember exactly where I was. I was an eight year old on his way to spend the night at Grandma's apartment, and when I walked in I found her on the couch wiping tears away. I also remember watching his funeral. RIP...I guess?
The Reagan hate is adorable, especially as many of these same people attacked me for my opinions on the death of Hugo Chavez. For whatever its worth, I don't find the attacks here on Reagan to be distasteful (the Thatcher thread was awful, but whatever), but I must note the hypocrisy.
I don't pretend to be consistent, but it's not hypocrisy, it's valuing my opinion of Reagan over your opinion of Chavez.
Isn’t saying “I can bash Reagan because I hate him” and then saying “you’re not allowed to bash Chavez because I like him” the height of hypocrisy? I don’t fault you for holding a higher value of your opinions over mine-I am guilty of the same thing, but I do fault you and several others for being particularly vocal in the Chavez thread.
“Basic human dignity.” Remember when Velasco, Lief, Platypus, Hashemite, and Kalwejt (who at the time really disappointed me in that thread since I thought he would be more consistent) attacked my lack of that in the Chavez thread? And remember when you said you were going to “avenge” Chavez (that post may have been deleted in the sh*tfest that followed) by bashing Thatcher? I do. Celebrating the lives of tyrants and the deaths of democratic leaders with whom you disagree with is a common trend among some of our forum leftists.
White 90s kids whining. Laughable.
As Afleitch noted in the Thatcher thread, most people who were bashing Thatcher as the destroyer of the "idealistic and community oriented past" were not alive to realize that Britain just wasn't the way they imagined it before Thatcher. I don't defend Reagan for that same reason, as I was born fifteen years after he first took office in 1981, and thus have absolutely no experience with him as my President.....like most people bashing him, oddly enough.
