(10-18-2021, 02:38 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(10-18-2021, 01:03 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Do you say that because you value Powell or because he'd use his death to advance his narrative?

I didn't care for Powell's politics as he was a strongly centrist Republican who was too moderate after he retired. I respected his career in the military and public service though and believe he is due more than a lot of respect for that work and that he was by all accounts a very nice man. I think Ronster shouldn't be using his RIP thread as an end zone spike for his agenda, it's unseemly.

I agree with your sentiments on Powell except replace moderate with establishment. I don't really care one way or the other with regards to most people's death. Especially politicians. Very few people are all the way good or all the way bad, and I struggle to really care that much about a person I don't know. Probably the only celebrity death that made me even a little sad in recent years was Norm MacDonald. 

I don't think anyone's death should be used to further an agenda. I think it should be standard etiquette that you avoid maligning the dead or using it to advance a narrative, with very few exceptions. It just seems that the people who get up in arms about these things are always on the other side of the argument. Just leave it out of the thread, but make sure you apply it to both sides of the argument. I've seen several instances, on this board, where people use a covid death to advance an narrative and the opposite side was getting all offended. I pointed it out to say that we should collectively shun it, no matter who it is. I can't stand hypocrisy.

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