I guess what I'm trying to say, it's normal for human beings to be petty and small, whether they are crusading Social Studies Warriors or not.
Eh, sure. I don't feel strongly about McCain one way or the other so i don't care to comment on that. But if someone who's personally fucking over my life drops dead or catches something terminal I'm not above saying I'd be elated by that news. There's being a good person and then there's trying real hard to not seem like a bad one when it comes to this sort of shit. Should you have more tact? Probably. But I won't get my panties twisted over still hating someone even if shit goes bad for them.
But you probably are not going to start saying "stop tone policing" if people says is untactful.
Then again, a lot of the same people are then wondering why they lose elections or why vulgar demagogues like Trump rise to power.
People voted for Trump to spite smug dems? Eh. Pretty optimistic view of things.
Why is optimistic? Is more worrisome than just straight up racism, people willing to delude themselves in that way even when all points out that Trump doesnt even care if brown people come to the US, as long some people love him in either way. That shit is a different kind of scary.
A largely dem leaning gaming forum wrestling with the a pig (before and more so after he's become president) isn't the lens I'd view the US through to get any kind of insight into why people voted for Trump. Other than people getting blindsided by his success, I suppose.
So you agree or disagree that the political discourse is in shithole when people shit on an ex president because he wished for the well being of a rival politician?