• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s been bizarre watching everyone claim she’s a senile old bat who should’ve stepped down decades ago, to hearing everyone praise how devoted she was. It’s been a very disappointing journey for sure, the stuff of “boring dystopia” posts.

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      1 year ago

      It’s an old etiquette thing about not speaking ill of someone but present to defend themselves. There are exceptions, imo, but I’m not Emily Post.

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      1 year ago

      Memorials would not be very pleasant if we only remembered people as they were in their final days

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        Memorials would be very uncomfortable if people told the truth instead of pufffing eachother up with hot hair and bullshit.

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        I think being a public figure that put her position ahead of the needs of the public she supposedly served gives her an exemption from the “peaceful words for the dead rule”