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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 30 Nov 2018
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      Hagiography is bad, allowing bogus mythology to dominate public discussion is bad, but I'm not a fan of gratuitous dunking-on-the-freshly-deceased either. Maybe because revering the dead is a humanistic impulse, and worth honoring in some way. I don't know. Contradictory thoughts

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 30 Nov 2018
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      Addendum. Enforced consensus in the wake of high-profile death can be extremely oppressive, and should be fought against. Bitterly and rudely, if necessary. But I don't like when it's done in a gleeful or celebratory manner. "Joy" seems like the wrong impulse to cultivate here.

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        1. 𝐣𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚‏ @jaraparilla 30 Nov 2018
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          I say hooray but without joy. I sorrowfully celebrate the only kind of karma these elites seem to face. I celebrate a little less evil in this world. I hope W.Bush deeply feels the pain he inflicted on countless others. #BushIsDead

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        2. Slava Zilber‏ @v_zilber 30 Nov 2018
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          Dear Mr. @mtracey, would you like to talk about the legacy of Pres. H. W. Bush and the reactions to his passing? I could interview you on my podcast "Conversations with Slava." Here are examples of my work: https://soundcloud.com/conversationswithslava … Thank you! Kind regards, Slava Zilber

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        3. Slava Zilber‏ @v_zilber 30 Nov 2018
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          https://soundcloud.com/conversationswithslava/joe-emersberger-on-the-prosecution-of-julian-assange … with @rosendo_joe

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        1. KnightWriter 🌹#Bernie2020‏ @KnightRheidyr 30 Nov 2018
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          I derive no pleasure, let alone joy, from the death of anyone. But neither do I give deference to murderers and war criminals simply by virtue of the fact they've passed on. The former is sadism. The latter is the lowest form of hypocrisy.

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        1. Daniel Lenz‏ @mrfruehling 30 Nov 2018
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          Joy over the realization that even the richest & most mischievous can't cheat death is IMHO justified.

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        1. ErikM‏ @erikmullen08 30 Nov 2018
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          I appreciate that you're always looking for that Aristotelian golden mean between the opposite vices at the extremes.

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        1. Heliopause‏ @stevesond 1 Dec 2018
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          Correct. When a mass-murdering criminal lives to a ripe old age and dies peacefully without a whiff of justice for his sickening crimes that is no cause for joy or celebration.

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        1. U.K.R.I.P. #freeAssange‏ @highqoo 30 Nov 2018
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          It's a character flaw. You'll work it out

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        1. JMF‏ @systemrip 1 Dec 2018
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          Sure, all reasonable goals. But freshly-minted ideologues see things like this as a time to compete for moral superiority. Many who have payed attention over decades (and didn’t vanish during Obama) can calmly acknowledge the awful things, but see the full context.

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        1. johnnyambulance‏ @JohnnyAmbulance 1 Dec 2018
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          If you perhaps to read this tweet in... say, David Niven’s or James Mason’s voice, it makes perfunctory sense.

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        1. Demand immediate electoral reform.‏ @ggatin 1 Dec 2018
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          It's not like I'd giggle "We came, we saw, he died" or anything, that's just psychopathic.

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        2.  🎃 🅱️oo-skerville 👻‏ @WB_Baskerville 30 Nov 2018
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          We should speak and think well of the dead whenever possible immediately following their death, and then after an appropriate period of time we can assess their legacy more honestly if necessary. All humans understood this before our modern day brain fevered trash world.

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        3. Lant‏ @Jodiuss 30 Nov 2018
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          Honestly all the way for me.

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        1. InvalidBeard‏ @InvalidBeard 30 Nov 2018
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          When his son dies, am I to resent those, say in the middle east, whose families, cultures, countries, have been on the receiving end of America's genocidal imperialism? At a certain point the body count should be directing the impulse.

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        1. Lvl1 Blood Dragon‏ @DudeHazard 30 Nov 2018
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          Although I won't blame anyone for rejoycing when Trump dies.

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        1. Lant‏ @Jodiuss 30 Nov 2018
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          No sacred cows

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        1. Brian Gooley‏ @BRGooley 30 Nov 2018
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        1. GiantMeteor2020  🧐 🤔 🤨‏ @eurekaskastle 30 Nov 2018
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          Don’t censor yourselves...but censor yourselves

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        1. Senior Fellow‏ @rubashov_ 1 Dec 2018
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          Ok well there is something profoundly wrong with you. This is a jumbled mess of perverted moral logic where simple human decency should be. You are clearly unwell and should seek counseling. Get some help. Unfollow.

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        1. TrelanJ‏ @JTrelan 1 Dec 2018
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          Who likes it? I was repulsed when Osama Bin Laden was supposedly killed by U.S. seals, and the twitterverse was engulfed in celebration. Who celebrates another human being's death? Still despots like Bush needn't be whitewashed as "good".

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