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I mean... Reagan not only cheered on the death of LGBTQ+ people, he actively caused many of those deaths because of his policy decisions during the AIDS crisis.
Civility is out the window. But it was Reagan who threw it.
His administration, and his press secretary, used to refer to AIDS as "the gay plague" that only affected "fairies". And because it only affected the undesirables, they dragged their feet on addressing the issue. Reagan's actions were genocidal.
Pedantic little wanker, aren't you?
I showed you evidence that his administration's official position was that it was fine for LGBTQ+ people to die of AIDS. Quotes from his press secretary, the official who speaks on the administration's behalf. Audio recordings of the room, which included Reagan, erupting into laughter when talking about gay people dying.
I gave you more than enough evidence that he supported the death of LGBTQ+ people.
Your argument is insufferably pedantic.
No 'sis-sis-boom-rah' from Reagan, 0/10, evidence insufficient /s
y i k e s
My guy prominent people were cheering it as late as the 1990s. But considering what you've said so far, I have my doubts that you're here in good faith.
... did you even read your own fucking source
What a coincidence, another source that doesn't say anything even close to what you're claiming it does.
We're done here. Thanks for outing yourself.
God, did you read anything past that lmfao? Do you know what the word "first" means?
Dumbass
Do you take everything hyper-literally, or only when you don't like what other people say?
THEY LAUGHED AT THEIR DEATHS!
They made no effort towards intervention, and they withheld information that would have allowed LGBTQ+ people to understand what was happening, which could have been done long before treatment options were available. They have blood on their hands.
You say Reagan knew many gay people. I hope they spat in his face while he was alive, and pissed on his grave after he was gone.
His buddy Roy Cohn died of AIDS and he didn't say a word. Turned his back on him the moment it was public knowledge that he was gay.
Anybody who claims Reagan ever gave a single wet shit about gay people is a fucking liar.
Dude, I'm literally Autistic and I understand nuance and symbolic wording better than you
Pedantry just makes people not like you
If you want civility to return to the discussion, you should consider removing your comments from it.
Worthless, and a waste of everyone's time.
I showed my evidence. So you can take your accusations and choke on them. Do everybody a favour.
No, you don't prefer honest conversations, you are fooling nobody. You prefer asking bad-faith questions and trying to pretend that witholding assistance and laughing at gay people dying is somehow different to supporting their deaths.
Nobody is buying what you are trying to sell.
If you have to pretend to not understand basic English to accuse other people of lying, it suggests either a severe lack of either scruples or intellectual capacity on your part. So which is it?
Bite me.
I'm just going to counter your pedantry with three of the literal definitions for cheering
cheer
2 of 2
verb
cheered; cheering; cheers
2
: to grow or be cheerful : rejoice
—usually used with up
Cheer up! Things could be worse.
transitive verb
1
a
: to make glad or happy
—usually used with up
clowns who cheer up children in hospitals
He laughed at their deaths. That effectively falls under three of the definitions well enough
Ok, good bye troll. Was amusing to see you go so far with this, at the very least, rare to see quality in that craft these days
There it is! I was waiting for the mask to slip!
excuse me until i receive photographic evidence of reagan literally cumming in his pants as a white house aide whispers in his ear about deaths that he's caused i'm not going to accept any possibility that he was anti lgbt
bro i'm agreeing with you what's your problem
quite clearly no cum-in-pants photo means he couldn't possibly be against the lgbts
my guy i'm in your corner
i don't understand nuance or context either
why are you fighting me?
So, you wouldn't wish death on, say, Hitler? Would you say those that did in WW2 were no longer human?
Hey! Say what you want about Hitler, but he did kill Hitler. Show some respect!!!!1!!
Hitler took away the greatest prize of WWII so Russia could not have it and frankly that's a monumental disgrace that he did that
The title of "the guy who killed Hitler" is now a moot reward
I find that a fundamentally ridiculous point of view, that human life is something so valuable that, paradoxically, no amount of human lives ended could ever justify wishing death on someone, but props for consistency, I guess.
That presumes that wishing for someone's death dehumanizes them.
Created an example and a precedent that rulership is not a shield against punishment? Removed a vile human being from existence? Avenged the literal millions of helpless innocents he ordered slaughtered?
Death is often a viable solution. Oftentimes more viable than the alternatives.
All other options having failed, sometimes that means they're no longer breathing.
I just love (/s) how tone is policed harder than literal stochastic terrorism from the right.
They can tolerate killing people, but they draw the line at uncivil words!
(Unless of course those uncivil words are said towards the people being killed, then they conveniently didn't hear them.)
Hard to rule when you are dead. Thats probably the reason why people cheer and not for the death itself.