Do I believe Kissinger was a war criminal and did lasting harm to the US? Yes. I strongly believe he set the tone that allowed us to falsely justify attacking Afghanistan and Iraq.
Do I dance for joy because he died? No. No one’s death should be celebrated. Everyone has family and somewhere that family is grieving.
Let’s not be cruel.
I don't care if it's Hitler, Osama bin Laden, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Putin, or this asshole. We can have some joy when evil dies.
This is my belief. Feel free to believe what you wish.
I do not moderate anyone’s feelings but my own.
@feloneouscat @Agatha @AskTheDevil
Your are correct about feelings, Texas. Usually mine also.
I'm sad he lived that long knowing all the deaths he's responsible for. My brother-in-law, age 19, 1 of them. And all of those families, like ours, everywhere grieving those used as cannon fodder so Kissinger could get Nixon elected! Those are my feelings, I'm sure that there are others on here who would not have had to grieve except for HKs policies & actions.
This is my only exception so far.
@Gladari @feloneouscat @Agatha Yep. This.
@Gladari @feloneouscat @Agatha 🖤 to you, too.
You say you don't moderate others' feelings, yet isn't that what you attempted to do?
"No. No one’s death should be celebrated. Everyone has family and somewhere that family is grieving.
Let’s not be cruel."
@Agatha @feloneouscat I'm all about Free Will, baby. You do you.
But if you think you're going to stem the tide of people being happy this guy's dead, I'm just telling you, you're going to be unhappy because you've got as much chance of success as Canute of ordering the tides, and it'll ruin our party as well.
You might want to mute me for a couple of days. I'll have managed some self-control by then.
I don’t believe I have ever asked for permission to “do me.”
I rarely mute anyone.
@feloneouscat @Agatha You do you just means that you should live your own life according to your choices.
And I am always happy to meet someone who doesn't need to be told that.
@Agatha @feloneouscat If you'd spent as much time digging up my own words to throw in my face (good job by the way... ya got me, it's a fair cop), looking up why we're mad at him, you might understand why all the confetti.
Well you have me at a loss. I really have no idea what words you feel I must have dug up.
I was actually thinking about my own feelings of several decades.
Sorry, none of it was about you.
@feloneouscat @Agatha 🖤
I apologize for being a cranky-pants, too.
Please allow me to make clear that I appreciate your words, your presence, and your patience.
No.
I stated what I felt.
I am incapable of moderating others. I do not have those powers nor would I want them.
But I am capable of stating what I believe.
Whether you agree or not is purely up to you.
@feloneouscat @Agatha I appreciate that sentiment a lot.
I will attempt to control my venom a little because I do appreciate your plea and how diplomatically you made it, but no promises. I know my weaknesses.
Thank you for being you.
@feloneouscat @Agatha @AskTheDevil You do get credit for trying to make us be nicer.
We need neither anyone's permission nor approval to acknowledge this event, period.
@feloneouscat It'll be easier to follow that advice if someone gives it to me in Cambodian, but I'll try.
I'm always griping at people not to be cruel. So I will try.
@feloneouscat I am sure his surviving family are busy right now ordering a chocolate fountain and a lot of champagne.
I disagree with you. I think after all the harm and evil he has caused, it would be a cruelty to tell people they're not allowed to be happy he's gone.
Let us have this.