Comment by startlefrenzy@lemmy.world on News: McConnell says he's 'fine' after freezing during news conference

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that he’s “fine,” after freezing during a news conference on Wednesday.

I sure as hell disagree with Mitch but I do hope he really is fine health wise. That pause did not look good.

At the risk of sounding like an ass… why? He’s done a lot of horrible things that affected a LOT of people.

Oh you won’t see me disagreeing that he’s made bad decisions in the Senate but I do think we should keep some things separate such as politics and wishing someone’s health doesn’t get worse.

Why? The man has used politics to consciously and deliberately harm millions of people. For years.

He doesn’t deserve respect, civility, or compassion. He deserves a swift fall and a sudden stop.

I can see this both ways - I also lamented his recovery, but it does make you feel something strange wishing for another human to die.

I think you’re on a false moral highground. I used to be up there with you, saying stuff like this feels like the right thing to say. Its civil, its kind, and it has no place in modern politics. He is barely a human in my eyes. He lacks any and all compassion and will sell out his state the second that he can, and has done so before. He is a lying pile of grease and greed that has no place in the world.

I don’t know, maybe I’m just naïve, but it feels like dehumanizing the other side (which, yes, is what they do to us) drives us further apart. I’m not saying “when they go low, we go high”, but I can’t help but feel like it’s harmful to my own psyche to dehumanize others.

Then again, I wouldn’t say, “I wish Hitler hadn’t killed himself” (except for him to face a harsh and public punishment for his crimes) and, though I’m not up on what McConnell has particularly done, if he’s anything like the middle to most extreme of the R party, it’s probably still fascist activity.

Maybe a good middle ground is just saying ‘i hope bad things happen to him’ but not explicitly calling for someone’s death?

wishing for another human to die.

Well there’s your error. Mitch McConnell hasn’t been a human being for ages now.

Your family raised you right.

I agree with a lot of people who disagree with you and your sentiment. But don’t stop.

At the end of the day we’re stuck on this planet together. Regardless how much of a d!ck someone is in real life, you don’t have to sink to their level.

As much as I dislike Mitch, I have to feel for all of his close family members who must be concerned for his health this evening. I might not care about that turtle, but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel bad for his family who saw their loved one experience a stroke on live television.

all humans deserve sympathy to an extent. we dont choose to be dropped into whatever environments shape our psyche… until later.

there are absolutely humans who have wreaked so much havoc on the rest of us, they do not deserve our ongoing sympathy, they not only do not deserve it, they have lost whatever humanity they were born with.

mitch is one of those people.

we need to turn our backs on people like this, not continually elect them ‘because its just politics’

Why not? It costs you nothing to be empathetic of others, regardless of their misdeeds. We’ve gotta do better if we’re going to make it as a society/species.

I’m not arguably the most powerful person in government playing at best an obstructionist role and at worst actively destroying the freedoms of the people I’m supposed to serve.

He doesn’t deserve any kind of sympathy and the world would be a better place without him. If we’re going to do better as a society, we have to call out the hatred and despicable behavior. Not by pretending we care about those knowingly and willingly destrying people’s lives.

I agree with you, but I don’t think empathy = sympathy, and one can call out hatred without being hateful. Wishing death on others only steepens the divide.

I don’t. I hope he dies in the most painful way possible. Fuck that piece of shit.

I couldn’t care less how he dies. I’m not here for revenge; I just want him to stop working so hard to make the world a worse place.

He’s a self professed Christian. I assume, then, that hath done unto others as he wishes they do unto him.

Who am I to deny a dying man his wish?

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