Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition

[Sunny]

@greenflashlight

I apologize if I didn't come across with my disapproval of the guy strongly enough. I do not think it's bad that people are happy that he's dead. That is not what I mean. I am upset because it's OK to celebrate somebody being dead, but not to mention that a rapist was a rapist.

[Ganymede]

@sunny

I don’t recall taking any position regarding Kobe Bryant’s death, but if I did it was not to censor or censure anyone for pointing out that he settled rape allegations against him.

Nor am I here to excoriate anyone for pleading to not speak ill of those who have passed. I believe that many people earnestly believe that speaking ill of the dead is morally and ethically wrong.

What I will do, however, is suggest that earnest discussions regarding people’s legacies be moved elsewhere. It is natural however to react immediately here, for better or worse, and I’m not going to start wielding a weapon unless it starts getting out of hand.

Is that fair?

[Sunny]

@ganymede

Yep. Thank you. I really appreciate the clarification.

[Sunny]

@arkandel

I was talking to @Ganymede, thank you.

eta: I already know where YOU stand on this issue. I don't need clarification, I promise.

[Arkandel]

@eye8urcake I don't write the plugins nodeBB uses so I can't change that functionality. I'm only an admin for technical reasons, and even that can be revoked by Gany.

[Warma Sheen]

Instead of THAT guy, here is some others that are probably more deserving of remembrance...

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30907010/ex-nfl-wr-vincent-jackson-found-dead-florida-age-38

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9526154/nicki-minaj-dad-robert-maraj-dead-killed

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/us/texas-animal-freeze-trnd/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/world/dinosaur-extinction-comet-study-scn/index.html

[kk]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/aug/11/lost-on-the-frontline-covid-19-coronavirus-us-healthcare-workers-deaths-database

https://khn.org/news/lost-on-the-frontline-health-care-worker-death-toll-covid19-coronavirus/

They are keeping a page for health care workers who died on the front lines.

[silverfox]

@Ganymede

Is there any way the last three pages can go into their own thread of like, "Conversations about Rush L or something" and bring this back to 'These people are dead and occasional comments' thread?

Please?

(Totally okay if not, I don't know how much effort goes into it.)

[Missingno]

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[Rinel]

@greenflashlight said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

@rinel said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

It's been interesting watching my other universalist friends on Twitter today

Universalist? I only know that word as a religious term, but it sounds like you mean it politically?

No, I mean it religiously. Lots of purgatory being discussed on the TL

[Ganymede]

@cassite

I have moved many of the posts over to the Politics section. I left the portion of the thread where we discussed whether it was permissible to celebrate someone's death.

It is permissible.

In the case of one Rush Limbaugh, the reason I believe some people are elated is because the man celebrated the deaths of LGBTQ members to AIDS, among other things. This smells political, and I think people would rather have such political matters moved elsewhere.

So, I moved them.

[Jennkryst]

So not a DEATH death, but this stings just as hard.

Daft Punk, 1993-2021

[Alamias]

@jennkryst ***=The real identities of Daft Punk***

click to show

[Jennkryst]

@alamias WHO LET THOSE TWO TOTALLY NORMAL HUMANS RIP THE HEADS OFF OF THE DAFT PUNK ROBOT BODIES?!?

[Wretched]

@jennkryst LOOK AT THEM CASUALLY DESECRATING THEIR DECAPITATED FOES.

[Tinuviel]

@wretched That's the French for ya.

[LittleLizard]

No not a person..applets and cotlets, the treat my grandpa and I bonded over.. is not going to exist. I know it's a bit silly but I get some every year to remember him by.

[Ninjakitten]

@littlelizard Aw, man. I like those. And I'm sorry for the loss of your memorial tradition.

[Alamias]

Yaphet Kotto

[Misadventure]

I hope he got the bonus situation worked out.