• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m just going to throw this out there: if she was too old and senile, was she actually in control or was she being controlled?

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      1 year ago

      Both, kinda. I think she was too gone at the end to know where she even was, but she still should have stepped aside YEARS ago when she was lucid enough to know she was declining. Again, she’s still a fucking piece of shit cunt for not doing so.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t really necessarily want to defend her, but she also is dead so I can’t agree with calling her that. I’ll try being the devil’s advocate instead.

        Some people have a hard time realizing their decline, maybe it’s denial, maybe it’s the same reason you can boil a frog alive if you don’t heat up the water too fast. Person I knew semigvoluntarily gave up their license (a bit of coercion by the immediate family had probably occurred), but they got bored and hated taking the bus, so got the license renewed.

        The only solution is an age limit, and it’ll never happen because the people who’ll vote in it are the same that’ll be affected.

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          1. Why should being dead change what people call someone? I understand *why *people might think this way, but I just think that they’re wrong.
          2. The boiling frog thing is a myth.
          3. If it’s denial, then I would still find her morally blameworthy for hogging the seat for so damn long.
          4. If the person you knew isn’t fit to drive anymore and would genuinely represent a threat on the road, then they are a bad person for trying to renew their license, just like Dianne Feinstein is a cunt.
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          1 year ago

          I have no idea who this person is, but the vitriol and hatred I see towards the person is extreme online. Especially a lot of sexist slurs like “bitch”, “cunt”, etc.

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            Are you an American? Because if you are, and you are over the age of 21 or so, and you don’t know who she is then you must not be politically aware.