Rest in Peace Rush

I've already forgotten his name.

Well stated thesis. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

You're clearly, by miles and miles, the most mature liberal on imgflip who has commented about Rush, that I've seen.

Just to be clear, I did hate the man. And I would always think less of people who didn't.

And there's nothing wrong with that. I may not agree with you, but when you express yourself as an intelligent, reasoned person, I can at least respect you for it.

Believe me, the children are running wild through the streets of imgflip celebrating Rush's death. No matter how much you hated him, that's not how human beings behave.

No, see, that IS human beings behave and that's half the argument right there. When people are sad that you're dead, it's because you earned it. If it bothers you that people will be actively relieved when you're dead, pull an Ebenezer Scrooge and atone for all the harm you've done - and if you don't do that, well, then that kind of undermines any complaints at how people react to that shit.

If one takes a political stance, you automatically get celebrated at death by half the country. That's just how it is. We're a country of elementary school kids that got taller.

My uncle was conservative. Everybody missed him immediately. Nobody was happy to hear his death. Rush Limbaugh was an awful person and his political stance doesn't even begin to cover it as an excuse. If you want people to be sad when you die, don't be like him - and to be honest, you're not doing great on that front so far.

If the whole country new of your uncle, then a gracious plenty would have celebrated his death based on nothing but the association with conservatism, not caring about his personal life. That's my point.

He WAS quite well known. I'm not going to say who he was but he was well known enough to completely destroy your argument: NOBODY was to glad to see him gone, conservative though he was. NOBODY. EVERYONE missed him.

And it's because he wasn't a dick. So if I were you, I wouldn't be lecturing people - I'd be taking notes.

Taking notes on how to agree with people you don't agree with? im taking notes on this Crazy statement of yours alright

No, I think less of someone who agrees WITH HIM. Because only a bully would ever have a reason to stand by a bully.

"Rush Limbaugh was an awful person"

So in comparing your uncle to Rush, you have a valid basis for comparison? You really knew Rush as well as your uncle...?

What do you actually know about Rush? I was not much of a Rush Limbaugh fan until Trump was elected. Even then, I didn't actively seek out his radio show, but I refuse to pay for satellite radio in my 1999 truck, so I would listen to him on the drive to work. I never heard him say anything worthy of the vitriol that people I consider pretty ignorant (like StanHitler) are dishing out.

I admit, I don't really know of a good way to express it other than by saying when someone behaves like StanHitler, who rejoiced when the news of Rush's diagnosis came out, and who celebrated the death of Herman Cain, they appear to have lost their humanity. Yes, that's just my two cents worth.

I know he considered it entertaining to bully people on the air. His legacy is that of appalling on-air rhetoric that he never retracted and almost never apologised for. My uncle was a much better person than that. Most people I know are much better people than that. Most people I know have a sense of basic human shame. In his position, they would NEVER have lashed out in the way he did. And it is no coincidence that his show only really appealed to people who were themselves bullies.

So you're admitting that you're comparing an on-air personality to a personality you knew personally? (awkward wording aside, since he's your uncle, of course)

I'm always amazed when people think they know what someone is truly like based on their public persona.

Don't get me wrong, I understand you're also probably making the point (perhaps implicitly) that no matter what he was like as a person, what he said over the air merits people like StanKlown rejoicing and celebrating as if Hitler himself had died. I just disagree, because clearly StanHitler has no sense of basic human shame. And fwiw, I don't recommend hitching your wagon to anything that StanIdiot may also be hitched to.

And where you get this stuff about his show only appealing to people who were bullies, is beyond me. I think it's pretty clear that you're having a hard time being objective about this.

And before you accuse me of the same, keep in mind that I said I wasn't a big fan of his. I'm not going to defend conservative politics on the whole. (nor liberal politics, certainly) It's the rejoicing at another human being's death that I'm complaining about.

And, now that Trump is out of office, once the Trump haters die down and have to spend time actually defending Biden without trying to blame everything on Trump, someone such as yourself may find that we agree on more issues than you would think. Of course we'll still disagree on many things. The fact of the matter is, I'm conservative when it comes to fiscal policy. On social issues, I believe I would be considered quite liberal. I would be a Libertarian if they could ever get their act together as a viable political party. If that was going to happen, it would have happened in 2016, so I'm not holding out much hope.

I've NEVER seen you take what I consider to be a liberal policy.

Rush Limbaugh was not an actor. He was an influential radio pundit. He had forty years to declare on public "I'm not actually like that in real life! Don't take what I say on the air seriously." It makes NO SENSE AT ALL to suggest that there's a side to him that would have found what he did distasteful but gosh darn it, what was he supposed to do? Atone for it in the public eye?

How does that even work? It was HIS SHOW - nobody had any leverage over him, he was free to do what he wanted with it and he chose to rant vitriol.

It doesn't bother me that people are "actively relieved" that someone died. Do you honestly believe that what is being posted by people like StanHitler is indicative of their active relief?

What I do find distasteful is for them to behave like rutting baboons in a troop, at the news of the death of anyone other than a murderer or an oppressive dictator. While many did not agree with Rush's politics, they're delusional if they truly believe he was on a par with people like that.

Well, he didn't behave much like someone we should respect when he died, so that's not what he got.

There's a difference between how someone behaves that we don't respect, and acting like an adolescent male in a baboon troop when they die, which is what StanHitler and his ilk are doing.

As I said up front, you seemed to handle it maturely and rationally. However, your never ending defense of jackwagons like StanKlown is making it clear where you stand on how the departed should be treated. If we don't like their politics, let's all behave like it's Hitler who died! Sure, good policy...

My uncle was conservative. Everybody missed him immediately. Nobody was happy to hear his death. Rush Limbaugh was an awful person and his political stance doesn't even begin to cover it as an excuse. If you want people to be sad when you die, don't be like him - and to be honest, you're not doing great on that front so far.

I'm honestly just copying and pasting at this point because the fact that you're repeating points I've already addressed is pissing me off. If you're ever wondering why I don't like you, it's because of that.

And that right there is your problem! You automatically think lesser of someone you don't agree with. You're to conceited to even think about hearing them out. You might actually find that you were wrong. Can you clearly explain why you hated him? Please respond.

No, I think less of someone who agrees WITH HIM. Because only a bully would ever have a reason to stand by a bully.

that proves to me what liberals think "i think less of the people who doesn't agree with me"

No, I think less of someone who agrees WITH HIM. Because only a bully would ever have a reason to stand by a bully.

i don't stand by this man i just think no human death should be Celebrated and mocked am i wrong?

Yes, very much so.

exactly you think less of people that doesn't agree with you...

end of story we stop the conversation now.

No, I think less of someone who agrees WITH HIM. Because only a bully would ever have a reason to stand by a bully.

what ever you say

Yes, that IS what I said, no matter how many times you try to say it isn't.

Sorry to intrude thesis, but you're saying the same exact thing as Fondue-_. At least as far as the whole question of Rush is concerned

I'd be persuaded otherwise if you can explain how someone who agrees with Rush is different than someone who disagrees with you about Rush... since you clearly disagree with Rush.

You're just taking the piss now. I've had enough. Whoever you're pretending to impress while making these stupid remarks, I'm not taking part.

No you didn't. You're just a leftist who preaches tolerance then spews vile hatred for a man you disagreed with, all in the same shitty breath. You're a hypocrite and a fool.

I disagreed with my uncle. I paid him nothing but respect at his funeral. Rush Limbaugh was a terrible person and he deserves no respect whatsoever on his death.

No, he was not. That's your opinion.

He was a TERRIBLE person and only terrible people would ever defend him.

So now a meme, whether you made it or not, is proof of a person's character? Unbelievable thesis. I thought you were better than that.

Okay pussy, whatever you say. I'm deplorable and a chump according to your glorious leaders, so what's one more bad name added by a leftist?

Great. Good for you. But you can't pass it off as my opinion if you are intentionally proud of being a terrible person.

I'm proud to wear that title if a leftist POS calls me that. Because when they call me that, it's only their opinion and their opinion means nothing to me. When Biden dies in the next year or so I'll know that I will be the better person and not gloat and say nasty things about it, even though he's a very nasty person.

OBVIOUSLY opinions mean something to you otherwise you wouldn't care who's happy when you die.

i don't agree with him and you said im wrong because i agree with him that just proves you're stupid

BIGOT, MISOGYNIST, HOMOPHOBE, CRANK: RUSH LIMBAUGH DEAD
recalled by Satan

Not a fan, Stan?

StanHitler is not a human.

If stan is not human what are you? It is a free country you can say what ever you want, even if you do not agree with what anybody says.The second people who disagree are no longer people is the second that america is destroyed.

Save that for all the morons that have been calling people "bots" for the past four years. America is still here, so your point....is pointless.

Do you take every thing at face value. If someone were to segregate america and call anyone who disagreed an animal, would that really be America? The country might exist but that is not America.

Things will hopefully never get that bad, but dehumanizing someone who disagrees with you is not ok.

Please take your own advice and not take everything at face value. And if anyone deserves to be dehumanized, it's StanHitler who rejoiced (and that's no exaggeration) when news of Rush's diagnosis was released, and who celebrated the death of Herman Cain.

When StanHilter runs through the streets of imgflip (so to speak), celebrating the death of another human being, the best that can be said about him, imo, is that he's utilizing his first amendment right to behave like an animal.

The point is...That's exactly what is happening...and it's still America. It's not the America that I want, but whoever wins this social war will get to write the history, and I guarantee it won't be honest.

I am a human, expressing my opinion that StanHitler is not human. Or to be precise, since the subtleties of language seem to escape you, I'm saying that he is behaving in a way that is less than human, imo.

Settle down man, the jokes on them. He didnt beleive the shit he spewed on his show, but they loved it so they turmed in and bought his stuff, and bought what he endorsed. He was a mild Alex jones.

You do know that all the proceeds from that "stuff" went to charity, right?

I couldnt care any less. It should have. why did he stay at his mansion his whole life? So he wouldn't have to deal with the idiots who thought he believed what he was saying. I am.glad that it went to good use. Snake oil robinhood.

You just don't like it when someone points out that you clearly didn't know what you were talking about. Fair enough. Most people don't.

One question: did you ever actually listen to his show? Please answer.

When was his show?

Well days starting at 10 for 3 hours, for thirty+ years.

I did ever day for about an 60-90 mins over my lunch 3-5 days a week for the past 5 years. OVe the past 10 years maybe once or so a week. I watch Foxy news too- love their fair and balanced news about how Clumpy was gawd. So YES, i listened. He had a new conspiracy theory every hour about the Dems, Obama and why Clumpy was gawd. I didnt care much for his guest hosts the past few weeks, some i have honestly never heard of.

Yeah, like you, StanHitler, are any better.

Hey fatty, how many days before OxyFlimabugh is reincarnated- he was the Rights gawd after all. Will he come back as baby Oxy or the pill popping version of Oxy?