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Lindsey Graham was an evil warmonger responsible for millions of destroyed lives. You sound like someone saying “ppl celebrating Hitler’s death” need to get fresh air. Coward!

something is wrong with you.

Touching grass and immediately thinking how many people won't get to do that again because of that evil elf

"My hot take is that Lindsey Graham did many contemptible things but" let me stop you there. Sounds like YOU need to get some fresh air

Ok, now pretend your colleague is Goebbels.

I don’t give a fuck about comity and collegiality, we are fighting an existential war and our front line warriors are sucking the dicks of fascist ghosts

lot of real estate between "colleague you disliked" and "fascist with the blood of men and country on his hands"

My most disliked colleague saved every file he worked on over a 30 year career as like pdf, pdf(1), pdf(2), etc which was annoying when he retired but pales in comparison to the ghoulish work of someone like Graham so no, you don’t have to hand it to him. Being honest is good actually. Rest in piss.

If my coworkers were violent fascist monsters who wanted me dead, i would either get another job, or at least not give two fucks when that neo-confederates, racist war-monger died. But sure, keep acting like you're morally superior for white washing the life long immoral life he lead.

Civility with fascists is the whole reason we are in this mess.

I suggest you compare him to the average person's disliked colleague. I think you'll find a massive difference in how much their actions have hurt others. It's not like he was just some person who got on everyone's nerves.

In this hypothetical, did my colleague conspire with the head of another state to start a war and kill thousands of innocent people because he was a racist?

A colleague I had disliked died and I simply said nothing. Maybe I said something like, "thank you for letting me know" to whoever gave the news, but that's it.

“don’t speak ill of the dead” is supposed to be for your aunt that had a drinking problem, not literal fascists

there is nothing nice to say about a genocidal fascist

What?

Your bozo take

An oncologist so notorious for inflicting treatment on terminally ill patients “until last living cell” the med school no longer let him teach trainees abruptly kicked it. That night heme/onc docs, nurses, & we consultants swapped stories of his remorseless harm and shared rounds of drinks. Salud!

They ought to post nothing

This may be the dummest thing I hear today. Holy shit…

My colleague once stiffed me on a bar tab on a Friday roll call. Lindsey Graham tried to overthrow the United States government. Who's to say which one is worse.

"a colleague you disliked" he was a war mongering fascist

This is disgusting whitewashing of a deeply evil person and it means you must like some of the evil he did, nazi scum

Colleagues I didn't like didn't directly contribute to the deaths of millions of people around the globe, so there's that.

To my knowledge, I've never had a colleague who was a murderer or accessory to murder, profited from their crimes, never faced real repercussions, and continued to threaten the lives of millions of people until death stopped them because no one else would.

My colleagues didn't hold considerable power to ruin people's lives en masse.

I haven't gotten so lucky as to see the bosses that got me permanently disabled on the job and then used state laws and exemptions to fire me and get out of paying me workman's comp die yet but I assure you I will party like it's 1999 when it happens because just like Graham they deserve worse.

I have had colleagues that I've disliked, but never a colleague that dedicated their entire life to spreading pain and misery both to my friends here and to innocent people abroad. However, if I did have one of those I would openly talk shit about them both to their face and on their grave

People dislike their co-workers because they, like, talk about Pokémon too much or whatever. People dislike Lindsay Graham because he helped Trump dismantle abortion rights and do war crimes in Iran. If the worst thing Graham did was microwave fish in America's microwave, you might have a point.

Suck my asshole

you get paid to tell young adults this nonsense???

As far as I’m aware my worst colleagues have not contributed to tens or hundreds of thousands of people’s deaths. But that’s just me.

Nah, actually I will continue to judge every bitch-ass liberal and "moderate Democrat" who wants to play nice with the child rapist death cult that thinks my loved ones and I deserve to be murdered, thank you very much 🖕

If we aren't allowed to call evil by its name, you're just running cover for and laundering the reputations of clearly evil people. Fuck that. The only respite we get when one of these ghouls dies is the satisfaction of dancing and pissing on their graves. No one's gonna take that from us.

I think a case can be made for saying nothing in the moment. Down the road, well...consider perennial whitewashing of terrible politicians that happens some time after their deaths (Reagan, Dubya, Nixon). That's yet to happen with Graham, and when (not if) it does, we can deal with it.

That's just a stupid take. Not hot

Planet is in ruins and you post treacle. Your hot take is trash.

Eh, I think there’s a difference between the professional respect due a departed colleague and what we’re seeing some folks do. If a colleague I disliked passed, I would definitely respectfully express my condolences. But I wouldn’t be running around loudly insisting what a joy he was to work with.

As linhardt from fire emblem three houses says:

You might wanna sit your phone down and get some fresh air before you defame your colleagues much more, Daniel. Comparing them to Lindsey Graham? smh

None of my colleagues vociferously defended bigotry or voted to dismantle democracy.

Anyone who isn't saying "RIP bozo" isn't worth a damn.

If you can’t call out evil shitheels when they are in fact evil then that sez more about them then any moral high ground yer trying to take.

Laughed then, laughing now. What was your point?

If my worst colleague had started a war and made marginalized people's lives actively worse, I would absolutely shit talk him and expect others to also shit talk him. Fuck your appeasement politics

My colleagues, whether I like them or not, do not have the power to destroy lives.

Motherfucker my job isn't "deciding who gets to live their lives and who gets to be immiserated to death while I do insider trading". If it was, I wouldn't reapect myself, let alone my coworkers.

Lindsay was a bloodthirsty warmonger and a pedophile protector. GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!! AND FUCK HIS DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS TOO.

They didn't dislike him and that is the problem.

I have never had a colleague who worked tirelessly to hurt people and destroy the best parts of the country i lived in

intellectually and morally bankrupt take 🥀

Just got in from two hours with a hedge trimmer and A weed whacker. I'm literally covered in grass. Fuck him, fuck them, and fuck you too

I love that I can always count on a volunteer finger-wagger to show up and stop all criticism of the people who are supposed to represent me as well. thanks pal.

My ice cold take is that you need to shut up and issue refunds to every single student you've ever had.

It's bad for senate democrats to post things about the evil person who they clearly care more about than their constituents. Graham was not some guy who wasn't fun to work an actual job with, he was a fascist hog who never did anything of use and frequently did great harm to countless lives.

Stay in your lane Dan.

In what way is saying people shouldn’t criticise those in power a hot take? That’s literally what people in power say all the time? Frequently with threats of repercussions

I love my coworkers but if it turned out one of them helped overturn row v wade I would hit them in the mouth absolutely not going to play this despicable moral peekaboo where someone is a monster until they die and then we have to pretend the evil they did doesn't exist anymore

Yeah, they're politicians, they absolutely have to play it that way no matter how much of a stretch it is. I'll hate 'em for it if they send ICE after me for not blowing a bunch of smoke like they do. They're politicians. And anyhow the man's life was tragic beyond all reason, just perverse, bad.

Like. We’re supposed to remember that none of this really important

It’s wild when they just come out and say “it’s pro wrestling”

Yeah that was also great. Fuck that guy, fuck Lindsey Graham's putrid corpse, and fuck you.

I have disliked many colleagues but none celebrated “killing all the right people” or openly supported authoritarianism.

. . . I don't get it.

My hot take is you should remove a bunch of ribs and face fuck yourself until you choke

Wow, Dan. How many of your colleagues were warmongers responsible for the deaths of countless individuals?

I've never had a colleague, no matter how much I disliked them, publicly advocate for killing people so going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

He wasn't just an asshole though but like an actively evil person whose actions resulted in horrible outcomes. Talking nice about someone like that is basically trying to say they didn't do wrong or worse...saying you think they did good.

I was outside and this post inspired me to go inside and spend more time today telling people like you to shut da fuck up

The difference is my coworkers weren't hardcore fascists Or trying to be apologetic about them-

I certainly do dislike it when people do contemptible things like enacting policies to rid the world of kids like mine. Dearie me, perhaps I should open a window.

He was one of the most e vil men in the world Dan

my hot take is that you should shut the fuck up, loser

Dreznerd.

He tried overthrowing the government. Go fuck yourself with the high horse you rode in on.

Cracker

I've never been colleagues with fascists

Nahhh.

Would be better to say nothing at all

i remember my former co-worker who was forced out of a job by another co-worker and when that other co-worker got an incurable disease the former co-worker said “awesome”

None of my colleagues ever deliberately destroyed literally millions of lives, not even the ones who put fish in the office microwave.

Blue check loser.

Having an "opposition party" that cares more about saying nice things about fascists instead of punching them in the face is why this country is like this.

I was with you until I read Adam Schiff say this: “Senator Graham was never disagreeable.” One can show professional courtesy at a time like this without being ridiculous.

No, Lindsey Graham was everything they claim to be against. A racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, fascist, that helped terrorize, endanger, and kill people. If they have any morals they won’t waste everyone’s time trying to redeem him now that he’s dead.

"Disliked" or "relentlessly supported genocide and helped start a war of choice in the Middle East"

Great idea! I put down my phone, grabbed some fresh air & remembered that I actually don't have any colleagues that hurt so many people & enabled a corrupt authoritarian to help destroy democracy in the US. But there are people who can fight back. Now I'm even more pissed at them. Thanks a lot!

people are dead because of him

'Dislike' is different from actively making life hell or worse for millions of humans. Fuck Lindsey Graham.

Well, I tell you, you’ve sewn up the condescension angle.

My colleagues I don’t like do things like.. not filing paperwork, not signing things properly, or taking drinks that aren’t theirs… they don’t actively try and ruin the country

That our would-be fascists face too much accountability and not enough genteel normalization is certainly a hot take....

Bro at work when the "friendly" thin blue line guy we all knew was an abuser of his kids who refused to honor any non-Christian beliefs or identities died and we heard we ran out back and lit one up, because he was a POS who did harm, wtf is wrong with you?

The only person to put down their phone = Daniel Drezner. He is clearly not seeing the person that Graham became clearly. Graham turned into a monster. If you think that he was not, you are naive or part of the problem like those democrats are. Trump's scum = the enemy. bsky.app/profile/blue...

Celebrating the deaths of evil people is energizing, and creates community and esprit de corps. Don’t be so fastidious about keeping company with genuine antifascists. Next thing you know you’ll have a column in the NYT chastising our excesses.

They can post their nice comments on x.

you have been a professor too long. get out of your classroom and into the world.

really stupid thing to say and to believe

it's not a good take tho

“a colleague you disliked”

If by hot take you mean the most bog standard pandering bullshit imaginable, sure.

None of my shitty coworkers have caused the deaths of millions

Maybe it’s time for you to realize that being a senator is a different kind of job. I never had a colleague who actively helped masked federal agents murder people in the street

None of my colleagues were career scumbags enabling a lunatic to use the US military to murder people though Daniel.

Yeah…my colleagues didn’t get countless people killed in needless wars. So, maybe Dems should put those well wishes in their drafts. He was a ghoul by choice.

There's still time to delete this.

My colleagues fuck up spreadsheets. They weren’t one of the key architects of the dismantling of our democracy. Maybe you’re the one who’s out of touch? Just a thought.

So what unforgivable thing have you done that makes you empathize with a monsters who’s rightfully having his grave danced on? That’s the only reason I can imagine you’d defend this creep unless you actually just agreed with his horrible policies.

You could have just shut the fuck up, but I see you strive to go above and beyond.

No colleague I’ve ever had, no matter how much I disliked them, had a big hand in ruining my country.

Dude, you realize that if dems ever get real power, we are beyond policy differences.... we want investigations and hangings of traitors. The current gop and centrist dems have betrayed the constitution and country. Not since the Lithuanian partition has humanity seen such betrayal.

This is actually dumber than all those dumb senate tweets.

Pretty sure we popped a bottle last time.

They are pathetic weaklings unfit to represent Democratic Party voters and every single childish dumbass in Congress who said nice things about a man who wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire should be primaried.

One can have sympathy for Lindsey Graham’s family, who loved him, without ignoring the fact that he was an amoral, dishonest scumbag who licked the boots of America’s Hitler.

🎯 When Republicans turn us into "as bad as they are", they have won.

Fuck this boooo

if my colleagues were directly responsible for the suffering of millions i would be cheering when they departed their mortal coil too this isn't just a regular job it's people like him who have directly lead to the deaths of millions

1) he wants to shut down our dissent 2) he's smugly proud of doing this while feeling he lords over us not just in power but also in morality

congrats on being a go-with-the-flow german as the nazis rose in the 30s

It’s very easy to say ‘condolences to the family’ without going on about what a great guy he was.

Imagine thinking that it's just about "dislike". Only people who thinks the lives he destroyed and the ones he tried to destroy don't really matter could say this. He wasn't an athlete on a rival sports team. The response of people is not about mere "dislike".

You don't actually have to defend them or scold the masses for using their first amendment rights.

But the important part is not that he was their fucking colleague, it’s what he did with his obscene power. I would hope someone with any academic ethics at all would acknowledge that

No.

This goes for you, too bsky.app/profile/the1...

Trying to remember the last time some dickhead at work helped a fascist pedophile commit mass murder and coming up empty

If I had a nazi coworker I would absolutely celebrate. Skill issue.

People like you are why things are so bad now.

How'd that "Russian interference in America is no big deal" thing for NPR work out for you? www.npr.org/2010/06/30/1...

Foreign Policy: What Russian Spy Ring?Daniel W. Drezner of Foreign Policy is just as confused about the Russian espionage conspiracy as you are.www.npr.org

This one is going to haunt you, and I'm so here for it.

God, you, like anyone else with nontrivial NPR contact, are so normie pilled it's embarrassing.

My colleagues don't decide national policy, that's why it's different.

You sound like a child right now. This isn’t a guy who cooked fish in the fucking break room dude grow up.

Is it a good thing when evil people can no longer continue to commit evil acts due to their death or not?

He wanted people like me (and many other marginalized groups!) dead. He had the power to make that happen and was actively working to realize that outcome. Anyone mourning his death is *at best* whitewashing his disgusting legacy or at worst actively complicit in his evil.

Sympathy for the devil is why we will never have successful revolution.

No

Counterpoint: politicians need to be held accountable in public discourse for being pieces of shit And that includes Democrats who are whitewashing that vile piece of crap today

IF YOU DONT WANT TO SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD, DONT BR A PIECE OF ZHIT WHILE YOURE ALIVE

shut da fuck up daniel

I dislike grape jelly. Lindsey Graham is a dead piece of shit.

I don't work with pieces of shit. Sorry.

I never had colleagues who were responsible for the deaths of innocent people around the world tho.

this would make sense if they were posting on their personal social media, but they are posting on the feeds they use to communicate and dictate to us, our constituents, who absolutely do not want to hear about their gooey feelings for a war criminal who wanted us to suffer and die

If I was colleagues with Lindsey Graham, there's no way I would post anything remotely conciliatory toward him after his passing. To do so would be a slap in the face and a dishonoring of all those whose lives he destroyed directly or indirectly by being a colossal piece of shit bigot and war monger

I think personal loss and politics have vastly different consequences and should be governed by different rules.

I don't fucking think so, asshole. Watching dems eulogize this pos as a friend, patriot, and a good man, slams home why we're all still living through this dystopian shitshow; centrists are not on our side.

Nah, get fucked.

only dems are stupid enough to rush to call genocidal demons "friends" when all they had to do was shut the fuck up

Nah.

This you, dumbass Iraq War supporter?

I do remember a colleague like that. I said NOTHING good about them when they died. You know why? Because they were a piece of shit, and I am not a hypocrite.

Piss off, shitlib

Shut the fuck up, bluecheck dipshit.

Very privileged take. As a gay man, I'll pass on honoring someone who actively harmed us. Then we can turn to his abetting of election fraud ...

Get a grip.

Your hot take is fucking stupid.

i will spit on a coworker's if they've hurt people i care about. how does that support your argument? "i remember fondly when they sexually harassed students, and then silently resigned and made a lateral move to a more lucrative position"

put my phone down, got some fresh air (even touched grass) & thought about a recently deceased colleague I didn't like. Verdict : Dude was a jerk, but he wasn't a morally bankrupt war pig, hollowed out yes-man who routinely celebrated mass murder & illegal wars.

I was just outside doing yard with plenty of fresh air and….yeah, Fuck him still.

You will defend people posting pro trump stuff when he dies because there is no argument for supporting it when it's Lindsey Graham that doesn't also apply to Trump.

hall monitor ass posting grow up dude

He helped kill people. Get outside and touch grass, you seem to have forgotten what each of those is worth

Daniel, I respectfully disagree. Have a good one.

I didn’t go on social media to say nice things about them

The last time a colleague I disliked died I and most of the colleagues I did like did not stop to give sympathy. I think it’s very strange that you, a person with “political science professor” in their bio, seem to hugely misunderstand the level of sympathy most Americans have for people they hate.

No

Joke's on you! I'm getting plenty of fresh air which is giving me a clear head to post even meaner things about the dead fascist

Colleagagues are just coworkers to most of us and if we don't like you because you helped a rapist felon topple a democracy, nothing changes that. I wish @democrats.senate.gov would say nothing at all. Just a day of silence.

I fucking hope it hurt. I have had people I know and dislike die and I felt mostly indifference. hagiography is a lie.

i've certainly disliked my share of colleagues, but those people didn't show up to work every day with the deliberate goal of ruining lives, and even if they had i don't think i've ever worked anywhere that provided the power and means to accomplish that goal on an international scale

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Ok 👍

Hot take genius. None of the colleagues I disliked were directly responsible for suffering and death throughout the world, including the people to which they swore an oath.

If all he did was put fish in the office microwave, you might have a point.

if my colleague pisses me off, i might have to redo a powerpoint. lindsey graham is responsible for millions of death and the rise of fascism. not really the same!

Maybe you should go back and read the post you pinned to the top of your profile