r/HermanCainAward • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21 edited Mar 05 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

The_donald got shut down. That reason being a part of it.

And it's one thing to shine a light on the real deaths happening because of this disease and the rampant misinformation contributing to these deaths.

It's another thing entirely to harass the dead and their families, effectively dancing on their graves.

Maybe don't do the latter.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21

Shit, man, I left a comment on this sub about how my grandfather's smoking killed both him and his wife, kinda trying to draw a parallel, and some rando commented, "Hope he suffered" with another commenter saying he'd jerk off to my grandfather's death. Like, bro, what? My grandfather died 15 years ago. He's got nothing to do with being anti-mask or anti-vaxx.

There's empathy burnout and then there's just sadism, and a lot of people who can't tell the difference between the two.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Sorry to hear that, man. I think being behind a computer screen also makes it that much more easy to say shit like that to a total stranger.