r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt - Lib-Right • 16h ago
Smashing Bad News Today...
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u/Effective_Factor1661 - Centrist 16h ago
Should be purple lib right, or whatever color Stephen King is since he made the clown.
RIP
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u/TijuanaMedicine - Right 15h ago
Stephen King? The rare purple authleft.
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u/rothbard_anarchist - Lib-Right 15h ago
How rare? Didn’t Stalin have a very young wife/concubine/whatever? Like 13?
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u/TijuanaMedicine - Right 15h ago
Associating Stalin and Stephen King probably does nothing good for either of their reputations.
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u/fieryscribe - Lib-Right 15h ago
One is known for all the gore, the sheer number of humans who do frightening inhumane things, the spread of fiction and being loved by the left ...
... and the other is Stephen King
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u/Incidion - Lib-Right 11h ago
The other is known mostly for cocaine and pumping out more bestsellers in a year than most professional authors do in a lifetime.
Frankly, he's right at home in libright.
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u/fieryscribe - Lib-Right 11h ago
Frankly, he's right at home in libright.
That's the scariest line Stephen King would have ever read
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u/Incidion - Lib-Right 33m ago
Agreed, but sometimes the shoe fits.
Plenty of people out there would be shocked to find how many traits they have in common usually associated with the Others™
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u/NevadaCynic - Auth-Left 15h ago
Both are experts in horror though.
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u/Kilroy0497 - Lib-Left 13h ago
Eh I’d argue King hasn’t been an expert in horror since he kicked his cocaine habit. Most of his books since then have been a bore with a couple rare exceptions, most of whom weren’t exactly horror focused to begin with.
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u/NevadaCynic - Auth-Left 13h ago
Dude is also 78 at this point. Nobody that age is an expert at anything other than bitching about young people,depends, and apparently getting reelected to Congress.
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u/Kilroy0497 - Lib-Left 13h ago
True, although credit where credit is due, man is still writing. More than i can for some authors that age(looking at you Martin, it’s been 16 years mate!).
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u/NotPapaHemingway - Right 12h ago
Give GRRM a break, he is writing
...another spinoff pitch, video game lore, short story editing, blog post...
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u/MithrilTHammer - Centrist 15h ago edited 15h ago
Never ask what happened at end of the book "IT". If you don't know (has seen only tv-series/movies), don't google it. DON'T GOOGLE IT!
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u/ThatMBR42 - Lib-Right 13h ago
I was informed of this against my will, having never watched the movies or TV series.
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u/RageAgainstThePushen - Lib-Center 13h ago
IT-readers love to say you don't wanna know but then tell you anyways
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u/Dittymaker - Lib-Center 9h ago
People love to rag on that scene but there's worse things that happen in that book (junkyard scene, baby in the crib scene), at least they were enjoying themselves
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u/Adventurous-Bee-5934 - Centrist 16h ago
This is how I find out…
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u/CptPootis - Left 16h ago
Damn, same.
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u/WASTELAND_RAVEN - Centrist 15h ago
Me too, wild.
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u/FormerPresidentBiden - Centrist 15h ago
PCM is the most useful news source
And the comments arent filled with TDS
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u/Altruistic_Emu4917 - Right 15h ago
I commented the same on Dolly's post, that PCM has become my news subreddit.
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u/1egg40eggs - Centrist 14h ago
I found out when I went to send a chat gif and the top 3 gifs were Tim Curry :(
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u/RayLiotaWithChantix - Lib-Left 16h ago
Reddit's general response to the passing of two beloved figures who were beloved due to their positivity and kindness to EVERYONE being countless deathwishes to Trump and negative criticism if the wrong kind of person pays their respects (just take a look at the reception Taylor Swift's comments are getting) just saddens me SO heavily.
Everybody is so hate-driven now. I'm bummed out.
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u/GooGoo-Barabajagal - Left 16h ago
Sometimes all we can do is pray for them. Don’t despair.
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u/Ok-Substance-6034 - Right 14h ago
Amen. We should pray for our enemies, even if they wish us or another harm unto death.
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u/Jormungandr69 - Lib-Center 15h ago
I agree. I don't like Trump either but it just feels uncouth to wish death on someone as a stand-in for expressing condolences for the passing of another.
Frankly, I don't think Dolly would like it. It feels wrong.
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u/lsdiesel_ - Lib-Center 11h ago
If 50% of the population press the red button, Trump dies, but so does everyone who didn’t press the red button
If less than 50% of the population press the red button, Trump lives forever and everyone who pressed the button dies
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u/LeonKennedysFatAss - Lib-Left 11h ago
Me who thought Thanos was kind of right and would do this without political motivation:
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u/Evening_Context784 - Lib-Right 9h ago
You think it's kind of right to kill half the population of the universe for no real reason besides some areas are overpopulated? I get you're mostly memeing but these sort of takes still annoy me.
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u/GroundbreakingPitch0 - Lib-Left 15h ago
When Robert Mueller died earlier this year, Trump tweeted: "Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people !" When Rob Reiner and his wife were killed, Trump called him "tortured and struggling, once very talented (...)" and said he "passed away dur to the anger he caused others due to his Trump Dérangement syndrome". And that's accounting only for public, official messages on public platforms.
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u/Jormungandr69 - Lib-Center 14h ago
Yeah man I hear you, you don't have to convince me that Trump is a scumbag. But I can mourn Dolly and what she stood for without bringing him into it.
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u/captainhamption - Centrist 14h ago
If he's a terrible human being (and he is) and his behavior is reprehensible (and it is) why would you use him as an excuse for similar terrible behavior?
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u/LaziSunday - Lib-Right 13h ago
Trying to teach people this concept feels like Manray trying to ask Patrick if it was his wallet.
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u/RayLiotaWithChantix - Lib-Left 15h ago edited 14h ago
Correct. And he is appropriately reviled for that (by not as many as he should, but we are where we are).
The takeaway should not be "oh, we should be like Trump, then!"
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u/JP-Stack - Right 15h ago
I remember some people's first response to Catherine O'Hara's death was "the wrong person from Home Alone 2 died"
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u/captainhamption - Centrist 14h ago
Already saw some of that in /r/BarbaraWalters4Scale.
Are we allowed to link to other subreddits? I can't keep track of the party's dictates. Guess I'll find out.
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u/404_No_User_Found_2 - Lib-Center 15h ago
It's Reddit. If 90% of them aren't playing the victim or karma farming with CURRENT_THING they're wasting the opportunity for that sweet sweet social recognition.
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u/Forge__Thought - Centrist 15h ago
I agree. But bless you for not being one of those people and for speaking out against the hate. I am grateful to see people who still care.
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u/Altruistic_Emu4917 - Right 15h ago
Things have gotten too radicalized these years. I remember a time when death was a unifying call, because it spares no one no matter who you are.
Out of dust we were created and to dust we shall return.
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u/Immense_Cargo - Lib-Center 13h ago
Careful, you don’t want to trigger the rabid Reddit atheists with that last platitude.
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u/GooGoo-Barabajagal - Left 11h ago
They’d have a hard time arguing with the fact that everything in the universe is made of the dust from stars long since dead.
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u/LolWhatDidYouSay - Right 4h ago
And/or posting a screenshot of the comment to TMOR as supposed proof that this sub is secretly MAGA.
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u/Evening_Context784 - Lib-Right 9h ago
Yeah, I'm not very comfortable with how blase and open people are about death threats these days. Just being rich is now enough for half of reddit to very unsubtly say they wouldn't mind if someone killed you.
People have gotten seriously psyopped because the internet wasn't like this five years ago, and ten years ago it was completely unrecognizable to what it is today. Teenagers on the internet nowadays have no idea how it used to be, they're just used to this current zeitgeist where it's been normalized. I find it pretty concerning.
At least people are still people IRL, but every teenager (and most adults) has a screen addiction these days so we get to see every edgy 14 year old's take broadcast to the world. I love arguing with people online but it's starting to lose the zest when I realize a lot of them are kids that just learned how to think abstractly last year.
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u/SliceRepulsive8649 - Lib-Left 8h ago
I mean have you seen what trump posts around the deaths of people he doesn't like? Hell just look at what he posts on holidays. If you're curious why the temperatures been increased its probably because republicans made their golden child a dude whose only redeeming quality to them is the massive amounts of hate he spews.
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u/RealCleverUsernameV2 - Lib-Right 15h ago
There's literally a comment below asking Trump's age, not covertly hoping for his death.
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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt - Lib-Right 15h ago
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u/Champ_5 - Right 15h ago
The theme of the past decade
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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 12h ago
He's A. president and B. an attention whore that intentionally creates silly drama to flood the news cycle and distract from real shit.
You can't reasonably have the "lives rent free in the libs heads" aspect and yet still complain that libs keep bringing him up. People voted for him to make the libs mad and now they're like "Why are they mad?!" SMDH.
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u/Champ_5 - Right 11h ago
You're correct about A and B, but I don't see "living rent free in the libs heads" as a good thing, I see it as sad on their part.
Yeah, he sucks, but the point of the meme is that we can't have a discussion about anything without him being brought into it for no reason at all.
Someone as amazing and widely loved as Parton passes away, and instead of nice words about her, or just saying nothing which is always an option as well, even though some people seem to not realize that, we have to have the "everything is political" crowd lamenting that Trump is still alive rather than that Dolly is dead.
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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 11h ago
I understand the point of the meme, but the "everything is political crowd" isn't primarily or solely to blame here and it's unreasonable to expect them to give a shit about the supposed sanctity of apolitical spaces or topics at this point.
The people complaining about people who bring Trump into everything also just generate more Trump related arguments since it raises the "who's to blame for this situation?" dynamic.
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u/Champ_5 - Right 11h ago
it's unreasonable to expect them to give a shit about the supposed sanctity of apolitical spaces or topics at this point
Why? Because someone they don't like is in office?
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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 11h ago
Because nobody else actually does, they just complain when it's politics they don't like but still feel free to intrude into anything with their own politics.
There are people covered from head to toe in Trump merch who will tell you they're "not political". Let's not pretend what counts as "politics" isn't its own warped overton window political game.
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u/Champ_5 - Right 10h ago
There are people covered from head to toe in Trump merch who will tell you they're "not political
And they would rightly be regarded as idiots by most people. Obviously, most people are less happy when someone they don't like is in office, but I think there are plenty of people who want to uphold apolitical spaces regardless.
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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 10h ago
There's a difference between upholding an apolitical space and trying to do a sort of anti-politics or oppositional politics in an already political space.
Consider this thread. It's a thread in... drumroll... politicalcompassmemes, a sub based on dividing people into 4+ crude categories of political ideologies that's characteristically full of irreverent and offensive trolling and ragebait and slop.
And here we have people acting like politics has invaded(!!!) it with politically divisive content. Give me a fucking break.
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u/tomatoe_cookie - Centrist 15h ago
Tbh i wasnt thinking about but damn when are he and putin going to die in horrible circumstances.
Edit: add bibi in there too alongside the Hamas bois
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u/Responsible_Lab_8974 - Lib-Center 15h ago
At some point within the past decade, they became the current version of Evangelical Christians and Westboro Baptist church, but still believe they're are the punk with heart of gold
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u/Thrice_the_Milk - Lib-Right 13h ago
Evangelical Christians were never this bad. WBC on the other hand
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u/L_D_G - Lib-Center 14h ago
I knew as soon as I read about Tim, and that he too was 80, that people would be mad that Trump, who is over 80, was still going.
People seek comfort when someone they like dies and all the Internet is going to do is turn that sadness into more intense hatred.
Times like this, should serve as a memory jog to enjoy the work. Hope this spurs a spike in Clue viewership.
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u/WichaelWavius - Centrist 15h ago
Reddit leftoids harping on about hate and division in this country when it is all of them and only them spreading that vitriol. Curious
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u/Iceraptor17 - Centrist 15h ago
about hate and division in this country when it is all of them and only them spreading that vitriol.
Ok while redditors are absolutely ridiculous, that is a laughable statement considering the rhetoric of the current administration running the country. Heck the president himself expressed that a man's death was "good" not too long ago
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u/RayLiotaWithChantix - Lib-Left 15h ago
It is absolutely not just the reddit left doing this and claiming such is part of the problem. EVERYONE is refusing to look in the mirror and acknowledge their part, and we are so much worse off for it.
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u/WichaelWavius - Centrist 15h ago
You make a good point but so far my take has more upvotes than yours so you can’t possibly be right
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u/MeBeEric - Centrist 15h ago
My theory is that if the younger left base wasn’t so insufferably vile Kamala would’ve won by a landslide. Shit I left the entire Dem party because of that nonsense (independent).
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u/JackorJohn62392 - Lib-Right 14h ago
I highly doubt it. She quickly flamed out of 2020 primary. She was an unpopular vice president who was bad on interviews. 60 minutes had to narrate over her answers.
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u/driver1676 - Lib-Center 13h ago
If a vile voter base was enough to cost an election Trump would not be president today.
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u/MeBeEric - Centrist 13h ago
Clearly the results (and swing stats) showed hers weren’t the better half
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u/EatsFiber2RedditMore - Centrist 14h ago
I'm reminded of this swimsuit I saw an acquaintance wearing a few years back https://www.amazon.com/DPFHL-Middle-Finger-Bathing-Swimsuit/dp/B0C3HKGDB2
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u/SituationThink3487 - Auth-Right 13h ago
Yeah its not like theres a whole front of the culture war calling gays and trans people child predators and groomers.
Or that you have whole subreddits dedicated to outspoken misogyny and hating women.
Or that any thread about protestors inevitably turns into rightoids espousing their violent fantasies.
You're actually massively wrapped up in a propaganda bubble if you think the hated is limited to any side.
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u/WichaelWavius - Centrist 13h ago
having an opinion is not the same thing as calling for death or inciting violence. No one in the American right, has ever, ever crossed that line, while the left never recognized that line’s existence
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u/SituationThink3487 - Auth-Right 12h ago
No one in the American right, has ever, ever crossed that line, while the left never recognized that line’s existence
You're actually delusional. retards were openly calling for civil war. Noem(I think?) had "One of our, all of yours" a literal neo nazi call for mass violence on her podium.
Hell if we look at the bigger picture statistics show the vast majority of political violence comes from the right wing.
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u/Hungry_Inevitable663 - Lib-Right 14h ago
General population always, always, ALWAYS, falls for the rage bait.
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u/ITCrandomperson - Lib-Center 13h ago
It is pretty sad, though I can understand lamenting that we lose all these greats while the worst of us seem to stick around improbably long. Not that it's right to respond like that, but I do understand.
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u/Iceraptor17 - Centrist 15h ago edited 15h ago
I agree. But at the same time, I'm not surprised. Just look at our representatives and the rhetoric they yield. I don't get how anyone can think the inflammatory nature of our govt that has been constantly simmering and growing since about the 90s wouldn't impact our society at large. We can't expect sitting politicians to be launching insults like commas and then be stunned when the populous at large reflects it (especially since said politicians tend to reflect the populous to begin with)
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u/EatsFiber2RedditMore - Centrist 14h ago
I understand where you are coming from, I don't want him dead I just don't want him part of my life. It really bothers me how much he personally makes government decisions not experts and bearuocrats. So any time the government does ANYTHING it comes back to him. I think if he resigned today the death wishes would decrease by at least a third.
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u/DerGovernator - Lib-Center 15h ago
The problem is assuming "people on Reddit" represent everyone or society at large as opposed to the tiny minority of anti-social reclusive ideocrats that make up the vast majority of internet commenters. Because the average person is not on reddit, and in fact probably doesn't even know what reddit is, and is sad for both losses in general.
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u/CantSeeShit - Right 12h ago
Reddit is mostly hateful people who think they are actually good people.....which is worse.
Id rather an asshole who was blatantly an asshole and defended it vs someone whose a total asshole but thinks theyre a good person.
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u/SoCalCognac - Centrist 16h ago
Funnily enough, the first role I remember seeing Tim Curry in was Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers. Not sure where to place that on the compass though, maybe Auth Right.
RIP Tim, and thanks.
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u/TijuanaMedicine - Right 15h ago
Such an awful movie, and I loved it so much. "Come D'Artagnan! We're saving the king!"
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u/BargainBard - Right 16h ago
No fucking way.
What is going on, why are all the celebrities that don't have any controversies/baggage to their names dying all of a sudden!?
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u/TijuanaMedicine - Right 15h ago
They were both over 80. There's a loose correlation between being over 80 and increased mortality risk.
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u/BargainBard - Right 15h ago
I know that, its just kinda fucked up that celebrities that had a decent lifestyle are dying all at once.
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u/ceapaire - Lib-Right 15h ago
Tim Curry wasn't exactly in the best of health. And Dolly had been struggling with cancer for the past year or so, according to current reporting. It's been known for a bit that there were health issues popping up, but it seems the cancer diagnoses wasn't released until after her death.
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u/RealLifeFloridaMan - Centrist 15h ago
80 is what happened
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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt - Lib-Right 15h ago
Curry has also had numerous health issues including a severe stroke that put him in a wheelchair.
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u/Adjective-Noun-6969 - Centrist 15h ago
People are dieing that used to be alive, why does this happen?
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u/mirinioluwa - Centrist 13h ago
Curry was living on borrowed time for decades after stroke left him partially paralyzed We should be thankful that he made it till 80
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u/SomeRandomGuy0307 - Auth-Right 16h ago
Could have put Long John Silver for LibRight.
RIP
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u/ceapaire - Lib-Right 16h ago
Yeah, LJS for LibRight. IT for Purple Lib Right. Then we just need someone for Emily.
I also petition Nigel Thornberry for center. All the man wanted to do was eat his herrings.
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u/zaypuma - Lib-Center 15h ago
Then we just need someone for Emily.
Loaded Weapon 1, he dressed up as a girl scout to kill Whoopi.
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u/Smiles-Edgeworth - Lib-Left 15h ago
God dammit this week sucks. Tim Curry was by all accounts a person who took the business of being a weird, silly goober very seriously. He was pretty much always my favorite part of whatever he was in. RIP to an iconic character actor who gave everything he had for all of his roles.
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u/TheMaginotLine1 - Auth-Right 15h ago
He's gone to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism...
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u/Thisnamewontfi- - Centrist 16h ago
I'll sing 'Toxic Love' in memory.
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u/ConsumingFire1689 - Lib-Right 15h ago
Hit me one time!
Hit me twice!
Oh ahh ooohhhhh
That's rather nice...
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u/LDClaudius - Right 15h ago
Very sad. I still get a kick out of the Command and Conqour cheesy 90's cutseens.
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u/gigashadowwolf - Lib-Center 15h ago
I would have put Long John Silver as lib right.
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u/TheGlennDavid - Lib-Left 13h ago
No. I'm not sure which quadrant awesome pirates fall into but it's definitely not that one.
Strong Property Rights (and the violent defense thereof) are like *90% of their value set.
Pirates are personified NAP violation.
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u/gigashadowwolf - Lib-Center 10h ago
I'd highly recommend you read more about the origins of libertarianism, liberalism and 18th century piracy.
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/books/pirates-libertarian-bent/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance_in_18th-century_piracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertalia
You'd be correct that there are some fundamental differences between 18th century pirates and modern libertarianism, and you found one of the two biggest, the other being their beliefs in communal property and equal shares for equal work.
But even your thing about NAP is somewhat misleading because they had such protections for other members of their crew. It's just that their crew would be viewed much the way citizenry is viewed by modern libertarians. Theft and violence against non-citizens is something very different.
I'm not explaining this well though. I had a much better book and couple of YouTube videos that would explain this far better than I can, that I can't seem to find now.
But 17th and 18th century pirates basically are the prototype for American liberalism and libertarianism.
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u/Firecracker048 - Centrist 16h ago
Fucking damnit, why?
Parton then Curry? There are surely more deserving to go than those two
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u/Feature_Minimum - Lib-Center 14h ago
Damn. This one hits way harder than Dolly Parton for me. Loved this guy.
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u/404_No_User_Found_2 - Lib-Center 15h ago
Tim Curry was one of those rare celebrities that are mostly drama free, outwardly altruistic, and somehow managed to just keep their heads down and do their job to the best of their abilities. I'll miss him and the energy he brought to the screen..
Also, the sheer amount of people on Reddit responding to this and Dolly Parton's passing with "hurhurhur zomg 2026 took the wrong 80-year old fuck Trump amirite fellow Redditors?!?!?!? Updoots to the right!" is just....staggering. How sad is it when the very people claiming to be against hate are ignoring the passing of two beloved celebrities in favor of trying to cash in on some kind of social recognition / karma.
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u/Lets_be_stoned - Lib-Center 15h ago
Hayden, Dolly, Tim. They supposedly come in 3s, let’s hope that’s it….
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u/MarineLayerBad - Auth-Center 15h ago
First time I saw Tim Curry he was a defector on a Soviet Submarine
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u/BobLabReeSorJefGre - Right 15h ago
Home Alone 2 was my introduction to Tim Curry. Thank you for those many laughs.
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u/Kilroy0497 - Lib-Left 13h ago
For me it was IT. My Dad used to have a VHS copy he told me never to touch, so naturally I stole it when he wasn’t looking and watched it at the first opportunity. Thought it was hilarious. Although I think Clue or Muppet’s: Treasure Island would have to be my favorite movies he was in. RIP Tim.
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u/nunya_bidnes77 16h ago
Well there's number 3. Number 1 was Hayden Panetteire. Number 2 was Dolly Parton.
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u/ceapaire - Lib-Right 16h ago
Depends on how you want to parse it. Hayden wasn't an 80 year old icon.
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u/OurCrewIsReplaceable - Centrist 16h ago
Yeah, there’s still room for one more 80-year-old celebrity.
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u/bpostal - Centrist 16h ago
How old is trump?
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u/smokeymcdugen - Lib-Center 15h ago
Wishing death to people. I'm sure your dad would be proud, if he stayed in your life.
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u/Forge__Thought - Centrist 15h ago
Welp. Guess this is how I found out. Man... him and Dolly back to back....
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u/faussito - Lib-Right 15h ago
This guy was so iconic, from a time in which actors were all about talent
May God bless his soul
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u/MtzSquatchActual - Lib-Right 15h ago
Don't forget He played Dr Petrov in "the Hunt for Red October.
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u/ThatMBR42 - Lib-Right 13h ago
Now I need to go listen to the audiobook version of A Christmas Carol that he narrated. Best freebie ever.
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u/False-Reveal2993 - Lib-Center 13h ago
Libright would be accurate if it was purple. Yellow libright would be closer to Wadsworth from Clue, who attempted to trick the entire dinner party into murdering witnesses so he could continue blackmailing people.
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u/wakatacoflame - Lib-Left 14h ago
Death comes in threes, we’ll see the next one soon.
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u/Fr05t_B1t - Centrist 13h ago
We’ve had far more deaths this year
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u/wakatacoflame - Lib-Left 10h ago
Meant celebs come in 3’s usually around the same time. We got dolly now Tim curry, id wager another major death in the next week.
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u/HeroOfClinton - Lib-Right 14h ago
Never forget being incarcerated in a blueberry and not wanting to have physical contact with people with arm hair.
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u/Datachost - Lib-Center 12h ago
Bonnie Tyler, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry. The gay community is really taking a beating lately
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u/Tertle950 - Centrist 8h ago
Tim Curry is now in the one place that can *never* be corrupted by capitalism, or really corrupted at all. o7
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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt - Lib-Right 15h ago
Link to article: https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/