GoldenEye 007
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Yeah? What has he done lately?
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John McCain has Brain Cancer
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How politics should be right here.
Hope he kicks cancer in the ass, at the same time I hope he realizes this is the time to retire too.
Such a shame that some members of GAF grab the lowest hanging fruit.
Tolerant left, amirite?
metalslimer
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While I'm not saying that people shouldn't be sad about this as I wish McCain all the best because cancer is something I don't wish on anyone, why should people who were going to die/go bankrupt in part because of him care about this
Are you really going to fucking pretend that it's not just a small number of people in this thread doing that?
The vast majority of people in this thread -- of which the vast majority are liberals -- are wishing him well and not saying terrible things.
Psychoward
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Cancer doesn't make someone immune from ~30 years of horrible actions. It sucks he has cancer and it's an awful way to go, I feel especially bad for his family but he's not automatically a saint free from condemnation either.
They're tolerant than the blue lives matter right.
TheLostBigBoss
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Maybe out of sheer will power, he intentionally grew a tumor and got a blood clot to get out of the health care vote, thus killing the bill.
Now you all should feel bad.
Now you all should feel bad.
FinaruDensetsu
Member
Has getting brain cancer caused him to change his condemnable opinions? If not I don't really see how the two are related.
Yeah when you're a evil piece of shit that dooms people do die you definitevely deserve to get all your sins forgiven the second you get cancer.
Banjo-Kazooie
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Hillary and Barry showing class
I literally said nothing about ACA in the post you quoted.
What the hell are you replying to?
Don't fucking attack me because I think it's sad that a man has cancer.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
You have a ban for talking about how you hope America gets attacked so you can retaliate with nukes. You are no longer a member of NeoGAF.
TheLostBigBoss
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McCain was a war criminal?
Puck Beaverton
Banned
I'm thankful you guys are at least being honest with wanting to kill Republicans. Makes my radical leftist heart proud.
GoldenEye 007
Member
Too bad McCain doesn't.
smokeandmirrors
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Yeah he was a pow. Totally means he gets a free pass for everything including wanting to strip Americans of their health care and giving Sarah palin a fucking platform.
Oh shiiii
Good riddance
Oh shiiii
Good riddance
I just listened to the Presidential podcast episode on him and yep LBJ sounded like one of the best presidents we've had.
What?
VetrexKnight
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I can only wish him well and hope that he manages to kick cancer's ass, because cancer fucking sucks.
Impeccable
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Just not sure on a human level anyone can be happy he is terminal and dying of his cancer. Like, I understand in theory him "killing" unlimited human beings by voting a certain way...
But the disconnect to voting and the disconnect from actively gloating over the pain and suffering him and his family will endure aren't that different. The empathy is gone from both parties. Ugh.
But the disconnect to voting and the disconnect from actively gloating over the pain and suffering him and his family will endure aren't that different. The empathy is gone from both parties. Ugh.
Conservative snowflakes are always the victim.
Don't bother, they'll take the tiniest minority and claim it's an army.
They have no empathy, so it's hard for them to see why people don't care, or legitimately might wish ill will to someone that was quite literally threatening their families or livelihoods.
I don't think that's right, but it's perfectly understandable with what's on the line for some people.
FinaruDensetsu
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Especially sucks if you don't have health insurance.
on the bright side, he was an incompetent pilot so he could not bomb as many civilians as a good pilot would have
Please source this claim where someone said such in this thread. Most of us just don't understand why we need to suddenly turn a blind eye McCain's deeds because he got cancer.
He never once actually stood to protect people with cancer. In fact, he was going to condemn them to poverty and/or death. But now he's got so we have to do what he never would?
Nope, fuck that.
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WTF.
I hope the man resigns so he can spend what remaining time he has with family. And just a moment to say fuck Trump for his comments on John's service.
plagiarize
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I don't like McCain, but fuck the minority celebrating this. Being for universal healthcare and believing it is a universal right means you believe it is a right like any other that everyone no matter their political leaning should be able to get help and treatment for something like brain cancer.
If you celebrate someone falling victim to it, I can only imagine that you don't really want universal healthcare at all. You just want your own healthcare to be cheaper or government provided.
To the majority being classy, I'm happy to see it.
McCain gave a lot for his country even if he doesn't think healthcare is a right like many of us here do.
If you celebrate someone falling victim to it, I can only imagine that you don't really want universal healthcare at all. You just want your own healthcare to be cheaper or government provided.
To the majority being classy, I'm happy to see it.
McCain gave a lot for his country even if he doesn't think healthcare is a right like many of us here do.
That really fucking sucks. My mom died of cancer that spread to her brain. Not that it's the same but can have the same side effects which are fucking devastating. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Edit: a political thought related to this: I mean come on, it was obvious something wasn't mentally right with him recently. It's crazy to think that if this kept going undetected there'd be a large number of people defending his actions still and making ad hoc excuses for it.
I don't mean that to come off insensitive, just a reflection on how people will defend their side without reason.
Edit: a political thought related to this: I mean come on, it was obvious something wasn't mentally right with him recently. It's crazy to think that if this kept going undetected there'd be a large number of people defending his actions still and making ad hoc excuses for it.
I don't mean that to come off insensitive, just a reflection on how people will defend their side without reason.
bombing the city of hanoi killed lots of innocent vietnamese civilians
Does he even get to see a bill?
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Hoping he pulls through. It would suck if one of the last few years of his life consisted of being treated like garbage by the sitting president of his country.
You're an asshole.
Palette Swap
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This sounds pretty dire and must be a genuinely awful experience for his friends and family, but at least he won't have to launch some crowdfunding campaign to be treated.
At the very least, he didn't tweet about some petty stuff while this was breaking. Yeah, that's how low the bar is.
BronsonLee
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Yeah why the fuck hasn't Trump said anything yet
This has been out for hours
This has been out for hours
Umm...
FinaruDensetsu
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Yes you get to see a bill still even when your insurance pays it for you. You can see how much it would have cost you had you not had insurance.
What the fuck? Is this where we are now? Back to calling all Vietnam vets murderers and baby rapers?
I missed the part of my post where I said ANY of that.
Psychoward
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I wasn't attacking you.
If a person is evil before they get cancer, and then they get cancer and are still evil, they're still evil just with a shitty disease that shouldn't exist and they shouldn't have to go through.
I feel empathy for his pain and suffering, I don't feel any different towards the man himself.
TheLostBigBoss
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you know your hot takes are contributing the global warming crisis right
ginger ninja
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There are like, 5 people just on this page saying all sorts of stupid things.
It's fucking shameful and it makes me ashamed that I consider myself a liberal too.
I would also like people to enlighten me why this guy is the reincarnation of evil, beside the fact that he doesn't back ACA and is generally a Hawk when it comes to FP.
smokeandmirrors
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Conservative outrage culture
He is going to say something that is almost nice, then ruin it like twelve seconds later because reality TV reasons.
It's a response to that stupid "when they go low, we go high" bullshit quote above the retweeted pic.
I love Obama. I really do. But I'm not going to have him pulled on me like he's some MLK trap card.
Go high when it offers long-term benefits and likewise with low.
What the hell are you even talking about? Post like this is why so many people hate Gaf. I've lost 2 people to brain cancer. I may not agree with his political views, but I wish McCain a full recovery.
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