Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social

I unironically believe a small but not completely insignificant amount of this has to do with a number of the greatest and/or most famous political and social heroes of the mid 20th century being killed/assassinated before they had a chance to get slightly older and therefore publicly more flawed

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Steve in BA 🧑‍🍳🌊🌊🌊🍸 @steveinba.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:29 UTC

Clearly you've taken time upon this , well it's certainly interesting to Not to be forwarding

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Babs...all day @babsallday.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

Absolutely. Kennedys spring to mind.

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@roslynn.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:57 UTC

OMG john kennedy was seriously flawed, both physically and morally.

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Kai @kailb.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:35 UTC

Trying to imagine which of them would be extremely online is a fun thought experiment tho

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Dop Jon @dopjon.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:44 UTC

Living long enough to be the villain of your own story is a real thing.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:57 UTC

And lots of it was then, like now covered up for. Then they die, and nobody wants to tarnish their name, and there we are.

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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:08 UTC

... to put a narrow political lens on a profound observation about the human condition.

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Sock Puppet Pundit @sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:53 UTC

There’s an entire plotline of ‘Red Dwarf’ that where they accidentally thwart the Kennedy assassination while on a quest for curry. Then they have to fix the entire timeline.

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Satrina🐺🏳️‍⚧️🖇🖇🖇 @satrinawuff.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:13 UTC

FBI/CIA assassinations sure did a number on the american left no one wants to stick their neck out anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Esquvidu @danparadis.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:45 UTC

I think about this a lot wrt musicians who were in the 27 Club. Considering the vastly different life paths that Dave Grohl & Krist Novoselic took, it's not insane to imagine a really unhinged 50 year old Kurt Cobain.

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