List of things I liked about Mike:

  1. No fancy smancy orbs. Rocks, gravel. Kick em, chuck em, everyone has access to rocks.

  2. Let some r/cth/ teenagers grift, didn't give a shit that they used his name to Weekend At Bernie's some socialist-lite nonsense.

  3. Gravel posting on Twitter really pissed off some Warren boomer who spent pages telling me how Mike had stolen $10k from him in the 80s in some sort of land development scheme for a resort. Telling the dude I didn't care and thought it was funny made him post about it for weeks, which I also thought was funny.

  4. Died too irrelevant and soon to be cancelled.

  5. Absolute disdain for the Democrats, wanted to kick Joe Biden's ass during that 2008 debate.

  • AHopeOnceMore [he/him]B
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    2 years ago

    The Gravel Institute is what happens when you let some centrist DSA members run a campaign and honestly it's not the worst thing.

  • innocentlurker [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I have his "pentagon papers" rolling papers in a place of honor on a shelf over my desk as we speak ✌️

  • Dryad [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Gravel died? Fuck, I hadn't heard that news. One of the few good libs out there :sadness:

    • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      he just died? Wow. I didn't know that...he led an amazing life. What else can you say? he was an amazing woman, whether you agree or not. he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I'm actually sad to hear that.

  • wwiehtnioj [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Died too irrelevant and soon to be cancelled.

    He died in June 2021. The Pfizer covid vaccine was approved in August 2021.

    We probably dodged a real bullet by not knowing what Mike "I'm very very much in favor of holistic health care" Gravel's aging boomer hippy thoughts about this were.

  • putsthecultinculture [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Biden gets a lot of shit for being senile but Gravel’s campaign was essentially ran by two children in a long coat. Also wasn’t he CIA?

    • JustAnotherCourier [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Eh, I respect the way he went out honestly. I'd love for some kids to my left to use whatever legacy I leave behind to try and do some good/get some laughs.

      I've heard the CIA thing, but it seems like a stretch considering Mike usually took stands against their interests; pentagon papers, calling for release of the torture report, using his platform to shit on the Iraq/Afghanistan invasion.