we have got to start pushing back on the "mitch mcconnell is technically alive" shit for a multitude of reasons not the least of which being that this rhetoric directly benefits republicans who are trying to hide his death to prevent a democratic special election to replace him and risk losing his seat to a democrat. also it's giving anti-choice rhetoric to say "this pile of organs that cannot exist without external organs and is meaningfully not alive is a person that we need to give legal/political acknowledgement to". i can't believe i have to fight you all about this but he is dead, braindeath is death, stop ceding ground on this.
[rapidly approaching middle age]: Itβs like people donβt even remember the Terry Schiavo case
