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Fascist, pro-Putin, corrupt politician who had an involvement in the mafia murders of the 1990s, and who often engaged in sex parties with minors—Silvio Berlusconi dead at 86
Would someone please tell me why I’m supposed to talk kindly about someone just because they died ?
… and you just scratched the paint of the bad things he did for Italy. 🥲
I think one of the most impacting was normalizing the fact that politicians will only do changes that improve their own status and well-being at the cost of the rest of the state, leading people to distrust politics and feel like it is a separate words, disconnected from "our own". (and thus helping demagogues, lowering number of voters, and all that)
Example given: Italy historically got one of the best public health in the world… changes have been made in the last 20 years and it is going for the worse, fast, pretty fast.
Returning to your question: you are not supposed to.
Most of newspapers already did that yesterday, even in some supposedly left-wing ones I've read sentences like «he did lots of good for Italy»… no, just no. If you want to write «he had a huge impact» yeah, that's true… it was a negative impact but that's quite certainly true, but no, you cannot and should not say he did good just because he kicked the bucket. Or maybe even especially because he did.