It’s gonna be disappointing though. I remember when Reagan died. We all had to be silent out of politeness while Republicans pretended he was the greatest American ever.
You’re all wrong. This is about NPR’s This American Life host Ira Glass.
He knows what he did.
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Soon?
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This is kinda stupid, there’s a million assholes available to take the place of current top asshole. The only cure is to address the reason why assholes get the amount of power they do. FDR-style socialism and high taxes will address so much of this.
But that won’t get as many updoots.
Can’t give them even a wisp of an excuse to target anyone
The lack of specificity reminds me of the joke about the Russians getting arrested for holding up blank signs that actually came true https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protests-police-arrest-activists-holding-blank-signs-paper-1687603
Edit: apparently the blank sign thing goes back farther than I realized https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_paper_protest
I don’t know. The fact that Dick Cheney is still alive is kind of proof there is no loving god imho.
My father was extremely intelligent. Usually one of the smartest people in the room. He predicted Dick Cheney’s imminent demise shortly after he’d had some rather dramatic heart surgery. “That’s one of the last things they do.” He said. “You spend a year to 18 months clinging to life before your body just gives up.”
He would go on to retire, enjoy several years of retirement, come down with an extremely rare progressive disease, go through enough testing to get successfully diagnosed, go through treatment, and unfortunately pass away.
He could have done all that twice since Dick Cheney got that fucking heart surgery. My dad was a good, if flawed man, and that genocidal mother fucker is the one still drawing breath.
If God is real, he is not good.
If he is good, he is not real.
Everyone has to learn this sooner or later.
you know, ive always heard “only the good die young” and I cant help but believe it.
my father died when I was 18 and the funeral procession was so long people were laughing. his only brother, my uncle, has raging full-ass narcissistic personality disorder and terrorizes everyone who has the displeasure of knowing him. healthy and thriving nearly 30 years after his brother died. he didnt seem sad at the funeral.
anyway!! i was talking to a muslim guy i know who’s mother recently died very suddenly from a terrible cancer and he said that in islam there is a notion that ‘the righteous are spared a protracted death’. I liked that quite a bit. kinda similar but also a rather different take on the idea
Unfortunately, deeply caring about the suffering around you in the world is actually very bad for your health.
I hope that you give yourself a break and enjoy a long, happy, healthy, and fruitful life.
Sorry about your Pops.
We said the same of Kissinger and Thatcher.
Well, neither of them died very early, had significant issues in life after their misdeeds, and they never saw consequences for their actions. So my point stands. I don’t think the “evil” are immortal, but they do tend to lead suspiciously long & prosperous lives.
Did Kissinger die? How did I miss that? Just looked it up, a year and a day ago. How the hell did I miss that great news?
30 Rock: “He’s mostly metal now…”
god helps those who help themselves
Yeah, that’s why so many kids die every day.
to our freedom and wealth. Yeah seems kinda obvious if you think about it.
Depends on the religion.
For Muslims, we are told that God gives respite to people; so that after they die and they face hell they will beg to be sent back so they can undo all the harms they did, and will be told no because they were mercifully given extra time on earth to do that and refused.
I didn’t know that; that’s actually kind of poetically beautiful. If only I could convince myself to believe it. But beautiful nonetheless.
Kissinger made it past 100, too.
God must be a Kochsucker
Edit: though I guess one did die… but not both my point still stands
There’s definitely a cockroach factor in humans. Medically, I dont believe it’s about Neanderthal DNA, I think god fucked up somewhere and spliced in a cockroach along the way. These are the Dick Cheneys of the world.
it’s called “having enough money and access to get any treatment imaginable”
Not necessarily though that aspect certainly moves data. We see state Medicaid people who are inexplicably still alive and maintain the energy to be an asshole while the nice person with far less medical diagnoses down the hall is actively dying.
Maybe the secret is simply asshole energy, that the spite, hate, and overall meanness add enough vitriolic energy to the human body to keep propelling it forward, for longer. These are the people who don’t get cancer so much as cancer gets them, and fails. I joke, but also not.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1737915646/one-day-we-will-wake-up-to-his-obituary
Unfortunately they are not available in bulk.
Thanks for the link! I just ordered four which I’m going to turn into magnets and give out at Xmas this year
We all know whom this is about.
honestly i have like 6 people i’m rooting for. all significant on the geopolitical stage
Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Erdogan, Xi?
Everyone letting McConnell off the hook like he’s not responsible for the past 20 years of deterioration of the Senate.
Started with Newt but yeah…
(Forget that McConnell is a year old than Newt)
and the leader of north korea. call me crazy, but i just don’t like authoritarians.
also i know his name, i’m trying something my coworker is teaching me where you refuse to use the right names for stuff you hate on account of you hate them
Issue with NK great leader, is there’s someone to replace him. Always. Last NK Dictator transition was similar. Nothing changed, nothing got better, a few things got worse.
You’d need to purge the whole high command there to have a shot at doing any lasting good.
also. this is why my coworker recommended i stop using the names of these fuckfaces. every autocrat’s name and face changes, but always they are the same people
What about inviting them in?
Their system leans heavily on being a pariah. A core tenet of the Juche philosophy is extreme self-reliance. Remember that Korea had been a puppet state of Imperial Japan, and they can see that even today the South has to permit a foreign military presence and kowtow to American political whims. They’re willing to forego a lot to retain control over their fate.
Make them a part of the international community and provide a path where they can maintain sovereignity without keeping arms against the world, and it becomes harder to justify the hostility.
Yes, this means the current leaders endure and will get fat off of graft, but on a longer scale it promises boons for their people: development, integration, and a motive to de-escalate both because there’s a gravy train to keep running and because there’s less of a “you don’t have to be as paranoid when everyone isn’t out to get you” factor.
Add Elon to the list. There will be massive parties all over the world when that rich piece of shit dies.
Murdoch, Musk, Bezos, Yong-Un, Farage, Khamenei, Modi, Duterte, …
Ellison, orban, fico, …
Yeah…
Rupert Murdoch?
Roger fucken Stone
I like the lack of specificity because Make America Great Again is just as nonspecific.
It’s Piers Morgan, right?
Won’t happen anytime soon. There are others on the list much more likely to go first.
Well not with that attitude
In the Soviet Union, there was a man who every morning went to the news kiosk, picked up a newspaper, looked at the front page and put it back. After a few weeks, the seller asked him what he was doing. “I’m looking for an obituary”, he said.
“But obituaries aren’t on the front page”
“This one will be”
Ah, ignorance and hate based off assumptions
The only thing I’ll say on this is that I can’t think of anyone on the geopolitical level who’s death would cause somebody better to show up, presumably everyone has a system more or less like the US and the replacement is from the same party with more or less the same platform.
It’s the worst form of right wing authoritarianism. The terror is stochastic, the institutional violence is slow, the captains of industry are all in on it, the figureheads are interchangeable, and the dystopic aspects are distracting and soul numbing rather than providing a sense of being a hard-bitten underdog. There’s nobody you can kill, nothing to destroy that would end it, and all the people with the most credible alternative ideas will demand that you read a shitload of stuff and will still bicker and undercut each other rather than do it.
