• @Kyrgizion
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    I don’t know. The fact that Dick Cheney is still alive is kind of proof there is no loving god imho.

      • @Kyrgizion
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        231 month ago

        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.

        • @MutilationWave
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          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?

      • @Kyrgizion
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        111 month ago

        to our freedom and wealth. Yeah seems kinda obvious if you think about it.

      • M137
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        By shoving everyone else down.

        That’s one shitty God.

    • Ben Hur Horse Race
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      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

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        I hope that you give yourself a break and enjoy a long, happy, healthy, and fruitful life.

        Sorry about your Pops.

      • @kerrigan778
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        51 month ago

        Unfortunately, deeply caring about the suffering around you in the world is actually very bad for your health.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m sorry about your dad. I lost mine too early also and am tempted to find comfort in what you say but it still rings hollow to me. I think my father would have chosen the protracted death. Also, if god has any power, why not heal our dads instead of killing them quickly? In the end it seems I’m just trying to make myself feel better when in reality, there is no justice in a great many things in this world, our fathers death’s included.

        • Ben Hur Horse Race
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          yeah I feel you.

          Its really just a nice thought.

          I do believe that shitty people live longer. In german they have a phrase that translates roughly to “weeds are very hard to kill”

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      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.

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        My dad was a devout Christian. Really into it. Way more defensible than an average American Christian. You should have seen how many people prayed for his recovery when he was sick. Dead at 58. Didn’t see any of his children get married, nor any of his grand kids, which he would have really loved and they would have benefited from.

        He would have been blown away by a 1TB thumb drive for 100 dollars (he was nerd like me). I miss him.

        The god he believed in certainly isn’t real.

    • @Mirshe
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      Kissinger made it past 100, too.

    • @SulaymanF
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      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.

      • @Kyrgizion
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        61 month ago

        I didn’t know that; that’s actually kind of poetically beautiful. If only I could convince myself to believe it. But beautiful nonetheless.

    • Ioughttamow
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      God must be a Kochsucker

      Edit: though I guess one did die… but not both my point still stands

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

      • The Quuuuuill
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        161 month ago

        it’s called “having enough money and access to get any treatment imaginable”

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

    • lad
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      130 days ago

      the lack of writing and slogans on the paper itself is designed to thwart efforts by authorities to prove that their prohibitions and regulations have been violate

      Well, it doesn’t always work

    • The Quuuuuill
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      461 month ago

      honestly i have like 6 people i’m rooting for. all significant on the geopolitical stage

        • The Quuuuuill
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          221 month ago

          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

          • @Tyfud
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            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.

            • @[email protected]
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              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.

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              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

        • @[email protected]
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          Add Elon to the list. There will be massive parties all over the world when that rich piece of shit dies.

        • @MumboJumbo
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          Everyone letting McConnell off the hook like he’s not responsible for the past 20 years of deterioration of the Senate.

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              (Forget that McConnell is a year old than Newt)

          • @Dkarma
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            Can’t wait to piss on his grave. Already bought the pop up tent

  • nifty
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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.

    • @draneceusrex
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      For some reason Trump is a cult of personality though no one else on the right can duplicate. So many voters that casted for only Trump on their ballots. There will be a big hole for MAGA to fill and noone comes to mind that all his followers will rally to.

    • ditty
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      Thanks for the link! I just ordered four which I’m going to turn into magnets and give out at Xmas this year

  • @hark
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    and all the news stations will look back on his life in the most positive of lights. Anyone expressing joy for the passing of this terrible person will be chided for daring to disrespect someone who didn’t respect any of us peasants when he was alive.

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    And even with his passing nothing will fundamentally change for the better, because he isn’t the exception to an otherwise good system. He’s a symptom of a fundamentally oppressive system.

    • @samus12345
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      But it will be worth celebrating regardless.

  • @rational_lib
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    91 month ago

    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.

  • Flying Squid
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    91 month ago

    You’re all wrong. This is about NPR’s This American Life host Ira Glass.

    He knows what he did.

  • @RizzRustbolt
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    91 month ago

    Keep an eye on Tumblr for the crabbiest of crab raves.

  • @[email protected]
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    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”

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    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.

    • @Gradually_Adjusting
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      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.