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18-24-61-B-17-17-4@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 个月前

Former Vice President Dick Cheney dies at 84

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney dies at 84

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18-24-61-B-17-17-4@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 个月前
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who pushed for Iraq invasion, dies at 84
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Cheney, the 46th vice president, died of complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said in a statement Tuesday.
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    “I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

    –Abraham Lincoln

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      Wishing some men dead is perfectly reasonable

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        When it comes to criminally corrupt untouchables, actually murdering them is perfectly reasonable.

        Obviously I’d prefer for them to rot in prison for life, but murdering a murderer to stop them from murder is completely justified, and I’m tired of everyone acting like it’s not.

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        I just want them gone. I don’t care if death is how they get there. Society can just turn on them and have their assets siezed as they rapidly fade into obscurity, or they can be tossed in a jail and largely left to rot, save for some cases of extreme reconditioning.

        I won’t wish death on anyone. But sometimes, it does feel like the most readily accessible means to a good end.

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      As per tradition, Rolling Stone’s article: ‘Dick Cheney, Iraq war architect and “War on Terror” mastermind, dead at 84’.

      From the producers of ‘Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies’ and ‘Henry Kissinger, Notorious War Criminal, Lauded By Media’.

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        He underwent a successful heart transplant in 2012.

        I’m an organ donor, but my ghost-self would be so mad if I died and my heart went to Dick fucking Cheney.

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      –Abraham Lincoln Albert Washington Gandhi Wilde

      FTFY

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        I absolutely did not say that, but the internet will make me say anything.

        -Abraham Lincoln

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      “I have never killed a man, but I have read many an obituary with great pleasure” - Clarence Darrow.

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      This appears to be almost a quote from Clarence Darrow which has been misattributed to multiple other historical figures over the years.

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      • Michael Scott
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      Is this the standard maneuver for this? Have I been doing it wrong all this time?

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        Keeping your thumb out helps them reach moral superiority.

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    🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

    Don’t let the smouldering descent hit your ass on the way out!

    …now do the people actively destroying our country, please.

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      Be the change you want to see in the world. Don’t let your dreams be memes

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        There’s a 100% chance that would result in me being killed without actually accomplishing any service to our country.

        The wild part is we’ve got an entire military full of people who do have the means to make it happen, and are oath-bound to defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic… but instead of acting on their oath, they just keep following the domestic enemy’s orders like good little Nazis.

        If one of those folks could actually do the job our tax dollars are paying them to…

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          The oath is important and sounds good. But it’s also extremely simplistic. No definition of what “enemy” means. For the armed forces, maybe you could say said enemies would be those attacking and occupying territory.

          We’re not paying them to attack the people who won the last election. You have a problem with that, you should talk to the 10 million or so people that made that happen. Trump didn’t take over in a coup, we handed him the country.

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            Not really necessary to apply some special meaning to it. He acts in a way that consistently and deliberately does harm to our nation. Winning an election vs not is moot - it doesn’t matter (in the context of whether or not he’s an enemy) how he came into power, what matters is what he’s done with that power, which has been to divide our nation, sever our ties to our allies, destroy our economy, weaken our rights, and strengthen our other enemies.

            Per our military’s own standards, that makes him a legitimate tactical target the same as any other enemy combatant or their chain of command.

            Yea it’s simplistic - that’s by design. On paper, even your run of the mill e-nothing grunt should be able to figure this out. …and it’s not that they can’t figure it out; their either too cowardly to act on it, or are also traitors and gleefully complicit in our country’s nose dive.

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    My day’s already off to a good start.

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      Seriously whatever else happens today this is a big win

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    He really deserves most of the blame for what happened under lil bush…

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      And quite a lot of the blame for setting up the republicans to embrace Trumpism.

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        Eh, he was a continuation of what Papa Bush did with Reagan…

        And that is almost exactly what Cheney did with Lil Bush, and Miller is doing with trump now.

        Whether or not Cheney was pulling the strings while Reagan was in office… I’m not sure, but I’d say it was ex-CIA director Papa Bush who came up with this scheme.

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    84 years late but we’ll take it I guess.

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    I like my Lemmy feed’s sense of timing 😁

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      Oh, I assumed both were posted after his death

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        Yeah, what I mean is that I saw the meme one before this one and that’s how I prefer it 😁

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    He was only 84!? What’d they do, average out the age of his organ transplants?

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      Yeah I thought he was 84 like 25 years ago.

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        Evil ages poorly I guess

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    OOOOOO, do tRump next!!!

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    Is the guy he shot in the face still alive?

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      Nope

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        But he was sorry for getting shot in the face.

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      Actually according to the hunting guide staff the person who shot that guy was a 20yo hooker. Dick was just covering for her.

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        Lol.

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    crabrave

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    Aww, poor baby. Taken too soon. He’d just gotten old enough to qualify for presidency too!

    Toilets and papers to his families.

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