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[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 131 points 7 months ago

Damn that graphic on Mobile. "Kissinger dies, YAHOO!"

[-] farcaster@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

"Arroooooo!" feels more appropriate

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

That's like the second best part of all this.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 110 points 7 months ago

“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.”

-Anthony Bourdain

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 77 points 7 months ago

Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.

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[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 107 points 7 months ago
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 53 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

4 million deaths can be directly attributed to this asshole. Many, many, many more indirectly. He was the last member of the Nixon cabinet still alive.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Can't wait until it snows after they bury him so I can write my name when I piss on his grave

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Bust out the Crown and Coke, bitches, we got a new Cambodian holiday!

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[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 81 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That obituary is far too kind to him.

The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people. That includes “crimes of commission,” he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the sauce.

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[-] TaterTurnipTulip@lemmy.world 78 points 7 months ago
[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 69 points 7 months ago
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[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 55 points 7 months ago

“I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure” - Clarence Darrow

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 54 points 7 months ago
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 7 months ago
[-] Crewman@sopuli.xyz 15 points 7 months ago

Perfect example of 'Only the good die young.'

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 54 points 7 months ago
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[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Will today become a national

Wait for it

holiday in Cambodia?

Crap. Looks like I was the third person to make this joke. Screw it. Leaving the comment up. It merits the repetition.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago

Fuck are we throwing a party?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 7 months ago

My partner and I cracked open Coronas.

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[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 43 points 7 months ago

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

-- Tom Lehrer on why he stopped performing political satire.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 43 points 7 months ago
[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

If anyone needs to get an idea of why we celebrate Kissinger's death and lament that it didn't happen sooner and more painfully, this article is all one would need to read.

And along with it, they can get a damning picture of US foreign policy over the last half century and the lengths to which the ruling class will go to ensure they retain their power everywhere.

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[-] cuibono@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Suddenly my skin is clear, my crops are watered, the sun is shining, the grass is green, and my grades are up :D

[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 33 points 7 months ago

That's one hell of an early Christmas present for everyone on earth.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Dear diary, Today the world is a better place.

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

Looks like Jimmy Carter won the who will live longer battle.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 25 points 7 months ago

everyone liked that

[-] anzich@feddit.de 25 points 7 months ago
[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Congratulations everyone who supports human rights

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 19 points 7 months ago

There are going to be some long lines to piss on that grave.

[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago

new all-gender bathroom just dropped!

[-] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

I wonder what the first thing he will do with Margaret Thatcher will be, in hell?

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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Too early to declare today a national holiday?

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[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 7 months ago

I'm an atheist, but days like these, I wish hell was real

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Between him and Pat Robertson dying it hasn't been a bad few months.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Oh, I hadn't heard about Robertson. That's great to hear.

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[-] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Kool & the gang - Celebration (remastered HD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

[-] Endorkend@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago

Lol, they can FINALLY shut down /r/iskissingerdeadyet

[-] eighthourlunch@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago

About damn time. This is how you know karma isn't real.

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 12 points 7 months ago

Who gets his magic murder bag?

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[-] sxt@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago
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