Sadly though, there is a long line of similar people, some born right now some not even born yet but they are coming. Have a few more beers to numb that reality.
What a great day for America. All I have to ask now, who's the worst person alive? It's always been an easy question to answer for me. Is Kissinger still alive? Well then him. But now? What do I say?
McConnell or Murdoch are the most destructive, though I see them more as amoral and self-interested than morally evil.
There are plenty of people who "represent everything wrong with America/the world" but again, I think those are opportunists just working for self interest.
I'm not sure I could come up with who is today's Moloch.
The strategist behind our current SCOTUS conservative super majority. Roe V Wade NEVER would have been overturned without his meddling and influence peddling.
LITERALLY leading a right wing conspiracy of rich people and powerful politicians with the goal of taking over the government.
Working on a new project to "apply the strategies that have worked so well to advance the conservative political and judicial cause to reshape all of American culture and society."
This is freaky, people were posting on Lemmy only about 2 or 3 days ago about how they wished he'd hurry up and cark it and someone posted that same picture of Lenny from the Simpsons with 0 days of life without Kissinger. Was there some sign that he was on the edge particularly or was this just a weird coincidence? I know he was old, but he seemed to be taking some kind of elixir or something that had sustained him all this time.
people were posting on Lemmy only about 2 or 3 days ago
this is a meme so common that, for years, there's been a comic of death standing next to a claw machine saying "is kissinger even in this thing?" that gets posted every time someone less evil than him dies.
Yes but it was many people, and especially specifically that Lenny meme that is now being posted again with a "1". I thought maybe he has some health problems or something.
Instead, in a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and β shamefully, since Kissinger had reporters like CBSβ Marvin Kalb and the New York Timesβ Hendrick Smith wiretapped βΒ newsrooms.
Kissinger, a refugee from the Nazis who became a pedigreed member of the βEastern Establishmentβ Nixon hated, was a practitioner of American greatness, and so the press lionized him as the cold-blooded genius who restored Americaβs prestige from the agony of Vietnam.
It was this sort of unacceptable policy that prompted Kissinger to remark, during an intelligence meeting about two months before Allendeβs election, βI donβt see why we need to stand idly by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.β
As Corey Robin has documented, Friedrich von Hayekβs neoliberal Mont Pelerin Society held a 1981 meeting in the very city where the junta plotted the replacement of democratic socialism with a harbinger of todayβs global economic order.
Five days later, a car bomb emplaced by Pinochetβs agents detonated along Washington D.C.βs Embassy Row, killing Orlando Letelier, Allendeβs foreign minister, and his American co-worker, Ronni Moffitt.
The Vietnamese guerilla and justice minister Truong Nhu Tang writes in his Viet Cong Memoir that Kissinger, whose intellect he praises, βinherited a conceptual framework from his American and French predecessorsβ¦that led him to disaster.β
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