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.
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But it will be worth celebrating regardless.
I don't know. The fact that Dick Cheney is still alive is kind of proof there is no loving god imho.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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"
...shitty people live longer
I've seen evidence in my own life that backs that up too.
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.
thanks :)
god helps those who help themselves
to our freedom and wealth. Yeah seems kinda obvious if you think about it.
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Kissinger made it past 100, too.
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.
Everyone has to learn this sooner or later.
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"
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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
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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.
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.
Nothing will Fundamentally Change®
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?
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
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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.
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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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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1737915646/one-day-we-will-wake-up-to-his-obituary
Unfortunately they are not available in bulk.
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Keep an eye on Tumblr for the crabbiest of crab raves.
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.
Not this time.
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You're all wrong. This is about NPR's This American Life host Ira Glass.
He knows what he did.
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I like the lack of specificity because Make America Great Again is just as nonspecific.
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”
The true knowledge it that each of us will wake up to our own obituary.......
we won't wake up tho
Obviously.
I should have included some slashies I guess.
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