Olio CafeFormer Vice President Dick Cheney dies at 84
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“I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
–Abraham Lincoln
LenaWishing some men dead is perfectly reasonable
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.
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.
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’.
jballsHe 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.
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many an obituary with great pleasure” - Clarence Darrow.
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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TheDemonBuerMy day’s already off to a good start.
ddittyHe really deserves most of the blame for what happened under lil bush…
Catpain TypoAnd quite a lot of the blame for setting up the republicans to embrace Trumpism.
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.
I like my Lemmy feed’s sense of timing 😁
He was only 84!? What’d they do, average out the age of his organ transplants?
Sterile_Technique🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
Don’t let the smouldering descent hit your ass on the way out!
…now do the people actively destroying our country, please.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Don’t let your dreams be memes
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…
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.
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.
Is the guy he shot in the face still alive?
LeonAww, poor baby. Taken too soon. He’d just gotten old enough to qualify for presidency too!
Toilets and papers to his families.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp3xb8BnvKQ
What a great man. “We couldn’t call it torture so we named it ‘enhanced interrogation’ instead hahaha.” “Waterboarding was very effective hahaha”.
Sad that this war criminal never had to pay for his crimes.
DevolutionYou all, that was definitely a peanut. There’s no way that guy went on his own from natural causes…not at the ripe age of 84!
He really had the appropriate name given to him.
samus12345Some people are just Dicks.
(That’s Cheney on the right and Donald Rumsfeld in the middle. Come to think of it, Donalds are even worse.)
20celloMy family in east coast says local news station they watch was spamming this instead of putting up something about voting even though they’re literally voting today.
the fact this guy made it to 84 is a crime in itself.
One of the key architects of the legal authorities that Trump is exploiting.
May he rot in hell.
I have always found that his name was fitting…
84 years late.
Good fucking riddance
Anyway…
Rest in piss
War criminal that was not convicted because he was fucking american. Nevertheless, he is war criminal that USA will give him “honours”. I gues killing children is honourable thing to do in USA.
Alright, what else we got
Quail hunters feel safer now
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