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[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

heartbreaking

Heartbreaking: Worst person you know dies so that you can’t look forward to them dying anymore

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

There's always more: https://deathlist.net/

Alan Greenspan 98

Imelda Marcos 95

Dick Cheney 83

Joe Biden 81

Donald Trump 77

Bill Clinton 77

George W. Bush 77

I wonder if we'll have presidential debates this year or if they'll both get doctor's notes saying it would be too stressful...

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago
[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Somehow I never saw a "Who Must Go? who-must-go " post about it

[-] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

probably because he was against ousting assad

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/1/kissingers-lessons-for-todays-policymakers

And at the infancy of the Syrian conflict three years ago, when Obama rushed to declare that Bashar al-Assad must go, Kissinger was quick to call the pronouncement premature and a mistake for not knowing who will fill the vacuum created by Assad’s departure.

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

No wonder he lived so long

[-] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

he learned to dodge the curse

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

One of the last remnant of that competent, evil, old guard of ghouls

Rest in piss forever

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago
[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Been working through the Kissinger biography by Seymour Hersh and it does sort of pull the wool from my eyes with regards to kissinger and his supposed intellect. There is obviously no doubt that the man was smart, but it seems that his supposed intellect was more that he was willing to backstab coworkers if he felt like he needed to, or just suspend any notions of how a government is supposed to work by setting up five different channels of communication for different needs, which meant that a load of people couldn't actually do their jobs since Kissinger was blocking them for spurrious reasons.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

"Incredibly smart" often just means "was very good at exploiting the system for his own benefit." This is true for all sorts of things--not just government.

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

Exactly, most people notice loopholes and back doors to various things in life and take a moment to consider the ethics of taking advantage. Pricks like Kissinger see it and don't pause because they're incapable. Psychopathic people may "get things done", but they're so narrow sighted that they don't think of the costs, and if you point it out to them, they seem to believe the way out of it is to do another thing that causes a problem further down the road and doesn't solve the core issue. A lot of human history is taken up by normal people cleaning up after these dumbasses.

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

I mean, Kissinger did become one of the foremost experts on a whole bunch of things related to weapons proliferation and missile systems seemingly weeks faster than anyone else in that administration, so I don't know if I just want to put it down to "exploited the system". Obviously Kissinger used said expertise to further his own goals and do everything humanly possible to prevent other people from attaining theirs, so it's not an endorsement of his procedures when I refer to him as intelligent.

If I were to give Kissinger some type of credit, he didn't seem to consider black people / other minorities in America to be his direct enemies, unlike Nixon. But being slightly less racist than Richard Nixon isn't exactly a high bar to clear.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

If you realize that nobody around you knows what the fuck is going on, all you need to do is confidently be wrong and like 80% of the people will just go along with it.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago
[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

so are millions of people in the global south

[-] D61@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

big-cool Coolest thing Kissinger ever did.

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago
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[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

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[-] DirtyPair@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago
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