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The US really looks at war criminals and goes “yeah, they should be able to live out the rest of their lives in peace in their own home, surrounded by loved ones” while at the same time locking up black guys for 20 years because they smoked a funny cigarette. And other countries still take them seriously. We’re all idiots, no exceptions.
Wasn’t this guy awarded some kind of Nobel prize for peace or something?
Yes. After one of the genocides he helped enable but before the other genocides he went on to help enable.
He’s not the only genocidaire to get the Nobel Peace Prize but he’s probably the most egregiously evil of them.
Also the North Vietnamese counter part Lê Đức Thọ did not accept the prize as his country still didnt see peace.
So Kissinger received the peace prize for a non existing peace.
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The US Dollar being the international standard currency of business and international trade does that… Of course having a military and military budget that exceeds the sum of the next 5 biggest militaries helps.
Good thing my mom can’t get health care.
Hoo-Rah!
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This a bit out of date. Who’s locked up for smoking a joint? Personal use is a ticket in harsh states, and legal in most states.
Do you think they just happily released all of those who were previously convicted and sentenced for possession just because we may not be as harsh with the sentencing now?
There are absolutely people whose lives have been ruined over it, still sitting in prison for being the wrong color in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I’d be curious to know if there’s any confirmation that personal use/possession doesn’t lead to jail time for anybody in the us anymore.
You don’t have to be black for the pigs to harass you. Just poor. But being black certainly don’t help.
Can’t believe this fucker lived longer than Betty White!
Where is your God? Where is your God now???
At least Bob Barker had the decency to get as close to 100 as possible without going over.
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Bravo
I’m ticked off that he made it to a hundred, but my grandfather died eight days short of that milestone.
Noooo I forgot she passed, now I’m sad.
She was a joy.
And including Lualhati Bautista, Fred Rogers, and a few more kindred souls, of which we lost some too soon into their long lives…
This guy is almost singlehandled responsible for everything that happened in Vietnam. Good riddance.
That’s very narrow-minded. He committed atrocities in Cambodia too. Good riddance indeed.
I won’t miss seeing his op-eds published during major conflicts like he was some kind of diplomatic guru. What a monster.
And Laos. And indirectly Bangladesh and Chile.
Better go stand in the line to spit on his grave now, it’s going to be a long one.
And East Timor, Pakistan, Argentina…
Don’t forget Laos!
Hey now, give Nixon the credit he deserves for also making things worse.
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Ah yes, nothing else embodies peace quite like the Vietnam War
A real life monster who took pleasure from death of millions. Oh and the people who defend this terrorist may suffer the same fate as his victims https://theintercept.com/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-death/
There were “few people who have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger,” said veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody.
Behind the Bastards podcast had a great series on him!
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-kissinger-94160733/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-kissinger-94268769/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-six-kissinger-94899290/
Someone on another thread shared this blunt exposition of Kissinger’s many sins against the country and the world.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
Wow, a six parter?
It was a lot of bastardy
the guy was walking scum with power. he is one of the few people in my opinion that deserves the death penalty for their crimes.
Break it down for me in a ten-second video while twerking.
/twerk_continuously
- Henry Kissinger bad!
- Henry Kissinger bad!
- Henry Kissinger was so bad, his death is pretty rad!
/end_twerk
Robert Evans sends his regards!
Yeh fuck this scumbag guy!!
I sure can’t wait for uninformed people to mourn his death
I mourn his death insofar that it happened now. Not 40-80 years ago!
I mourn the fact that scum like him ever existed - the guy is in the same category of monster as Heinrich Himmler.
The real problem is those who are informed, and still see him as a hero…
Good fucking riddance. The amount of damage he did to the world and humanity in general is incalculable.
83 years too late. how other people can be around such a monster and not bash is fucking head in is baffling to me,
“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.”
— Anthony Bourdain
They’re too busy taking lessons form him… aka Hillary Clinton.
why is this downvoted? Clinton expressed multiple times in the last decade that Kissinger is a close consultant and mentor of her.
people don’t really know how much of a cunt hillary is.
edit: they have the same friends and work only for the group they belong, the 0.01%
Among the terrible things republicans did, there’s making it impossible to point out how much of a terrible person Clinton is to well meaning but manipulated folks
hey. remember gwb? invaded iraq, caused the death of millions. now spends his life painting. remember his vice dick? they love hillary. its mutual, after all they belong to the same group.
Dick Cheney dead next? 👉👈🥺
She’s a holy cow for liberals… just like Carter and Obama. And all of them are war criminals, too. Liberals just love their little “good cop” routine.
“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
I wonder who won the tontine.
How the hell is that site not updated?
It was probably just a scam anyway.
If it was a scam, wouldn’t they ask to give money to them, instead to charities? They give you a few bottles of booze, not the cash, since that’s illegal
Good point, I missed that.
Kind of inspirational really, makes me want to be a good enough person so that people aren’t actually glad to hear that I’m dead lol
It’s a low bar, but not necessarily a bad one.
Oh my God!
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he should have died like 90 years earlier
Ah we are finally at the timeline where all the old fucking dinosaurs are finally dying off.
You love to see it. Burn in hell assholes!
Unfortunately as the old Cold War imperialist-nationalist crowd dies off they’re being replaced with far right theocratic authoritarians. The first bunch would fuck any other country for shortsighted national advantage despite long-term global instability that resulted in us constantly “putting out fires”. The second group is willing to fuck the citizens for shortsighted personal advantage no matter what it burns down.
