Dr. Henry Kissinger Dies at Age 100

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A crash course on this asshole: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/kissinger-100-crimes-watergate/

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“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.”

-Anthony Bourdain

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.

REST IN PISS

4 million deaths can be directly attributed to this asshole. Many, many, many more indirectly. He was the last member of the Nixon cabinet still alive.

Can't wait until it snows after they bury him so I can write my name when I piss on his grave

That obituary is far too kind to him.

The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people. That includes “crimes of commission,” he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

“I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure” - Clarence Darrow

I’ve never understood this line of thinking. Can someone explain why there’s a “don’t speak ill of the dead” sentiment?

Death is the great equalizer and I definitely celebrate when people who think themselves and act higher than their fellow humans die.

It is said 'don't speak ill of the dead' because they are no longer present to defend themselves.

In this case the man is so steeped in evil that there is only ill to be said about him.

Indeed. Thee millions whose death he is responsible for couldn't defend themselves, either so it only seems fair to say Kissinger's is a small spark of good news in this grim world he shaped and darkened.

This quote is about never wishing a man dead. Clarence Darrow was a famous late 19th to early 20th century litigator who vehemently opposed the death penalty. He'd never wish anyone dead, he's fundamentally opposed to death as a punishment, but that doesn't mean he's sad when a bad person dies.

I don't think it really applies to mass murders. It is more like regular people who kinda suck.

Will today become a national

Wait for it

holiday in Cambodia?

Crap. Looks like I was the third person to make this joke. Screw it. Leaving the comment up. It merits the repetition.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

If anyone needs to get an idea of why we celebrate Kissinger's death and lament that it didn't happen sooner and more painfully, this article is all one would need to read.

And along with it, they can get a damning picture of US foreign policy over the last half century and the lengths to which the ruling class will go to ensure they retain their power everywhere.

It was locked for me. I assume it goes into details about how he was involved with a plan to bomb Northern Cambodia during the Vietnam war which resulted in 100,000s to possibly a whole million deaths mostly civilian. Then it mentions how he might have been involved in installing a new dictator there which, combined with the bombings, drove people to Pol Pot. Who in turn unleashed, in percentages, the worst documented democide in human history, within five years eliminating 20% of the population.

Yes. Also sabotaging peace in Vietnam so Nixon could stand a better chance of getting elected. And attacking Laos (also neutral).

And instigating a coup against Chile's fairly elected democratic socialist president Allende resulting in the reign of torture by fascist psychopath Pinochet for years.

Fuck are we throwing a party?

Thank goodness this is Lemmy, not R*ddit. I'm not gonna go check, but I can only imagine the mods over there are treating the thread like Kissinger treated Cambodia.

So I was in a good enough mood to check it out and the current mood is celebratory. I didn't see any removed comments unless they hide them completely now.

Huh, I guess the mods are asleep. Nevertheless, glad to hear it!

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Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

-- Tom Lehrer on why he stopped performing political satire.

Suddenly my skin is clear, my crops are watered, the sun is shining, the grass is green, and my grades are up :D

That's one hell of an early Christmas present for everyone on earth.

Congratulations everyone who supports human rights

I wonder what the first thing he will do with Margaret Thatcher will be, in hell?

Join the neolib orgy with Reagan and Pinochet.

Even Satan is turning his eyes away from that.

Lol, they can FINALLY shut down /r/iskissingerdeadyet

Between him and Pat Robertson dying it hasn't been a bad few months.

Oh, I hadn't heard about Robertson. That's great to hear.

Every day you live for the rest of your life will be one more day further away from both of those men.

I was informed it is rude to say nothing good of the dead. RIP the victims of henry.

I don't give a single fuck about that "rule".

I've never heard of him specifically until today, but I'm general I still talk shit about anyone I hate from the day I hate them and their death will not stop my opinion expression.

I don't try to keep them alive with constant discussion, but if they're brought up I don't mind telling shit until (if god was real) even God would be ashamed of creating them. To the point it would start a war with anyone with anything positive to say about them.

Good, he can't stoke up Argentina over the Falklands this time.

And the world has improved for the better on average.

Hell just welcomed another demon today. Or heaven another angel. I dont know both places suck.