Former Vice President Dick Cheney dies at 84

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/former-president-dick-cheney-dies-84-rcna241784

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Delta_V@lemmy.world · 160 pts · 293d (11 replies)

"I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

--Abraham Lincoln

lena@gregtech.eu · 59 pts · 293d (2 replies)

Wishing some men dead is perfectly reasonable

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 293d

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.

Glide@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 293d

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.

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 293d (1 reply)
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 293d

He 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.

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 19 pts · 293d (2 replies)

Abraham Lincoln Albert Washington Gandhi Wilde

FTFY

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 25 pts · 293d (1 reply)

I absolutely did not say that, but the internet will make me say anything.

-Abraham Lincoln

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 293d

oppy1984@lemdro.id · 7 pts · 293d

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many an obituary with great pleasure" - Clarence Darrow.

MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d
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nickiwest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d

This appears to be almost a quote from Clarence Darrow which has been misattributed to multiple other historical figures over the years.

Catma@lemmy.world · 110 pts · 293d (1 reply)

A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 293d
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ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works · 81 pts · 293d (3 replies)

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 293d (2 replies)

Is this the standard maneuver for this? Have I been doing it wrong all this time?

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 293d (1 reply)

Keeping your thumb out helps them reach moral superiority.

finitebanjo@piefed.world · 1 pts · 292d
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BiggestPiggest@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 293d

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 293d (4 replies)
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Brutticus@midwest.social · 10 pts · 293d (3 replies)

Be the change you want to see in the world. Don't let your dreams be memes

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d (2 replies)
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MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d (1 reply)

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.

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d
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TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 293d (1 reply)

My day's already off to a good start.

dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 293d

Seriously whatever else happens today this is a big win

flandish@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 293d

84 years late but we’ll take it I guess.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 293d (2 replies)

He really deserves most of the blame for what happened under lil bush...

CatpainTypo@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 293d (1 reply)

And quite a lot of the blame for setting up the republicans to embrace Trumpism.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 293d

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.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 293d (2 replies)

I like my Lemmy feed's sense of timing 😁

kameecoding@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d (1 reply)

Oh, I assumed both were posted after his death

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 293d

Yeah, what I mean is that I saw the meme one before this one and that's how I prefer it 😁

Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub · 25 pts · 293d (2 replies)
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jaybone@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 293d (1 reply)

Yeah I thought he was 84 like 25 years ago.

kn33@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 293d

Evil ages poorly I guess

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 293d

regedit@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 293d

OOOOOO, do tRump next!!!

Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 293d

crabrave

FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 293d (4 replies)

Is the guy he shot in the face still alive?

theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 293d (1 reply)

Nope

BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 293d

But he was sorry for getting shot in the face.

discosnails@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 293d (1 reply)

Actually according to the hunting guide staff the person who shot that guy was a 20yo hooker. Dick was just covering for her.

MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d

Lol.

Dojan@pawb.social · 19 pts · 293d

Aww, poor baby. Taken too soon. He’d just gotten old enough to qualify for presidency too!

Toilets and papers to his families.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 293d

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.

FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com · 15 pts · 293d

Good.

He was an evil excuse for a man.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 293d

I thought the weight of the world felt slightly lighter when I woke up this morning.

devolution@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 293d

Good. When is Trump next?

Ersatz86@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 293d

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Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 293d (1 reply)
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ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 293d

You should have birthdays more often.

piepants2001@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 293d

I can't say I'm sad to hear that

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 293d

LOL

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 293d

Though he died years ago. And thought he was like 104.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 293d (1 reply)

He really had the appropriate name given to him.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 293d

Some 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.)

altphoto@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 293d

You 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!

Wilco@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 292d

War criminal Warmonger War profiteer

Furbag@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d

Hope he's somewhere nice and hot.

20cello@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d

His name was Dick...coincidence?

SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d

Can he be buried at Royal Hospital Chelsea? You know, for convenience?

NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d

84 years too late.

Tronn4@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d

Another log for the fires of hell

thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d

My 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.

MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d

Took way too long

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 293d