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The widespread rejoicing over Henry Kissinger's death is repugnant
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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If you can't celebrate the death of a monster responsible for literally millions of dead human beings, what can you celebrate? If you can't celebrate the deaths of rent-seeking purveyors of misery and exploitation, what can you celebrate?
Oh, I know! You can only celebrate entirely fictitious things like the birth of a "saviour", right?
Incredibly presumptuous of you :) I personally think we should celebrate the Feast of Sol Invictus - at least we’re celebrating a tangible thing that gives us life!
How about instead of wasting energy celebrating the death of an asshole, we spend it towards helping the people who got fucked over by those assholes? Kissinger did some pretty awful shit, but celebrating his death does just as much as mourning his death imo. Maybe we should try and advocate change for the people of Cambodia or something? That part I don’t know - what can we do to help those that were directly affected in a negative manner by these fuckin douchenozzle rich assholes in power?
Oh, I'm sorry! I had no idea it was impossible to both celebrate AND help people.
I stand corrected. Apparently human beings are incapable of doing multiple things.
We’re celebrating that the world is a boy brighter, for this.
Your high road horse shit is worth a piss in the wind.
Get off your high horse. Stop looking down on good people. Get mad at bad people.