“Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.” -Anthony Bourdain
"I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger." -Bernie Sanders
Well. I never really gathered much direct information on what type of person Kissinger was, but considering the characters of both Anthony Bourdain and Sanders, I think I'll put him in the burn in hell camp.
Example: He sabotaged a peaceful end to the ciet nam war in 1968 so Nixon could have a better shot at winning the election, and consequently he could gain power. Running on a campaign of ending the war Nixon and Kissinger then did the opposite and bombed the shit out of Cambodia and attacked Laos who were involved in the war.
Example: when a democratic socialist was fairly elected in Chile, Kissinger and the CIA saw to it he was ousted, being replaced by the infamous fascist, Pinochet, who tortured and murdered citizens for years.
Far more to read in this article: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
He illegally directed the military to turn cambodia into dust with millions of bombs and had pilots illegally erase their flight logs to cover up their locations
Theres a fantastic 6 part Behind The Bastards podcast on Kiss
He orchestrated a coup in Chile, participated in Operation Condor, lengthened the Vietnam War, set the stage for the Khmer Rouge, and greenlit atrocities in East Timor and Bangladesh
Good riddance.
In observance of rule 6,
The good die young.
If you wanted a good overview of his monstrous crimes and a whiff of the lingering stench he left on the world, look no further:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
I wish him good fortune in all of his future endeavors.
100 eh? I wonder if he considered himself to be a "useless eater" in any of his last decades. Somehow I doubt it.
He said that? Eww.
I'm only going to say one thing in these Henry Kissinger threads: Good fucking riddance.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and esteemed statesman Henry Kissinger is dead at 100, once again proving only the good die young.
Let us listen to the following dirge while we read his obituary and ponder this man's intense impact upon the world:
Good for him.
Better for us!
I want it known that every American on here is blowing off reggaeton horns tonight. Scum.
I feel like John Oliver owes the world a fuckeulogy for this.
When I heard the news my second thought was "I bet LWT is gonna be good"
My first thought would violate rule 6.
Rest in piss
I had a feeling the news was going to give Kbin and Lemmy a pants-ripping boner. Man, you should see the celebration over at BlueSky!
HAHAHAHAHA 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
Quick reminder of rule 6, no celebrating death.
Just a guess, you mods are gonna have some cleaning up to do on this comment section
Someone should have made Kissinger follow that rule.
Seriously, this is a perfect example of why moderation needs to be done by humans who understand context. Celebrating Kissingers death is a healthy and good thing to do.
Floating a "but it's Kissinger..." addendum. We'll see what the group decides on.
I've a got a ~~couple~~ list of some other people that need to be added to that rule if it passes
Re: Kissinger
Oh no! Anyway...
What if instead of "Henry Kissinger", we replace his name with "Emperor Palpatine"? Can we do it then?
Modlog is where the party is, everyone.
Boooooooo!!
I can understand that rule normally, but Kissinger was a war criminal and a murderous maniac. I assume you would not mind if we were celebrating the death of, say, Idi Amin.
RIP
To all of the people whose deaths he caused, they can finally rest in peace.
I would rather have seen him getting 110 or older. Life's a bitch for western people in these digits. Ask me how I know. What was coming for him would've come anyway or as Clint Eastwood said "We all have it coming, kid" As I thought about Margaret Thatcher or Helmut Kohl: they have earned their place in hell, why not a little taste of it here on earth first, where everybody can see it? Believe you me, these are not happy and fulfilled people, and it gets so much worse when they get old and their ego gets tired and the drug doesn't work anymore.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Henry Kissinger, a former US secretary of state and national security adviser who escaped Nazi Germany in his youth to become one of the most influential and controversial foreign policy figures in American history, has died, according to a statement from his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates.
He was 100.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
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Oh no.
Anyway...
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