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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 month ago
[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Ugh, I did not need my favourite web comic being associated with Limbaugh.

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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 67 points 1 month ago

A decade ago - all the rage bait YouTubers.

Today:

LibsOfTiktok

Laura whatever her name is who is sucking off Trump right now

Probably a bunch more names.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 month ago

Laura whatever her name is who is sucking off Trump right now

Apparently she got dumped by the campaign team.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/laura-loomer-anti-republican-posts-donald-trump-travel/

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

From the WaPo article (where the daily dot got its info)

He also promised advisers he would not regularly invite her to travel with him on his plane

Emphasis mine. He didn't dump her, he just said he wouldn't invite her regularly.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Ahh. So not really dumping just not flying her everywhere. Got it.

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I was about to correct you and say that YouTube didn't even exist a decade ago, and now I feel old instead

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago

One frustrating thing about Limbaugh (and Jones and Hannity, et al) is that they made Being Angry a Right Wing Thing.

Extremely frustrating when you see a genocide in Gaza or global temperatures spiking or some cop shoot up a subway over a $3 fare, express anger, and have someone respond "You just sound like Rush Limbaugh".

There are real reasons to feel righteous anger and to use that as motivation to act. But guys like Rush just fill the airways with this white nationalist noise. They make the idea of being angry this exclusive Right Wing attitude to have.

[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

The problem is that you can be angry all day and it won't accomplish anything without coordinated, planned, collective action. And collective action is made more difficult with angry people.

Anger motivates you to act Right Now, which is why it's good for reactionaries. They want you either impotently angry so you can't think clearly to make those long term, organized plans; or they want you mad enough to go do a little stochastic terrorism.

Progressives have a lot of trouble hitting the slow-burn simmer of anger in a way that's motivational and doesn't slip into despair when you get tired from all that rage that you can't turn into immediate results.

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[-] dumples@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

We need to get better at allowing righteous anger

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[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 month ago

My brother was into him back in the day (he still has shit taste) and another sibling and I found a clip of him telling fox news he makes things up and does it all for the money. Brother didn’t care and just kept listening to the guy

[-] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This misunderstands the motivations of real-life evil people.

Once you accept there is no afterlife, that your legacy means nothing, and that you're a piece of shit who has no desire to contribute to society or help others - only your personal success and self-pleasure while living matter.

Tarquin says it best, though much more humorously, here: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html

By Rush's personal measure, he absolutely won. So did Kissinger. So did Reagan. Trump and Jones and Rogan are on track.

You don't beat such people with legacy.

[-] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

Here's the comic. Thanks, it was a good read.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm an atheist, however my personal interpretation of the afterlife is how people remember you. That way you're judged by your peers (all of humanity).

So arguably being famous is a very good deal, as many more people will remember you. However if you're a shitty bastard, like Limbaugh, you'll be remembered as a greedy count for quite some time before forgetfulness sets in.

Deservedly so imho

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

You can either make somthing for younger generations. Or burn what's been built for your own pleasure.

Boomers made thier choice

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[-] Paradigm_shift@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Even if you cared about legacy, realistically, how many people are remembered for more than a few generations, if they are remembered at all?

Even the majority of the leaders of nations are only remembered by historians, people with a high interest in history and briefly by some students studying for their next test, and these will be mainly the leaders of their own country. Unless they did something exceptional good or bad.

And then there are a few exceptional high achieving writers, inventors, scientists and academics. Even within their field most become irrelevant and forgotten after a few decades.

Some ordinary people who did extraordinary things might also be remembered.

But if you compare that to the enormous amount of people who have lived and died, basically no one will be remembered after their death. I'm not making excuses for the bad behaviors of horrible people, I'm just saying that losing all relevance and not being remembered after death isn't special.

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[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 33 points 1 month ago

All I remember is that piece of shit Rush Limbaugh is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA.

Very useful information to know.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

But why would you want to remember he even existed?

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 23 points 1 month ago

It's good to know where you have a bathroom.

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 30 points 1 month ago

Honestly I hadn't thought of him until this post about that tweet.

Talk about a living.

[-] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 27 points 1 month ago

"farting fake fury five days a week" is going to be my new go-to. 👍

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

That was a beautiful alliteration, but in reality it's 24/7.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

His grave is a famous rest stop for some.

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[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

Limbaugh's dead? I guess it's been years since I thought of him last.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 28 points 1 month ago

He died of lung cancer from all the cigar smoking after decades to claiming that smoking doesn't cause cancer.

I wouldn't wish for anyone's death, but I can certainly celebrate it after the fact.

[-] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He's also the reason no conservatives believe in climate change. He started the meme that it's a socialist conspiracy to extract money out of the US. So not only did he not contribute anything worthwhile, he actively worked to make money at the whole world's expense.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

That's okay, after filling out a USPS online change of address form I'm now wishing for the death of DeJoy, I can add a random conservative pundit to the list no problem to make up for your lax hate game.

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[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

I'd say his replacement is Alex Jones, and his replacement is Joe Rogan. It's just a series of ignorant men with microphones and an even more ignorant audience.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Rush, Carlson, Hannity, O'Reilly, no one remembers them or will remember them after they're gone. Agitators who screamed into the void and only served to fatten their pockets and make the world worse.

[-] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

I'll never forget "There's no words on it!"

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 1 month ago

For a long time, I hated him. Then for a brief moment, I thought he was hilarious because I figured it had to be satire with how over the top it was. Then went right back to hating him when I found out it wasn't satire at all.

[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

I still don't really understand his guest roles on family guy. He had to have known he was the joke, but still did it anyway.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago

Easy: he didn't actually believe in anything other than the next paycheque.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah the problem is new hate mongers keep getting born

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I hadn't thought of him since the last time somebody trashed him. That is his legacy. He is like Joseph McCarthy in the 50's. Just another example of what not to be.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago

I would argue he created a fuckton of value for those that paid him.

Billionaires and the ownership class were the big winners of Limbaughs legacy and the same could be said of the Faux "news" primetime peanut gallery...

Obligatory: I FUCKING HATE PROPAGANDISTS!

[-] thenextguy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I didn't even know (or care) that he was dead.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

They'll die, yes, but they'll be survived by another, larger generation of them.

You don't remember a single mold cell, but it's really fucking hard to get rid of the entire infestation.

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised no one has brought this up yet but how wealthy was rush when he died?

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Allegedly $600 mil.

Hope it was worth it. The world was objectively a better place when he died. I wonder if he thought about all the hate he spread while he lay dying.

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Rush knew that when he was saying controversial or maddening things that his numbers went up.

The day he died:

https://imgur.com/7vQSxwt

[-] SkabySkalywag@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That's not true.

I look at Rush Lindburgers children's book for plenty of entertainment value!

I also remind people that being an opiate addicted, insecure, racist waste of human being is NO impediment to winning our Medal of Freedom !

So there!

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

He was a shit stain - terribly annoying while you have one and not missed at all once it fucking rots away with cancer.

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