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Millennials know all about this. And the hate-mongers of today will die with nobody to remember them
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Ugh, I did not need my favourite web comic being associated with Limbaugh.
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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.
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/
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.
Ahh. So not really dumping just not flying her everywhere. Got it.
Nah, I heard that she ran out of tictacs, and had the nerve to ask Trump to start washing occasionally, instead of popping a mint before going down.
That's not the point of the tictac blowie but now I hope they make a menthol version
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I was about to correct you and say that YouTube didn't even exist a decade ago, and now I feel old instead
YouTube had already gone through several eras a decade ago.
Saying that makes me want to yell at a cloud.
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.
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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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
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.
Here's the comic. Thanks, it was a good read.
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
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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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.
I don't think that most of the people we might consider evil have that level of self-awareness. Certainly those with a pathological lack of empathy are overrepresented in the highest echelons of power. It doesn't logically follow that they see themselves as bad.
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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.
But why would you want to remember he even existed?
It's good to know where you have a bathroom.
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Honestly I hadn't thought of him until this post about that tweet.
Talk about a living.
Limbaugh's dead? I guess it's been years since I thought of him last.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Easy: he didn't actually believe in anything other than the next paycheque.
Yeah the problem is new hate mongers keep getting born
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.
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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I didn't even know (or care) that he was dead.
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!
I'm surprised no one has brought this up yet but how wealthy was rush when he died?
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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Rush knew that when he was saying controversial or maddening things that his numbers went up.
The day he died:
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