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Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 90 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub 61 points 5 months ago

May all his organ donors finally rest in peace.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I haven't forgotten all the suffering this man caused. I hope he enjoys those flames in hell. I still can't believe he was an honored guest on the Dem national platform because Trump is evil. One less war criminal more to go.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 months ago

I hope he enjoys those flames in hell

Wouldn't that be nice? If only...

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One of the chief architects of our current fascist state, only fighting against it when it became clear he was not going to be in charge of it. A vile person who exploited American grief in order to profiteer on the deaths of millions. Fuck him and good riddance.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

He didn't even "fight against it." His daughter, who is still a piece of shit, might have. Kind of.

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[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ah the good old times when we thought it couldn't get any eviler than Cheney...

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

We thought Haliburton was so evil. It was. And now everything else is evil too.

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 42 points 5 months ago

The world is a slightly better place

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Death's claw machine grabs another prize.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago
[–] Ancalagon@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Rest in piss

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 23 points 5 months ago

If there is anyone who deserves to eternally burn in a perpetual form of suffering in an afterlife, its this piece of shit human being.

[–] CatAssTrophy@safest.space 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ding Dong the Dick is dead, the wicked Dick. Which old Dick? The wicked Dick.

He's gone below where the goblins go.

[–] mmcintyre@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

You posted this a few seconds before I read it, which means Ding Dong the Dick is Dead likely was playing in both our heads at the same time! I wish it was possible to know many people heard (or sang!) that song just now.

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

BREAKING NEWS

SATAN CALLS CABINET MEETING WITH LORDS OF HELL. FEARS OF COUP EVIDENT WITH PRESENCE OF KISSINGER. RECENT ARRIVAL OF CHENEY.

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

Rest in piss

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago
[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago (8 children)

. He was 84.

it's always the worst who leave the last

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[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This just doesn't have the same punch I was hoping it would when reading.

Needs a few dozen others in the obituary now.

[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

He's not even top 10 any more.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago
[–] pyre@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

"influential"—his "influence" was war crimes. He was a war criminal vice president.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Many will forget that in the wake of Nixon's resignation, WH staffers Cheney and Roger Ailes decided that it was the fault of the "liberal Hollywood media" for relentlessly hammering the Republicans (for their crimes).

So they conceived a Conservative Propaganda Machine to get their message out. First they found Rush Limbaugh, and started to syndicate him across the country. Conservative talk radio was everywhere, but several limited by the Fairness Doctrine.

Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, and instantly radio stations across the country went to 24 hour conservative talk, with Limbaugh as the anchor.

In the early 90s, with Roger Ailes producing, they tried a 30 minute TV show, to run following the news, so conservative viewers didn't have to go from the news directly to a late night talk show bashing Republicans. It ran for about a year, but they quit because it too much for Rush to do a 3 hour live radio show, then a half hour live TV show, but it was proof of concept.

With that success, they launched Fox News in ~~1977~~ 1997, and that became the tentpole of the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This should be news in Iraq.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hope the guy that threw his shoes at Bush has a very good day.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Satan's new assistant.

Probably.

He'll have to defeat Kissinger to win that title.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Imagine that slap fight.

[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not a religious or spiritual sort, but from the first time I saw him during the election as VP candidate, I truly sensed evil. Good riddance

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Yes. Not to whitewash GWB at all but Cheney was the true evil of that administration

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was clear to anyone paying attention. GWB was a patsy. Doddering idiot.

By all accounts he had a good heart, but terrible friends and family.

Cheney took the opportunity to run the presidency from the shadows, and did great evil in GWB's name.

With that said, they both barely hold a candle to the evil of the current admin.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Don't give GWB that much credit, he was playing up the bumbling idiot schtick as a smokescreen for what was going on behind the scenes

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

Certainly could be true.

He did evil, whether he was putting on a show for it or genuinely an idiot, he performed a lot of evil.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He lost his first campaign because he was “that egghead from Harvard.”

He certainly recalibrated and leaned into a fake Texan accent after that.

Whether he is an actual bumblefuck I can’t say. He’s certainly a legacy admission.

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[–] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

Lol at least my day is a little bit brighter

The neocons were some of the most dangerous because they were smart and quiet. Now our dangerous right wingers are zealous and stupid and loud. Which…I mean, neither are good. Fascists gonna fascist

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

'member the ole days when they were just evil.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When they committed their evil outside of the country on foreign soil where it didn't directly affect you

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 points 5 months ago

Fucking finally.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Quail shaped humans can rest peacefully now

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

Another terrorist down

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . [Dick Cheney] is dead. Good.

  • slightly paraphrased Bette Davis
[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I always thought of him as the guy who destroyed Iraq so he could make money off of Halliburton rebuilding it.

Also, he shot his duck hunting buddy in the face.

Not a fascist though. He was certainly no friend to dictator Saddam.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Fuck that bitch

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Too little too late

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Hope all the people who died in the Iraq war do this to him in the afterlife.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I don't buy it. Has anyone checked for horcruxes or phylacteries? Any pets nearby he was unusual close with?

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