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submitted 10 months ago by SteveKLord@slrpnk.net to c/news@beehaw.org

The infamy of Nixon's foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history's worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 27 points 10 months ago

Finally an accurate headline.

[-] Overzeetop@beehaw.org 20 points 10 months ago

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize." -Tom Lehrer

[-] Biff@beehaw.org 15 points 10 months ago

About time.

[-] library_napper@monyet.cc 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut

Its so fucked up that he died outside of a prison cell.

[-] satan@r.nf 7 points 10 months ago

US is a safe space for war criminals. 😇

[-] SteveKLord@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago

And that he lived for so long

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

Nah, I wish he'd live forever. Forever decaying, more frail and incapable with each passing day. Just wishing for the sweet release of death, but never actually getting it.

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago

I almost wish I believed in a Hell for Kissinger to go to. Hopefully his grave will have a urinal installed.

[-] library_napper@monyet.cc 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection in June 2001.

McVeigh, who in his own psychotic way thought he was saving America, never remotely killed on the scale of Kissinger...

author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s ...meant the end of between three and four million people.

this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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