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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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 87 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Satan when he gets there:

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 52 points 6 months ago

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 11 points 6 months ago

I hope he enjoys those flames in hell

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

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 52 points 6 months ago

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 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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 39 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Death's claw machine grabs another prize.

[-] Trying2KnowMyself 24 points 6 months ago
[-] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 23 points 6 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.

[-] Ancalagon@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

Rest in piss

[-] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Rest in piss

[-] CatAssTrophy@safest.space 20 points 6 months ago

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 8 points 6 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 19 points 6 months ago

BREAKING NEWS

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

[-] jontree255@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago
[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago

. He was 84.

it's always the worst who leave the last

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[-] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

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 8 points 6 months ago

He's not even top 10 any more.

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago
[-] pyre@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

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

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 5 points 6 months ago

If they had a time machine the whole time why bother with all this?

[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Fox News was October 96 not sure how they got 77

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sorry, I meant 1997, but fat-fingered this new phone. Still a year off, but close enough for going off my mental notes.

The point remains - rather than remembering Cheney for opposing Trump at the end, remember that he devised and built the Conservative Propaganda Machine, which has lied and cheated relentlessly, and allowed the rise of the worst brand of Sociopathic Oligarchs, and the scummiest form of Republicans that he eventually opposed. He holds a lot of the responsibility for MAGA.

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

This should be news in Iraq.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

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

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

He actually only served 9 months in prison. Worth it.

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[-] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 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

[-] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 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
[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Quail shaped humans can rest peacefully now

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 points 6 months ago

Fucking finally.

[-] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

'member the ole days when they were just evil.

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

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

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Fuck that bitch

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

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

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

This is a sad day. A war criminal died without ever having to pay for his crimes.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago

It's times like this, that I really wish I believed in Hell. If it exists, he's having a very bad time right now.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Thank fucking entropy.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

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

[-] eestileib 3 points 6 months ago

Well he got to see his fondest dreams come true I guess.

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