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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[–] 88 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago

    The world is a slightly better place

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Death's claw machine grabs another prize.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Rest in piss

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

    He's gone below where the goblins go.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Rest in piss

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago
    [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    BREAKING NEWS

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

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    . He was 84.

    it's always the worst who leave the last

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    84 is pretty much the average life expectancy for a man in the US, isn't it? Or at least for wealthy men in the US.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Damn. 5 more years of trump on this planet. Can he please be expedited? Next week or tomorrow, or in 5 minutes or as soon as I click "submit" on this comment would be great.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

    Needs a few dozen others in the obituary now.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fox News was October 96 not sure how they got 77

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This should be news in Iraq.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (11 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

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Having a number 1 in evil doesn't mean there's no number 2.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And Gee Dubya is definitely a number 2.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Another terrorist down

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Quail shaped humans can rest peacefully now

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

    • slightly paraphrased Bette Davis
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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Fucking finally.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    'member the ole days when they were just evil.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Fuck that bitch

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Too little too late

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Thank fucking entropy.

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  • [+] 7 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
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    I'm always torn. Should I join in and provide my "thoughts and prayers", or should I ignore such deaths, not comment, and hope this news passes from the feeds?

    Well, I guess I made my choice, because I commented. So, thanks for nothing, Dick, and fuck you for all the harm you caused. Good riddance.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Rest in Piss, Dick

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  • Oh no. Anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    A surprising one. Strange.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Rot in piss.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    That guy was a warmonger and opportunist, but I like his daughter.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    ITT: people who rejoiced when he endorsed harris.

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    Sure, I'll just dig around for old threads from more than a year ago in order to provide examples of centrists being happy with dick cheney's endorsement just to have you immediately dismiss them and demand more.

    Yeah, lemmy's responsive enough to do that quickly and you're not just trying to waste my time in bad faith.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    funny you should mention bad faith

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Demands to prove the obvious just because you know doing so would be a huge pain in the ass? Yeah, the people I described have already downvoted me.

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