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I don't know. The fact that Dick Cheney is still alive is kind of proof there is no loving god imho.
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We said the same of Kissinger and Thatcher.
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My father was extremely intelligent. Usually one of the smartest people in the room. He predicted Dick Cheney's imminent demise shortly after he'd had some rather dramatic heart surgery. "That's one of the last things they do." He said. "You spend a year to 18 months clinging to life before your body just gives up."
He would go on to retire, enjoy several years of retirement, come down with an extremely rare progressive disease, go through enough testing to get successfully diagnosed, go through treatment, and unfortunately pass away.
He could have done all that twice since Dick Cheney got that fucking heart surgery. My dad was a good, if flawed man, and that genocidal mother fucker is the one still drawing breath.
If God is real, he is not good.
If he is good, he is not real.
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My dad was a devout Christian. Really into it. Way more defensible than an average American Christian. You should have seen how many people prayed for his recovery when he was sick. Dead at 58. Didn't see any of his children get married, nor any of his grand kids, which he would have really loved and they would have benefited from.
He would have been blown away by a 1TB thumb drive for 100 dollars (he was nerd like me). I miss him.
The god he believed in certainly isn't real.
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you know, ive always heard "only the good die young" and I cant help but believe it.
my father died when I was 18 and the funeral procession was so long people were laughing. his only brother, my uncle, has raging full-ass narcissistic personality disorder and terrorizes everyone who has the displeasure of knowing him. healthy and thriving nearly 30 years after his brother died. he didnt seem sad at the funeral.
anyway!! i was talking to a muslim guy i know who's mother recently died very suddenly from a terrible cancer and he said that in islam there is a notion that 'the righteous are spared a protracted death'. I liked that quite a bit. kinda similar but also a rather different take on the idea
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I'm sorry about your dad. I lost mine too early also and am tempted to find comfort in what you say but it still rings hollow to me. I think my father would have chosen the protracted death. Also, if god has any power, why not heal our dads instead of killing them quickly? In the end it seems I'm just trying to make myself feel better when in reality, there is no justice in a great many things in this world, our fathers death's included.
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Unfortunately, deeply caring about the suffering around you in the world is actually very bad for your health.
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god helps those who help themselves
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to our freedom and wealth. Yeah seems kinda obvious if you think about it.
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Yeah, that's why so many kids die every day.
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By shoving everyone else down.
That's one shitty God.
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Kissinger made it past 100, too.
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Depends on the religion.
For Muslims, we are told that God gives respite to people; so that after they die and they face hell they will beg to be sent back so they can undo all the harms they did, and will be told no because they were mercifully given extra time on earth to do that and refused.
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I didn't know that; that's actually kind of poetically beautiful. If only I could convince myself to believe it. But beautiful nonetheless.
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Everyone has to learn this sooner or later.
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God must be a Kochsucker
Edit: though I guess one did die… but not both my point still stands
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30 Rock: "He's mostly metal now..."
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And even with his passing nothing will fundamentally change for the better, because he isn't the exception to an otherwise good system. He's a symptom of a fundamentally oppressive system.
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But it will be worth celebrating regardless.
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The lack of specificity reminds me of the joke about the Russians getting arrested for holding up blank signs that actually came true https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protests-police-arrest-activists-holding-blank-signs-paper-1687603
Edit: apparently the blank sign thing goes back farther than I realized https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_paper_protest
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the lack of writing and slogans on the paper itself is designed to thwart efforts by authorities to prove that their prohibitions and regulations have been violate
Well, it doesn't always work
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This is kinda stupid, there’s a million assholes available to take the place of current top asshole. The only cure is to address the reason why assholes get the amount of power they do. FDR-style socialism and high taxes will address so much of this.
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For some reason Trump is a cult of personality though no one else on the right can duplicate. So many voters that casted for only Trump on their ballots. There will be a big hole for MAGA to fill and noone comes to mind that all his followers will rally to.
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Nothing will Fundamentally Change®
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But that won't get as many updoots.
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and all the news stations will look back on his life in the most positive of lights. Anyone expressing joy for the passing of this terrible person will be chided for daring to disrespect someone who didn't respect any of us peasants when he was alive.
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Fortunately it won't bring the fucker back to life.
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AI might "keep him going" for a bit though.
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Happens to most historical figures. Look at how dumbasses of the world romanticize people like Alexander the great or Genghis Khan
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1737915646/one-day-we-will-wake-up-to-his-obituary
Unfortunately they are not available in bulk.
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Thanks for the link! I just ordered four which I'm going to turn into magnets and give out at Xmas this year
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Keep an eye on Tumblr for the crabbiest of crab raves.
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It's gonna be disappointing though. I remember when Reagan died. We all had to be silent out of politeness while Republicans pretended he was the greatest American ever.
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Not this time.
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
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You're all wrong. This is about NPR's This American Life host Ira Glass.
He knows what he did.
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I like the lack of specificity because Make America Great Again is just as nonspecific.
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In the Soviet Union, there was a man who every morning went to the news kiosk, picked up a newspaper, looked at the front page and put it back. After a few weeks, the seller asked him what he was doing. “I’m looking for an obituary”, he said.
“But obituaries aren’t on the front page”
“This one will be”
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The true knowledge it that each of us will wake up to our own obituary.......
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we won't wake up tho
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Obviously.
I should have included some slashies I guess.
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It's referring to the man in the image. Isn't that obvious?
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It's Piers Morgan, right?
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Won't happen anytime soon. There are others on the list much more likely to go first.
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Well not with that attitude
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The only thing I'll say on this is that I can't think of anyone on the geopolitical level who's death would cause somebody better to show up, presumably everyone has a system more or less like the US and the replacement is from the same party with more or less the same platform.
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It's the worst form of right wing authoritarianism. The terror is stochastic, the institutional violence is slow, the captains of industry are all in on it, the figureheads are interchangeable, and the dystopic aspects are distracting and soul numbing rather than providing a sense of being a hard-bitten underdog. There's nobody you can kill, nothing to destroy that would end it, and all the people with the most credible alternative ideas will demand that you read a shitload of stuff and will still bicker and undercut each other rather than do it.
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Soon?
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Can't give them even a wisp of an excuse to target anyone
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Finally, collectivists, Hamas and Hamas supporters divorced from Life.
That's the dream
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A joyous day and a holiday decree for the day Hamas and all their supporters are rapemurdered to double death
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Ah, ignorance and hate based off assumptions
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Democrats only winning strategy.
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Why just Democrats? The entire free world will celebrate the end of that worthless orange sack of fascist shit.
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Just pointing out, Dems only strategy that will result in a trump loss is waiting who the fuck knows how long for him to die.
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I hate this. This is not about Democrats vs Republicans. It's about goddamn people. The people that live in a nation that was SUPPOSED to help the poor and unprivileged. It was SUPPOSED to be by the people and for the people. But the people that voted are goddamn morons and the ones that didn't pouted like a petulant child because "it's not progressive enough". Grow the fuck up. There was more at stake then your Instagram followers allegiance.
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It's true but he shouldn't say it marge.jpg
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