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[–] [email protected] 174 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The way the headline started out and was phrased, I thought he died.

You can imagine my disappointment.

[–] 0110010001100010 61 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Asshole is 92 years old, how is he still alive?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ProfessorProteus 23 points 1 year ago

Henry Kissinger is apparently still alive, at age 100. There is no god.

[–] Chainweasel 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Money is the fountain of youth in this country. Can you imagine if the US had universal Heathcare like every other developed nation in the world? The Proles might live as long as the elites and we can't have that now, can we?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I mean, the snark is absolutely warranted but for anyone who’s not clear - yeah. That’s the whole idea. Poor people die working cheaply, then the next crop who don’t know shit yet get promoted and continue happily working for cheap. Capitalism is inherently built to fail in just this way. It’s better than some alternatives, i.e. monarchy, but the end stages are just - this - over and over. No healthcare, more guns.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Heaps and heaps of money, and possibly deals with evil supernatural creatures.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The evil acts of spreading lies to destroy our democracy keeps him unnaturally alive.

Murdoch is a wicked man.

[–] TwoGems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being rich means never being stressed or working and having access to medical care that keeps you alive like a blood sucking vampire.

[–] daneBramage 4 points 1 year ago

He literally has blood infusions from healthier young men. Literal vampire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well Henry Kissinger is gonna die this week, so hopefully he’s next on the chopping block

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."- Clarence Darrow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I actually read that he dropped dead… it’s more than time