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[–] psycho_driver 4 points 1 hour ago

His grave is a famous rest stop for some.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm surprised no one has brought this up yet but how wealthy was rush when he died?

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 53 minutes ago

Allegedly $600 mil.

Hope it was worth it. The world was objectively a better place when he died. I wonder if he thought about all the hate he spread while he lay dying.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago

Honestly I hadn't thought of him until this post about that tweet.

Talk about a living.

[–] carl_dungeon 4 points 4 hours ago

He was a shit stain - terribly annoying while you have one and not missed at all once it fucking rots away with cancer.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

All I remember is that piece of shit Rush Limbaugh is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA.

Very useful information to know.

[–] teamevil 1 points 1 hour ago

Ugh another reason for why Missouri is the worst state

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But why would you want to remember he even existed?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago

It's good to know where you have a bathroom.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

For a long time, I hated him. Then for a brief moment, I thought he was hilarious because I figured it had to be satire with how over the top it was. Then went right back to hating him when I found out it wasn't satire at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I still don't really understand his guest roles on family guy. He had to have known he was the joke, but still did it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

Easy: he didn't actually believe in anything other than the next paycheque.

[–] Bertuccio 17 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (4 children)

This misunderstands the motivations of real-life evil people.

Once you accept there is no afterlife, that your legacy means nothing, and that you're a piece of shit who has no desire to contribute to society or help others - only your personal success and self-pleasure while living matter.

Tarquin says it best, though much more humorously, here: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html

By Rush's personal measure, he absolutely won. So did Kissinger. So did Reagan. Trump and Jones and Rogan are on track.

You don't beat such people with legacy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Here's the comic. Thanks, it was a good read.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

I don't think that most of the people we might consider evil have that level of self-awareness. Certainly those with a pathological lack of empathy are overrepresented in the highest echelons of power. It doesn't logically follow that they see themselves as bad.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke 5 points 6 hours ago

You can either make somthing for younger generations. Or burn what's been built for your own pleasure.

Boomers made thier choice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Tarquin ! What a beautiful reference. Sadly still as pertinent as ever.

[–] Xanthrax 18 points 9 hours ago

I'd say his replacement is Alex Jones, and his replacement is Joe Rogan. It's just a series of ignorant men with microphones and an even more ignorant audience.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Ugh, I did not need my favourite web comic being associated with Limbaugh.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Limbaugh's dead? I guess it's been years since I thought of him last.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

He died of lung cancer from all the cigar smoking after decades to claiming that smoking doesn't cause cancer.

I wouldn't wish for anyone's death, but I can certainly celebrate it after the fact.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

He's also the reason no conservatives believe in climate change. He started the meme that it's a socialist conspiracy to extract money out of the US. So not only did he not contribute anything worthwhile, he actively worked to make money at the whole world's expense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

That's okay, after filling out a USPS online change of address form I'm now wishing for the death of DeJoy, I can add a random conservative pundit to the list no problem to make up for your lax hate game.

[–] njm1314 14 points 9 hours ago

Yeah the problem is new hate mongers keep getting born

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 45 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

One frustrating thing about Limbaugh (and Jones and Hannity, et al) is that they made Being Angry a Right Wing Thing.

Extremely frustrating when you see a genocide in Gaza or global temperatures spiking or some cop shoot up a subway over a $3 fare, express anger, and have someone respond "You just sound like Rush Limbaugh".

There are real reasons to feel righteous anger and to use that as motivation to act. But guys like Rush just fill the airways with this white nationalist noise. They make the idea of being angry this exclusive Right Wing attitude to have.

[–] Sanctus 1 points 4 hours ago

The First Labor of Heracles is reeling right now

[–] CodexArcanum 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is that you can be angry all day and it won't accomplish anything without coordinated, planned, collective action. And collective action is made more difficult with angry people.

Anger motivates you to act Right Now, which is why it's good for reactionaries. They want you either impotently angry so you can't think clearly to make those long term, organized plans; or they want you mad enough to go do a little stochastic terrorism.

Progressives have a lot of trouble hitting the slow-burn simmer of anger in a way that's motivational and doesn't slip into despair when you get tired from all that rage that you can't turn into immediate results.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

We need to get better at allowing righteous anger

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

A decade ago - all the rage bait YouTubers.

Today:

LibsOfTiktok

Laura whatever her name is who is sucking off Trump right now

Probably a bunch more names.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Laura whatever her name is who is sucking off Trump right now

Apparently she got dumped by the campaign team.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/laura-loomer-anti-republican-posts-donald-trump-travel/

[–] TexasDrunk 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

From the WaPo article (where the daily dot got its info)

He also promised advisers he would not regularly invite her to travel with him on his plane

Emphasis mine. He didn't dump her, he just said he wouldn't invite her regularly.

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[–] SpaceNoodle 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I was about to correct you and say that YouTube didn't even exist a decade ago, and now I feel old instead

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

You're off by a lot! Youtube is almost 20

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 12 hours ago

My brother was into him back in the day (he still has shit taste) and another sibling and I found a clip of him telling fox news he makes things up and does it all for the money. Brother didn’t care and just kept listening to the guy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Thats mostly because he lost his popularity when Internet poscasts started taking over, now we have a new generation of asshole podcasters like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And I wouldn't know who they are but for the memes ridiculing them. LOL

[–] humorlessrepost 2 points 3 hours ago

Ben Shapiro? Isn’t that the guy who can’t get his Doctor Wife wet?

[–] xc2215x 1 points 6 hours ago

So many have taken his place now.

[–] MehBlah 12 points 11 hours ago

I hadn't thought of him since the last time somebody trashed him. That is his legacy. He is like Joseph McCarthy in the 50's. Just another example of what not to be.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"farting fake fury five days a week" is going to be my new go-to. 👍

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

That was a beautiful alliteration, but in reality it's 24/7.

[–] xantoxis 7 points 11 hours ago

They'll die, yes, but they'll be survived by another, larger generation of them.

You don't remember a single mold cell, but it's really fucking hard to get rid of the entire infestation.

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