Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’
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Wow! Mitch Mcconnell and Lindsey Graham in the same year? The world is indeed slowly starting to heal! Now do Fat Donnie and Erdogone, and I'll throw a party.
Musk, Bebe, Putin and Farage to that mix.
Actually all billionaires too would be nice
Erdogan instead of Netenyahu huh.
No Putin!?!
Netanyahu? Thiel? Miller? Schumer? Musk?
Imagine if they all just croaked though.
Now id assume someone finally got a death note.
I don't count sheep at night, I go over my death note list
I just came.
All in good time.
they are next on the list. I'm becoming like Arya Stark
Fuck Schumer but it's absolute madness putting him in that list and before Musk. Like listing Hitler, Himmler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Stalin.
Let Putin be the bedraggled old leftovers hopelessly outclassed by their replacements.
Nah man, he deserves worse
I’d settle for something ironic, like falling out a high rise window.
True that's the best outcome for any evil old ruler in terms of actual progreas. But sometimes they come back like Trump and they are often still in the background quietly fucking everything up.
McConnell ain't dead yet (unfortunately). Or did I miss something?
There's zero proof he is alive.
There's lots of evidence he is dead.
People are just being realistic
There's also a strong incentive for the current administration to not announce his death.
They've probably thrown his body off the end of a pier in the middle of the night by now.
I heard that Lindsey Graham is having a 20 minute long conversation with him right now.
He may be doing guard duty over the Epstein Files right now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_at_Bernie's
He's completely absent from everything and if they announce he's dead now they have to have a special election to replace him.
If they wait until 8/3, then the seat just stays empty and whoever gets elected in November gets seated in January:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Kentucky
The issue is systematic rather than few evil people
True, but a few evil people dying is not so bad.
you're not entirely wrong but not entirely right. there are people who seem to be both causes and symbols of the dysfunction in society. without a few specific evil people, a few specific evils wouldn't have occurred. we'd have different evils, but there's no guarantee they'd be better or worse. the people just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and took advantage of it.
I disagree the system is the set of rule that determine what evil people can do and what they get away with it. The system that allow presidents to get away with war crimes is going to naturally generate more extreme evil people.
i guess the point i'm trying to make is that a few people are very very effective at what we're calling evil (not entirely sure how broadly we're defining that) and have, due to their positions, shaped the rules of The System to their advantage.
i think we're looking at different ends of The System, though. probably just differences in our experience. some of the rules, yes, function as limitations. some are more aspirational. stuff like research or public service grants. there are a lot of societal functions where charitable organizations are filling the gap left in government services. they often get grants from the government to run said services, in essence making them quasi-governmental corporations.
essentially there's the part of The Rules (both written down and socially implied norms) describing what the folk running the system should be doing if they're acting in good faith. then there's the part punishing people if they aren't engaging with the system in good faith. it all kind of breaks down when a significant portion of the population starts engaging with the system in bad faith, especially if those people are in positions to write or enforce The Rules governing the system.