worth some reflection
Somehow, Dick Cheney is still alive.
Henry Kissinger died.
Submitted 10 months ago by unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
crt0o@lemm.ee 10 months ago
MisterMoo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Limbaugh too, remember him? I barely do but I know it’s good he’s dead.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Congrats on his four years sober, though
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Henry Rollins has a story about how he liked going to William Shatner’s christmas parties, I mean I guess somebody went, sure, but one year he got there and recognized Limbaugh’s voice from afar, and noped the fuck out, like he did not trust himself to deal with that guy in a civilized manner.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
reminds me of this:
billionaires - what are you saving for? hell?
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
They’re not saving, that’s a faulty belief. The majority of them aren’t even liquid
They’re hoarding as frequently mentioned but it’s not about resources, really, it’s about control and power. Power and valuation are linked somewhat, but it takes more than that
Say my company is amazon, as an example. I hoard ownership stake and equity. I do not give workers a share and pay them minimally. I give investors as little as possible and buy back shares whenever I can. I raise the valuation by increasing the worth of company initially through traditional performance means: sell more stuff, productivity, efficiency, etc. but eventually I get so big at this I have to look at how to diversify to increase power. I enter other markets. Now I’m not just a online retail store, I’m a logistics company, I’m a pharmacy, I’m a web host for 50+% of the internet, I’m a key player in media streaming, I’m a smart home device manufacturer, I’m an ebook manufacturer, etc. I have dominance across dozens of markets
By hoarding equity I maintain control of that company to a significant degree. At this point there is likely a board that can override me for the sake of the shareholders who have taken a large portion of my equity but there is no other single person that has my power.
The equity comes with massive resource benefits of course, it’s basically infinite money chest and even if I’m not liquid I can get a loan for infinity dollars at a moments notice because I’m obviously good for it. But the real motivation for hoarding is because if I stop? Even for a second? I lose this power
That’s why they never retire. They only step down and put some weenie ceo in their place who won’t get their full power until they’re decrepit or dead. How many people can name the ceo of amazon now? (It’s Andy jassy, has a 0.02% ownership stake in amazon) but everyone knows bezos (9.6% ownership stake in amazon, 1.023 billion shares). People only knew tim cook because jobs literally knew he was about to die and his ownership stake is minimal (0.021% vs jobs 0.2% at his death). Who can name the CEO of twitter (Linda yaccarino, no ownership)? Musk is still the ceo of tesla (70% stake in twitter, 12.8% tesla). Even with these minimal ownership stakes though these people are filthy rich - jassy and cook both have a net worth well over half a billion from that alone.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
the overarching question for me, though, has always been “why”?
i do understand that it’s a question that’s only asked by one who’s never held power, though.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Billionnaires are hoarders. Like all hoarders, they don’t need what they hoard.
The problem for the rest of us is, instead of hoarding empty tincans or Hello Kitty figurines, they hoard money that they get in large part by not paying their fair share of taxes, and the money they hoard lets them buy politicians who in turn let them steal even more tax money.
wakko@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kissinger died in 2023.
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Even better.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
still celebrating it. i literally thought about it in the shower the other day.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
let’s hear it for the next genocidal methusaleh. trump wishes he could do it. fucker probably want to erase all memory of kissinger, not that he never admired the old man witch.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
The death of Henry Kissinger is a heartwarming reminder that life imposes an expiry date on even the most terrible people with power.
Or as Chaplin said: dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
A comforting thought in Trump’s America. Because remember: Trump is 79. His expiry date is fast coming - and not a minute too soon, I might add. All we really have to pay attention to is that none of his younger henchmen succeed him.
That’s the legacy of Henry Kissinger. Damn his rotting corpse.
admin@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Or as Chaplin said: dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Copium. They die, but their impact remains. It is carried on by their victims, the people whose loved ones they killed, the policies they made, the borders they drew, and the wealth they displaced.
They robbed people of their future. their atrocities changed the genetics of their victims.
Their victims will be seen as simply uncultured, bad people by future generations with a blurry sense of the past.
stoy@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Kissinger died at 100 years old, that is still potentially 21 years if Trump will live to 100 as well…
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I highly doubt he’ll survive this long. He’s a fat burger lover, and his personal physician swears he’s in excellent health - which probably means the exact opposite, seeing as though anybody gravitating around Trump is a pathological liar.
tartarin@lemm.ee 10 months ago
JFK too.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
kinda low on the list of bad guys. the whole Kennedy family though? JFK’s dad lobotomized his own daughter because she was problematic. deeply evil clan, that one.