• mvilain@kbin.social
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    My great Aunt had a terrific joke about Henry:

    Nixon is walking outside the Whitehouse near an area of freshly fallen snow.

    He sees NIXON SUCKS in yellow snow and asks the Secret Service (and the FBI) to investigate who did it.

    A couple days go by and someone from the FBI Forensics Lab comes into the Oval Office to report.

    “Well?” Nixon asked.

    “You’re not gonna like this.”

    “Just tell me.”

    “It’s Henry’s.”

    “I knew it!”

    “Ah. That’s not all Mr. President.”

    “What else?”

    “It’s Pat’s handwriting.”

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    Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1, Thatcher, Mao, Thọ, and many more scumbags welcome this monster in hell. Disgusting.

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      three and four million people

      That would make the list go: Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Kissinger. With the difference that the US has been a terrorist state for over a hundred years, while the other names on the list have been individuals while Kissingers was part of a greater evil.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Instead, in a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and – shamefully, since Kissinger had reporters like CBS’ Marvin Kalb and the New York Times‘ Hendrick Smith wiretapped – newsrooms.

    Kissinger, a refugee from the Nazis who became a pedigreed member of the “Eastern Establishment” Nixon hated, was a practitioner of American greatness, and so the press lionized him as the cold-blooded genius who restored America’s prestige from the agony of Vietnam.

    It was this sort of unacceptable policy that prompted Kissinger to remark, during an intelligence meeting about two months before Allende’s election, “I don’t see why we need to stand idly by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.”

    As Corey Robin has documented, Friedrich von Hayek’s neoliberal Mont Pelerin Society held a 1981 meeting in the very city where the junta plotted the replacement of democratic socialism with a harbinger of today’s global economic order.

    Five days later, a car bomb emplaced by Pinochet’s agents detonated along Washington D.C.’s Embassy Row, killing Orlando Letelier, Allende’s foreign minister, and his American co-worker, Ronni Moffitt.

    The Vietnamese guerilla and justice minister Truong Nhu Tang writes in his Viet Cong Memoir that Kissinger, whose intellect he praises, “inherited a conceptual framework from his American and French predecessors…that led him to disaster.”


    The original article contains 4,663 words, the summary contains 239 words. Saved 95%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    After reading the article, I’m left with the impression that, if he wasn’t jew, he’d be right at home with the german nazi govt. Not necessarily because of racial bias, but because of his anticommunism and also for being able to direct the military against unsuspecting targets for the sole purpose of solidifying power.

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    So are we all just going to wait for the ruling class to die off like he did or are we going to stand for justice and do something about the other evil motherfuckers in the elite still living?

    • mcc@sh.itjust.works
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      What are you talking about, we are going to breed our generation of evil motherfuckers.