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[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Misleading headline. The fucker is still alive.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah... Not really an eat the onion situation, but my first thought was this was a satire on actual news that he was dead.

Got my hopes up for a sec. The world will be a better place when that evil traitor finally dies.

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

That was my thought process as well, that this was a piece they had waiting for the right moment.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Might be a bit disrespectful to do that, eh? I'm pretty sure no outlet has actually satirized a real recent death

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It'd be disrespectful as fuck. Which is exactly what he deserves.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like there are some universal standards that need to be applied to everyone, especially since this guy didn't do something similar.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Agreed - I propose that as a universal standard, we celebrate the death of evil individuals with good spirits and good humor.

Affording dignity to traitors like Mitch McConnell, even posthumously, serves only to encourage others to follow in his footsteps, which brings only agony to the living.

So when he finally does us all a favor and stops stealing our oxygen let us dance upon his corpse (metaphorically ofc - your shoes would become absolutely disgusting if you took that literally).

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean they paid for it, along with his soul

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Shit. Thought he was actually dead

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

They're just going to dump it somewhere like all their other toxic waste.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

The body spins inside it's compartment when democracy works and slows down to a crawl as government approaches fascism and finally stops to a comfortable sleeping position when dictatorial fascism is achieved.

Democratically minded leaders are considering using the spinning corpse and attaching it to a generator as a possible source of free electricity.

[–] halferect@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I will celebrate the day mitch dies.