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Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother Charles was both celebrated and demonized for transforming American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, died Friday at 79.
The cause of death was not disclosed, but Koch Industries said Koch, who lived in New York City, had contended for years with various illnesses, including prostate cancer.
https://www.twincities.com/2019/08/23/ap-source-billionaire-david-koch-has-died-at-age-79/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/david-koch-dead.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-koch-died-conservative-donor-and-philanthropist-dead-age-79-2019-08-23/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/23/david-koch-dies-billionaire-leader-koch-industries-79/2094016001/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Snotnose on Saturday August 24 2019, @01:56AM (23 children)
A guy with political beliefs you don't agree with dies and you're all "Whoo hoo!" "Yay" "Where is he buried so I can piss on his grave?".
Can't wait for a Clinton to die and see you same assholes wondering how dare people "Whoo hoo!" "Yay", and "Where is s/he buried so I can piss on the grave".
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 5, Informative) by TheGratefulNet on Saturday August 24 2019, @02:15AM (8 children)
its WAY WAY more than 'just a guy we all disagreed with'.
usage of the word 'evil' is discouraged, as its a rather simplistic idea, but this guy has his picture in the dictionary when you look up the word 'evil'.
the world is a better place for him NOT being alive in it.
its hard to describe the total amount of damage he and his family have done to the world.
he can rot in hell. in fact, hell is too good for him.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @02:23AM
John Birch Society. JBS. His father. Think about it. Evil? We're not talking Google, here.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:02AM (2 children)
I don't miss him either. But the Koch brothers and others like them aren't the root of the problem. It's all those minions who empower them. Big bosses would get nowhere if it weren't for all the wealth worshipping fools whose aspiration in life is to be a rich and powerful man's poodle. The minions will find another master to whip and beat the laziness out of them, and tell them the lies they like to hear. There's an endless supply of wannabe big men.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @04:43AM (1 child)
well how much Georgia Pacific wood and paper products are in your house? That's the real empowerment we inadvertently have all given them over the years.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday August 24 2019, @05:30PM
Exactly. I don't know what the answer is yet though, other than moving into a barrel to live, like Diogenes the Dog (these days you'd keep getting "moved along" if not arrested). Not having any kids is a start.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday August 24 2019, @11:00AM (2 children)
I notice nobody tries to describe - perhaps they don't actually know? No "total amount of damage" is complete without the other side of the balance sheet, such as being a huge employer, providing valuable resources to society, and for SN, providing considerable support to freedom-seeking viewpoints in society.
Then again, I don't know much about the guy, maybe you should actually talk about this evil sometime?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @04:19PM (1 child)
You have opinions and "detailed" info on everything but somehow you don't know much about the Koch bros?
Fucking lawl, conservatives getting all upset that people are glad this evil twat is gone.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 24 2019, @10:46PM
Is this supposed to be a quote or a "scare" quote? Because it's not a quote. And if it's a scare quote, then it means nothing since nobody is claiming any sort sort of detail here.
I guess they would just appalled at the ignorance displayed. I know I am.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday August 24 2019, @06:26PM
Actually Charles Koch wore a Darth Vader outfit to work one halloween [gizmodo.com] just to trigger people that thought about him this way.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:31AM
I'm gloating because he and his brother are huge leftie shitbirds.
Libertarianism is just a leftist heresy but just as left as any of the lefties.
The Koch brothers are one of the biggest funders of NPR and similar liberal shitbag propaganda machines.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:36AM (4 children)
We're not criticizing his words or his beliefs. We're criticizing his ACTIONS. We're still allowed to do that, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @05:42AM
Who are you and what have you done with the real DeathMonkey ?
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday August 24 2019, @05:50AM (2 children)
Would you like to do so? With some specificity? Not just old dead man bad? Please?
What did he do that was so wrong?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 24 2019, @01:46PM (1 child)
Investing 14 BILLION dollars in the overthrow of the Ukrainian government, so he and his brother could install their own fascist regime. No other deeds needed to justify hatred for a man - that one is more than enough.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday August 24 2019, @04:32PM
I never heard he was involved in that.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @05:20AM (1 child)
Original anonymous coward here. You seem to think it's Koch vs. Clintons. It isn't, but it's how MSM wants you to see things.
The truth is they are both evil self serving short sighted deluded egomaniacs, selling the country part and parcel.
Their methods are different but they both hate the citizenry.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by deimtee on Saturday August 24 2019, @05:48AM
They don't hate the citizenry. That would be like you hating the worms in your garden. They see you as a useful resource most of time, but they won't hesitate to squash you when you get in the way. Or to put a hook through you when they go fishing. You don't matter enough to be hated.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 24 2019, @01:44PM
Good observation. Except for me, of course. I'll feel the exact same way about her death, if I live long enough to read about it. That old crone will probably outlive me, though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @02:11PM (1 child)
It's not simply political beliefs. He went out of his way to throw money at any moron with a degree able to throw an air of intellectualism on his fucked up notions, and took advantage of disturbing loopholes in American tax law to not only get tax writeoffs for doing so, but pass money to his kids tax-free doing so.
Or, more plainly: he set out to benefit from poisoning the well of public discourse. He tried to make it impossible to have reasoned and honest discussions about government (or society, or the environment, or commerce). He certainly succeeded in making it harder, and his kids are richer for it.
For that, he gets the same in death from me as he got in life: awe at the potential of his wealth, and contempt for what he chose to piss it away on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @06:45PM
"and took advantage of disturbing loopholes in American tax law to not only get tax writeoffs for doing so, but pass money to his kids tax-free doing so."
oh the horror! only idiots, whores and traitors pay the income tax.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Saturday August 24 2019, @02:49PM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @04:27PM
I can see you, in the long past, saying apologizing words after Hitler died. How touching.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @10:52PM
The level of hatred for the Kochs doesn't even come close to the insanity you RWNJs have for the Clintons. I won't shed a tear when the Clintons pass on, but I fully expect worse vitriol from you loons.