• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      11·
      7 hours ago

      Allegedly $600 mil.

      Hope it was worth it. The world was objectively a better place when he died. I wonder if he thought about all the hate he spread while he lay dying.

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    17·
    12 hours ago

    All I remember is that piece of shit Rush Limbaugh is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA.

    Very useful information to know.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    12·
    12 hours ago

    For a long time, I hated him. Then for a brief moment, I thought he was hilarious because I figured it had to be satire with how over the top it was. Then went right back to hating him when I found out it wasn’t satire at all.

    • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      12 hours ago

      I still don’t really understand his guest roles on family guy. He had to have known he was the joke, but still did it anyway.

  • Bertuccio@lemmy.world
    212·
    13 hours ago

    This misunderstands the motivations of real-life evil people.

    Once you accept there is no afterlife, that your legacy means nothing, and that you’re a piece of shit who has no desire to contribute to society or help others - only your personal success and self-pleasure while living matter.

    Tarquin says it best, though much more humorously, here: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html

    By Rush’s personal measure, he absolutely won. So did Kissinger. So did Reagan. Trump and Jones and Rogan are on track.

    You don’t beat such people with legacy.

    • ochi_chernye@startrek.website
      61·
      13 hours ago

      I don’t think that most of the people we might consider evil have that level of self-awareness. Certainly those with a pathological lack of empathy are overrepresented in the highest echelons of power. It doesn’t logically follow that they see themselves as bad.

  • Xanthrax@lemmy.world
    211·
    15 hours ago

    I’d say his replacement is Alex Jones, and his replacement is Joe Rogan. It’s just a series of ignorant men with microphones and an even more ignorant audience.

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        31·
        6 hours ago

        “Associated with”? That’s definitely incorrect. Maybe"referencing", “calling out” or even “denouncing”…

        • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Associate: a mental connection between ideas or things.

          “the word bureaucracy has unpleasant associations”

          the action of making a mental connection.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    10 hours ago

    He was a shit stain - terribly annoying while you have one and not missed at all once it fucking rots away with cancer.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    492·
    18 hours ago

    One frustrating thing about Limbaugh (and Jones and Hannity, et al) is that they made Being Angry a Right Wing Thing.

    Extremely frustrating when you see a genocide in Gaza or global temperatures spiking or some cop shoot up a subway over a $3 fare, express anger, and have someone respond “You just sound like Rush Limbaugh”.

    There are real reasons to feel righteous anger and to use that as motivation to act. But guys like Rush just fill the airways with this white nationalist noise. They make the idea of being angry this exclusive Right Wing attitude to have.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      That is frustrating. I would counter those people that being passionate is not the same thing as extremist media personalities that literally profit off outrage. It’s okay to hear and react to things, but we shouldn’t all be open fucking sores that flip out over literally every single thing we encounter like an autistic toddler: all emotion, no perspective, can’t be reasoned with, etc. That’s the Republican Outage Machine…

    • Codex@lemmy.world
      141·
      17 hours ago

      The problem is that you can be angry all day and it won’t accomplish anything without coordinated, planned, collective action. And collective action is made more difficult with angry people.

      Anger motivates you to act Right Now, which is why it’s good for reactionaries. They want you either impotently angry so you can’t think clearly to make those long term, organized plans; or they want you mad enough to go do a little stochastic terrorism.

      Progressives have a lot of trouble hitting the slow-burn simmer of anger in a way that’s motivational and doesn’t slip into despair when you get tired from all that rage that you can’t turn into immediate results.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        14 hours ago

        The problem is that you can be angry all day and it won’t accomplish anything without coordinated, planned, collective action. And collective action is made more difficult with angry people.

        I disagree. People who aren’t agitated make for poor partners. They’re unreliable, uncommitted, and easily wooed by empty platitudes from the folks committing the offenses.

        Anger motivates you to act Right Now, which is why it’s good for reactionaries.

        Generic always-on anger burns you out and turns you into a cynic. It’s the cynicism that reactionaries feed on. But when you have a baseline moral position and you can recognize what does and does not rise to the level of offense, you can leverage outrage productively rather than feel sour and hateful all the time.

        Progressives have a lot of trouble hitting the slow-burn simmer of anger in a way that’s motivational and doesn’t slip into despair when you get tired from all that rage that you can’t turn into immediate results.

        Progressives (in the US) have a hard time mobilizing large groups toward productive action because they lack the resources and the institutional structure to mobilize individual activists into a collective workforce. When progressives get access to these kinds of resources, they generate enormous social value in a relatively short amount of time. The despair we routinely see in progressive communities stems from groups that are fractured - often deliberately so - and undermined by state and corporate institutions.

    • moody@lemmings.world
      27·
      16 hours ago

      He died of lung cancer from all the cigar smoking after decades to claiming that smoking doesn’t cause cancer.

      I wouldn’t wish for anyone’s death, but I can certainly celebrate it after the fact.

      • HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        131·
        15 hours ago

        He’s also the reason no conservatives believe in climate change. He started the meme that it’s a socialist conspiracy to extract money out of the US. So not only did he not contribute anything worthwhile, he actively worked to make money at the whole world’s expense.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        3·
        15 hours ago

        That’s okay, after filling out a USPS online change of address form I’m now wishing for the death of DeJoy, I can add a random conservative pundit to the list no problem to make up for your lax hate game.

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    60·
    19 hours ago

    A decade ago - all the rage bait YouTubers.

    Today:

    LibsOfTiktok

    Laura whatever her name is who is sucking off Trump right now

    Probably a bunch more names.

  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
    341·
    19 hours ago

    My brother was into him back in the day (he still has shit taste) and another sibling and I found a clip of him telling fox news he makes things up and does it all for the money. Brother didn’t care and just kept listening to the guy