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Dick ‘Darth Vader’ Cheney Is Dead
I am not in the mood to write about the death of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. Alan has caught the gist of what needs to be said of it.
Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod – 12:20 utc · Nov 4, 2025
The only thing sad about Dick Cheney’s death is that it did not happen inside an Iraqi prison.
Over the years there have been a few MoA post on Cheney:
- The VP – Why is Cheney so full of hate?, Nov 22, 2005
- Cheney Fails Again, Feb 12, 2006
- Cheney Administration Expresses Self-knowledge, May 27, 2007
- Cheney and Friends – by Antifa, Jun 21, 2008
- Chimera – Chemera – Chenera – Chener – Cheney, Sep 6, 2008
The one written by Antifa is probably the best of them. The last one is also of current interest.
[…] My point is that the system is the system. It has not varied.
Posted by: steel_porupine | Nov 5 2025 0:14 utc | 91
There is a reason it has not varied: people by and large are morally bereft to the point they quite like the system and the shysters it produces, or too timid and asleep to do something about it.
“the system” isn’t some vague abstract concept imposed on society, but the standard modus operandi we, the public, accept. Power structures, ways of controlling developments, capacity to self-perpetuate, our generations and many before us have kept alive, even sanctioned, by never questioning them, conforming to their rules, playing our part in it, ie. voting over and over establishment hacks or sellouts into office.
“the system” would change the day the majority declares we no longer approve its rotten characteristics. High time to recognise that the system is us.
[…] Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, Clinton, Obama, Trump and now Rubio, Vance and the whole clutch of fascistic, Christian zionists that dominate US and western politics are taking their turns. […]
Posted by: Vragtes | Nov 5 2025 0:35 utc | 94
These a-grade fucksticks didn’t just fall out of the sky into their positions, they were voted in. By people so retarded they fall for same bullshit every bloody election time. We live in a sea of morons.
[…] Personalities are not the problem. The system is. […]
People are the problem. That’s at the root of it. The reason we have oligarchs is because people accept that there are oligarchs. Not only accept, admire and enrich those bastards every time they pay their twitter subscription or buy stuff from Amazon. The reason we have corrupt and psychopathic politicians is because people dumber than a bag of hammers vote for them. We are the system.
[…] But as they die, I shed no tears, just regrets that the societies they destroyed, didn’t try them and exact deserved retribution.
I’m with you on that. Cheney’s passing is yet another lost opportunity for Americans to have held one of their prime war criminals to account. There is just no will to do so among the people of this nation. They will chase a shop lifter to the edge of the world to arrest him and lock him up for years, but let mass murderers and political corruption go unpunished. Then again, no different than most other nations.
Stuck on a planet of <fill in the blank>.
Posted by: Juan Moment | Nov 5 2025 10:54 utc | 116
@steel 2
Quote “Despite decades of smearing Dick Cheney and sneering at him, ABC’s George Stephanopoulis gushed over him in death because Che”
Cheney was a British agent especially his wife.
Remember how a murderer na y from England got away from under charge and jail all due to Cheney’s wife’s making an agitation against American justice in favour of British murderer ?
By the way today another British murderer has been given respite from jail and sent back to Britain this tells you how much hold England has on US politics, judiciary. Media and propaganda machinery.
Remember this in 1997
SEPTEMEBR, 1997.
Exploitation of U.S.A. by England and her Agents.
The recent case of an English servant( au pair) by name of miss Woodward being convicted of man-slaughter of an American baby of American parents and yet allowed to walk away Scot free highlights those who did not realize earlier) the complete hold of England and her agents on the affairs of U.S.A. 19-year old child minder Louise Woodward convicted of murdering by shaking a baby to death. But due to all BBC propaganda and British pressure, the American judge later freed Woodward, reducing her sentence to less than a year of time served.
In other words that murderer walked away Scot free immediately after judgement -while some black Americans are behind prisons for 15 years for possession of 15 grams of marijuanas.
The same english media and her agents in America were doing free propaganda for the girl and even before and after the trial were declaring the convicted girl innocent. It is the same media (B.B.C. And others of same punk types) who have all through last 15 years been doing propaganda against Blacks, Hispanic and what not, and have fully pushed for tough measures against drug takings on the basis that with drug scare a lot of Blacks would be (and have been) put behind bar for more than 15 to 20 years on trumped up charge of possessing !5 dollars worth of Hassis. It is the same British (more specifically english) media and peoples who are pro-capital punishment (as long as victims are non-english) , pro hard line policing( only against non-english peoples), more pro tobacc0,more pro rotten british beef, more pro big british business( but anti-foreigners` business-whiplash against Japanese ownership of a few American concerns but complete silence of American firm being hostile way being taken by british and Canadian firms is one example), more pro pollution, more anti-environment, very pro-english financial institutions` hold on world economy (but against European finance getting strong–anti-European Single currency is for that reason), very anti-cultured( they call it pragmatism) and very anti-foreign countries (Usa, Canada, and Australia excepted as these are regarded by English press as their colony( they call it across the pond, or english backwater))), very anti-blacks, anti-whites of Europe, anti non anglo saxon whites of America and even anti-Scottish
British media–racist– (BBC was giving vehement
propaganda against Scottish devolution). BBC even suggested that Wales referendum peoples who lost referendum (i.e. english sympathisers in Wales) should revolt against Wales referendum result). These all characteristics you find daily in and out in programmes of BBC, independent channels, satellite english channel, all enlish papers. there is no difference between tabloids and broadsheets in England ,they all are owned, produced, edited, written and read and edited by low life forms). In fact what they try to project to others especially Americans is exactly opposite of what they actually. They deride other cultural things (like French) but would try to impress Americans as torch bearer of culture. In fact in name of pragmatism ( really meaning slimy, low life) they deride all cultural things. They are hardly musical but would make the most of commercial success out of music. In fact when German style techno music started getting popular, because it would eat away british music industry’s carefully orchestrated profit and also because money would probably go to foreign bands, the BBC and all english media started orchestrated propaganda against that music scene falsely claiming that it was full of antisocial elements consuming drugs and doing crimes. That is how the techno music scene was killed in Britain. That propaganda was worse than Soviet propaganda against pop music. That is how one never hears of excellent pop girl group Tic-Tac while
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Posted by: sam | Nov 5 2025 19:33 utc | 144
I have a slightly contrarian view of Cheney’s possible long-term geopolitical legacy, in keeping with the distinction made on this thread by canuck, between Cheney’s blind, rigid ideological proclivities and Kissinger’s geopolitical genius.
While initial major changes to US China policy were first begun with detente under Nixon/Kissinger, and later continued with the ascension to the WTO under Clinton, it was Cheney and the Neocons’ absolute obsession with controlling the Middle East and its vast oil and dollar flows that gave China the space it needed to develop into what is now the world’s largest, and most productive and advanced industrial and scientific economy. China, while not perfect, certainly does not possess some 800 military bases spanning the globe, which allow it to go around the world overthrowing governments, invading countries, killing people, and spreading radioactive depleted uranium waste, much less engaging in untested biological warfare. A multi-polar world is bound to be a better world than one lead by a uni-polar psychopath hellbent on the impossible aim of total domination and control.
Cheney, and the neocons, operating under the ideological guidance of the “Wolfowitz Doctrine” and “The Project for a New American Century,” felt that absolute US and Israeli hegemony were non-negotiable, and their single-minded obsession with this Sisyphean goal over almost three decades (initially projected to take five years), created both the impetus, and the temporal opening, which allowed the emerging multi-polar world to begin a delicate germination, and subsequent assimilation, rapid growth, and preliminary coalescence. If this hypothesis is true, and a more equal and just world does emerge from the last three decades of single-minded unrestrained murder and mayhem that the US has unleashed upon the world, than Cheney, and the Neocons he championed, deserve some small, if completely incidental, credit for this propitious and entirely unexpected turn of events. These unintended and ironic consequences of the Cheney-led foreign policy, often termed “perverse results,” or more idiomatically “the accidental scoring of an own goal,” lead one to carefully hew to the longest sensible horizon in the judging of the moral and practical outcomes of policies and geopolitical events—despite the compassion one naturally feels for the victims, those who have suffered and died along the way from these misguided, both morally and strategically, inhumane policies.
Therefore, while I would not hesitate to piss on Cheney’s grave and cover it over with spent buckshot, I also quietly smile inside at the thought that even God herself has a perverse and mischievous sense of humor at the dark, obscure, and often inscrutable labyrinthine turnings of events in this mysterious and magnificent creation we miraculously inhabit.
Posted by: Malooga | Nov 5 2025 20:43 utc | 148
A great friend and hero of the Imperialist Democratic Party. His ugly mini me war monger spawn is still lauded as a praiseworthy member of the “resistance”, along side of that freedom fight John Bolton. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 4 2025 20:26 utc | 41
Dembot extreme! The working class are the true reactionaries right? Not the ruling class Dem billionaire Zios. No! It’s the people forced to slave for them or live in a cardboard box. And of course, Cheney dedicated his whole life to improving the living standards of workers internationally. Who would doubt it? But that’s good, Heaven. You spoke your mind and we know just who you are now. Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 4 2025 23:04 utc | 76
For Cheney who’s been long associated with the Republican party, Ahenobarbus’s comment on him is to join with steel_porcupine to yell that he’s a Democrat because he failed to endorse Ahenobarbus’s messiah, Trump.
And while the global working class aren’t reactionaries, the American labor aristocrats are undoubtedly reactionaries, or you wouldn’t have such scathing commentaries from Lenin and Engel when they spoke of labor aristocrats in the imperial core.
For example, on October 7, 1858, Engels wrote to Marx: “The English proletariat is actually becoming more and more bourgeois, so that this most bourgeois of all nations is apparently aiming ultimately at the possession of a bourgeois aristocracy and a bourgeois proletariat alongside the bourgeoisie. For a nation which exploits the whole world this is of course to a certain extent justifiable.”
In the United States, immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe are engaged in the most poorly paid jobs, while American workers provide the highest percentage of overseers or of the better-paid workers.[12] Imperialism has the tendency to create privileged sections also among the workers, and to detach them from the broad masses of the proletariat.
The sentiments of Lenin and Engel towards the American labor aristocrats are echoed on MoA as recently as 2008, before b’s turn to Trumpism that has attracted him a large following of Trump cultists who now spew their bile unchecked on MoA as the core original leftists moved on to friendlier pastures. Just look at the post b himself shared!
Cheney and Friends – by Antifa, Jun 21, 2008
What would bring on that rapid collapse? Losing the petrodollar, the reserve currency status of the fiat dollar that has let America live way beyond its means for nearly half a century. We get to print endless money, with no apparent consequence to ourselves. Other nations that do that hit the canvas, real quick. Posted by: Antifa | Jun 21 2008 12:13 utc | 21
Indeed, for Americans to continue to live in MacMansions, buy ‘my stuff’ from China, and drive Suvs for recreation, as a stereotyped example of the middle class, requires a maintenance not of the status quo (the situation has already changed radically) but of returning to a past world – say under Clinton 1. (Billy deregulated the financial markets, opted for globalization, and created ersatz ‘growth’, so even that might not apply.) Domination, hegemony seem the only option – do or die, follow thru on investment, use that military might. Posted by: Tangerine | Jun 21 2008 15:31 utc | 2
Stop trying to wear the mask of a Marxist when you’re a run-of-the-mill liberal, Ahenobarbus. You once said that you’ll consider allying with the progressive liberals so long as they agree to enshrine the protection of conservative values as a middle ground. That statement not only shows that your chief concern is the static conservation of conservatism, it also exposes you for being the complete antithesis of the very foundation of Marxism, dialectical materialism and constant change.
You’re not Persian, you fake ass billionaire house slave. But, you do prove the bourgeois reality behind the radical phrasemonger: the posing rad hates the workers and wishes desperately to have money like Trump, but they can’t, so they’re mad. You’re about the stupidest fake left piece of shit I’ve encountered here. That or a run of the mill troll. I’m handing you the black spot, matey! Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 4 2025 23:14 utc | 77
You are one sick puppy. Your warped Leftist psychological state reminds Nietzsche’s ‘ressentiment’ of which you are one:: “Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment is a psychological state of internalized hatred and bitterness felt by the weak or oppressed towards those who are strong. This feeling arises from a sense of powerlessness and frustration, leading to a revaluation of values where the strong are condemned as “evil” and the weak are defined as “good”. It is a key motivator behind the “slave revolt in morality,” which Nietzsche argued led to the creation of Western morality, and can manifest as scapegoating, self-hatred, or an ascetic lifestyle. ” Fuck Off. Posted by: canuk | Nov 5 2025 12:34 utc | 124
Thank you for acknowledging that, from the perspective of Nietzsche whom you both so admire (whose philosophy I care not one whit about), I am so strong that you’ve resorted to calling me sick because you’re frustrated about the accurate diagnosis I have of your political positions and are powerless to rebut my points.
Death to America
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Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 5 2025 23:55 utc | 152
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