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An angry red head wearing a purple shirt with the X-Men logo on the breast knocks over Death and grabs him by the robe with tears in her eyes. She points to the claw machine Death was playing which is currently picking up a doll of Sir Patrick Stewart.
Dot: One⦠Just take ONE fascist billionaire. Or is this some kind of sick game to you?!
I'm going to be quite direct here:
The fascist billionaires aren't old enough. If you want one to die, kill one. Commit some violence. Make them go the way of Charlie Kirk.
matt Kaufman
Need the pull bin to be full of recognizable characters like Musk, the Waltons, Murdoch, and Trump, and the gravestone graphics to have the names of Dolly, Sir Patrick, Tim Curry, and the like.
Trump is in thereβ¦.
Where? They look like random creations, like eyepatches and stuff. I donβt see an orange tan and bad combover.
Bottom middle. Blonde combover and the face is scribbled orange
Ah, you're right. Didn't register for some reason. "X" marks the spot.
Are the Waltons recognisable at all? As for Murdoch and Trump I guess a bunch of old farts, and one of them orange. But would an orange old guy be investigated for threats against potus?
Youβd only need a few recognizable ones for people to get the drift. Musk, trump, Bezos, and Thiel would be likely to work.
At least he took Lindsay Graham and, effectively, Mitch McConnell
Mitch is still occupying that seat and votes, Weekend at Bernie's style.
He died the way he lived. Being an obstructionist.
Rofl wow you're right, it is weekend at berries.
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And then his sister inherited the crown because Democracy
βI? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT?β -Pratchett
Gnu sir terry
I made a little firefox extension to collect the clacks headers some websites use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clacks-collector/
Unfortunately there aren't many that do, but my websites do, and they include sir Patrick Stewart since yesterday :)
"A man is not dead while is name is still spoken."
I just finished rereading Going Postal a month ago. :)
I actually haven't read that one yet but I've been going through the Discworld series by subseries as recommended by Discworld Emporium, and I have been enjoying his work a lot. Very much looking forward to reading the origins of the Clacks.
Shitty copper.
Ea-nΔαΉ£ir will live forever.
GNU STP
What about Charlie Kirk?
He wasnβt 2026
Oh wow, it's been an entire year since then. Wild.
Sorry, the comic didn't mention a year but I see the text does.
He also wasn't a billionaire.
Still glad he got picked up by the claw machine
Billionaires have good healthcare unfortunately
They're all on that adrenochrome QAnon kept on raving about.
I mean, I get your point. But Sir Patrick Stewart was also insanely loaded. And even at his advanced age probably had better healthcare than most of us. Still. Sad.
Very sadly, there's only so much even the best healthcare can do with what ended Patrick Stewart's life. Some things just can't be made better.
Two things are certain in this world, death and taxes.
Unless you're a billionaire then only death and a few of them are trying very hard to keep that at bay for as long as possible .
Didn't one of those bio hacking nuts give himself a terminal condition a month or so ago?
I donβt know if he gave it to himself, but one of them has a terminal auto immune disease. Bryan Johnson.
I dunno chief, Patrick was getting pretty old. Nothing lasts forever, our heroes need to move on and rest.
Mr. Spock: A Vulcan would face such a loss without tears.
Young Spock: How?
Mr. Spock: By understanding every life comes to an end when time demands it. Loss of life is to be mourned, but only if the life was wasted.
--Star Trek: TAS, Yesteryear
When those fascists finally die nobody at their funeral will have truly loved them, and the world will not collectively mourn the loss of someone who made it better.
While I get it, Iβd rather appreciate these people and the lives they lived.
The ones like Dolly and Patrick Stewart lived good lives that inspired us all for the better. They reached a good old age surrounded by loved ones before passing on. We would all be lucky to be half as fortunate, and our collective grief serves as a testament to their character.
The fascists funerals will be packed, but most will be there to verify that they are actually dead, and then to party.
There's a great book by John Scalzi called Starter Villain. It starts off with a pretty normal guy being asked to preside over his estranged uncle's funeral. It gets pretty funny when every guest who attends is just there to make sure the body is in fact dead and is really the uncle. I was surprised with how much I enjoyed the book.
Hopefully they will be open casket.
The casket:
2 of the 3 Hunt brothers are gone. They were a nasty bunch in their day.
The only Hunt Brothers I'm aware of are the delicious gas station pizza guys.
Death: it is YOUR job, not mine to fix YOUR problems, not mine. But of course all you're going to do is demand random deities to make things better for you.