One of the Koch brothers has died

Can't say I'm heartbroken.

Can we drag out the thoughts and prayers trope?

So then, this is more a case of the "good" brother dying and we won't really see any less Koch involvement in politics.

“A lot”? Bull. He gave away a pittance compared to his obscene wealth of $42 billion. Giving away <3% of his billions (and much of it to "educational" charities that front for his libertarian ideologies) does NOTHING to negate the evil he has done to our planet and the least capable among us.

My thoughts and prayers are with his family. (Please note the sarcasm)

I couldn’t get past how the newscaster kept pronouncing his name to delve any further into this story. I had always thought it was pronounced like Mayor Ed Koch.

"How does one eulogize a villain? It’s a question I find myself asking today after reading the news that David H Koch has died. What else can we really call a man who spent his entire adult life enriching himself at the expense of the world around him, leaving in his wake millions of destroyed lives, a planet on the brink of ecological catastrophe, and a nuclear superpower governed by a far-right political party?

While it is generally impolitic to castigate someone after death, in the case of David Koch, it’s hard not to point out that his life’s work was the destruction of others.

Koch went by many titles — billionaire industrialist, businessman, philanthropist, entrepreneur, conservative activist, libertarian vice presidential candidate — and I expect we’ll see many of those thrown around today. But “villain” is the one that suited him best.

Indeed, such is the appropriate term for a profoundly wealthy man who relies on a shadowy network of political advocacy groups to sell unpopular, detrimental policies to unsuspecting voters for the purposes of personal gain. "

yeah, so I found out, my mind was blown lol

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In lieu of flowers, the Koch family requests you buy a Republican politician.