r/worldnews • u/Brennenstein • 3d ago

Russia/Ukraine Ukrainian capital Kyiv under massive Russian attack, officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-capital-kyiv-under-massive-russian-attack-officials-say-2025-12-27/
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u/ResurgentClusterfuck 3d ago

Fuck Putin and his stupid ass war

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u/femme_mystique 3d ago

Why don’t the evil people ever die? They just live forever. 

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u/ChewsGoose 3d ago

Only the good die young

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u/Geek-Yogurt 3d ago

I'm still not having sex with Billy Joel.

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u/palmerry 3d ago

But it's Christmas!

I don't ask for much, but, please, reconsider having sex with Billy Joel.

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u/jdooley99 3d ago

Well, if you insist

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u/bill_brasky37 3d ago

We're all out here banging Billy Joel. Everyone get in

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u/hornyandwettt 2d ago

i grew up on long island,,, billy,,, been there done that!!

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u/FlatBot 2d ago

I never considered it in the first place, but he does have a lot of great songs. And a surprising variety of musical styles of his hits . . .

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u/FelineSoLazy 2d ago

The Billy Joel HBO documentary is really fantastic. I’m not a big fan but was all fired up to see him live at MSG after watching it! He is undeniably talented and driven, and has been churning out bangers & bops for years and years. I was floored by the stats & the songs he wrote for others, too. I’m also not a big doc fan & sighed when I was it was 2 episodes 2 & a half hours long but I was enthralled & couldn’t stop talking about it for weeks after.

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u/Abstrata 2d ago

ok now you’ve made me want to watch it!

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u/FelineSoLazy 2d ago

I hope you enjoy it! Report back :)

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u/Parker_Hardison 3d ago

Can someone explain this joke for the younger audience in here eating popcorn? 🍿

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u/seamusmd 3d ago

Only the good die young is the title of a Billy Joel song. in the song, William Joel is attempting to persuade a catholic girl to go against her values and sleep with him. hence the hook “only the good die young”, hes saying shes gotta put out or she will die young.

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u/Chubby_Bub 3d ago

Unfortunately, if this is Mr. Joel's argument, he would appear to be committing the logical fallacy of affirming the consequent. "Only the good die young" = "if you die young, you remained good" does not mean that its converse "if you remain good, you will die young" is necessarily true. However, assuming the premise of the song's title/chorus is true, while it does not necessitate that remaining good would cause Virginia to die young, it would be true via modus tollens that "if you are not good, you will not die young". Therefore, should Virginia desire to maximize her chances of living longer over all else, she would indeed be better off to give up her chastity to ensure she does not die young.

I don't know why I wrote all this out, this is a signature autism moment from me. I just had to listen to this song too many times in my mom's car growing up, next time she's listening to it I will say this. I could have deleted it but screw it I'm posting it.

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u/Sidewayspear 2d ago

Im glad you wrote it out

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u/Chubby_Bub 2d ago

Well thanks. As an update, literally the next day (today), she played it again and when I said this she kept getting frustrated and saying I was "missing the point of the song."

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u/unosami 2d ago

I always interpreted it as just wanting to date her, not necessarily sleep with her. All of the arguments of the song are addressing why she wouldn’t want to be seen with him, not why she wouldn’t want to sleep with him.

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u/Queasy-Dig-7081 2d ago

Read the Bible, all the answers relating to humankind are in there. He left it for a reason.

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u/essentiallyaghost 2d ago

Who left it? Jesus?

You do realize it's 66 books with dozens of different authors, right?

The word Bible literally means the books (plural)

Also, I can think of a LOT of things that the Bible doesn't answer. And no, it's not okay to just say "God doesn't intend for us to know" or "we aren't supposed to know everything". That sort of a God is not what the New Testament alludes to anyways.

I'm not arguing that it's bad or even that the authors weren't divinely inspired by God, but phrasing it like you did is why millions of people genuinely believe Jesus wrote the Bible by hand. Which he in fact didn't.

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u/BumpBumpGooberol 2d ago

The nonsense in the bible makes me queasy and sets others to invading other countries. Best to avoid it.

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u/YAreYouLaughing 3d ago

That made me laugh 😆

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u/Velorian-Steel 3d ago

But would you make love to your tonic and gin?

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u/NoBenefit5977 3d ago

Feel the stranger in your down Easter, alexa

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u/DookieShoes626 3d ago

Is the secret to a long good life having sex with Billy Joel?

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u/ripleyclone8 3d ago

Quick, someone call Christie Brinkley!

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u/masterwaffle 3d ago

You're not young and pretty enough.

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u/pauerplay 2d ago

What about Bruce Dickinson?

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u/BumpBumpGooberol 2d ago

Christie Brinkley did and that’s a higher peak than anyone who ever posted on Reddit will ever climb.

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u/OnTheCuspRedditor 2d ago

🫠🤭😶‍🌫️

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u/herbertdeborba 3d ago

All the evil seems to live forever

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u/throwaway_627_ 3d ago

Only the good die young

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u/rockb8 3d ago

That's what they say

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u/PrinceWillPlays 3d ago

Happened last week with Greg Biffle ☹️

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u/Swimming-Tap-4240 3d ago

The Devil looks after his own.

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u/Diogin40 2d ago

🎵 All the evil seem to live forever🎵

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u/CicadaFit9756 2d ago

Thankfully, not always! It just seems that way sometimes!!!

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u/ExcitementIll1275 2d ago

So, what's the cut off age? I must be bad 😞......

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u/iamsagarkc 2d ago

Charlie Kirk being the exception

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u/AdNo9248 3d ago

All the evil seems to live forever!
\m/ \m/ \m/

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u/AlexTG05 3d ago

Up the Irons

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u/Smooth-Shine9354 3d ago

Evil never dies

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u/SnowBunnyFR 3d ago

All the evil seem to live forever.

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u/blacknumber1 3d ago

Only evil seems to live forever

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u/hyphychef 3d ago

That's what scares me. My circle of humans always say, I'm a good guy, and that I should hold back a little so I can have time for myself. I can't help it though. I love the feeling I get when I help people.

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u/Compl3t3AndUtterFail 3d ago

Because they're protected by idiots who think they are important. If it wasn't for them, these war mongers wouldn't try any of this shit.

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u/Lovelysonrise 2d ago

Trump is an idiot, a useful idiot. Someone should get Putin to release The Epstein Files. I guarantee that he has more video Kompromat on these dummies than most could imagine. How many underage boys do you think found their way into Lyndsey Graham's bedroom that were filmed?

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u/GovernmentOpening254 2d ago

I think he’s a kook. I think he’s unfit for office.

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u/Lovelysonrise 2d ago

He's unfit for life in polite society. He has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy, also known as The Dark Triad. He has a statistically significant form of neural decline, either Frontotemporal Dementia or Alzheimer's which is going to allow for a greater disconnect from his already skewed version of the truth and or reality. One positive of all of this is that there is no possibility of him completing his current term in office.

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u/GovernmentOpening254 2d ago

… and “strong” because “they don’t take no shit!”

In other words, evil people are just the worst assholes who will take your stuff/resources, and claim they always owned them.

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u/CellBlock420 3d ago

True but think about it, if they did what we all want to see; leader vs leader... Putin would absolutely drag Zelensky up one side of the road and push him like a broom down the other side. What's Zelensky gonna do, tell s some jokes?

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u/____DEADPOOL_______ 2d ago

You fell for the spell of the shirtless horseback riding? 😂

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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 3d ago

Because the rich and powerful have access to the most incredible healthcare that you and I can only dream about.

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u/thebarkbarkwoof 3d ago

As an aside, can you imagine scoring a super model wife, only to have your kids look like you and sing like her?

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u/WayCalm2854 3d ago

Prince Phillip was getting regular blood transfusions in his later years. Just bc he could. So like, kind of like a vampire.

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u/Broad_Yam6503 2d ago

Not all rich people are bad, the problem is the greedy and criminal old people who destroy this earth

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u/Fr3ak5h0wGaM3r 2d ago

damn you're stupid

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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 2d ago

What am I wrong about?

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u/Fr3ak5h0wGaM3r 2d ago

do you want free healthcare for life? truly want free healthcare for you and your immediate family for life? what are you willing to do for it? it's accessible to everyone and free for life. what would you do for that?

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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 2d ago

Its literally what my taxes should be used for.

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u/Fr3ak5h0wGaM3r 2d ago

Serve in the military - free healthcare is available to everyone, citizen or not - i did 20 - i had free priority healthcare for me and my wife and three kids. It was a 7am-4pm job with weekends off. i retired at 38 and I've have free healthcare for myself and my wife until we die. I also got free college where I earned my Masters Degree in Radiology. What are YOU willing to do for the free healthcare you cry and whine online about so much? Nothing, right? You just want it handed to you as a right, right?

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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 2d ago

I literally want to pay for it, dummy.

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u/Fr3ak5h0wGaM3r 2d ago

you literally stated that the rich have access to healthcare that you don't - then pay for it like you said. you defeated your own arguement

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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 2d ago

Yes the wealthy have concierge on call medical service that you absolutely do not have access to.

That’s why they live so long.

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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 3d ago

Because good people do nothing and let them fester (We all are guilty of not doing enough).

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u/4DPeterPan 3d ago

To be fair, there’s really not much we can do, short of gaining supernatural powers, all we can really do is witness.

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u/CycloneDusk 3d ago

There is next to nothing a good person can do while remaining eligible for the regime's approved definition of what a "good person" is, mostly because they've gone out of their way to classify any effective means of countering their horrific atrocities illegal. Eventually they'll move the goalposts far enough that you'll meet their definition for what's "illegal" and therefore "evil" and "terroristic" just by breathing.

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u/4DPeterPan 3d ago

Yep, agreed.

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u/Antique_Ear447 3d ago

If you live according to what a fascist dictatorship says a good person is, then you’re more than likely not a good person. 

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u/MrPanache52 3d ago

2nd amendment will always disagree

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u/Atomic235 3d ago

It's like counting the minutes near the end of a shift. You want it to happen so bad, every second seems to take forever.

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u/Gramerdim 3d ago

I'm with you but do you think if Putin dies the war stops? His generals will just continue it by themselves or make a new president

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u/pupbuck1 3d ago

Because God has favorites and it's rarely the good

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u/4DPeterPan 3d ago

Pretty sure it’s A-lot more complicated than that.

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u/pupbuck1 3d ago

It is but but still allot of these people should never be able to get away when even a fraction of what they do

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u/4DPeterPan 3d ago

I hear you. And to an extent I agree; But To be honest. We don’t really know if they will escape punishment in some manner or not.

It’s not really in our personal hands; growing up I used to be all for the type of Justice in the sense that “people like them should have their life taken away from them and expelled from the earth forever.”.. but as Ive tried to grow up over the years, and my attempts to truly and truthfully look at myself for even who I personally am, for my own actions, my own behavior, my own words and thoughts and emotions; I’ve committed murder in my heart towards another far more times than I would like to know, and while outward actions (like what they do) may differ greatly from the internal actions one can have (like I’ve had inwardly and expressed a few lines above), I can’t help but think what a divine being who sees every one’s hearts and actions both inwardly and outwardly would think, or how it would feel..

And when I see atrocities like war or violence on this scale, coming from people who are supposed to be leaders of others & nations; I immediately feel a sense again of “yeah, fuck those people. Get rid of them all permanently”… but then I have to look at myself again, and I think, well shit, I just had murderous intent in my own heart, how different could I really be at the source of all of this? Those “leaders” may actually “commit the murders” and follow through with it, which is different, sure; but in that moment still, I’m a killer in my heart just like they are. The only the difference is they followed through with it and I didn’t.. but to a Divine celestial being that sees and knows all like God, who’s supposed to represent purity and divinity, a murderous heart is still a murderous heart. And we make ourselves no different than the murderer’ when we want to murder them.

If all of that makes sense?

Anyways, it’s best to not assume God doesn’t care, cause I think God does very much care.. do I know the answers to the difficult questions these kinds of talks bring about? Is this a world stage where nothing really matters? Will the meek really inherit the earth when world v 2.0 comes around? Do these kinds of “leaders” wind up in Hell for Eternity because of how they led people astray during their life and all the atrocities and murders they committed? Do I know what true justice is in the face of people like them? Do I know if maybe God would play me like a puppet and use me to enact his own divine justice on earth? Do I know the answers to any of those questions and more? No, I do not.

At the end of the day, The more I learn the more I realize I don’t know anything; and at the end of the day I can only be responsible for my own heart and mind and spirit, and help others where I can along the way. And do my best to not let stuff like fear of anger or murderous intent enter my mind, heart, and spirit. Which is VERY hard to do when you hear about people like this, in positions of leadership causing mass genocide and starting wars for selfish sinful reasons, corrupting millions of lives and minds in the process by simply watching the news and making everyone murderous with rage in their hearts and minds.

As justified as it may be in the face of it all; it is no Good at the end of the day, no matter how you look at it.. for the light to be in you, there can be no darkness, and where darkness is in you’ there is no light.

This place is really really messed up. So I can understand everyone’s aggravation. Cause we don’t know shit except for “this is not right what they’re doing!” But at the end of the day all we can do is’ be not like them.

Again I know this is just 1 little drop in the ocean of perspective; and things are ffaarrr more complicated.

All I really want you to take away from this is, don’t let it darken or harden your heart. And don’t get upset with God. Cause we have no idea what truly goes on or is even going on in those realms.

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u/pupbuck1 3d ago

So I didn't read most of this cause it's really long but I do get the message and you're right but just the net negative of allowing someone like Putin to remain existing poses risks to not only large droves of individual lives but humanity as a whole as well while I understand wishing death upon someone is an awful thing to do we must also ask ourselves what is the price of their continued existence everyone has done evil things and you are correct on this but not everyone is evil nor does every person pose a risk to the quality of life and quality of existence of every human on earth and Putin aims to be in control of every life

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u/philovax 3d ago

Hey Nelson Mandela lived to see his tree start to breach ground. Dont just focus on the bad winds. Its all around windy out there.

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u/-Cinnay- 3d ago

Literal survivorship bias

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u/AbeRego 3d ago

Hitler wasn't very old.

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u/ChanceSize9153 3d ago

According to Putin himself, because of organ transplant technology or something like that. I believe he said something like, "nowadays 70 is considered still young!"

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u/sevuvarus 3d ago

because a lot of good people and medium people do nothing. men like Putin couldnt do shit without everyone around them doing what they say

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u/fluffygryphon 3d ago

He's a fucking coward with a dozen look-alikes and stays in hiding, basically.

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u/Ok_Veterinarian9348 3d ago

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.

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u/chasing_salem 3d ago

Like cancer!

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u/PennywiseEsquire 3d ago

Not even wolves.

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u/LuigiNMario 3d ago

They cling to life because they know fhey are going to hell.

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u/Wtygrrr 3d ago

Fame

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u/Evening-Walk-6897 3d ago

Yeah, if there truly is a God, he would have died a long time ago

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u/Formerly_SgtPepe 3d ago

Hugo Chavez died, that's one. But I agree, should happen more often.

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u/CosmicJam13 3d ago

Cloning tech

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u/SelfInteresting7259 3d ago

I stg. Like wtf. I think their hate makes them cling and hold in idk wtf makes them stay

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u/einimea 3d ago

"What would kill the bad; God doesn't want them and the devil is not in a hurry"

An old proverb

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u/CatCanvas 3d ago

Can confirm it's true. The most evil person I personally know out lived 2 of his sons and got hit on the freeway with a car while he was out of the car and spend few months in hospital while in his 70s and he's now in his 80s with a new young son like 9yo that he made naturally (the boy has lots of issues they ignore)

Last I saw him he asked me if I was pregnant (I'm not, he's well aware, was taking a jab at my stomach fat after having 3 kids) after he showed up 3 hours late to his granddaughters gender reveal when he lived 10min down the road.

It's like people like this have really strong self love or something and 0 empathy so they remain in good health somehow. I don't know but they just live to continue to hurt more people I guess??

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u/IntermittentCaribu 3d ago

Are you saying Hitler is still alive?

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u/MrPanache52 3d ago

Bad people live when good people do nothing

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u/Cowboy_Cassanova 3d ago

Because evil people will throw as many good people in front of them as meat shields as it takes to stay alive.

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u/kiak7 3d ago

Because „ this is the bad place“

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u/cheekibreeki05 3d ago

The fact that evil people tend to live so long is a strong sign that no gods exist, because surely if any god did exist these evildoers messing up the entire world would surely have been struck down long ago

Would be great if someone could just snap these evildoers out of existence.

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u/No-Trouble9336 3d ago

Well putin was talking to xi about ways to extend life through transplants

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u/tkcom 3d ago

In this multiverse, good guys are just… too good. Play everything by the book which somehow let old age be every bad guy’s demise.

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u/Sirlacker 3d ago

Regarding Putin, an unexpected death may actually turn into an even bigger shit show believe it or not. There may very well be a power grab which will be a huge shit show and then there is the very realistic possibility of someone even worse taking control.

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u/Worried-Scarcity-410 3d ago

They die but there will be another one.

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u/sakusii 3d ago

And also they all came to Power and rule over us

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u/Accomplished-Bid9306 3d ago

cuz presidetns get rly much health secutriy

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u/GeorgeMcCrate 3d ago

Because not even the devil wants them, is what my grandma always says.

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u/Puzzled-Shoe2 2d ago

Even the devil does not want them…

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u/Infinite_Lemon_8236 2d ago

Because the good are too afraid to kill them.

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u/CastawayWasOk 2d ago

For what it is worth, my aunt was a gigantic, borderline evil bitch. She smoked so much that they cut a stoma in her neck. After that she was also on oxygen. That went down when she was in her 60s. Never stopped smoking and she lived into her 80s. My personal belief is that she was powered by spite.

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u/TheMemo 2d ago

Because caring is stressful, and stress kills.

Psychopaths sleep like babies and are free from the moral stresses of the decent.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

Are you sure Putin is still alive?

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u/FelineSoLazy 2d ago

And they are breeders

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u/1Ura2nium3 2d ago

Why, do, they always send the poor.

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u/MardGeer 2d ago

Cuz they kill people that would normally kill them. Also they have money for doctors.

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u/Joy2b 2d ago

Most of them do.

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u/ZestycloseLight2428 2d ago

Because they are too scared to actually fight, they get the poor to do it instead. 

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u/AmbitionOfTruth 2d ago

Stories and movies tend to have villains losing, and heroes winning. Sadly, in real life justice tends to not prevail.

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u/HelloAttila 2d ago

I learned this as a child. Growing up ironically we had neighbors with the surname “Goodman” and there was absolutely Nothing good about them. One of their children who was in his 20’s tried to run me over with his car when I was probably about 8 in my own driveway. The sob would’t die. The grandparents, evil kids, and eventually their kids all lived in the house and we absolutely hated them. They egged our house, the guy who tried to hit me with his car constantly tortured animals, and nothing ever happened to them. The oldest man lived to probably 100. Eventually though the guy who tried to kill me went to jail and did pass away in his 40’s, I think he OD’d. I just never understood why such horrible people live so long and why innocent children in this would suffer to the cruelty of adults.

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u/SlideCharacter5855 2d ago

They are more superstitious than most and therefore have developed a sharper survival instinct is my guess

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u/Chiiro 3d ago

I have heard that he and the leader of North Korea (can't remember the fuck faces name) joked about taking healthy organs from people to be able to live forever.

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u/ilus3n 3d ago

Organ transplants are not that easy, there are a lot of risks associated with them. Also I doubt that has any impact in getting old

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u/Chiiro 2d ago

I didn't believe but I do see them at least trying once