Twitter Is Extremely Conflicted Over David Koch's Death
Executive Vice President of Koch Industries, onetime vice-presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, and brother to Charles Koch, passed away at the age of 79 today. The Koch brothers are considered the 11th richest people in the world and are credited with fueling the Tea Party Movement through investing more than $1 billion over the past several elections in support of candidates that denied climate change, fought against Obamacare, and opposed strict gun laws.
While the Koch brothers never publicly endorsed President Trump, many Democrats view them as champions to his cause. As a result, people on both sides of the political spectrum aired their thoughts quite loudly on Twitter today following David's death.
Today, our 1980 nominee for Vice President David Koch passed away. Often a focal point of political debate, David spent much of his life contributing and working in his own way toward what he believed in: a freer world. #RIP #DavidKoch pic.twitter.com/8IzmCqBnzR
— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) August 23, 2019
David Koch, RIP.He's best known for his policy/political giving, but he gave far more to cancer research and the arts. I had the pleasure of interviewing him for
PhilanthropyMag</a> about his cancer philanthropy at <a href="https://twitter.com/MIT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">MIT and elsewhere back in 2012: https://t.co/KK5UQGQGgC pic.twitter.com/sZJG9iMBXy— Evan Sparks (@EvanSparks) August 23, 2019
Pouring out a 40 of toxic industrial slurry into a storm drain in honor of David Koch.
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) August 23, 2019
I saw the #KochBrothers trending and I thought they did something else humanisticly repugnant….Then I realized that #DavidKoch died and I was relieved. pic.twitter.com/FD30DWRD7l
— Malik Leigh – Atty/CEO of Dapple Pay Wallet LLC (@M_WatsonLeigh) August 23, 2019
David Koch fought for CJ reform, LGBTQ rights, immigrants, free markets and personal liberty. Please don’t dance on my grave someday just because I don’t cleanly fit into your party. RIP to an unflinchingly principled man and shame on those mocking his death.
— Connor Haaland (@Chaal1625) August 23, 2019
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Saekul
I regret only that he was ever born.
King Edgelord
Everyone, i want you all to maliciously and malevolently dance on my grave if you hated me at any point in time.
if i didn't fit into your ideals or did something you disagreed with, you can light firecrackers or dynamite on my grave and then piss out the flames of the rubble you reduced my headstone to.
go nuts, fuck on my grave, take a hot steaming dump on my grave, write poetry about the values of life love and all that non-edgy shit you know i absolutely despise then gently place it there in a loving manner to REALLY piss me off.
fucking molest my grave, desecrate it so hard you make mary shelly flinch.
Let that weakling beg people not to dance on his grave like he matters, if i made enemies of any of you, i formally invite you to fuck my grave up as hard as you can. No really, go nuts with it. because i didn't give half a damn about my dignity in life, and there isn't a shred of dignity to be found in death.
My only hope, is that some of you will least waltz on it.
Saekul
lmao
Benoc
>Koch brothers
>Conservative
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Maxi-005
I'm looking at some of those comments – I've said it and I will say it again, social media was a mistake. They can't even wait for his body to cool down a little.
To be fair, I don't know him very well, but if he was really funding cancer research during his life (which helped a lot of people in the process, like for example Suprime Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg), didn't he deserved a LITTLE respect when he's now dead?
Hootanic
Expect the same accounts to post the opposite sentiments when RBG passes. This tribalism is tiring and old.
krashlia
You'd think a consideration for how their opposition would or should treat news of RBG's death would inform their sentiments. But apparently these people are too damn thick.
It might be that, very unfortunately, we'll all reap what they sow:
"Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him."
Hootanic
Yeah, it's all so awful to watch. I can't look at social media anymore because it's a non-stop dunk parade on the "other guy". No sympathy or compassion, just misery. They should all just open a book instead, the Bible would be a good start.
Benoc
For real tho with RBG, she needs to step down. Having a disease with a 91% mortality rate and clearly not actually doing her job. It's John McCain all over again.
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Vulture051
I AM a little worried what will happen if the other Koch dies and Soros doesn't follow quickly after.
There must be balance in the rich-political-shithead-Force.
Gumshoe
Don't worry, there will still be Sheldon Adelson. Besides, it's not like there was balance anyway. Soros is nowhere near as rich as any of them.
Your Uncle Yonkers
Oh no once the other one dies whos gonna fund Dave Rubin?
Benoc
Or Ben Shapiro lol.
Fuck libertarians
Daretobestupid
Ding dong, the shit is dead…
krashlia
You, probably a year from now:
B-but, why would those animals celebrate RBG's death? Who could be so inhuman! Can't you see how barbaric they are?
Kenetic Kups
It’s almost as if it’s celebrated when a bad person dies
krashlia
Its almost as if opinions on these people are divided, and the best move is not to jump for joy or pretend to mourn, but Shut The Hell Up.
Phhase
Stirge.
Lexicanium Coeus
Tends to happen with rich people.