David Koch dies (1 Viewer)

[Captain Cranks]

Article

 

[Long Ball Larry]

hmmm, interesting.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

He achieved much, cast a large shadow, and will be remembered, favorably by some and less so by others.  My passing, when it comes, will occur in obscurity relative to his.

 

[NREC34]

So now it’s just gonna be “the Koch brother” I guess. 

 

[JohnnyU]

This thread won't end well.  I'm staying out of it......starting......NOW.

 

[The General]

This thread won't end well.  I'm staying out of it......starting......NOW.

See you in 5 minutes.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

bye?

 

[eurotrashman]

#nocomment

 

[mrip541]

My favorite related headline: After Life of Incalculable Harm, Billionaire Climate Denialist and Right-Wing Villain David Koch Dead at 79

 

[Jobber]

Thoughts and prayers.

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

He had so much money. 

 

[urbanhack]

If the estate tax were still its 1941-1976 rate, David Koch would have just contributed $45 billion to the national treasury.

 

[urbanhack]

True or False:

 Koch Industries was founded by David and Charles's father Fred specifically to serve as an oil refinery to the Third Reich, with personal approval from Hitler. 

 

[snitwitch]

True or False:

 Koch Industries was founded by David and Charles's father Fred specifically to serve as an oil refinery to the Third Reich, with personal approval from Hitler. 

imma say true (without looking) 

 

[joffer]

Lot of people died today

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

Did they determine who inherits his elected officials yet? 

 

[ShamrockPride]

Thoughts and prayers.

Well....typically concerning someone's passing, yes.

 

[NREC34]

Is he in heaven or the other place??????

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

He was ahead of his time in various respects, supporting LGBT rights, drug legalization, and less restrictive immigration policies since the 1970s.

 

[[scooter]]

False.  

Fred Koch’s big break actually came a few years earlier when he modernized oil refining in the Soviet Union for Stalin.  He was getting sued for taking a process to market he developed with another company and didn’t own the idea, so he went to the Soviet Union which didn’t have IP laws.

After his success in the USSR, then Hitler hired him to build a refinery for the Third Reich.

The name Koch Industries didn’t emerge until Koch came back to America in the 1940s.

So, totally out of context to say Koch got his start working for Hitler.  He also jumpstarted Stalin’s oil refining.

His experience with Russia was a strong influence on his hatred of left-wing politics.

His experience with Germany did not have a comparable impact.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

His experience with Russia was a strong influence on his hatred of left-wing politics.

His experience with Germany did not have a comparable impact.

He was a libertarian.

Nazi Germany doesn't closely resemble the preferred libertarian society.