David Koch, Billionaire Conservative Activist, Is Dead at 79

, the billionaire conservative activist who helped shape modern American politics, has died. He was 79.

“It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” David’s brother Charles Koch wrote in a statement Friday morning. “Anyone who worked with David surely experienced his giant personality and passion for life.” Together, Charles and David Koch, popularly known as the Koch brothers, helmed one of the world’s biggest companies, the industrial conglomerate Koch Industries. The company brings in an estimated $110 billion per year in revenue, andestimated both of their net worths to be well over $40 billion, putting them among the richest people in the world.

Also notable is how the Koch brothers worked to sow distrust of climate science. “You can trace something like $25 million from the Koch family and their foundations, just over a three-year period, to organizations that deny the reality of global warming,” Jane Mayer

There’s no first class in hell.

His legacy of climate change denial won't age well.

I hope hell is hot 🥵

Thank god. Now if the rest of them would die off then we can undo some of the damage they did

He stopped stealing our air...woohoo!

What will his legacy for the planet be? Did you do good? Or did he do bad?

“David Koch helped shape modern American politics” Τι μαλακίες λέει μωρέ ιερόδουλε? The asshole paid garbage Republican politicians with what he stole from AmericanPeople to make laws helping him to steal more money DK was a self made n making shit machine Nobody will miss him

May his foul brother soon follow

he could have done so much good with his billions--instead he'll leave a tarnished legacy as dark as the dark money universe he helped create

Shaped? Really RS? You mean bought.

Don’t want to celebrate somebody’s death buttttttttt

One down, one to go.

TGIF

No great loss. As Alexander Kaufman, an environmental commentator at HuffPost, tweeted: “He deployed his stupendous fortune funding climate denial in the years when the science was clear and there was still time to avert catastrophic warming. Amazon is burning.

thoughts and prayers!

One way ticket to hell

Good.

No loss. We’d all have been better off if he had died sooner.

Is conservative the new word for racist? I don’t really care, do you?

Sorry I am not able to react to this with sadness 😐

If by shape you mean killed ok sure.

cool

🎵🎵Celebrate good times...come on🎵🎵🎵

Good riddance

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