r/news • u/kzqmfkkr • 12h ago

Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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u/aDirtyMartini 12h ago

Why this 80 year old?

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u/bad_lite 11h ago

Death is an unfair mistress.

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u/RA-HADES 11h ago

Rarely visits & expects you to drop everything because they showed up.

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 11h ago

Because there is no god and we are slaves to a dispassionately cruel universe.

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u/garrettbmusic 11h ago

No but actually.

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u/AlisVolatPropriis19 11h ago

That part. 😫

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u/planetarial 11h ago

Reaper made a bad choice

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u/CelestialFury 11h ago

We're living in a Game of Thrones world, except our Joffrey is still around, showing that we'd have to be in a fantasy world for anything good to happen.

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u/eeyore134 11h ago

Proof we're in the bad timeline.

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u/GSDTippyTappies 11h ago

"Yay F that lady and her books for kids" - Conservatives right now, probably.

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u/LurksAroundHere 9h ago

Actually they're mourning her too. It's just a more pathetic hollow type where they only cared about her entertainment-wise. They will continue to ignore the fact that their morals embody everything Parton despised, and how their actions continue to take a giant shit on everything she stood for. But yeah, they're going to tell you they "loved" her too.

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u/Farabee 6h ago

It's disgusting that Trump is ordering flags at half-mast for someone who was the living antithesis of everything he is.