I guess to be fair I was never really a stickler for any particular method; I’m just a lot more open to a lot of them.

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[–] 63 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Here's the thing. Trump is just a poster boy. The real problems will continue long after he's dead. There will be further assholes. Trump is a puppet. The string puller will last on.

We need to address the core root, not the symptoms.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't disagree, but Trump is definitely a unifying figure for MAGA. Hopefully when he's gone there will be in-fighting among different MAGA factions trying to enact their own agendas and will cause fragmentation and irrelevance for many of them.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can see that. Vance will be one. DeSantos will be another. Musk might even get in on it.

    If I were Hillary Clinton, I'd just troll them, and run as a republican.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I agree. I think Trump’s real purpose is to just take the heat for a lot of unpopular policies and he’s just too dumb and narcissistic to realize it.

    It will be interesting to see how MAGA changes after he’s gone.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If that's true, that's okay. You just get rid of puppets until they run out.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not a viable long term strategy unfortunately. European anarchist found that out the hard way

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    which ones did they get rid of?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    A lot, but notable political figures are Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Tsar Alexander II, Sadi Carnot (president of France), Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (Spanish prime minister), Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, King Umberto of Italy, U.S. President William Mckinley (anarchism debated here), King Carlos I of Portugal, Spanish Prime Minister Josè Canalejas, and King George I of Greece. All within roughly 60 years. They also killed plenty of unnamed bourgeois throughout the years.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    those are not even from the same country. it's unrelated incidents.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also, these are all able to be traced back to anarchist movements? This is the first I'm ever hearing that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not all, but some.

    I wouldn't call any of them a puppet of a string puller who would just install the next, even if we'd say the puppeteer is an elite group. But it's a question of definition where a shadow government ends and a regular political party starts.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The rot will definitely still be there, but the power vacuum Trump will leave behind is going to massive. Not only that, but a lot of Republicans are just spineless opportunists and not hardcore ideologues, and they may see it as an opportunity to push back against the nutjobs who have taken over the party.

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