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[–] 188 points 3 weeks ago* (22 children)

While that will certainly happen, it won't end the environment that created him or the interests he represents. A brief respite, is as optimistic as I dare to be.

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  • [–] 85 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    I'm just looking forward to not hearing him voice his pedo rapist opinions anymore. It's a particular frequency that just won't exist anymore once his pedo mouth is permanently silenced.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 weeks ago

    No. You’ll get 20 new clowns all fighting to be the new king. With luck they’ll eat each other as they step on the backs of everyone else. You want to see change, project 2025 needs to burn.

    Also eat the rich.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (11 children)

    I don’t even expect a respite- someone will pick up the “populist” mantle immediately. At best, it would be just a changing of the mask

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    [–] 125 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

    Also, without mentioning a name, we all know who this is about.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 weeks ago

    I subscribe to a gaming podcast called Nexlander; they have a subscription tier where they’ll read off your name at the end of their main weekly podcast. Every week one of the names is “Maybe today is the day it finally happens” and I have one singular thought every single time that handle is read aloud.

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    [–] 73 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

    Pretty sure Hitler's death was international news.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

    and so was 9/11, and Katrina.

    both showed incredible, international outpourings of support, generosity, and kindness, and opened the door to a potential better future.

    and both opportunities were frittered away on stupidity and arrogance.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    My thoughts exactly. I will totally celebrate Trump's death, but anyone who thinks its going to change anything for the better in any substantial way is sadly oblivious. In fact it frustrates me that so many people seem to think everything will be fine once Trump dies. Already the seeds of inaction and complacency are sewn.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    the problem is that trump has advanced the republican agenda by 300 miles (to use a convenient conversational example), and when he dies, the advance will falter and fall back to maybe 250 miles.

    and the fools will celebrate that as a return to normalcy and a victory, ignorant to the 250 miles of advancement they made, secured, and locked down by their complacency.

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    [–] 69 points 3 weeks ago

    From what I've heard, the moon landing was pretty much a global celebration, but yeah, would be a bit different.

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  • [–] 66 points 3 weeks ago

    What's the joke again?

    Man stops at a newsagent every day to read the headlines but never buys a paper.
    When asked, he says "I'm looking for an obituary."
    When the newsagent tells him obituaries aren't on the front pages he says
    "The one I'm looking for will be."

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  • [–] 50 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

    I've been looking forward to his death too but the more I think about it, it's a mistake to think his death will somehow change the direction things are going

    America is conveniently putting all the blame on Trump and ignoring that it took a lot of people to put Anerica in the position it's in. If the problem were JUST Trump, he wouldn't have come anywhere close to being elected. A sane country would have reacted to his behaviour by laughing him off and never giving him any votes or airtime. Trump is in power because an alarming number of Americans (not necessarily a majority, but a lot) agree with him

    I've always been annoyed by people wanting to go back in time and kill Hitler. If it wasn't Hitler, it just would have been someone else. There's this strange persistent myth that if we get rid of one evil man, it all goes away. Hitler didn't singlehandedly kill 11 million people. 11 million people aren't rounded up and killed because one man decided to do it, it required people to go along with it

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yes.

    Trump is the symptom, not the disease.

    Its obvious the big big money players are driving his agenda.

    They are daring the poor people to fight for their existence.

    PS: re: Hitler. Go back in time. Take meth and cash. Find hitler. Get him on meth, buy enough art to get him notoriety, teach him punk music, let punk music advance egalitarian freedom and anarchy, so fascism has harder time gaining traction.

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    [–] 44 points 3 weeks ago* (10 children)

    You guys are a bit optimistic if you think Mitch McConnell's absence isnt a test run for something.

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    [–] 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I love how everyone knows exactly who this is referring to without including his name.

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    [–] 34 points 3 weeks ago

    ... with a very broad definition of "human being"

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  • [–] 32 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    We’ll call it Cholesterol Day.

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    [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Kissinger was a pretty good starter.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

    Trouble is, there's a long line of equally toxic shitheads ready to succeed him. You think Vance or Johnson will be any better?

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    I don't think either of them will get the automatic allegiance of a cult. One can hope, anyway.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago

    Vance definitely doesn't have anything to pull people to him. Like as much as I hate Trump, I at least see the dumb things he does his cult likes. Vance has none of that. It's like if Jeffries tried to replace Mamdani.

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    [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh there's definitely going to be some celebrating going on and I imagine it'll probably be people getting fired and fights at work because it'll be a bunch of sad weirdos upset because their king is gone . Then it's going to be the ones who'll swear that he was "taken out" . It'll be a celebration but also a bunch of weird shit going on .

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    [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I wish I could agree, but from the UK to Germany to Australia to South Africa, not insignificant amounts of people have taken a look at the USA and gone "I want some of that too". At least Americans had the 'excuse' of thinking they were gonna get cheaper eggs or some shit. But the people who have had the advantage of watching this unfold from the outside and still want their own wannabe MAGA movements, are just trash with no excuse.

    I think a 3rd of the world will celebrate, a 3rd will cry, and the other 3rd won't be able to tell the difference between the other two.

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    [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    It would be an interesting stat. What percentage of the world's population got drunk celebrating your death? Hitler probably tops the leaderboard still.

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    [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago

    My heart skipped a beat. I thought I missed a headline.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    I can't celebrate. I worry about the replacement. Not like they arent anticipating it either.

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