• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    January 1st of 2000 would like to dispute this claim. At some point the world really was just one big party.

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    2 days 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.”

  • mlg@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s funny seeing Americans think even our crappy president is somehow the universally acclaimed Mr Evil himself and that there would be a UN independence day if he kicked the bucket. He could die tomorrow and a solid majority of the planet would only be wondering which of the other millions of available morons will take his place.

    Unless you mean Netanyahu in which case everyone except the US and Israel will probably celebrate for 5 seconds before they bomb another school full of children.

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    There is no one universally hated or universally loved. So not everyone will celebrate anything. And if the bar is only that the celebration was observed simultaneously by someone in every time zone, then that has likely happened multiple times with things like US elections or the Olympics or that big soccer thing some people care about.

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    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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      It’s more about hoping the cult breaks down and won’t be unified anymore. Maybe vance can’t jedi mind trick people the same way or something? Republican party fractures, rfk jr becomes totally irrelevant, etc.

      But yes long terms the problems are still there, the hope is for some kind of respite, force the fascist elements to retreat, and democracy fashions some tools to defend itself better moving forward.

      But yeah idk i really hope all the epstein stuff can come out, for example – more witnesses come forward, actual accountability and jail time for the perps involved – but it would not be a huge surprise if none of that ever happens

      In terms of hitler, if he had died in the war or something, maybe France would have gone full fascist genocide. France was really a leader of antisemitism much more so than Germany before hitler rose to power. But of course, those are the kinds of hypotheticals that can only have absurd answers.

    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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      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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    2 days ago

    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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      Hitler probably still has the highest percent, but the likes of Putin and Trump might overtake him easily when they go since the world is a lot more connected and it’s basically impossible not to hear the news now.

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    Why can’t they happen at the same time?

    Netanyahu had two planes crash into the World Trade Center. Can’t he play doubles with Donald on death day?

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    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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      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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        A number of people are clearly already trying. They are all failing miserably. Amazingly, none of them have as much charisma, at least not with such a wide audience.

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          None of them had a 14-year propaganda campaign to convince Americans that they’re “good at business.”

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            Trump also represents a pretty impressive combination of horrible, charismatic, and authentic.

            He is truly, truly horrible. He embodies the ugliness that a lot of people see in the world and in themselves, and is willing to cause harm to the world around him in a way that they wish they could.

            He is, in his own utterly fucked up way, charismatic. He’s eager to aggressively beclown himself for applause and to sell his poison in a way that Stephen Miller or Ron DeSantis couldn’t match.

            He’s authentically awful. Every word he says serves his own corrupt enrichment and aggrandizement, and he makes no secret of that, even when telling lies. When he’s lying, he’s obviously lying. When he’s stupid, he’s authentically stupid, not pretending.

            Voters are very sensitive to all three of those categories, and they can tell when someone isn’t entirely any one of them. Trump is the rare beast to max out all three.

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        It’s rare for cults to survive after their leader dies.

        I don’t see the movement continuing. Some will rally to the new face, but many won’t.

        Even today support for Trump is slowly waning with his base growing smaller. The issue with the American system is he can lose all support today and continue. Even if dems retake a majority in the Senate it takes 2/3rds vote to remove the president.