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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day 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."

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 135 points 2 days ago (6 children)

While that will certainly happen, it won't end the environment that created him or the interests he represents. A brief respite is all we can hope for.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (1 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.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, the GOP has many more of those

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[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days 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.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 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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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (6 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

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day 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.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

Might be a symptom but you still breathe a sigh of relief when your headache clears up even if your alcoholism is going to cause another one tomorrow.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I would blame the non voters and misinformation and the complacency of it more.

The reps are evil in nature and simply feed on such opportunities. They will always be there. The evil will always be there. Everything else adapts with time to prevent it from such power.

This time we all let ourselves down on this one.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I don't think that's true at all, "if not Hitler then someone else", as if it was some kind of unavoidable deterministic fate.

Personally I will just be ecstatic over never having to hear his dumb fucking voice again.

The cabal of fascists infesting and rotting democracy like termites will have to be dealt with and if anything, at least our shared hatred of Trump has made us come together and organize and prepare to fumigate the whole fucking place.

[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Trump has a cult of personality that took years to build, and isn't simply transferred to someone else. MAGA doesn't survive if he's gone. Will there still be fascists, racists, and so on? Yes, but they won't be unified anymore, and they won't be grouped together with the rest of the right anymore either. This will be good for the left in the short term because the right will be less powerful, but also bad for the left because it won't be as easy to attack the right.

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[–] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I mean, of course, then again uniting under a single banner/man does make the faction stronger, under him they simply can't make any mistake, someone else would have a harder time getting away with the same things.

This does not take anything away from how evil they are and how they still exist and will after him

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[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You have to take small victories while understanding the bigger picture. It will still be glorious, although I am saving up cheap 100 proof vodka as the asshat does not deserve good booze or my money in buying said booze. I might add a champagne if it's less than 20 bucks.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 99 points 2 days ago (19 children)

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

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 57 points 2 days ago

He's so stupid, you even know who I mean when I say "he's so stupid".

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days 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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[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Pretty sure Hitler's death was international news.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (3 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.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 days ago (5 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.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Comparing 9/11 or Katrina to the end of WW2 is a tad inaccurate to say the least.

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[–] teslekova@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It didn't spread as fast as this one will though. Every timezone will get the news immediately once it breaks anywhere.

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago

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

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

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

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[–] stretch2m@infosec.pub 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kissinger was a pretty good starter.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Bibi's celebration will be bigger

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 17 points 2 days ago (4 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?

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days 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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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

The long line is what will help. That whole line of them will be at each other's throats trying to take his place. It will divide their party and divide their supporters. Eventually, one will claim victory and rise to prominence, but until then, they'll be in crippling chaos.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

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

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

We’ll call it Cholesterol Day.

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[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depends on the country, only on free counties, in other places when some people commented certain death and they were sent to jail, lost visas… so I would be afraid to say anything when this happen, will be only quiet in my corner waiting to get democracy back.

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[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yes. Imagine all the people… living for the day…

[–] BenReilly23@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

already got my wine picked out.

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