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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 154 points 1 month 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 72 points 1 month ago (3 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 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, the GOP has many more of those

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[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 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

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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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[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

It won't fix all of the problems, but it'll definitely fix one of them.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 month ago (12 children)

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

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month 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.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago

While we all know who it is, there's a few deaths that would be celebrated globally.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Honestly there like 3 people that could trigger this.

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Pretty sure Hitler's death was international news.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 13 points 1 month 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 15 points 1 month 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 56 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month 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."

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Even if they've heard the name before, not one person I know outside of the U.S. knows who McConnell is. Trump is known and despised worldwide.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think they mean testing if they can have a politician be dead and just pretend they aren't

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He means the Republicans will just Weekend at Bernies him to maintain power the same way they are with McConnell.

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

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

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago (20 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 10 points 1 month 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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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We’ll call it Cholesterol Day.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

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

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

Kissinger was a pretty good starter.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Bibi's celebration will be bigger

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 17 points 1 month ago (5 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 25 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] BenReilly23@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month 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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[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month 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 13 points 1 month ago (2 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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[–] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month 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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