well… certainly not in so many words. but I definitely don’t expect to get that old.
I’ll look pretty dumb if it should happen.
If you’re right, you won’t know it, but if you’re wrong…
There’re still older Civilizations I haven’t played so I’m not worried
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Someone else just as bad would replace him. It’s supported by public sentiment, he was voted in.
I don’t think you’ll find anyone with Trump’s “charisma” that quickly who would appeal to the MAGA crowd in the same way. Of course, I could be wrong about that.
There’s a part of me that agrees, trump has a wild hold on the maga crowd. Buuuuut I also have trouble thinking of something that would make it easier for some non trump to channel that same energy than an assassination.
I think there would be a civil war first and then a new system would be established if the USA didn’t splinter. It would initially be worse in terms of violence, but in the long term the fascism that Trump imposes will be more brutal. However, Russia, China, North Korea, etc. would take direct advantage of these circumstances. It’s all just absolute shit.
Trump has as much charisma as a chewed bubble gum. I don’t understand why that many people voted him. Twice.
Because they were told that Trump would protect them against all of the bad things that Trump’s backers were blasting into their brains 24/7 via social media and partisan ‘news’ organizations.
Ignorance and disinformation did way more work that Trump’s charisma which is, as you’ve said, lacking
His speech patterns and dialogue match up surprisingly well with Jim Jones of the famous Jonestown Massacre. Once somebody like that has a following, it doesn’t matter how crazy he gets, the diehard believers will literally die hard for the guy.
The first campaign drew the cult together from a cult that was already there (a groomed voter base who will vote Republican no matter who) and the first term bonded them together against an enemy (everybody with common sense) while the Republican party and the entire media insulated them from how bad he is. There were some people who saw what he did and turned away - he got less votes this time around than he did last time, and that’s even with the questions of election interference that keep cropping up - but that just means that the people left are the crazies who would defend him even if he personally started shooting up schools.
American politics is so screwed up that most people have little clue of what exactly happens in this country. A coworker of mine just the other day was effectively saying that daddy Trump had to hurt us because big-meanie Biden ruined the government deficit.
It would create a power vacuum, and the traditional constitutional democratic norms and processes have already been destroyed.
So it would be a literal bloodbath.
And it probably would not end well for America.
just have to kill the next one and the next one until someone who can see the pattern steps up
It needs Just 1 bullet in trumps head… FCK America.
I mean, sure, that would be nice.
But the idea that Fascism is just one man using mind control powers on the rest of the country and if you get rid of that singular embodiment of evil the rest of the fascists will disappear in a puff of logic is… flawed.
If Trump had eaten a bullet in 2024, JD Vance would be President right now and nothing would be meaningfully different. The rot is systemic. It isn’t even contained to the GOP. Go check out “Welcomefest” and the continued Liberalist campaign to transform the Democratic Party into a rebranded Dick Cheney style of neoconservatism by courting Silicon Valley goons who are on the fence about Trump.
This doesn’t end with one guy going away. This doesn’t end with 100 guys going away. This ends when the top tier of mega-wealthy families no longer have an incentive to kill millions of people in order to maintain their elite positions.
I always forget to mention it, my mistake. Fascism is already established… the bullet in the head thing should have happened before he dismantled democracy. So preferably 2020 or directly 2016.
The joke of '16 is that Hilary stood Trump up as a punching bag. She thought he’d be the easiest candidate to beat, while the GOP was trying to hand her Jeb Bush as an opponent.
Trump could have been another Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul if Dems hadn’t deliberately promoted him.
If you want to talk about someone who should have swallowed a bullet in 2016…
the next time you think getting rid of Trump will solve society’s problems, just remember that Trump Jr will most likely run for president at some point in your lifetime
Fck
Find a friend to shot him too?
I’ve been hoping for that big EMP from the sun I keep getting told about.
Or the poles swapping.
With Germans?
Yeah, let Poland invade someone for once!
So your saying your well on your way then…
I wouldn’t say it’s my plan, but it’s an option I’m keeping in account
In another screenshot I once read “my retirement plan is to die in the socialist revolution” and I think that’s exactly what I hope for
That’s been my plan for years, but now it’s morphed into something more like, “my retirement plan is to die in the American underground fighting the local Nazis.”
Mine is more “I don’t plan to live that long anyway”
Societal collapse or probable future health issues, either way (or both)
I’m 55, and this is my retirement plan.
Got plenty in my retirement pot, but I’ve been saving up bottle caps just in case.
So it’s people like you who’s caps we’ll mysteriously find inside of a pre-war safe??
I was in whatsinthis when it started. I still have a shitpost up there that I’ve got an update for but never posted.
The true hope is a horizontal power structure.
Mine is more ‘why bother when inflation will eat the value away’
Have you heard of the stock market? /jk
Why JK though? There are many financial options to at least get more returns than inflation, working for people without fuck you money too. It takes some financial education that we likely have to learn ourselves, but there are options. And it’s possible to reasonably lower risks and costs enough by selecting the right financial products.
Though obviously, if you just buy what the bank guy says, the bank will make the profits, not you.
While I agree with you, most people don’t want to spend the time learning all of this. Furthermore, I had the luck of good financial education and I had to wade through a sea of rubbish just to get to the good bits. But as someone who’s new, how do you learn? That’s the problem. And even if they could learn, how are they going to start saving? Is the supermarket cashier just making ends meet by a hair’s length really going to start saving up thousands and thousands of quid just to be able to see some real returns? Don’t hate the player, hate the game. You have too little money to start making some real returns. And because you have no real returns, you need to work for menial tasks and menial money. And therefore, you cannot start saving up and make some real returns, the cycle is complete. What a nice system that we put our lives inside of.
So then just save money that doesn’t inflate
that just sounds like bad financial discipline with extra steps
Hopefully I’ll be dead by 65
Want assistance? I haven’t got much experience with people, but I do have slaughtered a bunch of poultry, I have my own axe and I’m quite keen to help
