Comment on So, is the USA screwed?

wirebeads@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “He who saves his country has committed no crime.” -Donald Trump (reading a post-it note handed to him by Felon Musk, quoting Napoleon, or something)

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• FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He’s old and doesn’t have much time left. The really problematic people are all around him and they are many.

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah he’s like the very obvious and prominant pus-filled boil on a body riddled with disease. He isn’t the cause of the disease, just one of the symptoms.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And yet in all their decades none of them rallied the base like he did.

    Remove Trump and you remove most of the power.

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Lol

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• Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

  -Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

  Been thinking about this quote a lot lately. The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.

    Capitalism

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    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There’s a lot of the “atheist” tech bros that still peasant-brain worship the market with human sacrifices as if it will bear them miracles. I like to tell them “You’re an atheist just like me, except I go one god further.”

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  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is the thing making me lean more toward leaving than trying to change things. Even if Trump were magically impeached today, and our election system were left as near-intact as it is, somebody just like him could be just as likely to be elected in the next cycle. And odds are he’s going to pull off rigging the system to make sure that happens by then.

    I think that on a long term scale, to get at the root, something needs to be done about the media machine behind him. Culture eats policy for breakfast.

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  • MrTrono@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nobody is saying it would solve the problem but it might make me feel a little better

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  inb4 moderation

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Shitty time to be alive when it’s no longer cool to shoot Nazis.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Any media that silences it is in support of Trump.

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• dontkickducks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Trump is just the convenient caricature of a puppet pushed forward to be the face and disorganise everything. When he dies he’ll be replaced by someone else capable of filling that role. It wouldn’t surprise me if the follow-up person is already known in their circles. Trump is old and messed up. The propaganda rocheting him up can just as easily shoot him down. He is here to do damage and to disrupt and corrupt the system. He’s here to weed out the failsafes against fascism/monarchy so a new political model can take over. When he’s done enough, someone else will step forward to rebuild and ‘repair the damage’ but only in such a way that the fascist/oligarchy gains more power and the majority of people lose more power.

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• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not that I’m opposed to the idea on principle, but realistically that kind of long wolf adventurism would only make things worse.

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