Comment on For everyone who voted for Trump, are you satisfied ?

• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m starting to think that most trumpers will never be deprogrammed.

  Like any cult, it’ll collapse after the cult leader dies.

  But they’ll just be reprogrammed by another cult leader. There will be Trump copycats for the rest of our lives now. So another cult leader will arise. And conservatives will be waiting with open mouths for that person to shit into.

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  • NotLemming@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I hope you’re wrong. The funny thing is that Trump kind of crosses boundaries. He’s rich but so obviously stupid and bumbling that he’s somehow relatable to the working classes, even in England. I guess he doesn’t have the intellectualism/arrogance (noticeable in speech) which a lot of smart and/or wealthy people have. He also enjoys drama and cheap entertainment, which i think the working classes enjoy more than dignified politics.

    I don’t think those qualities are very common among those seeking power, luckily, so any successor might really struggle to be as successful, since trump is only riding on charisma, delusions and lies. Plus surely some consequences will have hit by then. Hopefully people will be alert for the threat of another trump for a couple of generations at least. It’s looking like things will get much worse before he’s ejected.

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• HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good news on that front. Have you been following the news about the Murdoch empire and the irrevocable trust Rupert set up?

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  • NotLemming@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I read a bit about it days ago but it’s too much to hope that anything good will come of it… Unless there’s more recent news?

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    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Essentially, the last ruling–which will surely be appealed–is that the irrevocable trust is irrevocable. That means that Rupert’s empire, when he dies, will be controlled jointly by all of his children that are part of the trust. And the children that are part of the trust skew strongly left/center left, except for the son that Rupert was trying to transfer all of the control to. So when Murdoch dies, it’s highly likely that Fox will very quickly change course because it’s no longer going to be controlled by someone that’s as conservative as a Nazi.

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      • NotLemming@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Good news but he could last for years and I really can’t see Trump allowing it, assuming he’s still dicktatortot

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