Comment on Trump saying he'll be a dictator only on day 1 is the strategy of normalizing it.

Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• squaresinger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In that case, let’s hope he’s an absolutely incompetent idiot who will fail fast and spectacularly or an old guy who will die fast, so that when he’s gone people all agree that this wasn’t a great political experiment and all join in together to rebuild the political system much better than before.

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  • EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s definitely a nice thought, but you’d have better odds of winning the lottery.

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    • squaresinger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, it worked in Austria and Germany

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      • EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The world was pretty different then.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When has the death of a dictator by old age ever defaulted back to democracy? There’s a lot of people helping him, I’m sure more than a handful are eager to step into his shoes.

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    • BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Franco in Spain. Not saying that’s a good plan to go with, but it has happened.

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      • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ah yeah, I forget about him. But yeah, not a great plan.

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• Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  According to ordinary things it takes hours.

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  www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeurjIY3__o

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