him dying would’ve turned him into a martyr and basically solidified him as a saint, if not a god, to the maga crowd. I can imagine the repercussions of that. there’s also the possibility that someone worse replaces him, someone just as fascist and selfish but twice as competent, and that would be disastrous. y’know, the whole “guys I went back in time and killed Hitler” trope/joke.
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octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 months agoDefinitely this one. This just killed my hope that he loses again, and you know the Gravy Seals are going to step up their harassment and violence towards people - and that would have been true either way. At least with the other outcome he doesn’t get in.
ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
retrospectology@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He’s already a god to his followers. People literally paint him as the second coming of Jesus Christ. There is no one worse in this moment than Donald Trump.
Atin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure there are people who are worse. There are people behind their movement that have not stuck their head up and are competent.
retrospectology@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure, yet none of them are able to do what Trump does. That’s why it’s taken 40+ years for them to get to this point. The Mitch McConnells and such might be politically saavy, but they don’t have the “charisma” of Donald Trump to actually pull off the end game. That’s why they all protect him so much, he’s a cult figure, which can be difficult to fabricate.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Yeah but then he couldnt be in the oval, which is what actually matters lol.
ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
others have made a terrifying point that his death could incite another instruction like Jan 6.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Which biden would be prepared to deal with. Keep in mind that Trump was in office for Jan 6. One might even consider that a good thing, as this time with a competent president there would be less victims, and more insurrectionists getting their voting rights taken away.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I still think that would be better
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Now he’s a living martyr.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
this is true…
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
and basically solidified him as a saint, if not a god, to the maga crowd.
I’m pretty sure that’s already true, but I see your point overall.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A lot of them already called him “the God Emperor”, so…
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
As someone indicated below, he’s now a living martyr. I would place money that he uses this to galvanize his following and it actually benefits him in the polls.
He needed to die in an embarrassing way (lethal dose of ex-lax?) for it to hurt his reputation.
I don’t buy the ‘pave the way for someone worse’ argument. Who would that be? I can’t think of anyone right now, except for maybe De Santis in terms of actually being somewhat competent.
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JohnnyH842@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Might not be a politician. He wasn’t before he became president.
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 months ago
A perversion of the word Martyr as it requires one to walk in faith. The appropriating of religious symbols merely as an aesthetic is really on brand…
Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Martyr apparently comes from Greek meaning “one who testifies in court.” The religious connotations came later.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Apparently, eating C-4 causes diarrhoea. Bomb tech recruits would be fed small amounts of C-4 and then chased around with a taser, a shock from which they feared would set it off, while trying not to shit themselves
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
Cruz is competent and evil, ramashwarmy will do anything the likes of miller and bannon come up with, de sanstis as you said… There are worse options, frightingly…
Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haley isn’t really afraid to say the quiet part loud.