I guess to be fair I was never really a stickler for any particular method; I’m just a lot more open to a lot of them.
I never cared how.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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I had a rough day at work last night and coming home to this really made my Dave
Made your Dave what?
It made my Dave, too.
As a non american , i would like to let him destroy the american empire for all the crimes it did for the last few decades
Wishing harm on others is abhorrent behavior. The downfall of any nation causes so much harm and grief to countless innocent humans well beyond the borders of one nation.
We can all understand the attraction in seeing the US get its comeuppance but the death throes of the US would likely be quite unpleasant.
If the US could somehow transform into a more enlightened member of the international community, we'd all be much better off. Barring that, even a return to it's prior position as self-appointed world police would likely be less destructive than an actual collapse.
Not too mention that if he's taken out violently (assuming not as part of a greater revolution) then the result would likely make the post-911 response look cute.
I can't wait to watch MAGA eat itself when Bonespurs finally has his massive Big Mac Attack. That gang of self-centered opportunists will claw each other to pieces trying to get to the top of the power vacuum.
The problems we lament are not the result of one man. He has enablers. He has funders. He has defenders. He has judges and congresspeople.
The idea that our problems will disappear when ONE guy kicks the bucket would be laughable if our situation weren't so depressing.
The right person going has historically been key to defeating fascism.
Personality cults need the personality.
Without the personality the cult that lifts them up still exists and the ideas persist.
The word martyr exists for a reason. And sometimes a flawed martyr is even better. Because with the right methods, you can always rewrite whatever you like and ignore what you don't. as we have so very recently learned from modern history, that fact is so much more terrifyingly effective than you could ever dream of.
That may be true, but we all gotta start somewhere.
Manchurian candidate activated. Hahah Just think in terms of domestic abuse or domestic problems. Once Trump's base realizes that he lied to them, the left wing won't need to do a thing. The last thing you want to do is be reactionary and create a climate of dangerous leftist mob. Once Trump's base is angry, just remember these are the individuals with the guns and have been preparing forever. We're not to the point where we're at World War 3 completely. Once your kids get drafted, watch all hell break loose. The right wing is repulsive, but just wait. They will be your friendenmies. Most domestic terrorism is created by right-wing ideology. The guy that shot President Trump was a Republican from Pennsylvania. Just remember that. Keep your head on a swivel. Hold tight the American impiralist Empire is falling apart. Trump is accelerating this, which tittolates me.
The naivety that still people have about authoritarian followers baffles me...
There is no point at which his base will turn on him.
There is no action he could perform, no line he could cross, no hardship he could impose that they won't accept gladly so long as he promises them that "the enemy" suffers more.
There is no turning back from this point of the fascist take over, I'm not a historian, but I've been reading books on how countries fall and there isn't a single one I can think of (please i'm begging you name one, no snark I honestly don't want to be right) that have turned back from this precipice, what comes after is blood, famine and war... Maybe we get some sort of stability after, but that's a crap shoot...
Trump and Biden were terrible presidents. The USA is a imperialist empire and not a democracy.
Hermburger
I spent months imagining what I'd like to do, or see being done to Trump and his lackeys, but I think all of that imagined violence was doing me moral harm.
So now I like to imagine Tolkien's giant eagle swooping in to grab them and dump them into Chesapeake Bay.
I'm going to be one of those parents. I'm going to share what my 7 year old said at breakfast earlier this week as he looked over my shoulder at the pictures in the newspaper and asked me what the articles were about.
I forget how it came up, but I mentioned that Trump is very old and might die of old age in less than 4 years. He said:
I don't want him to die but I don't want him to be their ruler anymore.
I told him he was right and praised him for being able to hold those two ideas in his head at the same time.
...Personally I'd prefer a single event that resulted in the horrific death of several specific top USA officials due to their own malice/avarice/corruption, but I don't want him to be too cynical.
I think it'd be best to be horrific, to shock society into demanding better leadership. I don't think we'll be so lucky.
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