• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    Trump isn’t going away, even if he doesn’t win. That’s what people thought in 2020. Now that Biden’s president, Trump will just disappear, right? Wrong.

    And yes, I know he said that he won’t run again in 2028, but I don’t believe it. His cult would beg him to run again, and he’d do it.

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    The problem isn’t Trump (in this case), the problem is social media. Get off social media. Find better alternatives. Even at the best of times, when are people ever having a civil conversation about art, movies, music, etc?

    I don’t use apps unless they allow creation of block lists. My news RSS app has loads of keywords blocked (including Trump, Harris, etc). My Lemmee block list is huge. Items like this post get through when they don’t trigger my keywords, but this makes me think I really should add on “USA”.

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    Peak liberalism.

    Imagine thinking that once the loudest symptom of fascism is no longer visible, the decades long multibillion dollar Republican project to undemocratically seize power just goes away. That all the structural issues with America go away.

    Big “We want to go back to brunch” energy.

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    Four options:

    • He’s finally prosecuted for his countless crimes and lands in jail for life
    • Natural death/diagnosis of dementia
    • He’s voted out
    • He’s elected and someone with better aim tries their luck
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      I don’t expect him to live a full term even if he’s not assassinated, and Vance is a fascist without dementia.

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    Trump is one problem in a world full of problems, but goddamn will it feel good to be rid of him all the same.

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      I almost can’t remember what the internet was like without seeing his name or face every day. I miss it.

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    Voting him out will not remove him from your feed. You will hear about how the election was stolen again. About how his disciples tried to destroy the capitol or the white house or whatever, again. You will hear about how he was out on trial again. You will hear about whatever new crap he comes up with.

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    I find myself disliking him less this time around than I did in 2016, and I don’t exactly know why. Sure, there’s a ton I disagree with him on, but that applies to both candidates. I guess I have some sympathy for the people in the center who were pushed away by the left and ended up on the right.

    No need to worry though - I’m not a US citizen, so I’m not voting for him.

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      I don’t understand this sentiment at all. I know it’s a popular one - but how in the hell does instigating a violent coup attempt improve people’s views of the man?

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        The coup was bad, yes, but don’t forget the hundreds of thousands dead from COVID. Trump has even less plausible deniability for that.

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        You seem to be implying that is the reason I find myself disliking him less now than in 2016 which couldn’t be further from the truth. That’s among the most pressing arguments against him.

        That’s equally unfair as me saying ‘I don’t see how Harris supporting gender-affirming surgeries for undocumented immigrants in custody’ makes people want to vote for her.

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    We’re trying! Sadly we are wedged between two factions that are hell-bent on getting him elected.

    One, purposefully- the other, ignorantly.

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    Ah yes let’s hear about genocide, it’s so much better.

    Nobody cares about their election spam. These people are unhinged butchers. The american mind is totally ok with the genocide they commited to the natives in america. The american mind is totally ok with genocide in the middle east. The westoids care more about Trump being bad than actual americans deed. They care about what brand of bullshit they are gonna swallow for the next four years, they dont give a fuck about the people killed by their bombs.

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      They don’t hate Trump for what he does. They hate him because he says the quiet part out loud.

      The Harris genocide is preferable to the Trump genocide because Harris will express sympathy for all the people being killed while she sends more bombs over. Trump will chortle gleefully while he sends bombs over. See what a difference that makes?

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      If you think he’ll make genocide anything but worse, you should probably stop huffing spray paint or get your carbon monoxide detectors checked.

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        How will he make it worse? Biden and Harris are already committed to giving Israel everything they want. What’s Trump going to do? Give them more than what they want?

        History isn’t going to look kindly on the people who voted for the lesser genocide. It’s going to look kindly on the people who voted for no genocide.

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    Agree with the sentiment for sure, but would also add that a lot of Americans like him, they LIKE what he said, he was heavily supported at last count. Even now he is supported substantially.

    That is something many people need to think about. What happens next election? He won’t be the last.

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      Others don’t seem to have the hold over those clowns as he does. Meatball Ron fell flat. Vance wouldn’t maintain this level of support for 5 minutes. Hawley can’t. Horse face green is just a clown and not a serious candidate.

      I think his losing again would snap some people out of it.

      I think the party would bail on him. Especially if he causes losses down the ballot. They won’t back him for another election.

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    Anyone who thinks Trump is the sole problem and that him being out of the news will solve all the problems is clueless.

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      That was not the claim. Just that Trump news are nasty and Trump is one of the few Republicans who has enough charisma to end up in the news. If he gets voted out, there is a good chance of him never running again and fading away into the background. It means the Republicans need a new leader and whoever that is, is probably going to fail.

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        If he gets voted out, there is a good chance of him never running again and fading away into the background.

        By no means. That’s what people thought in 2020, and look what happened.