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          He said for a long time. Trumps first presidency was disorganized random shit. Not something to save a bottle for. Besides, even if there was a bottle from 2016-2020, I think it would have been used in 2020 when Biden won. At the time, you’d assume that would be the end of trump, but he’s like a cockroach. Still though, that bottle would be gone. So I think it’s more likely the second bottle would be for Mitch McConnell.

          Yeah. He STILL exists. Forgot about him, didn’t ya?

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    No matter how many bad people are waiting to take his place, one less Putin in the world is a net positive.

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        They’re giving him the Lenin treatment before he’s even dead

        He’s going to be around forever

        Only the good die young, assholes live FOREVER

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          Stalin tried to enforce the Lenin treatment for himself…

          It doesn’t always stick.

          The next person to gain power is 100% going to clean house, because the Russian government is a pit of back biting vipers.

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            You’re not worried that Putin is really just a puppet for all the oligarchs running the place now? Seems likely they’ll pick a new puppet.

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              They’re all in it together, but the ones less loyal to Putin have a habit of dying.

              Putin has had a bunch of them killed.

              There’s a great podcast called Sad Oligarch that goes over it all.

              So yeah, Putin is not currently a puppet ruler.

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              A puppet is someone whose actions are fully steered from the outside.

              Putin is a person chosen by KGB/FSB because he makes decisions that are very useful its leaders, but he retains a large amount of autonomy.

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        So far in our species history, the most rich and powerful have not been able to defeat father time (they want to, but they can’t figure out how … Yet).

        When I watched the first season of altered carbon, all I thought of was how the worst of our species will be the ones to live forever. I think avoiding death is really just a bio-engineering problem, and will be figured out if climate change doesn’t unalive us all first

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      His replacement will almost certainly be bad but they will have the opportunity to hang the whole Ukraine debacle on Putin and end the war. No certainty of this of course, but it’s possible.

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      This is why I’m against anti aging research. I can’t get over how bad it would be if anti-aging tech arrives. Only the wealthy and powerful could afford it.

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        Depends on the flavor of the research. I’m all for still dying in my 70s but also am for being relatively fuckable until the very end.

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          This is referred to as healthspan or HALE and has been gaining research interest in recent decades.

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          No anti-aging drugs and surgery can replace a healthy lifestyle with enough sleep, a balanced diet, abstaining from smoking, alcohol or other drugs and regular exercise.

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      really hope he doesnt pull a kissinger. that fuck let us wait for so long, when it actually happened, it was kinda like a wet fart

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      My man. I’ve been doing that since I was 5 years old. It is a fucking TRAVESTY that even living in 2010 during the nostolgia orgins era, PeeWee Herman never got redemption in getting his show return to CBS. Although to be fair, by the time 2010 rolled around the whole concept of Saturday morning cartoons was dead. So it would be kind of weird to sandwich PeeWee’s Playhouse between CBS morning news and Meet the Press.

      Still though…

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    New world order: Putin dies, successor adopts democracy and joins NATO, Trump leaves NATO and goes full authoritarian, US becomes new dictatorship while Russia becomes new leader of the free world.

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      Even if Putin’s successor adopts real democracy, it will take generations to change the national psyche that thinks they need a strong leader. As much as the west hates Putin, he does have real support among the people. At least as long as he remains strong.

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        Most importantly, it takes rewriting their school books… The Russian school books on mathematics and on Russian language rant about Russian supremacy.

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      Russia has tried joining NATO before, NATO wasn’t really interested. It’s one of the main reasons Russia is convinced NATO is inherently hostile to Russia.

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        That is absolutely not why Russia dislikes NATO, it’s because NATO was built to defend against russia (CCCP/URSS which was led by russia).

        That’s also why the anti-bully club rejected the bully

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          Well, yes, NATO was built to oppose Russia, that’s why they refused Russia membership, and why Russia considers NATO inherently a threat. And why “Russia joins NATO” is a non-starter, Pution or no Putin.

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                I’ve got autocorrect switched off, but these kinds of corrections have lately started happening.

                Anyway, corrected “need” to “mean”.

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                  Does it? If you’re defending, it’s presumably from an attack, which you are thereby opposing.

                  I mean, imagine if Russia and the US announce tomorrow that they formed a military alliance - it’s just defensive, don’t worry about it. Also, UKIP, AFD, and FN won, and the UK, Germany, and France are joining, too. No, the rest of NATO can’t join, but it’s just defensive, don’t worry about it. Also, Taiwan can’t join, but China might. Don’t worry about it.

                  I get that exclusion doesn’t necessarily have to mean hostility, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to see a power block forming that deliberately excludes you and be concerned. Now, I could think of a few ways of dealing with that concern that don’t involve, yknow, going to war, but I’m not the guy running things.

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        Russia’s behaviour whilst holding a veto in the UN Security Council pretty much proves to NATO that Russia would only be an obstacle, and no asset at all. Fuck Russia! With a giant cactus. No lube!

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      I’m worried that he actually died during his first term (when he caught COVID) and was replaced with a younger stunt double - and that they could just keep doing this forever. I mean, it wouldn’t be that much more unbelievable than what’s already happened.

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    I want that day to be printed as big in global news as “HITLER DEAD!”

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    rumors about the Russian leader’s failing health.

    Yeah yeah, we’ve had these for years now. Wake me up when Russia’s new president signs a peace deal that isn’t a full on annexation of Ukrainian territories with nothing in return. If that ever happens.

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    There’s probably a bunch of also bad people waiting in line to take his place. But would still celebrate his death though.

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      Probably, but there’s likely to be a lot of infighting about which one of them would take over.

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      After Stalin it took more than 50 years for anyone to achieve the kind of power that he had. Once Valodja is gone (can’t be soon enough), the situation will be similar. The satraps will fight among themselves and maybe, just maybe there will be some meaningful opposition again.

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        Russia will collapse immediately. Their military is a joke. The only tactics they have are meat swarms and those are severely depleted.

        China will seize huge swaths of land, Chechnya will break off, it’s going to be insane how fast it will implode

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          Russia collapses immediately for centuries, yet nothing ever really happened.

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        It’s also important to note that Putin intentionally keeps all other leaders in Russia as weak as possible to maintain his iron grip. Unless he has a very good succession plan, things could become quite a clusterfuck before the dust settles.

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      At least whoever takes over next has good reason to rescind the war effort. Unlike the panty poisoner who is locked into this by his imperious attitude

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      Yes, there are bad people waiting, but whoever comes in would be a fool to keep the Ukraine war going.

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      Let’s hope there’s a bunch so they stay busy fighting each other for it, instead of other people.

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      Yes. But there will be a huge power vaccume. They will tear each other into pieces to get to the thrown

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    Hopefully Trump and Putin’s bodies take care of the problems for the world sooner rather than later

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      The bigger issue is that Trump and Putin are just the most visible part of the problem.

      If they both died tomorrow (oh god please), another would simply take their place. It would require a complete deprogramming of their supporters on the scale of Germany in 1945. The problem is that the entire government needs to fall for that to ever even be attempted. It would literally require a revolution or large scale invasion for that to happen at this point, and even then, as we’ve seen with Russia and Northern Africa quite a few times, revolutions have a tendency to just pave the way for the next lunatic to take power.

      In USA, invasion isn’t really possible, so it would have to be an incredibly violent and costly (in human lives) revolution, with a slim chance to actually change anything.

      An invasion of Russia is probably possible, but it would require some insane inside help to make sure they don’t just nuke everything when they realise they’ve lost anyway. A revolution probably wouldn’t do much, because of the brainwashing problem.

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        Either or both of them dying couldn’t hurt.

        Soviet Russian succession always takes a power struggle between rivals before things are consolidated.

        Vance has the charisma of a turnip.

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        I can’t speak for Putin, but MAGA is a cult of personality. Once HitlerPig assumes room temperature, there will be a vicious battle for leadership, and at least half of the MAGA Morons will drop out without their divine leader to follow. Its very likely they will pivot to making him a religious figure.

        The traditional GOP will try to recapture their hegemony over the party, and the Sociopathic Oligarchs will wage a war to keep and expand their influence. They will all try to float a new leader, and we can expect HitlerPig Jr to make a big attempt, but he’ll be recieved the same way as Frank Sinatra Jr - with a yawn. Anyone else will be accepted even less.

        I hope the battle for control of the party will result in internecine violence, so the Dems can regain power, and use the crimes and violence of the MAGAs to crush them, and purge them from government and society.

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        I think if that happened, the push against other nations would at least get a reprieve as infighting takes over, especially if Putin bites it.

        There are a lot of people who want to be king and they’ll all likely have plots to take out their rivals and consolidate power

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      Any micro organism inside of them has my support.

      By the time you’re 70/80 years old your thymus has basically just turned into fat cells and can no longer create new T-cells for your immune system. We just need the right microbe to enter.

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    Hooo! If this is true Russia’s in for it. He’s been very effective at eliminating any possible successors. Hopefully the nukes stay safe.