• Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    We are in a fucking idiocracy. This is exactly the type of stuff that was in that movie.

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    In Rome, and other empires, when an Emperor was this egregiously bad, they would not only forcibly depose him, but also tear down all of his statues, works, scratch out his name from documents and dedications, and consign his memory to the garbage bin of history.

    For all of their faults, they appeared to have far more courage than our current populations.

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      they appeared to have far more courage than our current populations.

      This.

      We’re going to go down in history as pathetic. That’ll be our legacy through time.

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      I’m never one to condone the death of people very much, but I wish nothing more than for Trump to die on camera like when Charlie Kirk got shot. I want the world to be able to watch, rewind, and watch again. I don’t need him to die slowly in hospital, I want there to be absolutely zero chance the right could pretend 8.5 billion people didn’t watch him bleed out on a sidewalk.

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        I actually am hoping more for a Khaddafi or Mussolini type of death. I want a huge mob with “rude implements” in their hands to bludgeon him to death on the steps of the Senate. I would consider that to be most appropriate. Equally appropriate would then be mobs hunting down his administration, enablers, donors, influencers, and some followers. Make it brutal, crude, painful, and bloody. Make the memory of it last two thousand years. Make it so crushingly final that the rest of his idiotic followers will weep for their fallen God in the throes of oppression which follows for all those generations.

        And I haven’t even yet begun to express my utter revulsion and loathing for him and his followers.

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        I’m hoping for a massive stroke where he leaves a giant pile of diarrhea shit where he collapses, and then he doesn’t die but ends up drooling in a hospital bed with an IV for a year or two.

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    Some countries have universal healthcare paid by their tax dollars instead of roller rink cheeto’s circus.

    Some countries have no homeless because their tax dollars help the citizenry instead of lining the orange criminal’s pockets.

    Some countries feed their children so that no child goes hungry in the midst of plenty.

    Some countries don’t have a fucking fascist shitbag lying and stealing and grabbing anything not nailed down.

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      To be fair, even before the orange shitbag, America didn’t address those things and instead funneled money into a few different shitbag’s & criminal’s pockets.

      If anything orange shitbag is a good rep for what the U.S. be like for decades if not centuries.

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        Of course there were criminals in office prior to him, but never to this extent - the entire operation from stem to stern is packed full of thugs, mobsters, and outright criminals. Adding to the problem is him working for putin and in lockstep with every other right wing fascist dictator on the planet.

        Almost as if planned…

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        Orange shitbag is a symptom of systemic ineptitude of America. But even if he’s just a symptom he’s like massive rectal bleeding or gangrene is a symptom of something more serious rather than a runny nose.

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          His second term is entirely the result of the democrats arrogantly ignoring the rot while trying to go back to normal. And they’re going to it again in 2028.

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            Ah yes. Everything trump is doing is the Dems fault, not Trump’s fault.

            Always trying to pass the blame.

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              I was agreeing with you. “Orange shitbag is a symptom of systemic ineptitude of America.” You are correct. That ineptitude that includes democrats and the failure to prosecute him for his crimes when Biden was in office.

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    When’s he going to have the whole building painted gold? I mean, The Gold House would be much classier than The White House.

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    Here’s a question I have about this from another country? Was this a privately funded birthday party, or did they use taxpayer funds for this?

    If it’s just what he wanted for his birthday and paid for it himself, then it seems less of a problem. However, if taxpayer dollars were used for this instead of school lunches or Medicare, that is such an egregious use of funds that you’d think there would be rioting.

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      Who the fuck pays the salary of all the people cooking, cleaning, security, emergency services, and the fucking list goes on.

      FFS

      Think.

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        That is literally what I’m asking - whether he hired a catering company and a security firm/if UFC is paying for this for the publicity, or whether it is all done by White House staff (which I presume from your tone that they are publicly funded, I don’t fucking know). It’s not to my taste, but it makes a big difference who had to foot the bill for it.

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    Fuck yeah!

    At the risk of sounding like Theodor Adorno, I’ve been saying that a classless society is uncomfortably close to a society without class.

    Anyway, did they at least put a shark in that pool they’re jumping over? Pulling a Fonz?

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Does this kind of crudity, cage-matches and motorcycle stunts on the closest thing a secular state has to sacred ground, actually work for anyone?

    I mean I get it. The US is under the thrall of a cult and an oligarchy, and so this caters to an audience of one. But is there someone else in the US that actually enjoys this?

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        More or less, though the US civil religion doesn’t infer diety or an afterlife. But there is a solemnity about Abraham Lincoln and the speeches that he gave during the process of freeing the slaves, that from that point on the US aspired to be a country in which the notion that all men are created equal would be ever inclusive.

        The reality is far more debatable, even today. Especially today in which a small group of reactionaries have seized power and are seeking to enforce hierarchy and even reverse some of the steps towards inclusion. But that doesn’t stop faith in the United States, that it aspires to equality and plurality and will at some point include an even greater part of the population into the fold of the mainstream.

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    Stupid? Yeah, sure. Plenty of better things to spend money and time on. Still rad AF? Yep.

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      Young me would have thought it was rad. Older me just thinks it’s a bunch of fools sacrificing their one body to look cool to young people for a second.

      And in the moment, with what’s going on, it’s just kind of disgusting for us to be paying for this for a pedophile’s birthday.