Quietly watching discourse around this man’s statements like a thermometer. Should I drink a shot when someone disavows his ideas or when they say he’s not wrong?

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  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Whatever he said or would say, it’s a tempting concept that powerholders should be a tad bit afraid of being massive assholes when nothing else works. The right would theoretically get some martyr points if Don avoids the death to bloody diarea, but at the same time we all saw how scary it was to Shapiro and the likes when Charlie Kirk’s neck found it’s new turning point. Trump suddenly becoming an explosion of orange confetti is, obviously, a part of some accelerationist thought, but at the same time I believe it would decelerate things a lot because selfish grifters and gray cardinals of his presidency would be stopped in their tracks by pure shock and realization they are too made of flesh.

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      1 day ago

      A wise man once said, “The billionaires forget that unions were the compromise workers made to air their grievances compared to the previous method of dragging factory owners out into the street by their hair and beating them to death.”

    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzOP
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      Tbf no form of revenge that Maga swore after the neckening was new to the shit they already wanted to do. It was probably just the first time most people heard it. They’ve been on some “throw em all in a hole and cover it up” shit since forever