• rustydomino@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    No mixed feelings at all. I am unequivocally sad that we lost Richard Simmons today 😢😢😢

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    Nothing mixed. Fully sad he didn’t die and this will cement his win in the coming months. We’re fucked.

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    Not mixed, the attempt does not improve or reduce his ability to run the country. What it does however is increase his chances of winning.

    Gives me Reagan and Hitler vibes.

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      Its disappointing. Good someone had the balls to actually try and show he is serious when he says the 2A is there to prevent fascism. Sad he failed.

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      Disappoint in not enough to describe my feelings.

      I feel like I’m blocked under a huge building about to collapse at any moment and a huge piece of the support pillar just came off…

      …that’s how i feel right now.

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        I never understand why lemmy downvotes someone who is trying to help by providing accurate information, presumably because they think that there’s a very small chance that the person they’re replying to isn’t being sarcastic.

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    After thinking about this REALLY REALLY HARD…offing him will do nothing to stop the creep of facism. You have an entire party now aligned with the idealogices that the 3rd Reich had. And it’s the entire party. MAGA killed the GOP after they got rid of Cheney. You cut one head off and 3 more will pop up identical to him…with vindication. Its going to be a yearly struggle and I’m afraid we won’t be able to hold them back forever.

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      Killing him potentially turns their party against themselves as they fight each other for the power vacuum it creates

      Doing it before he picks a VP furthers that unity divide

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      There’s a reason the Allies kept trying to assassinate Hitler during WW2, and it wasn’t because they thought it was a bad plan to end the war.

      Not saying I agree or disagree with you. Just sayin’ how it happened last time.

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    I’ve not looked at the news yet, Lemmy was my first stop. I’m thinking… earthquake in the Kremlin?

    There’s a lot of really nice architecture there, it’d be a shame for it to be lost in rubble.

    That, or we got disqualified from the Euros final xD

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        Trump got shot at. Trump fine (hence the meme), shooter dead, couple bystanders Trump supporters dead.

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            They are, indeed, people. My point was only that they are not “bystanders”. They are actively involved, and much more so than the average voter.

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            We’re getting into paradox of tolerance territory, tbh. I’m not upset that supporters of fascism were killed.

            I am upset that the guy with the rifle didn’t have better aim (if indeed that was actually how everything went down, and it wasn’t staged in one way or another, because there are several fishy things about this).

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    Pessimistically, I don’t see how the system gets better without full collapse.

    But wow imagine a few normal candidates running again. Imagine getting to vote for politics and not in a rule-breaking popularity contest.

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    Yeah, I guess the convicted felon is destined to expire on his golden throne while trying to push out a Big Mac.