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Jon Stewart Reacts to Trump’s Assassination Attempt: “We Dodged a Catastrophe” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 117 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Hard to say what would have been better.

There's no doubt removing a Hitler from the US elections would benefit everyone.

But given how dangerous his cult is, can you say without a doubt they would stay calm and just accept their leader got killed? And, above all, that the one coming to take his place would be a less fascist person?

[–] [email protected] 106 points 8 months ago

OK, but if it did trigger a civil war, it'd be better to do that now than after they hold the government.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But given how dangerous his cult is, can you say without a doubt they would stay calm and just accept their leader got killed?

His cult will (and already does) do damage if gets in, so it doesn't matter if they might if he doesn't.

And, above all, that the one coming to take his place would be a less fascist person?

The current one already is a fascist person, at that point it doesn't matter if they're more or less, any fascist needs to go.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There are levels of fascism. A fascist like Trump is dangerous, but given his lack of intelligence, he's less dangerous than a fascist that's smart. You don't want a smart Trump.

Edit: typo

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

If Trump is stupid, what does that say about the person losing to an idiot?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can be popular without being intelligent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There’s a popular misconception trump is an idiot - he’s under educated and has a learning disability that discourages him learning further. He’s very clever with people and can charm them for 5 minutes while stealing their wallets. Remember he runs his own brand, and surrounds himself with people like himself… clever with people but with no strong logic or science background.

Our real problem is that he is good at fooling people like himself; people who are functional in society but could not flip their own breaker when the lights go off. There are a lot of those people, and they have no concept of long term consequences for their short term actions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm going to agree with this although I actually think he's smarter than that. I believe he's a narcissist which a lot of people think is an idiotic position and in a wholesome functional idealistic society with equality it would be. However, that has never been America. America prides itself on inequality. From differences in education, opportunity, healthcare and quality of life, that is just free market capitalism doing what it does best.

We live in a society where most people equate and idealize money more than ideas, and if you have good ideas .. how little can they buy you out for. Will preventing climate change and living in harmony hurt corporate profits. People may have moments of clarity or hope and inspiration if they believe things can and will change, but a majority of people believe it is too late. That America has chosen this path and there is no going back.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

For the forgetful, I write to remind us that Biden beat Trump last election - and Trump did not even have the small consolation of having been the smarter man.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

About the person losing to him? Nothing. But about the voters? It means that at least half of the people voting (and also a good portion of those who can vote and don't) are either Nazis or dumber than a rock (or both).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Trump has an amount of media savvy to him which matters a lot in popularity contests. He's also incredibly intellectually lazy and unwilling to put in the work to get things done. The signs of this are all over his first presidency and a matter of public record.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Trump embodies fascism on an instinctive bedrock level. By the time he saw the democracy, he was already a man, and it was nothing to him but stupid.

It’s unlikely that the person that replaces him will be as spiritually aligned with fascism. On the other hand, just like with Hitler, Trump’s pure stupidity and laziness is the one bright spot in what would otherwise be an unbroken landscape of horror that we’re currently driving into.

I think replacing him, atop the machinery that’s been created at this point, with someone who really knew what to do with it and could apply themselves to getting it done, would be probably the worst catastrophe possible out a set of possible futures that doesn’t have any shortage of catastrophes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You remove Hitler and you get Chancellor Göring. As you suggest, it's just not that simple.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There level of martyrdom would be insane

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They're already delusional and obsessed about their new prophet, what difference would it make.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Most likely they would take significant action. There'd be a lot of terrorism.

Though, probably not much more than if he loses.

[–] Zos_Kia 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You'd think that but significant action required significant coordination. Coordinating these people without their guru would be like herding cats. Possibly, the leaders and influencers would tear each other apart, leading to mixed messaging, leading to apathy in the ranks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

ion required significant coordination. Coordinating these people without their guru would be like herding cats. P

You mean like the attempted coup?

Or like the guys that were hitting substations?

Or like the guys driving through peaceful marches?

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Why do people act like Trump supporters are even tangentially connected to reality? They're not.

If they want to do some awful thing, and the reason doesn't exist, they'll make up a reason. They'll shoot up a pizza restaurant over a basement that doesn't exist. They'll storm the capital to deny the reality of an election. They do not give a fuck about reality.

They are already doing every single awful thing they want to do. Refusing to resist them because they might continue to be the exact same people they already are is so fucking stupid and infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think we'd be better off dealing with the illegal actions of some unhinged Trump mourners than dealing with a legal second Trump administration for 4 (or more?) years.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I disagree with this completely. I believe if he had been killed his supporters would massively ramp up the division that exists now, which would be bad. Revenge, and Retribution are terms used by trump and his followers. I think under that reality it would have triggered some awful things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Bring it on, get it over with. The Civil War would have been much worse if Jefferson Davis was president instead of Lincoln.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And on the other hand, DeSantis vs Biden? Uh ohhh

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Direct video: https://youtu.be/u8yL3I_6Oco

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He's not wrong. If you thought the last debate was bad for Biden imagine if there was a DeSantis or Haley up there to really hammer the age difference and speak in complete sentences. That person also gets to carry out Trump's vision and honor his memory. Once they won the election, they also get the opportunity to pass legislation that was Trump's dieing wish.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Jon is completely right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

The (unhinged, dumb as a rock, self absorbed) devil you know is better then the (smarter, psychopath) devil you don't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I'm just glad he decided not to go in person to the RNC.

Because he dodged a catastrophe.