He's so stupid, you even know who I mean when I say "he's so stupid".

I subscribe to a gaming podcast called Nexlander; they have a subscription tier where they’ll read off your name at the end of their main weekly podcast. Every week one of the names is “Maybe today is the day it finally happens” and I have one singular thought every single time that handle is read aloud.

Honestly there like 3 people that could trigger this.

While we all know who it is, there's a few deaths that would be celebrated globally.

Murdoch? Putin? Bibi? The AI/tech bros? The list is crazy long.

On the world stage the orange pedo clown is mostly a joke. I have a bottle chilling in the fridge for Murdoch.

How could we not? He’s basically the #1 star on this platform.

I didn’t, I thought it could be any of about 3-4 people by now

This isn't reddit, we can say his name...

I'm just looking forward to not hearing him voice his pedo rapist opinions anymore. It's a particular frequency that just won't exist anymore once his pedo mouth is permanently silenced.

I don’t even expect a respite- someone will pick up the “populist” mantle immediately. At best, it would be just a changing of the mask

No. You’ll get 20 new clowns all fighting to be the new king. With luck they’ll eat each other as they step on the backs of everyone else. You want to see change, project 2025 needs to burn.

Also eat the rich.

It won't fix all of the problems, but it'll definitely fix one of them.

Absolutely. I will ponder this as I sip the bubbly

You mean we're not all going to sing the Ewok song of triumph?

I’ll settle for chaos and leadership struggle until even the most diehard worshippers vote them out

He is the profile picture of the community

I think that relies too much on genetics and unfortunately the parents lived to 90+

My favorite podcaster used to say we’re hopeful for that “cheeseburger from heaven” that’ll finish him off.

Bibi's celebration will be bigger

I mean, of course, then again uniting under a single banner/man does make the faction stronger, under him they simply can't make any mistake, someone else would have a harder time getting away with the same things.

This does not take anything away from how evil they are and how they still exist and will after him

Yes.

Trump is the symptom, not the disease.

Its obvious the big big money players are driving his agenda.

They are daring the poor people to fight for their existence.

PS: re: Hitler. Go back in time. Take meth and cash. Find hitler. Get him on meth, buy enough art to get him notoriety, teach him punk music, let punk music advance egalitarian freedom and anarchy, so fascism has harder time gaining traction.

I don't think that's true at all, "if not Hitler then someone else", as if it was some kind of unavoidable deterministic fate.

Personally I will just be ecstatic over never having to hear his dumb fucking voice again.

The cabal of fascists infesting and rotting democracy like termites will have to be dealt with and if anything, at least our shared hatred of Trump has made us come together and organize and prepare to fumigate the whole fucking place.

Yes and no. You're certainly right, most of Trump's popularity comes from Russian propaganda, and far more institutional issues like underfunded education, the blind eye to the Southern states after the Civil War, leftover Red Scare paranoia, and rampant lobbying.

That being said, using the disease metaphor, I think of Trump as more of a "complication" than a "symptom". Something that's drastically exacerbated a problem that was already there. Every other politician, even ones as corrupt and self-serving and dictatorial as him, all have to play the PR game and dress their rancid fantasies up as something that would benefit the public. Trump meanwhile, can transparently go back on every single promise, back stab his every last ally, out himself as perhaps the most prolific paedophile in human history, and order his fans into a street militia, and somehow, his supporters just accept it as part of his "brand".

The US was probably always going in this direction, but I still think it wouldn't have got here half as fast, maybe not even a third of the speed Trump's been disassembling it without him. I don't really know why Trump's popularity was never affected by his vile actions until this year - they would sink any other public figure. Maybe it's the right wing press playing defense for him at every turn, maybe it was his "joke candidate" status he earned back in 2015, maybe it's his history in the public spotlight. Whatever it is, far right politicians around the world have tried to replicate what Trump has, and they've all failed. Because of that, I still think that the Big Beautiful Obituary will be well worth celebrating!

You have to take small victories while understanding the bigger picture. It will still be glorious, although I am saving up cheap 100 proof vodka as the asshat does not deserve good booze or my money in buying said booze. I might add a champagne if it's less than 20 bucks.

It's more about hoping the cult breaks down and won't be unified anymore. Maybe vance can't jedi mind trick people the same way or something? Republican party fractures, rfk jr becomes totally irrelevant, etc.

But yes long terms the problems are still there, the hope is for some kind of respite, force the fascist elements to retreat, and democracy fashions some tools to defend itself better moving forward.

But yeah idk i really hope all the epstein stuff can come out, for example -- more witnesses come forward, actual accountability and jail time for the perps involved -- but it would not be a huge surprise if none of that ever happens

In terms of hitler, if he had died in the war or something, maybe France would have gone full fascist genocide. France was really a leader of antisemitism much more so than Germany before hitler rose to power. But of course, those are the kinds of hypotheticals that can only have absurd answers.

Perversely, the "great men" view of history that prompts us to want to kill baby hitler is an authoritarian one.

Authoritarian leaders often adopt the narrative that they are special saviors uniquely equipped to fix the problems of the world. The much less romantic truth is that even if we could trust someone with that kind of power, the problems that plague our world are too big to be solved by a single person, no matter how well-intentioned or capable that person may be.

Ok, but what if it really is him? I mean if we're assigning moral blame then you're right: many, many people are responsible. But negative outcomes for evil beliefs aren't a given. What if people are always just this stupid, and it took a certain person with certain traits to bring this out of them? Did people change, or were they just latently stupid but mostly harmless this entire time? Things were going pretty well for a while there, so what if we were teetering on the edge that whole time?

His death might also give some of the smarter fascists an off-ramp, which could reduce their critical mass. I'm NOT saying they deserve an off-ramp, but if it means society starts heading in the right direction again, maybe it's worth it. We'd all prefer to excise the tumor completely, but sometimes that seems impossible. Remission would still be a blessing.

I guess what I'm saying is, let's not be too cynical while we're celebrating this person's death.

Yeah, this unfortunately. It’s the far right MAGA extremists who voted him in

We need to hold them accountable, throw them in jail, deport them and blacklist them

I kind of agree with you, but his death will still be celebrated. When you get a mosquito it won't significantly change how many bites you get at the end of the day but it still feels fuckin great

Ah goddammit, yeah, this is the right prediction. Shit.

It was propaganda, and there's still a huge amount of social media propaganda to go around.

Any social media is vulnerable, particularly if it's anonymous.

"here comes the new boss, same as the old boss."

Hitler probably still has the highest percent, but the likes of Putin and Trump might overtake him easily when they go since the world is a lot more connected and it's basically impossible not to hear the news now.