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cytg111

Lifer
Mar 17, 2008
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1: He is not alone. MAGA Nazism is far beyond him. It's an entire organization doing the damage.
2: Social media will continue to exist and radicalize people. As bad or worse than they are today.

We are not lucky. Trump is merely the beginning of this madness.
The other timeline branch is where this "Trump stupid" actually works as a vaccine and you bounce back stronger than ever. In that scenario the patient(you) might have actually died if Trump had been somewhat competent.
 

pmv

Lifer
May 30, 2008
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Yeah, modern dictators aren't what I would call "popular". They have a sort of fake/forced popularity but their population generally fucking hates them. It's just force that keeps them popular.

Most despots, historically and today, have a power-base. They have sizeable segments of the population that they keep happy. Iran would be an obvious example - we keep hearing how people are "tired of the regime", but there's clearly a significant demographic that still mostly supports them (I'm guessing, much as with the US, it's mostly rural, uneducated, and religious).

The despotism part just means it doesn't have to constitute a numerical majority, but regimes still need a degree of popular support.

[Edit] Actually, with Iran I suspect it's possible they might get tired of the religious conservatism, but any replacement regime will probably embrace aggressive nationalism even more than the current regime, and be even more anti-Western, anti-US, and anti-Israel.
 

dainthomas

Lifer
Dec 7, 2004
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Know nothing Trump is at it again putting himself in charge of stuff he will screw up:


Wasn't there another national leader who put himself in charge of the olympics a while ago? Trying to remember his name....let's see. Swammi? Slippy? Slappy? Swensen? Swanson?