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disk-and-horse · 4 months ago

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Hate to be a doomer on main but i think trump surviving an assassination attempt is just about the worst thing for the left politically. an assassination attempt in general is going to cause brain-dead liberals to sympathize with him and his fascist followers to go nuts but at least if he was dead he'd be...well, dead. and therefore politically non-viable.

i think rn we have to hope for an infection or something. or that his followers get whipped up into a brownshirt frenzy and try to do a bunch of hate crimes and/or a coup. which, like, would be bad for all the obvious reasons but might cause enough bad press to snap some centrists out of their wiemar-ass idiocy. and i don't think his supporters are competent enough to either do a large-scale decentralized genocide or coup the government.

and obviously things are not going well when you're hoping for political violence from your enemies! so. things are not looking great

#to any feds watching i support none of this #neither an attempted assassination nor a bunch of right-wing violence and/or a coup #both for practical and legal reasons for the former #and for moral and legal reasons for the latter #im a leftist. i just have a mountain of cynicism and a vague understanding of cause-effect chains #that lead to weird conclusions like “what we need right now is some right-wing violence”#the comparison here is the charlottsville murder #which was politically good for the left even if no leftist should be cheering it on #we need these people to show their true face in the hopes it drives away non-fascists

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