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Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

-Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

Been thinking about this quote a lot lately. The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.

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MrTrono@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Nobody is saying it would solve the problem but it might make me feel a little better

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UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.

Capitalism

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- in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  There’s a lot of the “atheist” tech bros that still peasant-brain worship the market with human sacrifices as if it will bear them miracles. I like to tell them “You’re an atheist just like me, except I go one god further.”
  
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AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is the thing making me lean more toward leaving than trying to change things. Even if Trump were magically impeached today, and our election system were left as near-intact as it is, somebody just like him could be just as likely to be elected in the next cycle. And odds are he’s going to pull off rigging the system to make sure that happens by then.

I think that on a long term scale, to get at the root, something needs to be done about the media machine behind him. Culture eats policy for breakfast.

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