Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tell that to the Christians. You might even say their leader dying sparked the whole thing.

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  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It was much easier to fake a resurrection back then.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean… have you seen how good ML-generated videos are getting these days?

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    • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s also totally possible to survive on a cross for three days and for someone to take you down while you’re unconscious and put you in a cave.

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  • tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We could make a religion out of this.

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• aaron@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think what you call “magnetism” is the balls to straight up lie to your supporters like they’re stupid. Seriously, I think Trump demonstrated that you can just say whatever feels good and people will accept it with zero regard for reality. That’s what was assumed false before Trump. I think they know the game plan now.

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  • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But he also says it stupid like them, in a way that can’t be faked. That’s why they love him. It’s the classic “wanting to hear your opinion in someone else’s voice”. They want to hear their shitty opinions in someone else’s voice. Except because they’re idiots, they get grammar and syntax wrong. Or they ramble through a dozen conspiracy theories in a single run on sentence.

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Exactly this. Donald Trump has the Charisma to assemble a cult whereas then these other people can hold together the coalition. Everyone’s just writing Trump’s coattails so without him the whole thing just falls apart

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  • Alenalda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is misguided, the rubes will believe whatever the talking heads on Fox News or the algorithmic fuckery from x or reddit, etc

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• P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sure the cult does, but the dictatorship the left doesn’t fizzle out.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t know if you even need the magnetism. Vance has shown he can lie just as bald-facedly As Trump does. For god sakes there was a time where the Republican hordes were carry ground cups of JD Vance cum or something. Does no one remember that? I wouldn’t be so sure they wouldn’t just transfer right to him.

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• happydoors@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I agree but I believe that’s why his underlings are using him as a front to destroy all checks and balances so when he does fizzle out, they can keep control.

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