• dhork@lemmy.world
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      Nobody should want these guys to finish the job, especially before the election. That’s a recipe to end up with President Vance, and the man is an absolute moron. He makes Dan Quayle look like the spelling bee champion.

      Donald Trump doesn’t deserve to die from an assassin’s bullet. He deserves to die of natural causes, in prison.

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        You are right, but I dont think the cult would unify around someone else that quickly. In fact, I think chaos that nobody that is sane would truly want would immediately ensue.

        On the other hand, every minute he is allowed to operate is a minute that extremists like the Proud Boys, Christian Nationalist, and just an unimaginable rogue gallery of others is actively injected into roles that they can cause extreme damage at.

        The unfortunate part is my second point will continue being true rather Trump is bunking in Reagan’s torment pitch or not. Mask off will be the policy going forward, just manipulative nasty shit that gets nothing done but the rich richer and the Earth sicker.

        Edit: and since I’m ranting I’d like to add; I care not one bit about “justice” served to Trump. I care only that we can recover from and avoid the circumstances that brings people like him to power. Send him to oblivion, lock him in a cell, leave him to die in an old person’s home alone once he outlives his use, whatever. I care that we notice what brings these people to power; Fear, Instability, and the abandonment of our own citizens. If we dont educate and care for one another, we are more susceptible to fascism again and again. If we dont strengthen our most vulnerable, and instead cater to those who already have everything, this will just happen again.

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        Let’s not pretend that the man doesn’t know exactly what he is doing. His only deficit is in charisma.

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      Assassination would be good for MAGA. They’d worship him as a martyr.

      I’d like Trump to die ASAP. From natural causes, like a heart attack from eating too much McD’s.

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        He is going to be a martyr no matter how he dies.

        The conspiracy theories around his death are going to make every other conspiracy theory look quaint.

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        Why would that not martyr him anyway?

        If I were to die now they would say it was so that my soul could lead them.

        - Paul Atreides, Dune 1965

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          They always look for genitalia, Leto thought. Perhaps I should have something made, a gross protuberance to shock them.

          • Leto II 2.0, God Emperor Of Dune, 1981
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        There are zero people to step in and rally voter support for MAGA without Trump.

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          There’s JD Vance.

          There’s Ron DeSantis.

          There’s Jim Jordan.

          There’s Matt Gaetz.

          There are plenty of MAGA republicans in Congress who would step up. To say otherwise is to be living under a rock. Trump is far from the only prominent fascist ass hole in US politics.

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            None of them will rally voter support. They are all wet blankets for the MAGA voter base, even iif they want to be the next Trump.

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    Protect Donald Trump

    Vote for Harris to enact common sense gun regulations.

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      I’d love for you to be right but Id say any national gun reform will be crushed by the Supreme Court or a split senate.

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      Just gonna say it:

      Donald trump is the single greatest argument for 2A rights we have ever seen.

      Granted: We need at least some basic changes- universal background checks. waiting periods to let those happen. ban bump stocks. ban anything like bumpstocks.Trump being the best argument doesn’t change that we need basic reform, and we’ve needed it for decades.

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        Why?? Every time someone uses political violence the would be dictator becomes more popular and he can make the state more repressive. Even right now, there will be idiot undecided voters that will change their vote to him because some idiot tried to kill him. There are really no upsides to attempting to remove tyrants with guns.

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          Did you forget about the part where he started a fucking insurrection because he lost an election fair and square?

          He’s basically the reason the 2A exists- to act as a final measure against assholes like trump from coming to power.

          (In the modern era, it’s not a very good measure, don’t get me wrong. Dudes with rifles- even LMGs- aren’t going to hold out against dudes inside tanks and flying UCAVs dropping bombs… and I’m all for not-idiotic gun control. a firearm painted black is not “tactical”… or any more dangerous.)

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            I don’t believe that, even in the face of a full coup, (gun) violence will solve any issues. There’s just no way that a majority of people support a violent militia taking over power of the government, no matter how illegitimate some think that government is.

            As examples, look at the recent coup attempt in Turkey, or the Wagner uprising in Russia. In both cases the violent uprisings were used by the dictator to cement his power. Guns will not help you.

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              I don’t know how clear I can be: it’s not a very good measure.

              I’m not even saying it’s a good argument.

              I’m saying Trump is the best argument for it.

              It’s a question of irony. Most hardcore 2a weirdo’s support trump. Yet he’s the best argument for the 2a.

              Make sense?

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    “let an entire country have guns. what could go wrong?”

    where was the “good guy with gun” to save the day? excluding professional trained security members

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      Well, in some sense, that’s precisely what the Secret Service was in this case – the proverbial good guy with a gun.

      I think the fringe 2A people basically want a world that is some combination of the wild west from movies and a militarized society filled with bodyguards and escorts.

      Note: they all always assume they’re a protagonist or antagonist in this hypothesized world, i.e., they’re always the person with bodyguards, a body guard, or an outlaw with a gun moving through the tumbleweeds. They’re never all the random people killed along the way.

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          doesn’t that render the whole question as nonsense? do you think there’s an expectation (among the 2a idiots) out there that good guys with guns are immediately emptying clips at anyone who is bad and also has a gun? how would they know?

          this is the secret service’s job, and they performed it. doing the “good guy with a gun” bit is so obviously out of place here, no matter what you think of guns or trump or the secret service. save it for situations where it actually makes sense.

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            Ah. I think you have entirely missed my sarcasm of “good guy with gun stops bad guy with gun”.

            Most countries have armed security/police without also having a heavily armed population. Plenty of comments of “if you ban guns only bad guys have guns” nonsense.

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    I have this sneaking suspicion that the first attempt was the equivalent of Columbine and, just like with the explosion in school shootings since then, any loser that wants to make a name for themselves is going to take shots at politicians.

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    Anyone with a functional brain knows Trump is a threat to democracy. So I have a feeling this won’t be the last attempt