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[–] python@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Idk, I feel like him surviving is the better outcome. Republicans would have ridden the "Martyr" angle until the end of time. And while it would have been hard for the party to transfer his cult to someone else, it would happen eventually. Chances are, the person taking over would have been much smarter.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love it if Trump died, but it has to be in a funny way that can't be misconstrued as heroic. Make him fall down stairs lined with fart pillows. Have him chase an underage girl into a wall that has a tunnel painted on it. Put him in a comically unsafe submarine to check out the Titanic...

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

They are treating him like a martyr right now.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Without Trump, who do the republicans have? De Santis? Nah. Martyr means nothing if there's no realistic second choice.

(Otherwise, the CIA wouldn't have bothered assassinating political candidates in south America)

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not to mention numerous Black Panthers, civil rights leaders, many others killed. The state knows that assassination can work.