r/comics • u/megettingkilled • 7h ago

What if it doesn’t happen

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We have to consider the possibility…

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u/JohnTomorrow 7h ago

How this prick managed to get the top spot of the US government on the back of fuckin nothing but hot air and paedophilia will never cease to amaze me.

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u/Pinku_Dva 6h ago

Because the USA isn’t a democracy. It’s a corporate oligarchy disguised as a republic and trump simply offered the best deal to the actual people in charge. Simply; he bought his way there.

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u/JinkoTheMan 6h ago

That’s taking way too much responsibility off of the general people ngl.

Enough people voted(or in the last case, didn’t vote at all) for Trump

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u/Proper-Beyond116 6h ago

The general public are bought and paid for. You could get them to vote in favour of being kicked in the balls every morning for the rest of their life via media manipulation. They dumbed down and propogandized the population a long time ago, they're now too stupid to be held responsible for their own choices.

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u/Top_Meaning6195 5h ago

The general public are bought and paid for.

No.

  • i don't vote liberal because i saw a Planned Parenthood ad
  • conservatives didn't vote conservative because of an ad

Conservatives have been shit-stains upon humanity long before Trump.

Hell, they made abortion illegal in the 19th centry, and have endorsed slavery for 300 years.

We could get rid of all the rich and it wouldn't make a bit of difference because conservatives are allowed to vote.

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u/f0r3v3rn00b 3h ago

Upvoted. But now, saying conservatives are allowed to vote is the problem, it feels like you're saying that democracy is the problem.

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 3h ago

Of course it is. A benevolent dictatorship would be the best form of government, but humans being what we are, we can't have that. People are stupid, petty, vengeful, angry creatures, and half of them (or more) vote with their emotions, not their intelligence. It's almost to the point where I hope AI takes over the world, because it would at least run things with the most efficiency.

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u/AeneasVII 2h ago

I'd like to try again a government that's run by scientists and experts and a constitution following humanitarian principles. But they need to be in charge of every country.

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u/f0r3v3rn00b 1h ago

Science and experts have nothing to say about what’s good and what’s evil. You could end up with a scientifically accurate and expertly ran dystopia.

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u/SurpriseInitial6202 1h ago edited 1h ago

The cool thing about science, and especially the data that comes from it, is that you can use it to form valuable opinions on things like "what's good and what's evil" by establishing non-religious definitions of those words, and then looking at what policies and societal forms conform most to "good".

For example, the current data on societal happiness, health, purchasing power, etc, favors governments that have strong social safety nets and own their own natural resources, rather than selling them off to private companies (both of which are left leaning but largely free-market other than a few things the government owns).

Some people think that a truly communist world would be best, but we don't have data to support that. Some think that a libertarian world would be best, but we don't have data to support that, either.

There's a reason that most economic models in Europe at least favor the social safety nets part. It's because it's statistically the best way to reduce poverty and crime, which means you have a more productive society.

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u/f0r3v3rn00b 19m ago

I agree to some extent, but science has nothing to say about morality, and it's probably better this way. Science cannot answer "what is" questions. What is an electron? Science is the best tool we have to answer "how" questions, like "how does an electron interact with an atom".

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u/AeneasVII 54m ago

Sure, but read about humanism on Wikipedia. We figured these things out long ago, we could easily make them work. But we aren't there yet/ever

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u/f0r3v3rn00b 1h ago

Efficiency isn’t necessarily good. Nazis were quite efficient at genocide, right? Why would you expect AI to be benevolent? Also AI is built according to billionaire’s vision, so…

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 1h ago

I didn't say I expect AI to be benevolent. Wiping half of us out on day one would be quite efficient.

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u/Top_Meaning6195 10m ago

Saying conservatives are allowed to vote is the problem, it feels like you're saying that democracy is the problem.

I'm not suggesting conservatives shouldn't be allowed to vote.

I'm just saying what the problem is.

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u/Honest-Resist-7676 57m ago

For sure, but we also shouldn't diminish the bad-faith "reporters" and news orgs who have been setting the stage for this. The choice is the individual's to make, but they've been stirred into a culture of fear and anger—making the choice to support someone as vile as Trump easily justifiable in their minds.

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u/Asholootleigh 5h ago

Unbelievably real.

Ants following their queens orders, much of humanity resembles. Sacrifice, and build that bridge! For the hive!

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u/urban_meyers_cyst 3h ago

I agree, look at how easy it is to find people that believe in relatively simple answers to incredibly complex problems.

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u/pick_your_user_name 4h ago

Well then it is a democracy…

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u/SpeckledAntelope 5h ago

For real, fact is that a lot of people are impressed that he can grab em by the pussy and brag about it on TV, and they wish they could too.

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u/ohkaycue 5h ago

Yeah some people are ignoring 2015 Trump, when the corporations realized they could make a lot of money through him because people are so terrible.

Like yes to the whole oligarchy thing but them and the Republican party didn't want Trump back in the day. He's a useful puppet to them. And it's concerning just how many people are entertained by the twisted puppet

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u/ealysillyforestthing 3h ago

"He knows all about those voting machines"

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u/timoumd 5h ago

He didn't win because of the elites, at least his first primary.  He won because numb nuts thought he told it like it is.  He was the avatar of right wing media, what every talk show host hinted at our implied made flesh. 

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u/DrDestructoMD 5h ago

That's too nice and neat of a narrative to be true. It means no one is really responsible and theres nothing we can do. I think the simplest is that this is a democracy and the majority of usa citizens wanted exactly this.