rolling “Trump is gonna win” containment thread

Hobbes to thread.

Cue Mark Twain

most revolutions arrive with a wave of exterminism of their own

"My neighbor killed my family with an axe and stole my last two jugs of water, but at least he wasn't a *spits bloody tooth on ground* capitalist!"

seems kind of futile to speculate on the best form of chaos under a societal collapse due to climate catastrophe, but I am at least curious about how that will impact the 2024 presidential election

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvN3c35VcAATraz?format=png

oh shit, pwned

Part of the impetus for the establishment of the state is to control/reduce violence.

lol I almost added "have a monopoly on" as a third option, sure, yes. But getting rid of state-controlled violence will not get rid of violence I regret to inform.

lol that actually is straight outta Hobbes

Organized violence as a way to resolve disputes with your neighbor over lawn maintenance

Violence, like lying, is such a blindingly obvious possibility that even three year olds will do both without so much as a lesson or role model to show them how.

Do we need a rolling "neighbors are going to kill each other to steal potable water in our lifetimes" containment thread?

I think that's this thread.

I already have that but it's called "rolling dystopian emails from my doomer brother."

comrade combover cannot fail, he can only be failed

The dicktatorship of the golfproletariat

comrade combover's got this!

finally gathered the paperwork to upgrade from green card (i.e. basically here at the pleasure of the executive branch) to citizen.

i had put this off for years for various reasons but https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html was enough to push me over the edge.

Good choice, provided you're OK with renouncing your allegiance to foreign potentates.

It came up at the weekend & sorry as a foreigner idk the rules here, will all the embarrassing Harry Potter libs start calling him “47” or what

harry potter libs?

are they transphobes?

though I'm guessing you mean something like a Sorkin lib or a Hamilton lib.

Hufflepost readers

"Whole Foods Democrats" C/D

lol ok I wasn’t expecting that part to cause confusion, respect for being logged off during that era I guess

For the sake of the question imagine some lame ppl calling him “45”

https://patriotscave.com/cdn/shop/products/2MMC-8155-4547_933x.progressive.jpg?v=1633175561

there we go!

apparently all the big donors are "fluttering towards Nikki Haley" and Trump is starting to lose a few minutes sleep in the republican presidential primaries, because the New Hampshire polling has opened up a remote possibility of some other quite horrible outcome, that doesn't involve Trump winning. lol I haven't a clue what is going on really, but just watched some msnbc on yt.

Do we need a rolling "neighbors are going to kill each other to steal potable water in our lifetimes" containment thread?

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Monday, November 6, 2023 3:09 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think that's this thread.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, November 6, 2023 3:10 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I already have that but it's called "rolling dystopian emails from my doomer brother."

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, November 6, 2023 3:28 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

we're experience multiple overlapping ecological and climate crises that will fundamentally alter life on this planet in my life time. so hilarious.

if you don't think that people already kill each other for access to fresh water, i've got news for you. fuck a fashy prepper for sure, but the idea that crisis, displacement, and resource scarcity won't come home to roost sooner rather than later in USA is a smug delusion

Wait ARE you my brother?

I do hear a lot of that from him. I don't think the concerns are misplaced, I just think we're a long way from Mad Max.

Your Thanksgiving table chatter is going to be really good this year

i didn't really think it was controversial. i just assume most people don't want to talk about it because it leads to debilitating depression

where's sanpaku for some doomerism when you need him

i drive through mad max every morning. the mad max looking mfers don't have any weapons though, only the police do. budo jeru is otm of course. glad i won't be sharing the table with any myopic libs catastrophizing about trump while blessed with material comfort and addicted to a national news drip feed.

or anyone bringing up the wonderfully exciting topic of critics' rankings of films, for that matter.

Speaking of doomerism apparently there a lot of people concerned about the 2025 Project for reasons I was unaware of before this helpful video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H95kPWrLsz4

lol @ competing for "taking our impending doom most seriously with most furrowed brows."

Anyway if you don't want catastrophizing about Trump, this is the wrong thread. That's its explicit purpose.

or anyone bringing up the wonderfully exciting topic of critics' rankings of films, for that matter.

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, November 21, 2023 5:30 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wait, they aren't exciting?

How badly is Biden alienating pro Palestine voters he'd need to vote for him to prevent 47 being the worst thing ever.
Or an ersatz version thereof?

Stevo, it’s not just pro-Palestine voters— Biden is alienating huge swaths of his former supporters in swing states. https://www.axios.com/2023/11/04/michigan-arab-american-voters-biden-israel

The rest of the world thanks the Democrats for choosing a decrepit doddery war criminal as their presidential candidate.

the way he has repeatedly lied about seeing dossiers and photos that either don't exist or are pure bullshit that somehow justify the genocide - the detestable old bastard.

Dying in his sleep rn might be good.

when the election is the stark choice of this arsehole or a Trump dictatorship I'd be grateful to be one of the disenfranchised that can't vote in US elections.

That's...a bad take.q

Citizens here have died for the sake of the franchise, and we have one party openly committed to eliminating democracy with the help of a corrupt Supreme Court, so forgive me if I don't accept the posture of gratitude for being disenfranchised.

calm down, Alf. I was just expressing that it would make me feel physically ill to have to vote for Biden. I'm aware of what is at stake in 2024, yes, I agree US democracy is in genuine peril here.