You might want to research their lines of succession
tl:dr bunch more assholes waiting in the wings
Well shit
Always has been
Things never get back to normal. There never was a normal.
Things change and either you force your own change, or you allow your self to be changed.
Oppression is the norm, sadly
Only 3?
Did you change servers, or were you always on pawb.social
I was originally on Yiffit.net but it shut down. Plus my LW account which only gets used when this one is inaccessible.
Ah you don’t know about Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison.
If you’re on a plane with Trump, Putin, Xi, musk, and 30 other billionaires, and you have a gun with only one bullet, who do you shoot?
The pilot.
Nah, plenty of billionaires have pilot’s licences. The only way to be sure is to rip and tear until it is done.
Shoot the avionics then.
One of the windows would be better. There aren’t a ton of places where a single bullet will take down a plane, if you can get a window you can at least depressurize the cabin and force a really sketchy landing, but guaranteeing the plane crashes when it’s full of people capable of keeping it in the air is no small feat. Maybe if you have access to the maintenance cabins you can pop one of the hydraulic manifold blocks, I’m not sure if the main ones have redundant fail-safes if the whole manifold spontaneously opens a new outlet.
i mean i guess it all depends where that hole goes through (idk airplane hydraulic manifolds but i’m going off the following image)
Never played a video game? Shoot the red spots, those are the weak points.
lol. i’m mostly thinking those big circular bulges (one with what looks like a nut, one which is empty and shows threading) in the middle are valves or something idk, not in/output ports. pop it on the right side of a valve and all you gotta do is close the valve.
this assuming it’s not just one hollow piece covered in nipples or something. i’m not an airplane mechanic.
heavy metal intensifies
I would tell the billionaires if they look outside they’ll see an underage girl, then shoot the plane’s instruments and then help the pilot escape with me with the only two parachutes on board.
Is this what a modern jesus would do?
Yes. Also best solution to trolley problem.
No one really believes that the vacancies from the deaths won’t be filled by yet another asshole, do they?
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Everything about your response here is why Lemmy is my first click in the morning: sober, clear thinking. What I keep wondering is can the rich be held accountable for the damage that they have done? They participated in this fiasco-coronation… they funded it. My head still spins about the loss of integrity in our entire system.
Last night I started reading Against The Machine by Paul Kingsforth… I always wanted to read Decline and Fall of the West by Spengler but this guy actually did — and a lot of other great thinkers that are making this transition feel much less tragic for me and more natural… and reminding me that empires fall but individuals can thrive. Do thrive — with acts of decency.
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So… I have been friends in a writing group with a guy who voted for Bush2… and I have conscientiously tried to be human and humane to him because we go on hikes and movies together and he shares some of that co service ugliness in ways that help me understand the “other” better.
We had a blow out 2016… and we came back from it 2019… and now we know how not to have blowouts.
Recently I shared with him Gloria Anzadua’s HOW TO TAME A WILD TONGUE.
To my amazement he read it. We just had a discussion on empathy. No one died.
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Yeah… I always find it funny how when a cool group that’s to form… that extremely cool, everyone likes them, “ex” intelligence officer shows up… weird… isn’t it? I have seen this movie before.
courting the nation’s most stupid
Who are the stupidest Americans? The Americans who selected Donald Trump? Or the Americans who selected the politicians he beat?
Like, fuck me, but I will go to my grave saying the Ted Cruz voter is the real Dumbest Man Alive. Cruz spent four years shitting all over California and New York, effectively handing these states to Trump in the 2016 primary. Legendary levels of political miscalculation. And people cheered him on for it!
At least Hillary had the sense to blow a few billion repairing her reputation in the Midwest after 2008. Absent that, it would have been a Bernie Sanders landslide in 2016 and two legit anti-establishment populists going heads up in the general election.
Cruz spent four years shitting all over California and New York, effectively handing these states to Trump in the 2016 primary.
But that’s also why he’s such an entrenched incumbent as a Senator. Texas chuds love it even if they hate him personally: shitting on coastal elites forgives all.
No one really believes that the vacancies from the deaths
My brain flipped a circuit and misread that as “deaths from vaccinations”.
No, but nobody is out there making JD Vance their entire personality.
Can’t say the same about Pam Bondi, Joe Rogan, or Nick Fuentes. Hell, Vance’s position is entirely due to the cult of personality around Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. And then you’ve got Bari Weiss stuffing CBS full of her Free Press friends, for the singular purpose of making neoconservativism cool again.
You barely even need to be popular on those terms. You just need someone willing to churn out a mind-shattering level of media slop on the eve of some pivotal political moment (election, court decision, riot, coup, what-the-fuck-ever). JD Vance could be President in four years, purely on the grounds that a majority of states are replacing majority selection of the electoral college with appointment by state senators.
And then what are you going to do about it except move to Canada/Mexico (assuming we haven’t annexed them already) or pound sand?
sometimes you replace one asshole with two (less effective) assholes. not sure how this applies to politics, just talking medicine.
It is hard to get those labs just right.
This is not down to a few persons - its a mentality and it will take generations of active work to change!
Probably a lot longer given that this mentality was supposedly already eradicated, and yet like polio, is somehow still pervasive today.
I’m only here for another 60 years at most.
it better fucking happen sooner than that
Same.
However, I wonder how many different 3-name lists people would come up with.
Edit: in my boring case, i would also probably be a TNP.
TXP wouldn’t be too bad either
high five!
Trump will not last anyways so mine is just Putin and Netanyahu. Others will just easily be replaced like the guy in Iran.
It’s gonna take a hell of a lot more than 3 bud.
You need simultaneous 19 obituaries in the US.
yeah, but only one of those US ones would make the news if it happened at once.
Can you please DM me a list of 19 people. I understand why you wouldn’t want to l list it too directly.
I’m curious who is on this list. Thanks
Hypothetically, if an assassin were to do this, it’s the person leading the executive branch + the line of succession
(For legal reasons: I want to clarify that I do not condone violence)
I know who two of those obituaries would be for but the third eludes me…
Netanyahu Putin
ahhhh yep okay.
i remembered trump and putin but forgot netanyahu.
…
it was nice forgetting about him for a while–
…but there are literally thousands of people who can’t,
thousands of families whose lives he destroyed…
okay. i regret it now ._.
Three? More like three hundred.
3 billion sounds more precise.
Those thousandaires will see justice!
Dick Cheney is still alive, 17 years after people stopped waiting for him to keel over. Dude’s heart hasn’t beaten in 15 fucking years.
Henry Kissinger made it to age 100, and was continuing to contribute to foreign policy decisions even months before his death as he egged on the Gaza Genocide and denounced Muslim immigration into Germany using rhetoric that was…
It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that
Well… something perhaps similar to what he himself might have been reading out of Germany eighty years earlier.
These fuckers don’t die nearly fast enough unless someone forces the issue.
Reminds me of the Cuban man joke… while not directly appropriate… something something like:
During my travels in the 1970s, I met a Cuban man in some bar at night discussing politics and Castro with his friends. I noticed he had an unusually short and stubby index finger. I asked him about it but he was too drunk to give a proper response.
He did however let me crash at his house that night. I woke up to him returning from buying the morning newspaper, seems like daily routine. His wife had made breakfast and he sits down eagerly, looks at his wife and at me and then slaps the rolled newspaper on the table.
I approach him to take a look and he, presses his index finger on the newspaper’s date. He proclaims loudly… “I’m telling you now (without opening the page)… This is the day Castro dies!”
[I tried my best, if someone had the proper wording, let me know. My Google skills failed me]
I wonder what the digital equivalent is…
The real punchline is that he came to America and voted for trump.
What?
What’s TNP?
First initial of last name for 3 people I’d reckon - Netanyahu Putin are the last two.
Who’s your third? The guy in charge of the other body who would be pro-tempore?
I assume Trump, Putin, Netanyahu
