• BigDiction@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Trump wants to have a Purge so badly.

    But he doesn’t want to participate, and I think he wouldn’t even really watch it from a bunker. Would probably find the violence grotesque and boring.

    However, imagine the TV ratings of such an event that he made happen! That’s what really gets this guy hard.

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      26 days ago

      Not a Purge, a Kristallnacht. But with a wider range of victims than the original. The difference is, in a Kristallnacht, the police aren’t just standing down, or even rampaging as individuals, they’re specifically instructed to attack the chosen victim groups.

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      26 days ago

      Yeah “I only want to be a dictator until everyone who ever called me or will call me a dictator is killed and then I’m just president and commander in chief and supreme justice and speaker of the house and chairman, and general secretary and…”