• TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz
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    6 天前

    It’s probably been mentioned many times already, but here it goes anyway:
    “If you put a clown onto the throne, the clown will not turn into a king. The palace will turn into a circus.”

  • finnadrag@lazysoci.al
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    Honestly I think this is great. Some tacky bloodsport arena is a refreshingly honest reflection of the true national character of this country.

    Much more fitting than the weird civil religion stuff going on in the rest of the national mall. This country does not deserve dignity until it stops being a global force for evil.

    • ViceroTempus@lemmy.world
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      Was mad, but yeah, honestly true. It’s like when he renamed the Department of Defense back to the Department of War. A far more accurate reflection.

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      Just what I was thinking. There’s no way orange hitler knew that it was originally a temporary structure that became permanent.

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        I swear there was a popular meme template years ago of him typing on his phone, and another panel of a search browser saying “what does a president do?”. Can’t find it now. But I imagine that template with a wiki page or the tower

    • bcgm3@lemmy.world
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      “I wanted a tower, so I built one. France has a tower, and it’s so bad, they call it The Awful Tower. My tower won’t be awful, it’ll be the best. It’ll be so great that people will fight over it. And on it. Anyway, I gotta go take a shit.”

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      as cathartic as that sounds, he doesn’t care.

      the only thing that he cares about is himself. the best punishment for him would be to be locked in a room with read only Internet to watch the world move on and him die not being able to be the center of attention.

      the best way to win a game against a narcissist is to play a different game with impossible to follow rules for them.

      • smeenz@lemmy.nz
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        7 天前

        Give him a twitter account but have a script change whatever he types into BLAH BLAH BLAH

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        Stick him into a mental hospital and make him play cooperative board games with the other inmates until he understands the concept.

        He’ll die first.

    • reddit_sux@lemmy.world
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      7 天前

      If you want to treat something down, treat the Golden Dick monument in Florida, the giant T on every Trump tower.

  • Decq@lemmy.world
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    7 天前

    Name me one person in the world less tasteful than trump. Go on, I’ll wait.

  • jenings@lemmy.world
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    6 天前

    This comment right here is what his cult will suck the shit from his asshole for. He loves to troll libs so goddamn much and his unwavering fan base will let him literally rape children for it

  • bampop@lemmy.world
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    7 天前

    I can see the logic. Build a colosseum and stage gladiatorial contests, distract the masses and get made emperor for life. But what a pathetic attempt at a colosseum this is.

  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space
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    Relevant quote from Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World”:

    [The 1939 New York World’s Fair’s president] Grover Whalen - a former corporate executive, New York City police chief in a time of unprecedented police brutality, and public relations innovator […] had convinced Stalin and Mussolini to build lavish national pavilions. (He later complained about how often he had been obliged to give the fascist salute.) The level of the exhibits, as one designer described it, was pitched to the mentality of a twelve-year-old.