• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    There’s still time to confirm my extreme edge case hypothesis that Donald Trump’s entire political career has been a carefully constructed and coordinated live-action worst-case-scenario demonstration meant to shock people out of their complacency and demonstrate in real time just how bad an unhinged president could be and forever ruin the public’s faith in the Republican party by actively ruining everything he touches.

    I’ll be honest, I kind of gave up on this theory in about 2017 or so, but then again we came back around to using medical leeches, so anything is possible.

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      14 days ago

      In my mind the ends could justify the means in that scenario as much as I don’t like the means… but we still need to get to the ends.

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      Its not as extreme edge… i was told only yesterday that its better if Trump wins the election just because people are more motivated to resist.

      I can see their point but i think that kind of rhetoric is going to cause a civil war.

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      but then again we came back around to using medical leeches, so anything is possible.

      Leeches and maggots have been used medically for a long time and for legit purpose, though

  • marcos@lemmy.world
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    Goes to show that the reason eco-terrorists never succeeded was because they never tried hard enough.

    Or maybe the increase in coal usage goes to show that the people saying that terrorism never succeed were right. IDK, the facts are still on the air on this and people are way too terrified to focus on collecting them.

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    I suspect Just Stop Oil have actually increased the amount of oil used globally, due to all the traffic jams they’ve caused.

    The organisation that has done the most to stop oil consumption would be the armed forces of Ukraine, followed closely by the US military.