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      It didn’t spread as fast as this one will though. Every timezone will get the news immediately once it breaks anywhere.

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        They had amateur radio at that point, so that news was certainly disseminated through official channels within minutes.

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      and so was 9/11, and Katrina.

      both showed incredible, international outpourings of support, generosity, and kindness, and opened the door to a potential better future.

      and both opportunities were frittered away on stupidity and arrogance.

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        My thoughts exactly. I will totally celebrate Trump’s death, but anyone who thinks its going to change anything for the better in any substantial way is sadly oblivious. In fact it frustrates me that so many people seem to think everything will be fine once Trump dies. Already the seeds of inaction and complacency are sewn.

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          the problem is that trump has advanced the republican agenda by 300 miles (to use a convenient conversational example), and when he dies, the advance will falter and fall back to maybe 250 miles.

          and the fools will celebrate that as a return to normalcy and a victory, ignorant to the 250 miles of advancement they made, secured, and locked down by their complacency.

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          You don’t get it. Without dear leader they fall apart. They don’t have anyone to replace him, at least no one their voters care even half as much about as him. The cult will die with him and that is a HUGE opportunity to capitalize on.

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            Nah bro, I wish, but nah. The damage is done. Don’t you see? The cult, Trump, all that was the booster rocket. This shit is in stable orbit now. It doesn’t matter what happens to that apparatus anymore.

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          It won’t be fine, but no one else has whatever twisted mind control is necessary to control the worshippers. I’m sure they’ll try to apply things smarter, they’ll get the backing of their billionaire owner, but it’s not intelligence that made all this happen, not ability. It’s all the sycophants and grifters falling inline and that won’t happen for someone else

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          Everyone wants to feel validated like a hero but with none sacrifice a hero does.

          Pure envy drives the masses. It is one of the many poisons in the current iteration of society