I'm just looking forward to not hearing him voice his pedo rapist opinions anymore. It's a particular frequency that just won't exist anymore once his pedo mouth is permanently silenced.
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DarkFuture 84 points 2 days ago
BooBees 7 points 2 days ago
They've burned a lot of political capital with a lot of people, though.. gonna take them time to usher in that much political will from the swing voters and a few key voting blocks
Aceticon 3 points 2 days ago
Actually, you mentioning that specific trait of him reminded me that the FBI and other American autorities have been protecting the pedos and the pedo ring by covering up their activities for decades, much longer than Trump has been President and through both Republican and Democrat administrations.
Which kinda reinforces the point of the previous poster about the environment that created them and the interests he represents - they've been there for much longer than he's had power and clearly they're neither changing nor leaving.
Stupidmanager 30 points 2 days ago
No. You’ll get 20 new clowns all fighting to be the new king. With luck they’ll eat each other as they step on the backs of everyone else. You want to see change, project 2025 needs to burn.
Also eat the rich.
GraniteM 3 points 2 days ago
Trump also represents a pretty impressive combination of horrible, charismatic, and authentic.
He is truly, truly horrible. He embodies the ugliness that a lot of people see in the world and in themselves, and is willing to cause harm to the world around him in a way that they wish they could.
He is, in his own utterly fucked up way, charismatic. He's eager to aggressively beclown himself for applause and to sell his poison in a way that Stephen Miller or Ron DeSantis couldn't match.
He's authentically awful. Every word he says serves his own corrupt enrichment and aggrandizement, and he makes no secret of that, even when telling lies. When he's lying, he's obviously lying. When he's stupid, he's authentically stupid, not pretending.
Voters are very sensitive to all three of those categories, and they can tell when someone isn't entirely any one of them. Trump is the rare beast to max out all three.
Gullible 6 points 2 days ago
Anyone smarter will damage the country differently. There is currently an economic force pushing the US toward a future where its citizens are separated and specific groups disenfranchised to pull money toward the ultra-wealthy and major voting blocs. Fewer overtly stupid decisions, plenty of horrors to come.
arrow74 4 points 2 days ago
It's rare for cults to survive after their leader dies.
I don't see the movement continuing. Some will rally to the new face, but many won't.
Even today support for Trump is slowly waning with his base growing smaller. The issue with the American system is he can lose all support today and continue. Even if dems retake a majority in the Senate it takes 2/3rds vote to remove the president.
Rivalarrival 1 point 2 days ago
If Vance invokes the 25th amendment in January, he'll get the support he needs.
MousePotatoDoesStuff 1 point 2 days ago
Hopefully someone left-wing can pick up that mantle instead.
CorrectAlias 8 points 2 days ago
It won't fix all of the problems, but it'll definitely fix one of them.
wonderingwanderer 2 points 2 days ago
You mean we're not all going to sing the Ewok song of triumph?
pelespirit 123 points 3 days ago
Also, without mentioning a name, we all know who this is about.
deadbeef79000 64 points 2 days ago
He's so stupid, you even know who I mean when I say "he's so stupid".
BeatTakeshi 2 points a day ago
Works with "Pedo in chief" too
NOT_RICK 36 points 2 days ago
I subscribe to a gaming podcast called Nexlander; they have a subscription tier where they’ll read off your name at the end of their main weekly podcast. Every week one of the names is “Maybe today is the day it finally happens” and I have one singular thought every single time that handle is read aloud.
ParlimentOfDoom 12 points 2 days ago
Honestly there like 3 people that could trigger this.
deadbeef79000 9 points 2 days ago
In no particular order: Trump, Putin, Netanyahu Musk.
OwOarchist 6 points 2 days ago
I recently saw a post that simply said "Somebody should do it soon" ... and everybody automatically understood what 'it' was and whom it should be done to.
SorryQuick 2 points 2 days ago
How could we not? He’s basically the #1 star on this platform.
Vandals_handle 8 points 2 days ago
Naw, that's The Picard Maneuver.
Trumps a shit stain, not a star.
BaroqueInMind 1 point 2 days ago
This isn't reddit, we can say his name...
RoidingOldMan 71 points 2 days ago
Pretty sure Hitler's death was international news.
A_Random_Idiot 24 points 2 days ago
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.
mfed1122 26 points 2 days ago
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.
A_Random_Idiot 14 points 2 days ago
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.
Aceticon 0 points 2 days ago
Judging by what happenned after the last Trump presidency, I think your expectation that over 80% of what he and his party have done will be actually undone by a Democrat POTUS is incredibly optimistic.
My bet would be at most 10% - so 300 miles his way and only 30 miles back after him.
SaharaMaleikuhm 7 points 2 days ago
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.
mfed1122 5 points 2 days ago
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.
Aceticon 5 points 2 days ago
Trump is a symptom, not the disease.
A horrible, horrible symptom killing that diseased country even faster and making it spread even more and nastier efflusions all around than usual, but none the less somebody like him would never have reached that position if America wasn't already profoundly sick.
If the disease isn't cured all that will happen is that another one like him is bound to get the post in at most 8 years after a caretaker POTUS that does nothing to undo the shit he did, same as last time.
AA5B 2 points 2 days ago
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
Napster153 -3 points 2 days ago
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
raspberriesareyummy 19 points 2 days ago
Comparing 9/11 or Katrina to the end of WW2 is a tad inaccurate to say the least.
ArmchairAce1944 2 points 2 days ago
Mossad?
ohulancutash 4 points 2 days ago
Katrina and the Waves, the Eurovision competitors?
observes_depths 4 points 2 days ago
I know whose death we'll celebrate next
Lucidlethargy 2 points 2 days ago
Yup, we know who your talking about here as well.
Ol' ketamine head.
Reygle 62 points 2 days ago
What's the joke again?
Man stops at a newsagent every day to read the headlines but never buys a paper.
When asked, he says "I'm looking for an obituary."
When the newsagent tells him obituaries aren't on the front pages he says
"The one I'm looking for will be."
FreshParsnip 48 points 2 days ago
I've been looking forward to his death too but the more I think about it, it's a mistake to think his death will somehow change the direction things are going
America is conveniently putting all the blame on Trump and ignoring that it took a lot of people to put Anerica in the position it's in. If the problem were JUST Trump, he wouldn't have come anywhere close to being elected. A sane country would have reacted to his behaviour by laughing him off and never giving him any votes or airtime. Trump is in power because an alarming number of Americans (not necessarily a majority, but a lot) agree with him
I've always been annoyed by people wanting to go back in time and kill Hitler. If it wasn't Hitler, it just would have been someone else. There's this strange persistent myth that if we get rid of one evil man, it all goes away. Hitler didn't singlehandedly kill 11 million people. 11 million people aren't rounded up and killed because one man decided to do it, it required people to go along with it
postmateDumbass 11 points 2 days ago
Yes.
Trump is the symptom, not the disease.
Its obvious the big big money players are driving his agenda.
They are daring the poor people to fight for their existence.
PS: re: Hitler. Go back in time. Take meth and cash. Find hitler. Get him on meth, buy enough art to get him notoriety, teach him punk music, let punk music advance egalitarian freedom and anarchy, so fascism has harder time gaining traction.
HerbGrower 6 points 2 days ago
Might be a symptom but you still breathe a sigh of relief when your headache clears up even if your alcoholism is going to cause another one tomorrow.
Smoogs 2 points 2 days ago
I would blame the non voters and misinformation and the complacency of it more.
The reps are evil in nature and simply feed on such opportunities. They will always be there. The evil will always be there. Everything else adapts with time to prevent it from such power.
This time we all let ourselves down on this one.
AlboTheGuy 10 points 2 days ago
I mean, of course, then again uniting under a single banner/man does make the faction stronger, under him they simply can't make any mistake, someone else would have a harder time getting away with the same things.
This does not take anything away from how evil they are and how they still exist and will after him
FreshParsnip 3 points 2 days ago
Why would someone else have a harder time getting away with stuff? What is special about Trump? I legit don't understand how he gets away with things that supposedly nobody else would. Has he made a deal with the devil for immunity from all possible consequences? I'm legitimately asking, why is he different?
FreshParsnip 3 points 2 days ago
Right, which is why I think another MAGA would get away with exactly the same stuff
Fredthefishlord 3 points 2 days ago
Yeah he just made a deal with the devil... Nah, in all seriousness it's the way he appeals to the uneducated and hateful masses. You can't replicate his special mix of pure hatred and greed inorganically. It isn't that there can't be another, more so that no one even remotely in a position where they could take over doesn't have the same undeniable sway. They'll stop being so united.
Doesn't mean they'll stop being a threat, it'll just mean it's a bit easier to deal with
anarchy79 8 points 2 days ago
I don't think that's true at all, "if not Hitler then someone else", as if it was some kind of unavoidable deterministic fate.
Personally I will just be ecstatic over never having to hear his dumb fucking voice again.
The cabal of fascists infesting and rotting democracy like termites will have to be dealt with and if anything, at least our shared hatred of Trump has made us come together and organize and prepare to fumigate the whole fucking place.
OccamsRazer 5 points 2 days ago
Trump has a cult of personality that took years to build, and isn't simply transferred to someone else. MAGA doesn't survive if he's gone. Will there still be fascists, racists, and so on? Yes, but they won't be unified anymore, and they won't be grouped together with the rest of the right anymore either. This will be good for the left in the short term because the right will be less powerful, but also bad for the left because it won't be as easy to attack the right.
anarchy79 1 point a day ago
No doubt it will hurt them, but they will recoalesce into some new golem down the line, and I don't think it'll take long. They're loud and energetic, all that energy still has to go somewhere- and remember the fundamentalist Christians. They sure as hell ain't leaving anytime soon, and they're already mobilized and old in the game. I think once the Diaper Balloon pops whoever grabs the throne will be pushed as the new idol and FOX et al will brainwash the crowd into supporting them.
That's my bet at least.
FreshParsnip 2 points 2 days ago
It would have been somebody else just as it would be someone else now if not Trump. This is just how the political tide keeps turning
anarchy79 2 points a day ago
That was never inevitable. The breeding ground, or the bacterial culture was spreading in the vat, but certainty was never on the table. We can change things, we can avert disaster, we can elect competent leaders. Case in point: Mamdani.
Zedd_Prophecy 5 points 2 days ago
You have to take small victories while understanding the bigger picture. It will still be glorious, although I am saving up cheap 100 proof vodka as the asshat does not deserve good booze or my money in buying said booze. I might add a champagne if it's less than 20 bucks.
CumbrianCucumber 5 points 2 days ago
Yes and no. You're certainly right, most of Trump's popularity comes from Russian propaganda, and far more institutional issues like underfunded education, the blind eye to the Southern states after the Civil War, leftover Red Scare paranoia, and rampant lobbying.
That being said, using the disease metaphor, I think of Trump as more of a "complication" than a "symptom". Something that's drastically exacerbated a problem that was already there. Every other politician, even ones as corrupt and self-serving and dictatorial as him, all have to play the PR game and dress their rancid fantasies up as something that would benefit the public. Trump meanwhile, can transparently go back on every single promise, back stab his every last ally, out himself as perhaps the most prolific paedophile in human history, and order his fans into a street militia, and somehow, his supporters just accept it as part of his "brand".
The US was probably always going in this direction, but I still think it wouldn't have got here half as fast, maybe not even a third of the speed Trump's been disassembling it without him. I don't really know why Trump's popularity was never affected by his vile actions until this year - they would sink any other public figure. Maybe it's the right wing press playing defense for him at every turn, maybe it was his "joke candidate" status he earned back in 2015, maybe it's his history in the public spotlight. Whatever it is, far right politicians around the world have tried to replicate what Trump has, and they've all failed. Because of that, I still think that the Big Beautiful Obituary will be well worth celebrating!
SuperNovaStar 4 points 2 days ago
Perversely, the "great men" view of history that prompts us to want to kill baby hitler is an authoritarian one.
Authoritarian leaders often adopt the narrative that they are special saviors uniquely equipped to fix the problems of the world. The much less romantic truth is that even if we could trust someone with that kind of power, the problems that plague our world are too big to be solved by a single person, no matter how well-intentioned or capable that person may be.
Bluescluestoothpaste 4 points a day ago
It's more about hoping the cult breaks down and won't be unified anymore. Maybe vance can't jedi mind trick people the same way or something? Republican party fractures, rfk jr becomes totally irrelevant, etc.
But yes long terms the problems are still there, the hope is for some kind of respite, force the fascist elements to retreat, and democracy fashions some tools to defend itself better moving forward.
But yeah idk i really hope all the epstein stuff can come out, for example -- more witnesses come forward, actual accountability and jail time for the perps involved -- but it would not be a huge surprise if none of that ever happens
In terms of hitler, if he had died in the war or something, maybe France would have gone full fascist genocide. France was really a leader of antisemitism much more so than Germany before hitler rose to power. But of course, those are the kinds of hypotheticals that can only have absurd answers.
FoxtrotDeltaTango 2 points a day ago
Yeah, this unfortunately. It’s the far right MAGA extremists who voted him in
We need to hold them accountable, throw them in jail, deport them and blacklist them
moakley 2 points 2 days ago
Ok, but what if it really is him? I mean if we're assigning moral blame then you're right: many, many people are responsible. But negative outcomes for evil beliefs aren't a given. What if people are always just this stupid, and it took a certain person with certain traits to bring this out of them? Did people change, or were they just latently stupid but mostly harmless this entire time? Things were going pretty well for a while there, so what if we were teetering on the edge that whole time?
His death might also give some of the smarter fascists an off-ramp, which could reduce their critical mass. I'm NOT saying they deserve an off-ramp, but if it means society starts heading in the right direction again, maybe it's worth it. We'd all prefer to excise the tumor completely, but sometimes that seems impossible. Remission would still be a blessing.
I guess what I'm saying is, let's not be too cynical while we're celebrating this person's death.
adhdsergio 2 points a day ago
I kind of agree with you, but his death will still be celebrated. When you get a mosquito it won't significantly change how many bites you get at the end of the day but it still feels fuckin great
TeaWithDani 44 points 2 days ago
You guys are a bit optimistic if you think Mitch McConnell's absence isnt a test run for something.
spaghettiwestern 10 points 2 days ago
Even if they've heard the name before, not one person I know outside of the U.S. knows who McConnell is. Trump is known and despised worldwide.
TeaWithDani 5 points 2 days ago
Trump 2028 will be run dead or alive, exactly.
I'm sure they already have the LLM ready to run his socials.
RichardNixos 2 points 2 days ago
I'm sure there are a lot of techbros that think Warhammer 40k is aspirational and they'd love serving a braindead emperor on life support who sends them telepathic commands only they can receive.
Einskjaldi 2 points 2 days ago
I didn't think he's actually dead, just on life support or unable to function.
uriel238 5 points 2 days ago
They need to do more than pretend he's at school in Canada. In McConnell's case, his state of limbo actually serves both parties. Maybe the Democratic party more so than the Republicans.
I've no doubt they'll try to create an animated Trump, but the tech's not there yet, and he'll feel wrong to his base.
No cult of personality has survived the death of its leader without an extensive transition process in advance, either to usher in a replacement leader, or to turn it into a cult of an idea.
(I'm absolutely sure they'll pretend that Trump is sending messages from beyond the grave. That may work for a while, though it didn't with Charlie Kirk.)
Rozauhtuno 2 points 2 days ago
I’m absolutely sure they’ll pretend that Trump is sending messages from beyond the grave.
And they'll use it to sell one last cryptoscam before bailing out with the money.
spaghettiwestern 2 points a day ago
Unfortunately most people in the U.S. can say the same thing.
lemmygarden 1 point 2 days ago
He is the profile picture of the community
tanisnikana 32 points 3 days ago
We’ll call it Cholesterol Day.
Imgonnatrythis 25 points 2 days ago
Kissinger was a pretty good starter.
spaghettiwestern 27 points 2 days ago
I don't think either of them will get the automatic allegiance of a cult. One can hope, anyway.
Ryanmiller70 13 points 2 days ago
Vance definitely doesn't have anything to pull people to him. Like as much as I hate Trump, I at least see the dumb things he does his cult likes. Vance has none of that. It's like if Jeffries tried to replace Mamdani.
Almacca 6 points 2 days ago
Let's hope not. They're both charisma vacuums. Not that I think Trump is especially charismatic either, but his personality is certainly large and hard to ignore, unlike those two gormless non-entities.
OwOarchist 9 points 2 days ago
The long line is what will help. That whole line of them will be at each other's throats trying to take his place. It will divide their party and divide their supporters. Eventually, one will claim victory and rise to prominence, but until then, they'll be in crippling chaos.
OwOarchist 6 points 2 days ago
Takes over the office, but that doesn't mean he takes over the party or the voters.
Goodlucksil 3 points 2 days ago
The rich guys are ready to support Vance.
ZILtoid1991 4 points 2 days ago
Both of them are charisma vacuums, so they will tank even faster.
Diplomjodler3 -1 points 2 days ago
That's not how this kind of shit works. A dictatorship does not simply appoint a successor and carry on. Even if it is firmly entrenched, there will well be a power struggle among potential successors, that often brings down the entire regime. And in the US the fascists aren't firmly entrenched just yet.
distal 2 points 2 days ago
I believe this is completely incorrect. This idea of a power struggle concerning successors being of super high importance reduces the problem down to individuals. Regimes don't fail because of small skirmishes, or because of a leader dying.
BenReilly23 17 points 2 days ago
Oh there's definitely going to be some celebrating going on and I imagine it'll probably be people getting fired and fights at work because it'll be a bunch of sad weirdos upset because their king is gone . Then it's going to be the ones who'll swear that he was "taken out" . It'll be a celebration but also a bunch of weird shit going on .
atx_aquarian 6 points 2 days ago
Ah goddammit, yeah, this is the right prediction. Shit.
boonhet 17 points 2 days ago
Hitler probably still has the highest percent, but the likes of Putin and Trump might overtake him easily when they go since the world is a lot more connected and it's basically impossible not to hear the news now.
FoxtrotDeltaTango 2 points a day ago
Don’t forget Elon musk, Xi jing ping, and other rich and powerful individuals who caused mass suffering
Secret_Music 15 points 3 days ago
I wish I could agree, but from the UK to Germany to Australia to South Africa, not insignificant amounts of people have taken a look at the USA and gone "I want some of that too". At least Americans had the 'excuse' of thinking they were gonna get cheaper eggs or some shit. But the people who have had the advantage of watching this unfold from the outside and still want their own wannabe MAGA movements, are just trash with no excuse.
I think a 3rd of the world will celebrate, a 3rd will cry, and the other 3rd won't be able to tell the difference between the other two.
Trampampoline 3 points 2 days ago
"here comes the new boss, same as the old boss."
PhoenixDog 7 points 2 days ago
Images are just numbers.
TopsickPilgrim 12 points 2 days ago
I can't celebrate. I worry about the replacement. Not like they arent anticipating it either.
PhoenixDog 10 points 2 days ago
There's not a person in that administration who has the same pull over MAGA as Trump. Everyone else is just a wet shit.
anarchy79 0 points 2 days ago
You forget, MAGA has nowhere else to turn to than the right wing "'press", and won't go anywhere. That shit ain't stopping with Trump, they'll just latch on to whatever and whoever else they get told to and keep going.
daniskarma 2 points 2 days ago
Gladly history tells us that more often than not tyrannical leaders deaths trigger a power war over their successor destroying their platform.
Adulated_Aspersion 12 points a day ago
My heart skipped a beat. I thought I missed a headline.
ReluctantMuskrat 3 points a day ago
We'll have to see who wins!
spaghettiwestern 6 points 2 days ago
Ahh yes, 1945, when a huge portion of the adult population carried battery powered vacuum tube radios around in their pockets.
ArmchairAce1944 6 points 2 days ago
No, but there were radios everywhere in homes, shops, cafes, bars, etc, and wireless telegraphy was near instantaneous. Newspapers with 'extra extra read all about it!' Would have hit the stands within hours. So yes, within 48 hours of Hitler's death people absolutely knew that the fucker was dead.
spaghettiwestern 0 points 2 days ago
Simultaneous - adjective - occurring, operating, or done at the same time
DarkSideOfTheMoon 10 points 2 days ago
Depends on the country, only on free counties, in other places when some people commented certain death and they were sent to jail, lost visas… so I would be afraid to say anything when this happen, will be only quiet in my corner waiting to get democracy back.
lemmygarden 14 points 2 days ago
Respectfully, I don't think waiting quietly is how you get your democracy back.
PhoenixDog 10 points 2 days ago
Just thinking of some one in a city somewhere getting home from work, just getting to bed, and getting upset about fireworks going off and cheering in the streets.
He leans out the window and shouts "WTF IS GOING ON!?"
TRUMP IS DEAD! the crowd shouts.
The man immediately runs downstairs, fuck shoes, and joins the party.
mlg 9 points a day ago
It's funny seeing Americans think even our crappy president is somehow the universally acclaimed Mr Evil himself and that there would be a UN independence day if he kicked the bucket. He could die tomorrow and a solid majority of the planet would only be wondering which of the other millions of available morons will take his place.
Unless you mean Netanyahu in which case everyone except the US and Israel will probably celebrate for 5 seconds before they bomb another school full of children.
flying_sheep 6 points a day ago
Don't be such a spoilsport, I'll definitely call my friends for a spontaneous party here in Germany.
ArmchairAce1944 1 point 16 hours ago
And the question will be... Schnapps or beer?
ArmchairAce1944 1 point 14 hours ago
And that is good. Very good. A variety of schnapps as well as a variety of beers.
Bluescluestoothpaste 2 points a day ago
I mean yeah he deserves to go to hell yesterday as much as anyone, but you're right, we wake up to president vance that's not going to help anything
zanyllama52 7 points 21 hours ago
Agreed, that bitch Carol in accounting needs to go
lemmygarden 7 points 2 days ago
I have a bottle of champagne in the fridge just waiting for the occasion!
FistingEnthusiast 2 points 2 days ago
2006 Piper Heidseck vintner's reserve for me
Standing by
ArmchairAce1944 1 point 2 days ago
I stopped drinking for 14 weeks, but I will make an exception for Trump.
ArmchairAce1944 1 point a day ago
I was not an alcoholic, I just had a weekend habit that wasn't fun anymore. It was an autistic ritual more than anything.
lemmygarden 2 points a day ago
I've considered ordering a cake and requesting them to write, "Trump's dead lol" on it.
medicsofanarchy 7 points 2 days ago
Ok, diseases, this is your chance: whichever one of you gets him, we will cease funding for curing you.
Heart disease. Stroke. Cancer. Chronic flatulence.
Let the games begin.
Edit: limited time offer. If you get him after the offer expires, the funding continues to find a cure for you.
spaghettiwestern 13 points 2 days ago
One explanation of the box he's wearing on his ass is that it's a continuous IV pump required for extreme cases of pulmonary/arterial hypertension. It looks like it may end up being heart disease.
ChunkMcHorkle 8 points 2 days ago
Thank you. I kept reading people offering endless diaper jokes as the explanation, but he's been wearing diapers for years and that ass box is new. Your suggestion is the first realistic guess I've seen.
As an aside, this video came out on the official WH press secretary's X account. Looks like Karoline Leavitt is even more pissed off about being left behind on the decoy plane than we thought, lol.
lemmygarden 3 points 2 days ago
Also, she has a rich old husband, and two babies, and the president kept calling her on the phone screaming at her. Nobody rich as she is needs to put up with that.
SatansMaggotyCumFart 7 points 3 days ago
I'll volunteer to die if it triggers a global celebration.
BeigeAgenda 5 points 2 days ago
Sorry but we already planned this for you:
SatansMaggotyCumFart 4 points 2 days ago
Six people giving me a shower?
Over my dead body.
BananaOnionJuice 4 points 2 days ago
Its minions with fart guns.
SatansMaggotyCumFart 2 points 2 days ago
Yeah I could tolerate that.
thatsTheCatch 6 points 2 days ago
OH I thought they were taking about Jesus...
wowwoweowza 6 points 2 days ago
Yes. Imagine all the people… living for the day…
Vandals_handle 2 points a day ago
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
wowwoweowza 2 points a day ago
Apparently it’s global
DarkFuture 5 points 3 days ago
It'll be the closest we're ever likely to come to world peace.
HexesofVexes 4 points 20 hours ago
January 1st of 2000 would like to dispute this claim. At some point the world really was just one big party.
RichardDegenne 2 points 14 hours ago
It wasn't simultaneous though, because timezones.
HexesofVexes 0 points 10 hours ago
Oh it was at some point, it just didn't start simultaneously; nor would op's celebration.
ArmchairAce1944 1 point 17 hours ago
Yes I remember Jan 1st, 2000. I remember Dec 31st 1999, which... Yeah, everyone was waiting for it. In fact the 90s had so much shit waiting for the lead up to 2000 it wasn't funny.
ClownStatue 2 points 2 days ago
Lindsey was an amateur compared to this other guy I know of!
lemmygarden 1 point 2 days ago
I was super busy on the day Graham died. If I had found out earlier in the day, I would have opened my champagne bottle. I had to wait a few days to take a moment to celebrate. It was less expected than Trump's death.
NocturnalMorning 4 points 2 days ago
Whoever could this be about?
VelvetPinkOtter123 4 points 2 days ago
Well, the World Cup exists
Soccer is extremely popular the world over so I image that did it first
Marthirial 3 points 2 days ago
It is getting harder to keep the singularity. They are trying real hard to deserve the honor.
Katana314 3 points 2 days ago
One thing that frustrates me is, years ago we would have said this about Vladimir Putin - another man causing tons of harm to the world. But people rich enough to pay top doctors seem to hold on a long time.
doingthestuff 3 points a day ago
There is no one universally hated or universally loved. So not everyone will celebrate anything. And if the bar is only that the celebration was observed simultaneously by someone in every time zone, then that has likely happened multiple times with things like US elections or the Olympics or that big soccer thing some people care about.
BillCheddar 2 points a day ago
Why can't they happen at the same time?
Netanyahu had two planes crash into the World Trade Center. Can't he play doubles with Donald on death day?
spaghettiwestern 7 points 2 days ago
Nope, New Years is a rolling celebration at midnight local time.
2hundredpancakes 5 points 2 days ago
Time zones: am I a joke to you?
ArmchairAce1944 4 points 2 days ago
I know it is a typo, but all Russians forced to mount Trump sounds... Appropriate!
farmgineer 1 point 2 days ago
You could probably do one for each valid UTC offset pretty easily since I think that's < 50 people (though I'm not sure of any weird shenanigans or offsets with no land or something, but boats are a thing). Actual timezones is a whole can of worms, but close enough is close enough.
spaghettiwestern 16 points 2 days ago
Simultaneous New Year's celebrations 2000 didn't happen. There are these things called time zones...
Event_Horizon 1 point 2 days ago
Speak for yourself. Here in Aussie land I had enough Peruvian marching powder to do all the celebrations!
nullspace 1 point 2 days ago
You're disqualifying a day of celebration shared by every human being on the planet because it wasn't perfectly synchronized? And somehow an obituary is supposed to get more people to celebrate? And no other similar obituaries or end of war announcements count? lmao okay
spaghettiwestern -1 points a day ago
simultaneous - adjective - occurring, operating, or done at the same time
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA -1 points 2 days ago
people didn't celebrate for hours beforehand
SalamiDommie 0 points 2 days ago
I do not understand why people give him so much attention... You will say you are "celebrating his death" but you are still giving him all the attention he wants.
SalamiDommie 0 points 21 hours ago
It will not bring the relief you desire.
SalamiDommie 0 points 21 hours ago
You miss the point.
Jankatarch 0 points 11 hours ago
First covid vaccine triggered the same event too, no?
Tollana1234567 -1 points 2 days ago
like with osama bin laden , eventhough he is a creation by usa/eu both indirectly and directly.
SaharaMaleikuhm 10 points 2 days ago
No? Nobody outside the US cared like at all.
lemmygarden 1 point 2 days ago
As an American, I assume his death brought some feelings of justice to some people that lost loved ones due to 9/11 but it wasn't a celebration with champagne kind of moment for me. It wasn't a "let's join the queue to piss on his grave" feeling.
I'm against the death penalty, and the details of his capture and death weren't released immediately. Based on what I recall I know now that it would have been unlikely to capture him alive. It was just a feeling that Obama did what Bush didn't prioritize. Obama did something that the Republican failed to do. But it would have been something to put bin Laden on trial and see all that.
anarchy79 1 point 2 days ago
Not even close. That was a pretty lame "USA! USA! USA!" moment considering they had hunted him for almost half a century after actively having helped create him.
The rest of the world was like "ok" and went on with their days.
Sour_Kabos -2 points a day ago
Yes Xi Jingping would spark this
M137 -5 points 2 days ago
All this post says about OOP and OP is ignorance. There have been several global celebrations like this. I'm guessing both of you are too young and/or too stuck in a bubble of some sort to know that.
Anyway, I just really hope but don't expect it to happen before he and his goons makes it mucb worse than it is now.
SynAcker 3 points 2 days ago
I'm trying to think about other celebrations you might be referring to. For example.. Hitlers death wouldn't have been celebrated simultaneously due to being limited to the methods of news communication of the time - back then it was radio, telegraph and film so it wouldn't have been celebrated at the same time. Today, we have smartphones with push notifications. Your other point is spot on, tho.. For what ever reason, a person full of hate seems to live longer out of spite.
spaghettiwestern 0 points 2 days ago
Your comment and the very age and experienced you claim make it painfully obvious that you you do not understand this post or have a clue what is different in the 21st century.
NullPointerException 16 points 3 days ago
No, because if that dude actually existed, he would’ve been known by a small population only. But that German dude killed 1912 years later was globally famous.
Canconda 4 points 3 days ago
Jesus is a verified factual historical figure who was executed more or less according to Biblical tradition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus
My understanding is that the Romans killed Jesus because they just wanted to avoid Jewish people rioting against Roman occupation. The Jewish priests framed Jesus so this would happen because he was speaking against specifically their religious power (He was not anti-rome).
I subscribe to the belief that some of Jesus' disciples faked his resurrection and started a cult.
Proprietary_Blend 3 points 2 days ago
Faked resurrection?! Now I've heard everything!
AgentSeven 3 points 2 days ago
It seems likely that he was an actual person. It is not verified, nor is it verifiable. This is the kind of shit Bible apologists like to whip out as if it confirms their beliefs. Almost to a person, people who refer to the Historicity of Jesus Wikipedia page use terms like "verified fact" in the same breath. If you're not intending to be a Bible apologist, you should probably take a different tack.
Nobody (especially the apologist) gives a shit whether some rando Nazarine created a religious movement. They were a dime a dozen. What the people who bring this up actually care about is that said Nazarine is the Son of God and the Christian Messiah. Just because he existed, doesn't mean he is anything of the sort, or that God even exists. There is literally no other useful knowledge to be had in pointing out that Jesus was probably a real person, so if you're hell bent on making sure everybody knows he was so totally super-duper real guys, then everybody figures you must have an agenda.
NoneOfUrBusiness 0 points 2 days ago
I'm sorry you're so upset about people correcting misinformation.
PS: There's one useful thing about telling people that Jesus existed: We don't have to suffer smug atheists being like "haha Jesus is fake I'm so smart."
Canconda 0 points 2 days ago
[Citation needed]
Brain Pulse needed.
Like seriously so easy to find that for yourself unless you're an AI slop consumer.
....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus
Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure, and the idea that Jesus was a mythical figure has been consistently rejected by the scholarly consensus as a fringe theory.
NoneOfUrBusiness -1 points 2 days ago
And what the fuck do you think they put that Wikipedia link for?
SnailMagnitude 0 points a day ago
Much of the 'historical Jesus' movements especially since the 1970's or so, and especially in the USA, often a little strange ime, no one knows and it's fine.
FC Baur > Ernest Renan > Joseph Smith > Bart Ehrman kinda line...evangelical adult Jesus nerds hoping something in the 27 book NT can be clung to but struggling with magical women from Eve to Mary being core. It's been big business in the US over the past 50yrs or so with the SBL evangelizing Markan Priority and seven letters of St Saul and all those bible schools trying really hard to ignore anything not in the little 66 book KJV's for lolz.
Jesus of Nazareth is far from verified afaiu.
He pops up in Marcion's New Testament ~140CE and peeps not sure if the christos is flesh or not there and the discussion around this issue hasn't really gone away despite burning rather a lot of people and books mentioning it since..the wiki article you cite suggests dismissing them as 'fringe' or 'radical' instead of burning or screaming heretic. Prior to ~140CE is anyone's guess and why those defending their Chistology be it Islam, Tewahedo or SBL say "Most of our scholars agree xyz" instead of providing any evidence.
This seems like St Paul: why?
Why would the noble St Mark do what we accuse St Marcion of? We can trust St Mark as he's the bro-science Jesus evangelist
Good scholars often don't comment upon this stuff as there is little worth saying but Michael Penn gives a little insight into the weird world of 'the historical Jesus' in NT scholarship here.
huppakee 3 points 3 days ago
Post doesn't say the first time someones death was cele bvbration, just the first global celebration. Thought the post was about Christmas or a celebration like that. But celebrating the end of a war makes sense too.
Nollij 3 points 2 days ago
I've never thought about it until now, but there are definitely different definitions (or at least uses of the word) for celebrate. You might celebrate your wedding, but you certainly don't have the same type of event for your anniversary. Same for your favorite sports team winning the championship, vs any observance of previous victories.
huppakee 1 point 2 days ago
Yeah i interpreted this more like a celebration of an anniversary than a victory of a match. Looking at it for a second time i also see this could be written about something that hasn't happened yet, while i read it as celebrating something that happened once.
NoneOfUrBusiness 1 point 3 days ago
Just in case, the consensus among historians is that Jesus did exist.
LifeInMultipleChoice 6 points 3 days ago
Yeah I went to school with a few of them.
angstylittlecatboy 3 points 2 days ago
One reason I don't believe internet atheist types are smarter than religious people is because the way a lot of them get when you mention that Jesus being a real person is historian consensus is eerily similar to how Evangelicals get about evolution.
Catoblepas 15 points 3 days ago
simultaneous
Orthodox Christians: am I a joke to you?
(Some sects celebrate as late as January 19th)
AngryCommieKender 3 points 2 days ago
He was nailed to that tree to make way for a spice caravan bypass!
Proprietary_Blend 1 point 2 days ago
Apparently, He was nailed to a tree to please the Jews.
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DankDingleberry -23 points 2 days ago
people outside the us dont care all that much.
AngryCommieKender 18 points 2 days ago
Our system is so broken that you can become president with 21% - 22% of the vote.
That's without the rigged voting machines.
2hundredpancakes 7 points 2 days ago
Half of voters, which means about 30% of the population. His approval ratings are in the low 30%, the lowest of any president.
Misrepresenting the situation might make you feel better but it doesn't help anyone else.
FistingEnthusiast 2 points 2 days ago
'Murican society gets what' Murican society deserves
Unfortunately, individuals get dragged along for the ride
2hundredpancakes 3 points 2 days ago
By that logic, all Germans during the Third Reich were bad too. The death of nuance is why these things happen. People with your attitude don't help.
Proprietary_Blend 4 points 2 days ago
It sure doesn't stop then from complaining
im_fine_sandy 4 points 2 days ago
I can assure you I care.
2hundredpancakes 4 points 2 days ago
Many Canadians would disagree with that for starters
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While that will certainly happen, it won't end the environment that created him or the interests he represents. A brief respite, is as optimistic as I dare to be.
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