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[-] Des@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

oh i don't doubt the whole movement can shift further. i mean it is right now, just slower then it was earlier.

it really comes down to how fast they destroy living conditions locally. for every "trump is my whole identity" fandom adherent you have a normie "i'm a conservative until something effects me".

it's a big country with a huge armed population. if the true believers get reduced to some tiny percentage and try to genocide 75% of the population (all non-"heritage americans") like they want to: it's unprecedented. they don't have the numbers

only option would be a systemic nuclear carpet bombing of the whole nation (excluding their enclaves) or the movement to abandon everything and fall back into fortified micro-Israels and Gaza everyone else. either way the U.S. falls.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, definitely loving the California-Texas battle at the moment. Anything that furthers balkanization.

I just don't know yet if MAGA Trumpers will really reduce to such a small minority. I'm still very much in doubt that it'll disappear but I agree their movement is slowing, I just think they'll start accelerating further to the Right again when the conditions allow it. You're right though that it eventually and inevitably lead to collapse of the Empire. I just hope not to die before it happens because of some dumbass fascist shit. Haha

[-] Des@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

i just hope it happens before i get too old and broken to be able to react. if it really takes a while i'll be so old i won't be a threat but it looks more like "old enough so that you can be easily hunted by fascist zoomers that see you as a big scary threat"

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

You're right. We should hunt the zoomers now just to be safe.

Honestly, would be happy to see it happen at any age. As long as I'm alive and not senile, I could die in peace.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

i just want an exit strategy so i don't get tortured to death or imprisoned. sorry if this is too grim. i've been on the inside of shit and will not go back alive

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Nah, not at all. I'm really sorry you went through that.

I've never been but I am of the exact same opinion. Hope we both make it to see the new world without the Empire, Comrade!

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