• Seth Taylor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 个月前

    This is not at all the worst idea he’s ever had

    It actually sounds kinda nice.

    Where’s he getting the money for it though?

    That. Is the question.

    • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 个月前

      if it wasn’t fascist bread and circus then by itself it isn’t a bad idea.

      in the context, it’s a shitty idea, especially when the economy is collapsing, pedo files are illegally held, and ICE is at war with American cities.

        • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 个月前

          Yeah, the man has negative charisma. But like any other cult that survived long enough, that’s actually how it usually goes. Original guy is batshit crazy and has control over minds of his cultists, and when he dies the new guy is ruthless, efficient, and keeps in relative obscurity, and if he’s successful, the cult lives on. The second guy usually makes a cult into evil machine of hate, abuse, grift, and expansion.
          It happened with mormonism, it happened with scientology. If it will happen with maga it will be the catastrophic end of the US.

  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    10 个月前

    Isn’t there a really bad Clancy book by that name? Yeah, I just read the plot summary and it sounds as deranged as something trump would write.

  • Gust@piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 个月前

    Surely they’ll forget about bread if the circus is entertaining enough, right?

  • Ferrous@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 个月前

    Feel free to correct me…

    Everyone I know has been roasting the patriot games, but… it sounds sort of fun??? Given how bad Americans are at exercise, socialization, and community, some sporting events might be fun and good?

    Like, I could see this being an absolute dream for high-achieving student athletes.

    However, this is all tempered by the fact that the announcement itself was steeped in transphobia. If that weren’t the case, Id be less skeptical.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      10 个月前

      The problem is that under any other administration, it would be a potentially good idea. Under this one, it’s a grand event for dear leader to show himself off and his country like North Korea does. It’s more ego padding, that if it happens will be so ineptly run it’ll be a disgrace to those who participate. You’d have to be die hard MAGA to want to perform for glorious leader who thinks physical exertion just kills you faster.

    • barooboodoo@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      10 个月前

      Just go do the myriad already existing fun sports and physical activities instead of dancing like a trained monkey for this shitty administration.

    • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
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      10 个月前

      Ladies and gentlemen, this is how fascism arrived.

      Sure, it’s all in good fun, and the ballroom is just an upgrade for the people, and the illegals dying in detention, aren’t dying because they were detained, just coincidentally dying in captivity. Let’s always look for the silver lining in the sturmwolke.

      • Ferrous@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        10 个月前

        the ballroom is just an upgrade for the people, and the illegals dying in detention, aren’t dying because they were detained

        Wat… when did I say any of that…

        • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
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          10 个月前

          You didn’t, but this is the sort of sentiment that aligns:

          Everyone I know has been roasting the patriot games, but… it sounds sort of fun???

          It might, if it was anything other than a spectacle in service of dear leader. They do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.

          • Ferrous@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            10 个月前

            So… why didnt you just say “I fear this is just a front to instill reactionary patriotism for the greater purpose of ushering in American fascism - akin to the Hitler youth”

            And instead smugly claimed I was ushering in fascism??

            It’s a fair point, and I’d have conceded it to you…

    • OldChicoAle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 个月前

      You think it’s actually going to be executed perfectly like that under this administration? Also, something something hunger games

      • Ferrous@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        10 个月前

        You think it’s actually going to be executed perfectly like that under this administration?

        Maybe not, but I never said it had to be executed perfectly. In fact it’s probably fair to say the first one might be a little clunky.

        Until it’s revealed that the participants will be killing each other, the Hunger Games comparison is a funny gag, but I dont see how it seriously applies.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 个月前

    tbh, I was expecting the purge to come first. No guns for the wrong ethnic groups, though.