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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 36 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Looks like the majority of the storage facilities are in Red states. Even though some are near me, I feel like saying screw it, let them stay unmonitored and lets see what blows up. A blunder of that magnitude would shake up even the most die-hard MAGAt.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You sure? That whole maga bullshit sounds a lot like a ruzzian plot to destroy USA.

Really a lot. Exactly like that tbh.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 8 points 5 days ago

What, you mean just because Trump is Putin's lap dog? Or because Gabbard is now head of Intelligence?

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

They’d blame the others anyway, fascists always blame everyone else.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

At this point, isn’t it similar to asking whether it’s a parody? When reality is more twisted, how do you even write parody or Russian plot that is believable?

Is this the real point? Drive those Russian plotters out of a job by being worse than they can imagine? More extreme than would be believable from them?

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

A blunder of that magnitude would shake up even the most die-hard MAGAt

you underestimate the power of the hatred that's been carefully cultivated and spread by the right and far-right the last sixty years.

they simply won't give a shit, even if their dick starts glowing green, as long as 'they' get it too.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah you're probably right. Reality is a foreign concept to these people.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago

Thank you for pointing out that there is the right and then there is the far-right too. Things aren’t as binary as many netizens seem to think. Shades. Of. Grey.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No blunder is big enough to shake up MAGA. Literally nothing will threaten their allegiance to their god-king.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Eh, I can think of some things that might, its just that incompetence isnt one of them. But like, if Trump suddenly came out as trans or something, that might shake them up a bit.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

He's ancient, eats like shit and takes amphetamines. His cardiovascular system is shot.

Trump isn't competent enough to plan any of this. If you watch him at an EO signing, he looks like he's hearing about the for the first time as they're being put in front of him. He gets to surround himself with people who tell him he's a special boy and gets to receive bribes while golfing every week. He's a stooge who thinks he's the King.

Trump isn't the scary thing. He's the clown that the scary thing propped up in order to appear foolish and incompetent while implementing the early phases of it's takeover. By the time Trump has a heart attack, the scary thing's plans will have been advanced far enough that opinion polls don't matter because there will be nobody left to oppose it that it doesn't own.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They'd just blame it on "the radical left" and usher in martial law and the great purge.

Oh that'd be nice, but you just know it'll be "Damn Obama! Why did he blow up those nukes!' without a single hint of self-reflection.