• cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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    2 hours ago

    The guy didn’t take his position with violence? What’s going in America to make the majority of people support this guy?

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 hours ago

    Step up your game. Imagine becoming a president, grifting as hard as possible, then when it all comes out prison would be all but inevitable… unless next president pardons you right as he assumes office.

    this is Yeltsin, and the next one was Putin

  • dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Lex Luthor literally becomes president in many versions of the Superman cartoons.

    The idea of a rich billionaire with a narcissist Messiah complex with a bone to pick with heroes and actual helpful people that becomes popular and eventually the US President is practically a trope. Apparently this generation has forgotten the message.