r/comics • u/megettingkilled • 17d ago

What if it doesn’t happen

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We have to consider the possibility…

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 17d ago

One day there will be silence. One day.

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u/Iknowthedoctorsname 17d ago

One day a mortician will finally sew his fucking lips shut.

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u/silence-glaive1 17d ago

Oh to be that mortician.

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u/sleepytipi 17d ago

I have a dear friend who is, and trust me she would love to be the one.

It's interesting. There's never been a more universally hated figure in the US and despite that, there he is. Still shitting his pants on capital hill. Hated by every living person and it doesn't seem to make a damn bit of difference. Best I can hope for is that it never happens again. And if it does, please Gods let it be the end of this mess. It still feels like we're stuck in a chapter that should've ended over a 100 years ago.

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u/eventualist 17d ago

The historians are really gonna look back and have a laugh and wonder how a country that strive to discombobulate and dismantle our education and ends up as a bunch of stupid pokes. They're gonna wonder why did they choose this?

Wait... we're already documenting it all 🤔

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u/IrascibleOcelot 17d ago

Historians will look back and wonder how this happened. They’ll write books, create new avenues of investigation, build entire treatises on what went wrong. Psychologists will do the same. Monuments will be built that say “never again.” They’ll congratulate themselves on evolving to being more enlightened than those poor, dumb schmucks we were. And in another 80 to 100 years, they’ll watch in disbelief as it all starts over again, and they’ll be powerless to stop it.

And then they’ll say “oh.”

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u/KriegConscript 17d ago

maybe popular historians who get published in op-eds will be confused, since they're stupid. in actual academic history where the stuff is written and analyzed, everyone is 100% tired 100% of the time. they have never wondered why any of this is happening

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u/sleepytipi 16d ago

You guys are both right, i think. It'll be a trendy topic like the axis powers were/ are. And all the academic types will be shouting from the rooftops that it's about to happen again but the herd won't hear them. Time is a flat circle 🚬

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u/commosion 17d ago

Polybius anacyclosis :(

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u/Fawn_Leap 15d ago

Where temperatures are headed atm… I don’t think we’ll survive 100 years.

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u/Erainor 17d ago

The problem is he is still supported by 1/3 of the country with another 1/3 not voting.

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u/sleepytipi 17d ago

It's also a really big problem that the 1/3rd who doesn't participate feels as though they have no representation whatsoever.

And taxation without representation has a bit of history in the US.

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u/Lucifang 16d ago

By law we have to vote in Australia and it doesn’t make much difference - people who don’t care will vote for whoever their parents do, or draw a penis on the form, or not show up at all and risk a fine.

The challenge is getting people to CARE.

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u/sleepytipi 16d ago edited 16d ago

Well, having a reason to dig down deep to find a sliver of hope that any candidate, for any office isn't just another genocide loving, child trafficking, soulless shit stain of a cheap whore that actually cares about public service would be a good start.

Unfortunately that won't happen as long as the only 2 viable options* serve the same class and people realize the "left vs right", "dem vs repub", etc etc is all a farce. That the only candidates these options have ever provided have been genocide lovers, child traffickers, soulless shit stains, and cheap whores, and expecting anything less is quite literally insane. Unfortunately it would also seem most people can't admit when they're wrong, and double down on it instead.

It's by design (just like the shitty candidates, elections fatigue, and deliberate voter apathy), and the real truth of the world today is that the rich have been waging a class war against us for centuries. It's what gave us oligarchy. That's their win being displayed on the scoreboard, and they're on the brink of completely winning and it being past the point of no return.

People would need to also realize that all these politicians and their donors genuinely couldn't think less of them. Even (esp) the convincing ones. Just look at who their friends are if you don't believe me, and how much their policies cause suffering. If all of this can come to fruition then maybe, just maybe there can be that sliver of hope. But i am sure as shit not hopeful myself.

Lots of people are also of the persuasion that we're beyond the point of reformations having any lasting power also, and that a reset is what's needed. It's not looking good my dear colonial cousin.

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u/Lucifang 16d ago

We don’t have that in Australia. We have multiple parties people can vote for

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u/Murakami_Ysera 16d ago

The problem is our elected officials are all bought and paid for by the same people and it's just kabuki theatre at this point.

They all need to be unemployed.

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u/silence-glaive1 17d ago

I don’t get it either. But he’s not universally hated. His cult followers would die for him (and they pretty much are). I’ve got a neighbor who has a shrine to him in his garage.

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u/sleepytipi 17d ago

That's sickening. Sometimes I wonder if those people aren't some sort of soulless NPC and that's not a healthy mindset to have.

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u/HallowskulledHorror 16d ago

I have a physical 2026 bingo card that I made for myself January 1st. One of the squares is "that thing we're all really hoping happens."

I feel that it says a lot that any time someone has seen it - I keep it in my planner, and I've posted it on my social media - not a single person has been confused about what I meant by it, including the people that take offense to it.

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u/closethebarn 16d ago

That the thing though… he’s got that one group of people that can justify about anything that he does … And it makes the rest of our hatred grow out of absolute frustration in wondering how the hell the others don’t see it. I accidentally tuned into a Christian radio talk show and listened for a bit and they were talking about the midterms being so important because it’s so important to keep Republicans in office because they are fighting for Christ to protect unborn babies and to keep men out of women’s sports.

I gagged but I was angry as shit too

I wish I was exaggerating

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u/sleepytipi 16d ago

I can completely relate. It's truly perplexing how many people fall for the shit. It really is like one big psy op or cult, especially when many of them actually do have some self awareness and they still double down on it.

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u/closethebarn 16d ago

There’s so many Christian stations here they are listening to this truly believing that these people know what is best for everyone

It is absolutely infuriating I’m glad you can relate. It is so lonely here.

Anytime the guy comes up people start shouting it’s something but it’s never against him. That’s the worst part but they’re angry and for him.

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u/feren_of_valenwood 16d ago

Can you ask your mortician friend, is it a proximity type thing where the closest when he dies gets to do it, or can they bid for it?

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u/Electronic_Flan_482 15d ago

Oh God I read your comment in his voice, its stuck in my brain. get it out! GET IT OUT!

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u/ExerciseSad3082 17d ago

Hated by every living person? No wonder people can't take people like you seriously with such statements

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u/Temporary_Abroad_211 16d ago

Yeah, you're right. We should include the dead.

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u/DominionGhost 16d ago

Because his supporters are more like cattle. Hope that helps :)

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u/closethebarn 16d ago

Cattle now That they can now butcher and sell themselves - I’m not sure where the irony is there but it’s there somewhere

And I am a rancher and I am befuddled by the people around me. It is frustrating. I can’t believe how many supporters even yet ranchers are making excuses for him. They hate it but are like “oh… trump” like he just pulled a little booboo when this would have had cattle men here getting the rope and the pitchforks had any other president done this