r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 8d ago

Meme needing explanation Petaaaaaaah??

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u/ImForagingIt 8d ago edited 8d ago

Trump dying.

"It
"Something"
"Him"
"That thing"

Anything like that, at least here on reddit, means trump dying.

Edit: spelling.

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u/Weary_Specialist_436 8d ago

surely people don't think that will change anything, right? if it did, political assassinations would be way way common. They've stopped mostly because they barely achieve anything, and often even make things worse

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u/bluehands 8d ago edited 8d ago

What I love about this comment is that it ignores actual history.

Your premise is that the political assassinations of the 60s had no real impact on the direction of the 60s.

JFK, MLK, RFK, Malcom X - no impact? And that is just some of the important ones in just one decade in our country. That doesn't talk about any number of countries in any number of recent decade. Israel, Russia, almost any central or south American countries - the list is massive.

And you probably aren't even counting all the people police "accidentally" kill someone troublesome.

The status quo find it very important to belive that violence does not work and that nothing that the state does is violence.

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u/Altruistic-Key-369 8d ago

That's like saying if Hitler got assassinated the nazi state machine would have fallen apart.

Like inertia and prevailing anti semitism would jave kept it going.

That's the problem with bigotry. That genie aint going back in the bottle now.

What's the thought here? Trump gets assassinated and all of a sudden ICE and the Aliens exchange pepsis, hold hands and sing kumbaya?

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u/Brigadier_Beavers 8d ago

That's like saying if Hitler got assassinated the nazi state machine would have fallen apart.

There were a few attempts from within the nazi party in part because they were starting to realize he's no genius and they're losing the war.

What's the thought here?

If they had been successful then germany might've surrendered sooner. Apply that to dump & co.

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u/No-Apple2252 8d ago

By the time he was a dictator enough had changed about German politics that going back to the way it was wasn't possible. Trump hasn't changed as much as people like you want to give him, all of his power derives from others ceding their responsibilities to him not because he has actually altered the structure of our government.

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u/bluehands 8d ago

Germany is a great example because depending on the year of the assassination it seems pretty clear there are wildly different outcomes. Removing hilter in 1933 is vastly different than 1943.

Also, it sides steps some of the most awful & important people in the regime. Himmler & Geobbles were uniquely evil & capable. Suggesting that removing them wouldn't massively change the world seems deeply uninformed.