• @[email protected]
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    1442 months ago

    I have kept a bottle of bubbles in the fridge for one of two possible celebrations for far too long now.

        • @[email protected]
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          112 months ago

          He said for a long time. Trumps first presidency was disorganized random shit. Not something to save a bottle for. Besides, even if there was a bottle from 2016-2020, I think it would have been used in 2020 when Biden won. At the time, you’d assume that would be the end of trump, but he’s like a cockroach. Still though, that bottle would be gone. So I think it’s more likely the second bottle would be for Mitch McConnell.

          Yeah. He STILL exists. Forgot about him, didn’t ya?

          • @[email protected]
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            102 months ago

            Trump’s first presidency ended during COVID’s first year, he killed hundreds of thousands, excess deaths were over 600k for the first year.

            • @[email protected]
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              52 months ago

              My “bubbly list” is creeping up. On top of the obvious choices, I’ve added a handful of the old guard Democratic dipshits that more or less actively helped us sleepwalk into this complete clusterfuck.

              • @[email protected]
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                32 months ago

                Actually they said they have a single bottle meant for 2 possible occasions worth celebrating. One would be Putin death. Can you guess the other occasion for celebration?

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      I don’t drink but maybe I should get a bottle in case one of three people move onto their judgement.

  • @[email protected]
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    232 months ago

    Hooo! If this is true Russia’s in for it. He’s been very effective at eliminating any possible successors. Hopefully the nukes stay safe.

  • @[email protected]
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    402 months ago

    There’s probably a bunch of also bad people waiting in line to take his place. But would still celebrate his death though.

    • Diplomjodler
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      After Stalin it took more than 50 years for anyone to achieve the kind of power that he had. Once Valodja is gone (can’t be soon enough), the situation will be similar. The satraps will fight among themselves and maybe, just maybe there will be some meaningful opposition again.

      • @[email protected]
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        132 months ago

        Russia will collapse immediately. Their military is a joke. The only tactics they have are meat swarms and those are severely depleted.

        China will seize huge swaths of land, Chechnya will break off, it’s going to be insane how fast it will implode

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        22 months ago

        It’s also important to note that Putin intentionally keeps all other leaders in Russia as weak as possible to maintain his iron grip. Unless he has a very good succession plan, things could become quite a clusterfuck before the dust settles.

    • @[email protected]
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      242 months ago

      Probably, but there’s likely to be a lot of infighting about which one of them would take over.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      Yes, there are bad people waiting, but whoever comes in would be a fool to keep the Ukraine war going.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Let’s hope there’s a bunch so they stay busy fighting each other for it, instead of other people.

    • Goldholz
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      Yes. But there will be a huge power vaccume. They will tear each other into pieces to get to the thrown

    • Shawdow194
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      At least whoever takes over next has good reason to rescind the war effort. Unlike the panty poisoner who is locked into this by his imperious attitude

  • @[email protected]
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    422 months ago

    rumors about the Russian leader’s failing health.

    Yeah yeah, we’ve had these for years now. Wake me up when Russia’s new president signs a peace deal that isn’t a full on annexation of Ukrainian territories with nothing in return. If that ever happens.

  • Goldholz
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    392 months ago

    I want that day to be printed as big in global news as “HITLER DEAD!”

    • @[email protected]
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      182 months ago

      Fear of the “next guy” is the only reason la’orang is still alive. All of this is the fault of people gearing “what’s next”. The number of evil people on earth is finite. Even if the next one is worse, there’s only one way forward. So just take the win. The number of evil is about to drop by one

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      The entire “ecosystem” of Russian leadership is built around a strongman. If Putin dies, the next one win based on the criteria that made Putin the leader. So there are two options: a big fucking fight, or someone roughly as bad.

      And if it’s option 2, their level of shittyness depends mostly on how effective Putin was in defenestrating his rivals.

      • @[email protected]
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        142 months ago

        One thing about regimes like Putin’s and Trump’s is that they actively select against clever and competent people. Because clever and competent people are a threat to Dear Leader’s power.

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        It will be a big fucking fight, simply because that same ecosystem wasn’t built with power transition in mind. There’s no successor, no committee strong enough to fallback to, no independent power brokers.

        The result is pretty much a coin toss, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for a better outcome.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Well isn’t he surrounded by yes men like all “strong men” are? If you don’t stroke putins ego all day every day you go out a window for real.

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      62 months ago

      Russia is a mafia state and russians are buck broken completely to only accept iron fisted otets as they still daily jerk off to stalin and his genocides. I doubt they would knowingly elect a good leader even if they had true democracy, a candiadate and freedom.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        As sad as this sounds. This seems to be the state of things. It would require generations to fix this. The best case scenario would be to split Russia into smaller pieces and then fix the individual pieces. Doing the same thing to the US and China. Wouldn’t hurt either.

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          12 months ago

          Im more for forcible eu occupation for a decade during which education, quality of life are oncreased and corruption is rooted out before free elections are allowed. Then join eu within 5 years.

          Russia could’ve been the gem of the free world by now if they kept with yeltsin.

  • @[email protected]
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    Hopefully Trump and Putin’s bodies take care of the problems for the world sooner rather than later

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      The bigger issue is that Trump and Putin are just the most visible part of the problem.

      If they both died tomorrow (oh god please), another would simply take their place. It would require a complete deprogramming of their supporters on the scale of Germany in 1945. The problem is that the entire government needs to fall for that to ever even be attempted. It would literally require a revolution or large scale invasion for that to happen at this point, and even then, as we’ve seen with Russia and Northern Africa quite a few times, revolutions have a tendency to just pave the way for the next lunatic to take power.

      In USA, invasion isn’t really possible, so it would have to be an incredibly violent and costly (in human lives) revolution, with a slim chance to actually change anything.

      An invasion of Russia is probably possible, but it would require some insane inside help to make sure they don’t just nuke everything when they realise they’ve lost anyway. A revolution probably wouldn’t do much, because of the brainwashing problem.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months ago

        I can’t speak for Putin, but MAGA is a cult of personality. Once HitlerPig assumes room temperature, there will be a vicious battle for leadership, and at least half of the MAGA Morons will drop out without their divine leader to follow. Its very likely they will pivot to making him a religious figure.

        The traditional GOP will try to recapture their hegemony over the party, and the Sociopathic Oligarchs will wage a war to keep and expand their influence. They will all try to float a new leader, and we can expect HitlerPig Jr to make a big attempt, but he’ll be recieved the same way as Frank Sinatra Jr - with a yawn. Anyone else will be accepted even less.

        I hope the battle for control of the party will result in internecine violence, so the Dems can regain power, and use the crimes and violence of the MAGAs to crush them, and purge them from government and society.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 months ago

        Either or both of them dying couldn’t hurt.

        Soviet Russian succession always takes a power struggle between rivals before things are consolidated.

        Vance has the charisma of a turnip.

        • Cyrus Draegur
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          22 months ago

          hey now that’s just mean

          turnips don’t deserve such disrespect ;-;

      • @[email protected]
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        I think if that happened, the push against other nations would at least get a reprieve as infighting takes over, especially if Putin bites it.

        There are a lot of people who want to be king and they’ll all likely have plots to take out their rivals and consolidate power

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Any micro organism inside of them has my support.

      By the time you’re 70/80 years old your thymus has basically just turned into fat cells and can no longer create new T-cells for your immune system. We just need the right microbe to enter.

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    I always wondered about his health. I’ve seen state photos of him sitting at the end of a ridiculously long table. People interpreted it as a power move, but it could also be because his immune system is fucked. Not a doc, but I know there’s quite a few treatments that end up suppressing the immune system.

    Although given the amount of people he’s ordered poisoned, I’d want to keep my distance from everyone who might hold a grudge too.

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      132 months ago

      Putin being at the end of the table is probably because he’s terrified of being assassinated, but the photos of him at the last Victory Day Parade look terrible. Out of makeup, he looks look a walking corpse.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Not too long ago there were videos of him where his hands were shaking until he grabbed the table.

        • Tuukka RM
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          But many kinds of medicine can induce Parkinson’s.

          • @[email protected]
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            120 days ago

            like what medicine? do you even know what parkinsons is? You show me a medicine that can induce the creation of phosphorylated alpha synuclein.

            • Tuukka RM
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              Okay, true, technically not Parkinsons. But medicines can cause symptoms that are the same as those of the most visible symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Hands shaking, difficulty in walking, mind not working completely. No idea of the pharmacology behind it. All I know that I’ve seen it happen.

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                tremor and parkinsons are not the same… i say this as someone who has parkinsons. you shouldn’t say stuff if you have no idea what you’re talking about, dumb people will believe it and you spreading misinfo.

                • Tuukka RM
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                  True that. And I understand it was impolite of me to not correct this.

                  I would still like to remind that the claim “he has Parkinson’s” is not by me. What is known is that he has tremors, and people jump the gun and assume that’s Parkinson’s. No, it is not necessarily Parkinson’s.

                  It can also be just some other – strong – drugs having tremor as a side effect. And then what those medications might be (partially?) healing is more relevant than whether one can live long with Parkinson’s or not.

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        This will be a clash between organizations, not between people per se. KGB/FSB will fight other branches of the Russia’s junta for whose candidate will get the job.

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        Iiiiiiin the afterlife, he’ll be headed for some serious strife. He can make the scene all day, but tomorrow there’ll be Hell to pay…

        • @[email protected]
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          Wow, that’s a flashback.

          I haven’t thought about Squirrel Nut Zippers in at least 20 years.

          • ArxCyberwolf
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            Streetlight Manifesto has an excellent cover of that song as well, if you’re interested!

    • Tuukka RM
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      Yup. He had a cancer and mostly healed from it.

      Happens.

    • @[email protected]
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      This is why I’m against anti aging research. I can’t get over how bad it would be if anti-aging tech arrives. Only the wealthy and powerful could afford it.

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        Depends on the flavor of the research. I’m all for still dying in my 70s but also am for being relatively fuckable until the very end.

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        Technically DIY gene therapy already exists. You probably can’t afford to do it working at McDonalds if you pay rent, but it’s something.

        But yeah, there isn’t any real reverse-aging tech, yet. Not until that lobster scientist figures out how to extend telomeres, the stem cell dudes figure out how to regenerate entire organs, and the CRISPER dudes invent a way for the cascade proteins to target degraded or virus-alterred DNA regularly. Even then, humans aren’t really built to live past reproductive ages, even a perfect genetic condition would accumulate tissues in all the wrong places.

        I think what the world truly needs is lower total populations only achievable via education and empowerment of young men and women. Mostly women. Especially the empowerment part.

    • Sidyctism II.
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      really hope he doesnt pull a kissinger. that fuck let us wait for so long, when it actually happened, it was kinda like a wet fart

    • @[email protected]
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      My man. I’ve been doing that since I was 5 years old. It is a fucking TRAVESTY that even living in 2010 during the nostolgia orgins era, PeeWee Herman never got redemption in getting his show return to CBS. Although to be fair, by the time 2010 rolled around the whole concept of Saturday morning cartoons was dead. So it would be kind of weird to sandwich PeeWee’s Playhouse between CBS morning news and Meet the Press.

      Still though…