I wonder how that would have influenced our current situation in the US.
It would have been VERY funny, and maybe a lot of chuds would have got the vaccine
Extra fun then. Literal civil war in murica, the longer the better, a true hope for the rest of the world.
Sorry about y'all tho.
The mediatic chud meltdown would've been the most deranged shit seen since the post-9/11 years, there would've been people braying for blood on TV 24/7 claiming he'd been assassinated by the chinese virus and that we should immediately nuke Beijing, the white House would've probably had a Death of Stalin type situation where they deny and downplay Trump's mysterious absence or about a month before they admitted that, maybe possibly the president may have passed away after all, and Pence has mysteriously been spirited away into a bunker four thousand feet underground to spend the remainder of the presidency and also elections are suspended for uhhh reasons. Basically all the funniest possible outcomes all at once
Is Death of Stalin good? Like, as a communist, is it going to leave me seething with rage, or is it something that kinda avoids actual political shit and can be laughed at?
It's propaganda, and it makes Stalin uniquely evil, centers around making :corn-man-khrush: look good. Recurring joke throughout the film are people being executed, at one point they're in the middle of a purge with firing squads, they get a phone call to halt the purge and stop executing mid-session.
Go into it with a very critical mindset and you'll find it does have some stellar humor and performances topped off by an amazing cast.
Highly recommended. It's about as accurate as a cast of mostly Americans not even doing accents. The setting is just window dressing for a really good dark comedy.
I mainly remember Steve Buscemi's performance and how he just played Steve Buscemi.
I didn't find it all that funny but I'm not a comedy movie sort of person. I found absolutely nothing wrong with it politically, though. Any unfair inaccuracies are clearly jokes.
It’s a good movie if you are a no nothing liberal.
The Left Media Podcast has an episode with Proles of the Round Table that is good at breaking down the inaccuracies, lies, and liberal propaganda of it. It’s a funny movie if you look at it from “office politics” way but I can’t stand how they do my boi Stalin in it. Worth at least one watch.
Libs would rehabilitate Trump instantly, saying that "we're all united despite our differences" and hollow shit like that. They are still going to rehabilitate Trump but maybe in a few years when he passes away, as they always do.
I think the instant deification of Trump from far right might've prevented that honestly.
I was thinking right wing hogs would lean more deeply into seeing him the way we see AOC. "I never liked Zion Don anyway. I was hoping we could get a real fascist in there and crack down on shit we don't like instead of coexisting with the libs"
Talk show libs would fall all over themselves to say "his ideas might have been controversial, but he had America's best interest at heart"
Just like they will in 2029 when he dies one day after handing the keys to the white house to president elect Chelsea Clinton.
Excuse me, I believe you mean Robo-Hillary. No way she is letting the life leave her eyes before she sits in the oval office.
Why don't we have a "Bill Clinton Head in a jar" from Futurama emoji?
Be the change you wish to see, mostly just cause I don't have the skills to make one on my own.
I'm not a computer guy. I could ask my wife, she's a graphic designer or something. It's never the thing I say she is. I guess it's complicated
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It blows my mind that in a time where shit is still careening off the rails, the "leftist" podcasts are reviewing movies, reading editorials from their hometown newspapers, talking about their vacations they've been taking, and doing historical "what ifs".
Just like CNN MSNBC etc stopped talking about problems as soon as Trump was gone.
Matt: actually it would have been good if there was no Soviet Union because then there would have been no way to do a red scare
me: points at first red scare
Matt: i do not see it
It would have been extremely funny but it would have changed nothing. Biden would still be president and the hogs would still figure out a way to not want the vaccine
For a few months, we'd have the funniest White House ever of President Pence, Vice President Pelosi.
Ok so how many people need to die for Chuck Grassley to become president? Theres nothing I want more than for that old decrepit man to be the most hilarious, most powerful man in the world
Trump dying would have resulted jan 6th being a real insurrection. Let's be real here.
I doubt that. The chuds would have been sapped of energy. And there's no material basis for an actual insurrection anyways.
also wasn't Pence a genuine target during that or do I have lib-brain? He would have become president if Trump died, so I'm honestly not sure if Jan 6 would have played out to the same scale it did if Trump had died
Right, and the chuds had no passion whatsoever for Pence. He probably would have been blamed.
They would have viewed him as a martyr and that the only real voice to support them was gone. It wouldn’t have been a full on insurrection Alsace Chile but more people would def have shown up
When their ideology isn't materialist at all, do they really need a material basis?
An insurrection really needs both. Can't win a war without guns. Can't get people to fight and die on the basis of "we have more guns than them so we should win."
Without Trump, would there have been anybody brave enough, with Trump's visibility, to spend a year egging on the Qtypes?
I'd get to add another stop on my "a sitting president died here" road trip.
More like a shitting president, if it had happened during his airlift on Marine One.
For the curious here is a list, each location is given in a descending the east coast then heading west order, [denotes a pleasent secondary outing for each death].
Buffalo, New York:
The Milburn residence (McKinley) [Also visit the temple of music, where anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot him, and where doctors absolutely fucked his abdomen trying to pull the bullet out at the fairground hospital]
Hyde Park, NY:
[I'd recommend stopping here for FDR's presidential library, because honestly there's nothing cool in Georgia, you can also see his grave at the Springwood estate)
DC: The white house (Harrison [Visit the Capitol building where its sayed he caught the cold leading to his death by giving an hours long inauguration speech, this story isn't true, he get sick from the raw sewage upstream on the white house's water supply, still a good story tho], Taylor [Visit the Washington monument, where he caught something from eating "copious amounts of raw cherries and milk" during the ribbon cutting])
The Petersen House (Lincoln [Ford's Theatre is across the street])
[For Garfield visit the west building of the national gallery, a former train station where he was shot]
Elberon New Jersey:
The site of Franklyn cottage, its marked with a granite plack on Garfield Road [I'm actually going to have two outings for Garfield, when it was announced that he was going to Elberon the town Laird out 25 full god dman miles of railroad track basically overnight so he could go directly to the cottage, after they were torn up someone built a tea house with the sleepers, its at the Long Branch Historical Museum.]
Warm Springs, Georgia:
The Little White House (FDR, rip to the only OK president)
Dallas, Texas:
Parkland Memorial Hospital (JFK, [The Texas Book Depository obviously])
San Fransisco, California:
The Palace Hotel (Harding [there isn't really anything interesting around here, he just had a cerebral hemorrhage and croaked, or got poisoned by his wife depending on who you ask, but its on market street so I'm sure you'll find something])
It would shock like 20% of the right wingers into finally realizing COVID is real and serious, but simultaneously ultra-radicalize 40% into believing the Democrats assassinated him using the Chinese Bioweapon, and they would start killing people in the streets
