I'm more afraid of who comes after Trump.

If they actually read a little Marx instead of endlessly scapegoating him, they might be a little wiser to the truth that LARPing idealized earlier eras won't make the unique historical and material circumstances of those eras magically come back.
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It might just be a quirk of Trump's own tastes or the Clinton/Bush years they're trying to distance from, but continued nostalgia for a time most people alive now don't actually remember is pretty sad. I don't think the true-believing Trumpist ideologues are capable of new ideas.

Hilarious. They're willing to kill the world for a bunch of 80s commercials. Am I supposed to be feeling "This is what they took from you" ?

In the 80s boomer and older chuds yearned for the 50s, it's what the whole Rockabilly trend was. And Back to the Future part 1.

In North Korea, if your house catches fire you're required to prioritize the picture of the Kims over your own children. The kids can burn, the Kims cannot. Save your kids and you and 3 generations of family go to a death camp.

Do we really want symbols to be that sacred?

What could be more American? Do the communists and Nazis let citizens burn THEIR flags?

Gonna be funny when Grokipedia is 99% AI-paraphrased Wikipedia and 1% race realism. And the articles that aren't about race realism or other culture war subjects are all out of date and poorly maintained.

The lesson of the past decade is that us Westerners are just as fallible, petty, and capable of uncivil violence and evil as the worst foreign tinpot dictatorships, terror cells, and theocracies that seemed so alien to us at the beginning of this millennium.

It's never seemed more obvious than now when you have the farce of Trump's FBI who were probably posting "DOMESTIC TERRORIST" in their bios in solidarity with January 6ers whipping up a huge authoritarian crackdown against a trans Antifa phantom menace. Foucalt's imperial boomerang has come home.

I'm aware this one dimensional foreign bad guy marketing was very much not Hideo Kojima's intention. It's said he was inspired to make Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake after hearing Konami was already working on a cash-grab sequel, Snake's Revenge, to the NES port he considered unfaithful to his design.

That was the 90s at the "End of History" when the biggest bad guys were Saddam and Qaddafi. Then in the 2000s it was Saddam and Bin Laden. And now our image of evil has turned inward, to the worst of our domestic political opposition.

Bit of an epiphany I had from looking at old Western localized box art of the NES Metal Gear Games. Our culture's image of scapegoated evil used to be a lot more foreign and alien to us, the good and rational Western world.

Trump wishing he was Stalin or Saddam and just coming off as Jeb Bush.

I like to think a hypothetical future Republican president like JD Vance will still do tariffs, just not really stupid theatrical tariffs.

After the peaceful political revolution at the ballot box, Fox News should be replaced with either a livestream of cute foxes at an animal sanctuary, or 24/7 fox furry hentai.

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