It's not about stopping a specific incident. It's about sowing enough fear in their little piggy hearts that they think twice.
Personally I'm more worried about a caravan of lifted F250s with MAGA flags rolling through my neighborhood but everyones threat model is a little different.
Tons of us moved away from .world ages ago, some of the mods and admin team are indeed highly biased.
I don't want to get into a back-and-forth, just explaining from a 3rd party (former .world, former kbin user) view that the .world team are neoliberal shills who do their best to shape the narrative to support the current status quo.
And just like with the (hundreds of) thousands of holocaust assholes, only 21 people were actually tried and convicted for anything relating to their actions.
So the "next Nuremberg trials" will probably go just like the last one. With a lot of rich people washing their hands of their actions and saying "ok it's over now lets move on."
Then they 25th Amendment him and install JDV as Thiels hand-picked successor. Somehow speedrunning our way into some weird techno-fascist hellacspe faster than we already are.
Or he could've already had one. Allegedly Reagan was declining for years and the people around him successfully hid it until he was out of office.
tl;dr He's not just walking around amongst the commoners, he legitimately has a private army of some of the best soldiers in the world and the personal phone numbers of a dozen world leaders on his cell phone. He's moves by armored cars, misregistered boats, and private jets and it wouldn't surprise me to find out he has a handful of passports.
I agree with you though, he's an actual supervillain.
Yeah but public services are communism so we should privatize the USPS so private corporations will finally be directly in charge of making sure votes are handled correctly.
It's a nice corporate -> government pipeline, just cut out the pesky middlemen (citizens).
I had a couple friends and we all used to dial into each others computers after school and play Doom (and Duke Nukem 3D and later Descent which was mind blowing at the time).
Substitute whatever you'd like to spend that money on, maybe you have great single payer so maybe you want to spend it on travel, maybe it's a new car, maybe you want to gamble it all away. The point is that even a relatively small amount of money buys you enough "wiggle room" to pursue more leisurely ways of making a little money.
It's easier to make a living walking dogs when you don't have to worry about keeping the lights on.
Invested carefully, even at an underperforming 5% return, that's still $30k/yr. Not really enough to live the easy life but it's enough to pay for health insurance while you work on selling artisinal Swedish fire torches.
Who's going to heat it up? The marginalized people who are vehemently anti-gun and pro-talking everything out. Or the people who've been jerking it to rifles for the past 40 years and are just waiting for someone to open fire on?
They've been around for a long time and presumably have a lot of "Hollywood" connections. They have a ton of money and their own teams of lawyers on stand-by. They're some of the only people that could get into a feud with him and come out with more money.
I mean, if he attacks them too much they can just pack up and move. That's what they've been telling us billionaires will do if we tax them so it's safe to assume that's what will happen if he goes after them in any real way.
It's not about stopping a specific incident. It's about sowing enough fear in their little piggy hearts that they think twice.
Personally I'm more worried about a caravan of lifted F250s with MAGA flags rolling through my neighborhood but everyones threat model is a little different.