r/AskReddit 29d ago

If we could set up a Truman Show scenario where Trump thinks he’s President again and the public send in scenarios for him to deal with, what would you suggest?

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u/DelapidatedSagebrush 29d ago

I would come up with a scenario where Trump has to try and defeat the Q-Annon movement.

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u/Carverpalaver 28d ago

Qanon is convinced he is a clone being controlled by the deep state and are revolting all over the U.S

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u/jezpin 28d ago

Fk Yes! write the script now. I want it on air Tomorrow!

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u/leicanthrope 28d ago

Convince the Q supporters that Trump is a clone, while simultaneously telling Trump that the entire Qanon movement is a CIA psyop aimed at taking him down.

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u/Sleepdprived 28d ago

Huh... it's almost like irrational people in large groups fed nonsense can be dangerous and turn on their creators... if only Marie Shelly had made a time honored classic about someone creating a monster and ultimately being destroyed by it....

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u/With_Trees 28d ago

Well, I mean, we all know they can't read.

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u/thequickerquokka 28d ago

And they’re definitely revolting.

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u/jobblejosh 28d ago

It's almost like building a group centred around distrust/hatred of non-members is an inherently unstable system where mistrust in everyone is apparent and there's no real trust in it.

There's a brilliant part of 'Behind The Curve'; the documentary about flat earth conspiracy theorists, where the general group splits in two; both centred around different people claiming to tell the truth.

One of the quasi-leaders in one group outwardly rejects the idea that she's a shill (the reason for the split is that one accuses the other of being a shill for 'big globe').

She then comes out with the phrase that "Anyone can believe whatever they want to believe about me, but people who do that know in their hearts that they're lying, or are they so conspiratorial that they actually believe it, then it makes me worry about maybe things that I believe in, am I like another version of them? But I know I'm not."

There's then interplay about how distrust and mistrust, coupled with the philosophical ideas of 'proof' and 'truth'. I think she talks about how she can't prove to others that she's not a shill, but they can't prove that she is, and she knows she isn't.

Any group which rejects information/ideas that don't fit their worldview and is built on the distrust of others is fundamentally doomed to splinter up into smaller and smaller sects of infighting, because the mistrust always has to continue for the group to justify its own existence. They are the architects of their own destruction.

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u/afcagroo 28d ago

Marie Shelly? The discoverer of radioactive golems?

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u/Sleepdprived 28d ago

(God imagine the physics where we would use radioactive isotopes instead of electrochemical signal for neural connections... we would be like Godzilla when someone has a good idea) yes I get that I spelled the name wrong due to autocorrect and being a bad thumb typer on mobile.

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u/daddeon 28d ago

Mary

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u/Sleepdprived 28d ago

I stand corrected... it was probably an autocorrect error on my part anyways.

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u/DarrenGrey 28d ago

I can't tell if you're telling a joke or talking about their actual beliefs.

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u/Carverpalaver 28d ago

The line between reality and satire is almost non existant in a post trump world

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u/historymajor44 28d ago edited 28d ago

Qanon is convinced that you're not really president but this is all a reality tv show where you're pretending to be president.

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u/Larkos17 28d ago

Qanon...are revolting all over the U.S

You said it; they stink on ice.

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u/1Eternallylost 28d ago

They are already revolting.

All over the U.S. too.

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u/nocapitalletter 28d ago

they already believe this.

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u/PrestigiousAd3900 28d ago

Implying they aren't already revolting.

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u/Roflkopt3r 28d ago

That sounds impossible since he will support literally anything they're doing as long as they keep kissing his ass.

Ass soon as they stop doing that, they'll just turn into the next "antifa" for him.

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u/Buddhist_Punk1 28d ago

And also the lizard people, pedophiles, and the illuminati by interviewing QAnon, somehow accumulating into them finally asking themselves "are we the baddies?"

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u/HomerFlinstone 28d ago edited 28d ago

If anyone could end Q it would be Trump. Those Q people worship him as a God. He could literally just say he's Q and it would be over. What could Q even do at that point? Trump could just steal the entire cult and say anything from Q after that point is a fake Q.

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u/nocapitalletter 28d ago

Q-anons dont even believe what trump says lol

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u/crazycatlady331 28d ago

Tell him that Marjorie Taylor Green is a secret Hillary Clinton plant and have him turn on her.