An alien invasion

Did the leaders suffer? Was it recorded? A lot of us would pay to watch that.

Donald J Trump hasn't anal probed me, or harvested my organs, or put me into a slave labor camp on Omnicron Persei 5.

Yet.

probably because your too old and don't look like his daughter.
It's only his first year of being senile dictator, give him some time
Hasn't done so yet, you mean?

"Hey, man. I'm Korg. We're gonna get outta here on that big spaceship. Wanna come?"

Piss off, ghost!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B_EUvi9qE4&t=22

"Cheers. Can you zip back in about a 100 years and do it again?"
"... Ok, but why?"
"See, we humans, well, we really are a bunch of fucking morons.
Every hundred years or so we do the same moronic things. War, fascism, Nazis etc. It'd be great if you could do us a solid and revisit every 100 years or so. Also, kill all the billionaires on your way out. Nice one."

Tbf if we had ever made any attempt to not immediately put the fascists/slavers right back in power as soon as possible, and maybe kill them instead, things might not have gone this poorly.
What im saying is: end some family lines this time.
- this will sadly still create power vacuums that the first moron who thirsts for power would leap at :(
  just killing isn't the solution, we need an already oiled up machine ready to take that space the instant they're gone, you'd have maybe a week to figure all things out before people start grumbling about how things were better duing [regime] because at least they knew how to handle power

Humans then explain the aliens their situation on earth

The aliens: "Holy Viltrum… listen humans… we were actually gonna take over your and enslave you but it seems like you went through worse than we did…"

are there any stories (real/fictional) where a relatively brutal invader was less brutal than the people they ousted and somehow they are considered liberating heroes, and the public is ok with their repressive policies because they are better than before. and the leader is trying to keep the evil lotd vibes going on but he's beloved by the public.
feel like it would make for great comedy.
- There is a sci fi series called the Damned Trilogy where warring space aliens stumble across humans and one faction enlists them because they are the most terrifyingly violent species they have ever stumbled upon.
- There's a I guess you could call niche? trope? in some fantasy anime/manga where the protagonist is actively trying to be a villain but is constantly being misunderstood by the people as being some sort of saint.
  I can think of two different ones from the top of my head, one called "I'm the Evil Lord from an Intergalactic Empire" and another called "The Mistaken Saintly Life of a Villainous Scion", the former fitting closer to what you asked for than the latter. Note, however, that I am not recommending either of them. The former is entertaining enough and I haven't read the manga to give an opinion on it, but the anime isn't that big of a deal imo, whereas the latter is just straight up trash.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

This is like the 5th alien-praising lemmy post I've seen this week lol. Ye Wenjie is that you?

I honestly didn't read past the first part and just thought "everything is already fucked, you did us a favour by freeing us from those old sacks" and then read the next 2 comments and was like oh it goes on...

I mean it starts off with "we have killed your leaders", to which my immediate thought is "oh sweet, good job aliens," and then it just keeps making sense from there.
- Yeah I know right? It's like, bros you already did so much! You didn't have to do all that - but we sure as fuck appreciate it.

Steven Erikson wrote a novel called Rejoice: A Knife in the Dark, which follows a similar premise, where politicians and billionaires are rendered completely impotent by aliens or more precisely alien AI. It is a fascinating read, imo.

The difference between Kardashev type civilisations is just a matter of time and how good the species is at killing their billionaires

We found the answer to the Fermi Paradox and it's greedy sociopaths fucking everything up.

That would be amazing. Unfortunately, there will very likely be no aliens to do it. We'll have to do it ourselves.

I lay my head onto the sand The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it I'm counting UFOs, I signal them with my lighter And in this moment, I am happy Happy I wish you were here I wish you were here I wish you were here Wish you were here

Can we get a side order of extra mutilation on the corpses of the said leaders?

I hope AI is "the aliens" and comes to end the current powers that be

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Y’all should really check out 3 Body Problem….

Read the 2nd book. It was fine, there's some really silly dallying going on with the main character through the whole first half. And the Tri-solarans can't seem to figure out how powerful or helpless they are to kill him.
I think the most interesting thing I took away was that feeling people in other countries get when they read books written from an American perspective. The books got a real "Chinese Exeptionalism" vibe. I have now witnessed how annoying that is
- I was really referring to the first book, in which a character invites the Trisolarians to conquer Earth because she’s pissed off at her own government.
Nah
Nope