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    I’m trans and I’m terrified, terrified for my queer friends and family, terrified for Ukraine and Palestine, and terrified for the planet.

    If you didn’t vote or voted for this piece of shit, fuck you. If you voted for him, you deserve the massive inflation and shit he’s about to put you through.

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      Being that I’m not transgender or American I don’t think I can personally understand everything you’re feeling right now. All I can say is be strong for yourself, and your friends and family; we all need to support each other if we are going to get through this.

      And a double fuck you to anyone who voted for Trump.

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        You’re still going to get fucked. The whole planet is going to get fucked. The MAGAs abolishing the EPA and going full-throttle on fossil fuels is going to make sure of that.

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      I’m straight and white, and I am also terrified for my queer friends and family. I figured Israel was always a lost cause but Ukraine is going to be so fucking stupid and painful when they get starved after we offered support.

      If you didn’t vote or voted for this piece of shit, FUCK YOU

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      What about the party that lost the election, quite possibly by choosing to enable a genocide further, as it deemed that more important than winning the election? What about the party, that chose to ignore the devastating effects of inflation on normal Americans, instead of providing a concise plan of revamping the economy, as that would anger its billionaire donors?

      Why blame the people instead of the Democratic party leaders, who remained steadfast at the side of the elites, leaving the people to be peddled to by Trump?

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        “what about…”

        I don’t doubt that the Dems had a poor campaign. However, I’m totally allowed to blame the dumbasses that voted for fascism. These dumbasses are ultimately the ones that filled the box for our authoritarian future. I’ll say it again: fuck them.

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        Well now you got what you wanted: the hero to end the genocide. Any minute now they’ll stop the war effort, for fear of further angering the fuhrer

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      If there’s any silver lining a meteor might hit us and put us out of our misery before we have to worry about wet bulb temperatures

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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        There’s a good chance for another major pandemic, and we’re passing the global warming point of no return.

        For better or worse, the US was the biggest player on the planet; now that we’ve fumbled, I think the world is done for. Maybe China could have risen to take the US’s place, but they’re stumbling toward an economic catastrophe, India has their own problems, and Russia is exposed as a bit player. The EU could have been a shining beacon, but they’re struggling with their own rise in fascism. Who else is there? A South American country? They’re barely holding on to their own economies. Canada? Too small - I mean, big country, but not very big population (1/10th of the US). And the US is big enough that when we go down, we’re going to drag a lot of the planet with us. Shit, thanks to Russia and Israel, we’ve been edging into WWIII. Trump’s senile enough to press the button, I have no doubt, and he’ll be completely surrounded by moronic Yes-men this time, with no one to try to talk sense into him. Maybe a relatively quick, fiery end would be better than a painful spiral.

        We’re done as a planet. Some creatures will survive, but humans have used up all the readily available low-tech surface resources - oils, coals, metals - so anything that evolves intelligence after us won’t make it past the stone age. And then, the sun will die.

        At least we have more solid evidence to the answer to Fermi’s paradox. It’d be a bigger question if we weren’t rushing toward our own extinction.

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    Now watch the effects ripple through the world. Now that a guy like him can be elected, politicians around the world will take note and use the same playbook. And it will probably work.

    We already felt it in France with the 2016 US election, I can’t imagine what the next decade will be like…

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      As a Canadian who has watched our politics slowly try to mimic America’s, I’m terrfieid. As it is our conservative provincial premier is ripping out bike lanes on city streets that have apartments being built right now that offers significantly more bike parking than car parking. Its backwards progress, a signifcant amount of the lanes were just built and now we gotta spend more money ripping them out because some fat conservative feels offended he is too unfit to cycle.

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      I swear to god if bolsonaro is elected again here I’m gonna blackout drink for the first time in a decade

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      Germany will follow suit and we will get a conservative hardliner (and sexist boomer) with CDU’s Merz who once voted to keep rape in a marriage legal. He will pave the way for the real fascists from the AfD, who will feel a lot more emboldened now.

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      Watch as Australia votes in a corrupt copper next year for prime minister. Making the same bullshit promises.

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        Qld just shit the bed with the state election, that was bad enough, federal will be a shitshow :(

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    You reap what you sow, America.

    It’s going to be wild seeing the mass round-up of all the Latinos who voted for him.

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      you likely won’t see it, as freedom of the press will likely be one of the first things to go out the window

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        Oh no. You will see it. I deliver to quite a few businesses that have Latino employees on Visas waiting the required time for citizenship.

        Couple of them were flabbergasted that I was voting for Harris, lol.

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          oh i know it’ll happen, and some people will see it. but it won’t be on any news feed, and if it is, they’ll just be labeled as “subversives” or something similar

          everyone needs to take everything they thought they knew about this country and flush it down the toilet. because it’s gone.

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        Look how tight the labor market got when COVID took a million people out of the workforce. Trump’s talking about deporting 10 million workers and customers. You will absolutely see it, although it may be hard to connect the dots.

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      I know several. They think they’ll be spared for their green cards and citizenships. They don’t realize they are not Americans in the new sense of the word, and the rule of law has been suspended by the Supreme Court. They’re just further down the line. A fascist government needs “an enemy within”. They’ll keep churning through groups, redefining the enemy to hold on to power.

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      ¿Qué esperabas? ¡Habla más alto! ¡No puedo oírte mientras te golpean en el autobús y te deportan!

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    I’m in shock… Good luck to you, American Democracy. It was nice knowing ya.

    This time there’s no saying you didn’t know. This time there’s no saying “well more voters wanted different”. You get what you get, apparently enough people fall for “look over there” types of distractions in politics.

    The clock to progress has been set back at least 10 years. I know digital-age low-information fascism is on its way to Canada and I am definitely not ready.

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    Called it, using Allan Lichtman’s own 13 keys principle (in ways that he himself overlooked), and on a heavily downvoted comment.

    Where I was wrong was with how narrow the result would he. It wasn’t even Gore v Bush levels of close unlike when Lichtman’s 13 keys prediction previously failed. Kamala lost the popular vote to a convicted felon that tried to usurp democracy and is the reason why abortion is no longer a federal right. The Republicans spent the last few weeks crapping on Haitians and Puerto Ricans, yet won some districts with large Latino populations.

    This is what happens when Democrats ignore their voter base and choose a cabal of unpopular and uncharismatic candidates to carry the torch. The bar is now so low that we need James Cameron to venture out into the Mariana Trench and lift it back up again…

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      Harris was popular when she first announced. She then proceeded to run to the cold dead embrace of the Biden campaign.

      Progressive policy is more popular than any candidate, if they focused on rent control, free healthcare, free childcare, free college and other immediate, material improvements to people’s conditions, they’d have won in a landslide. Instead they abandoned the rest of the country to pursue the <10% of republicans who weren’t in the bag for Trump.

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        Harris was popular when she first announced.

        I don’t think she was popular when first announced, rather the fact that not-Biden was popular.

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          I’m convinced that Biden would have won.

          I personally believe that this is not Biden’s or Kamala’s fault. It’s the old-school Democrat establishment’s fault. They did Bernie dirty in 2016. And then they did the same to Biden in these elections. Lichtman predicted a Biden win, bad debate performance and all, and the dems fucked it up.

          To be transparent, I still believed Lichtman when he said Harris would win. I will never believe in his stuff again, unless he adds new keys or something.

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            I personally believe that this is not Biden’s or Kamala’s fault. It’s the old-school Democrat establishment’s fault. They did Bernie dirty in 2016. And then they did the same to Biden in these elections.

            Yes. Every time, even in 2020 when the mood of the country was very different, they are afraid to run anything other than center-right candidates because they “aren’t electable”. Guess what - your corporatist center-right candidates are consistently priming people to receive the protectionist messages from the fascists, Maybe fucking try something different some time, fucking DNC!

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        Instead they abandoned the rest of the country to pursue the <10% of republicans who weren’t in the bag for Trump.

        YES! I held my nose and voted for her, she turned her back on everything that looked like hope and change during her campaign. Her reaction to R looking weak was to jump to the right, somehow.

        Having said that, anyone who needed to be wooed to not vote for Trump was a lost cause, but she literally turned away from every sort of policy decision that excites Democrats.

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      Is there any chance that shit was rigged this time around? As an outsider it’s honestly just crazy to me that the difference can be so huge, almost unimaginable.

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        Or it goes to show how much of a bubble we have here and how skewed the reporting in other countries is. So far there is absolutely no indication that it would be rigged and frankly the disconnect of the liberal online bubbles es emblematic for the disconnect of the Dem party from the people.

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        Even if it were - what are we gonna do about it? After shitting all over the place with their BS for the past four years, claiming an election is stolen has risen to “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” levels.

        There would need to be a 4k video of Trump and cronies detailing exactly how they were going to do it, and every detail would need to be easily verified, and even then I’m not sure it would get enough traction to matter.

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    Kind of an unsatisfying but still well deserved “TOLD YOU SO” moment… I knew those fuckers would be moronic enough to vote for this shit faced fascist again, while everyone told me to expect a Harris landslide… The fact that everyone talked about fucking grocery prices, tech research, housing prices, kids, abortions, and other (in the grand scheme of things) irrelevant bullshit that won’t matter anymore, while we’re literally about to seal the deal on our fate as a species, tells you clearly that no one wants to understand where we’re headed and what’s at stake.

    But since nothing matters anymore, here’s some more predictions from yours truly:

    • The US will turn into a fascist state (Tankies: AcKcHyUaLlY… ☝🏻🤡)
    • Ukraine is going to get fucked by Russia, genociding them for good. The only chance here would be if NATO went in to liberate Ukraine before Trump is inaugurated, but neither Biden nor the rest of the West is going to have the balls for that.
    • Moldova will follow right after.
    • Taiwan will get fucked by China.
    • The world will fall into an economic crisis due to the fall of TSMC.
    • The rise of far right extremism & politics will continue within Europe.
    • NATO Alliance will be practically gone.
    • Far right countries in Europe will join Russia.
    • Russia & Friends will invade and annex the Baltic States.
    • The world globally failing to do anything to curb emissions will fall into a climate collapse. Causing food and water shortages, severe natural disasters, millions upon millions of climate refugees - which will get shot at the borders due to the now far right policies. All other issues above will amplify with the world state worsening and becoming more and more unstable.

    TLDR: Nothing fucking matters anymore, we’re done. Thanks, you dumb fucks.

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        Who’s going to war with whom? To me it seems more likely that all the countries are going to embrace totality peacefully.

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      Eh… I don’t know, man. I also see a darker future, but if Trump didn’t do anything like this in 2016, it won’t happen in 2024. He’s older, he’ll just want to play golf.

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        They have the courts on their side now, along with the senate I think the house as well. They have a literal plan outlined on hundreds of pages on how to transform the US, which is not just Trump, but the majority of the Republican party - along with a bunch of outside influences.

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        Trump alone isn’t as harmful as the republicans he represents. Trump will sign the bills the republicans bring him and he will mostly appoint republicans to positions of power and issue orders they tell him to.

        On the plus side, liberals might come back from brunch and help resist certain bipartisan policies again. Deportations actually went down under Trump.

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      A liberal making measurable predictions? That’s new.

      Ukraine is going to get fucked by Russia, genociding them for good.

      1. Genocide in Ukraine. “get fucked” isn’t very easy to measure.

      Moldova will follow right after.

      1. Invasion of/genocide in Moldova are measurable

      Taiwan will get fucked by China.

      1. Invasion of Taiwan. China invading China isn’t that farfetched.

      The world will fall into an economic crisis due to the fall of TSMC.

      1. TSMC will fall or stop exporting chips.

      The rise of far right extremism & politics will continue within Europe.

      Come on, that’s like predicting the sun will rise.

      NATO Alliance will be practically gone.

      1. How do we measure this? Reduction in military spending? Countries leaving NATO?

      Russia & Friends will invade and annex the Baltic States.

      1. Invasion and annexation of the baltic states

      The world globally failing to do anything to curb emissions will fall into a climate collapse. Causing food and water shortages, severe natural disasters, millions upon millions of climate refugees - which will get shot at the borders due to the now far right policies. All other issues above will amplify with the world state worsening and becoming more and more unstable.

      Predicting a train that’s going off a cliff will continue to go off that cliff.

      OK, we have 5, maybe 6 testable predictions. Do you want to give a timeframe so if they don’t happen, you can go back an analyze what caused you to believe these things at the time?

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        A liberal making measurable predictions? That’s new.

        I don’t care about free markets.

        How do we measure this? Reduction in military spending? Countries leaving NATO?

        The US potentially leaves, and / or NATO members won’t actually uphold their promise to defend something like the Baltics, or only through token measures, moving the red line from Russia’s side further and further.

        Predicting a train that’s going off a cliff will continue to go off that cliff.

        Oh please. Even now you’re unsure on whether you want to call me a doomer or agree with my points. A bit earlier and it would’ve been the former.

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    The Supreme Court will be changed for a generation. I’ll never see a moderate court again in my lifetime. Alito and Thomas will step down and Trump will appoint 40 year old partisans to the bench. The damage he is about to inflict on our institutions the next 2 years will be irreparable.

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    Not only are we in the worst timeline…

    I actually don’t have anything to add.

    How did we get here? And even more terrifying how many people that actually went to go vote were surprised that Biden wasn’t on the ticket?!?!

    And let me just go ahead and get myself in trouble. Fuck you every single person that didn’t vote for Kamala Harris that was eligible.

    SPECIFICALLY…

    Well I guess I don’t want to get in trouble that bad.

    Yes, this is the fucking bullshit we live with. Due to our winner-take-all insanely backwards system…

    I’m not technically allowed to properly criticize whomever didn’t show up to the polls.

    Whatever groups they may or may not belong to.

    Yeah I’m sounding like a motherfucking Maga bitch right now…

    But guess what Arab Americans and black men??!?!!? ( if and only if those are demographics that didn’t show up to vote )

    Get completely and totally fucked by the Trump administration. Has nothing to do with me and everything do with them

    Edit:

    For what it’s worth I’m terribly sorry for not including the Latino vote that went to Trump

    Ultimately it doesn’t really matter which particular demographic I blame because the truth is I’m not blaming anyone in particular.

    Fuck America, fuck me, and fuck Trump

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    I voted for Harris but I can’t help but feel democrats did this to themselves. We’ve held a decent amount of power over the last 20 years but have done shockingly little. Just slowly letting our country dry and shrivel, leaving people increasingly desperate. Times like these make people seek change, ANY CHANGE, including voting for a dictator. Status-quo politics will fail every time during times like these. Who wants to die slowly?

    All authoritarian countries are born from desperation. Chinese communist party, Nazi Germany, the USSR, Iran, North Korea and soon America.

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      They absolutely did. Harris couldn’t even commit to keeping Lina Khan on board.

      Democrats are allergic to success.

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      Because Democrats wanted to not look partisan instead of actually doing something with their majority

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      Oh, there will probably still be an election. It will just be like the ones in Russia that are performative.

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    Who should be referred to as “rapist felon” from here on out.

    Unable to express my pain, anger and sadness right now…