the calm after the weird

- Trump visited a Trump property 428 out of 1461 days of his term, and he played 261 rounds of golf, about 1/5 of days of his term. Almost $150 million charged to American taxpayers, for him to travel there with full security, play an 90-stroke game, kick his ball, called it 65 strokes to his friends, make dirty deals without oversight, travel back with security, eat a cheeseburger and angry tweet from the toilet. Every 5 days. Laziest president we've ever had.
  
  To be honest, it's his only redeeming quality. Imagine someone equally evil and selfish but smart and competent.

We can finally get back to leftist infighting
- And the Stör memes!
  
  And my axe!
- Do you not spend at least half of every day being angry about how much capitalism sucks? Filthy shitlib, you're no better than a right winger /s
  It's no wonder the right is on the rise all around the world, they don't have "purity tests" the way a lot of left wingers do. They don't give a shit, if you support the cause then you're one of them.
  But the left? "Oh you don't 100% support everything I want? Guess I'll just not vote because both sides are just as shitty"
  To clarify, I'm an NDP voter which is the left most party in Canada.

Oh you sweet, summer child. After the election ends, we're going to have at least a month of coordinated all-out fighting from the fascists to stop the votes from being certified -- if Georgia's and Arizona's popular vote results get accurately reflected in the final EC tally it'll be a minor miracle -- and years of "stop the steal" election denial and stochastic terrorism after that.
And that's the best-case scenario.
- Just like last time I will be holding my breath from November 5 till January 20.
  
  Considering that Biden is currently in power, and the Democratic Candidate is the VP, I don't think there's any danger of a contested transition. Once the votes are counted, the only fuckery the Trumpists could pull would be organized violence, and the military is firmly under Biden's control.
- Precisely. The real ugliness and violence is currently only simmering. The election is when the boil begins. And the boilover comes after that.
  Remember: if Trump wins, there will be disorder, dispersed violence, and then state violence: mass deportations and the disruption and dissolution of various dimensions of the state itself as fascism assumes the helm.
  If Trump loses, there will be broad social conflict, disorder, and intensive violence, including a rise in domestic terrorism. I'm actually concerned we will see something like "The Troubles" in Ireland. Federal and state agencies and institutions will be attacked as well as infrastructure: things like power stations and bridges.
  There is no threading the needle here. Either scenario results in chaos and violence. Both scenarios result in an increase in danger and a decrease in stability. There's no winning move. We'll think back to this moment as "the good days." Strap in.
  
  To be clear, Trump losing (not just the vote, but also his inevitable attempt to seize power anyway afterward) is definitely the vastly preferable scenario here -- "Troubles" are way better than a full-blown dictatorship -- so stopping him is, if not "the" winning move, at least the do-or-die first step towards it.
  There is no validity to a dismissive "eh, either way it's gonna be bad" attitude here. We are in an existential fight to achieve "pretty bad" because the alternative is "absolutely catastrophic."
- The US election cycle is continuous. Someone will win in November, there’ll likely be some bullshit to keep it in the news until inauguration day, then give a week before the party that lost starts the process of finding their pick to contest the next election.
  From a foreign perspective it’s tedious as fuck. Our elections are called and wrapped up within 8 weeks, and even that feels too long.
  
  Your comment makes me wonder if 1930s Europeans thought German politics were similarly tedious.

God, I can't wait. Hopefully, at least a few months of peace before the midterms start going.
- peace
  (Subject to availability in your area)

50,000 bots use to post here. Now it's a ghost town.
- There was a userbase here. It's gone now.

- If he loses, that is.

Don't worry Lemmy will always have bean posts to prop them up.

They turn into Namibia?

block the necessary keywords and enjoy the calmness
- You have to block regular words like "weird" now. It's too ubiquitous. Might as well stay offline until Christmas.
- Lemmy with a politics blocklist must be very different. Is there a channel that shares lists?
  
  I have a very long list of blocked political keywords and yet somehow Lemmy users find a way to make political posts that get around all my filters. It is very frustrating. So now I have started just blocking individual users if they post about politics, because a person that posts about it once is most likely going to do it again.
  Lemmy without politics is kinda a ghost board. There is maybe 3 or 4 new posts a day. For someone who is not so active, its not much of a problem, but compared to Reddit it is highly frustrating that so much Lemmy content is about politics.
  
  i dont know, but i have common names from us politics and its mostly quiet.
  trump, boebert, kamala, musk....
  i dont mind politics in general as long as its not that hypersensationalized us vs them american stuff.
- Never! I prefer the chaos!
- I blocked a few US politics related communities. I still see US politics but to a lesser extent. I am satisfied with the results.

They're not going to let us have peace and quiet after the election. That's when the real shit begins.

Lemmy.ml after the Russian money dries up
- And Hexbear.

This is aspirational. The election is going to get dragged out as long as possible and then longer and then there will be violence unless we win the lottery :(

I got a weird counter example for you, the "Where are the children" community that opposed family separation and indefinite holding times under the Trump Admin.
Biden took office, executive ordered holding time limitations and reimplemented criminal only ICE focus. The community kept posting, much lower popularity obviously, because figuratively the war was over and we could all go home.