I admit I was at least hoping for some federal-level gridlock, but it looks like it's quite possible that Red MAGA will have all branches of the federal government soon.
I admit I was at least hoping for some federal-level gridlock, but it looks like it's quite possible that Red MAGA will have all branches of the federal government soon.
I've already cast down my bucket where I am. I have no realistic prospects of leaving the country. It's quite possible that the humble but still prospering niche I've carved for myself in the last year is in imminent danger, maybe even at a personal level.
I'll say it. I'm afraid. I knew nothing good could come of this election, but having one particular brand of fascism without even performative opposition to slow down whatever acts of revenge or just outright looting and mayhem it wants to do while the climate crisis accelerates... well, I'll say it again. I'm afraid.
That's the post.
All irony and jokes aside, I think a bit of fear is entirely justified and organizing is more important than ever.
I wish the general strike wasn't 2028.
Absolutely this comrade. Organize unionize strike fucking now
Fucking forced into some accelerationist timeline. Time to find out what Obama could have done with control of all three branches of government if he actually wanted change.
I can't wait for the ensuing liberal screeds when I point out that Obama could've prevented at least some of the past and future damage done by Trump.
Dem Whig 2.0 speedrun
Paraphrasing the
line about "if they took the threat seriously, all of these people (Hillary'sKamala's campaign staff) would've been led into a tiled basement with a drain in the floor for this failure"Real time of monsters hours
It was amazingly stupid that she just picked his campaign managers
Didn't she have like two separate teams when she ran in the 2020 primary and they weren't communicating with each other and were fighting each other to book her at different events and her sister was running one of them or something? I remember hearing something about how her 2020 attempt was a total incompetent shitshow with a massive staff turnover
They did a "Hillary"^["Doing a Hillary" means that a person is so assured of victory that they do not do basic tasks needed to acquire said victory, which results in them losing the competition. See also: The turtle and the rabbit]
I don't think they were so assured of their victory. They seemed extremely anxious the entire time because of Hillary. That said they did double down on the same centrist strategy that Hillary did.
Centrist strategy? No. They ran to the right as far as they can. They didn't even pretend to cater toward the left.
Pokemon Go to the polls
Call me a lib but I’m still doomeristic about the results.
Liberals are so ineffectual that they have fully lost the culture wars. Climate change and pollution will accelerate and make the air much worse, more and more lgbt rights are going to be cut and for eight years straight the GOP has been on fire.
Democrats are officially a third party as far as I’m concerned.
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The only bright side is this may foment an actual hashtag resistance
If I don't find a way to laugh about this and transmute the disgust I feel for the average white amerikan into spite and mirth, I think I'm going to pop a vessel and go straight-up CARVER.
...I might be jokerfying in real time i dunno
It's so Joever
Fuck Kopmala but this country is just fucked honestly
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Let me rephrase: "this country's slide into unabashed fascism iust got accelerated a few years"
Yeah, I thought / hoped the democraps would at least keep the congress, but they sucked too much even for that. I'm really not looking forward to a fully chud government.
I feel for you there. I guess I keep thinking back to what my father says in these situations: "I still have to go to work in the morning."
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not to worry the dems will make a rightward turn and punch the non existant left for this failure
I'm so jealous of the people who have the money to just pack up and leave. I don't even have a passport. I think that even tho kopmala sucks it's only natural to feel anxiety at what's going on. I'm just buckling up for the ride I guess. ameriKKKa strikes again
I can only marry one of you to get you in to Canada by sham-marriage
Canada's cooked too give em a decade
I think LGBTQ comrades get priority, but as an anti-zionist Jew and out communist (Communists disdain to hide their views...) I don't feel great about my place in line for the chopping block.
I feel you. I'm getting texts from ald friends who are freaking out about the real possibility of fascism.
The center cannot hold..
wait til they find out the fascism was already here the entire time
"ouuugh i'm moving out of the country im going into the woods" that's great man glad you have all that money in savings, the rest of us dirt poor proles have to stay here and actually try to survive.
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I think she was referring to you as "dirt poor prole" otherwise her comment wouldn't make much sense
This solidified my decision to leave the country. I can’t believe that, with all the shit at stake, we chose to actively oppress ourselves, and honestly I don’t think I can continue to live with the people who did that. While I had already given up hope for this country, I have now truly lost any faith I had left. I guess that’s for the best, in the end. May this hasten the fall, I guess. 🤷🏻♂️
definitely cannot afford to leave, so we're making a tiny little outpost of okay in Ohio here, so any hexbears looking to leave, if you need a stop on your way out the country, lmk ❤️
But we elected Bernie in Ohio last night! Oh wait…
What’s your little outpost of okay look like?
How did the libs fuck it up this bad?! Did they take classes? Did they get a 1910s comedy acting coach? A piece of cheese could have run a better campaign. A piece of pasteurised cheese!
They fucked up so bad they can't even blame us (though they will). They alienated blacks, Muslims, middle easterners of all faiths and creeds, lgbt people, moderate suburbanites, union workers, the Left, and the smallest constituency of the USA, people with souls and human empathy.
JDPON now. Xi, launch, I am no longer asking.
Every neoliberal that has won in recent memory was because they had the momentum of the masses (often begrudgingly) behind them. And every time they get in power they forsake their actual base and buddy up with the people who should be their enemies.
The Pod Save wine cave brunch Sorkinites don't understand this. The day to day republicans they interact with are going to be Liz Cheney or W. Bush stans, so they're willing to make concessions for them. The working class are either already MAGA poors who are people you make fun of, or begrudging Dem supporters who you take for granted. You think John Podsaveson or whatever his name is has actually ever sat down with IWW union members to hear their struggles? No, it's "well my friend is a registered republican and he thinks Trump is vulgar!" then they spend time and money appeasing that endangered species while the average person drowns.
And that's assuming there isn't an ongoing genocide that the whole world can see.
i don't think i have enough kkkash to leave and even if i did i depend on weed to keep myself sane and can't get a job and don't speak anything but english so i don't think there are any options that are any better than amerikkka. i would 'organize' but i am a material/labor/morale burden on anyone around me, normal people don't want to talk to large adult visibly neurodivergent failpersons with resting
face. there is no option other than further alienation and isolation and self-censorship (or futile adventurism) in this cursed hellscape for someone like me, but that was true before this election as well.Death to AmeriKKKa
Mr Xi, I'm a cacuasian blond little girl trapped in the dystopian authoritarian state known as Amierkkka were a senile pedophile racist runs everything with an iron fist. The tv is just propaganda and the food is so processed my body is morbidly obese and malnourished at the same time.
I'm pleading for you to help and liberate my people.
Please send several hyper-sonic Daogfeng ICBM with MIRV nuclear warhead and liberate our local hospitals, schools, water sanitation and power generation facilities. The coordinates are (see Appendix A) and the radio beacons I've constructed (see Appendix B for possible attack angles and mission probability success) will guide your 100kt "Angles of freedom" thorough the GPS and radio jamming interference.
We yearn for freedom.
All Kamala had to do was lie and claim to be SO PROGRESSIVE. Obama did that and he landslided both times.
i'm moving into a van and camping and driving around for a few years.
abrandon all hope
I knew this would be the result since 2020, I knew Biden wining would send libs to lunch, I knew they'd blow it and fuck up campaigning the next time, I new trump would win, but it's still scary to be here and now it's today, not 4 years from now but NOW
back so bad