• AmbiguousProps
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    3828 months ago

    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.

    • @FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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      1468 months ago

      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

        • @Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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          478 months ago

          I suspected if she lost it was because she was a woman. Others are saying it was all Gaza and they didn’t vote in protest. A commentor replied to me showing the margins are like 10s of thousands in one state.

          She seem way better than Hillary too. Hillary reminded me of my grandma but in all the bad ways.

          Guess Trump may nuke the whales. Tried to nuke a hurricane.

          • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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            408 months ago

            Anyone who didn’t vote in protest needs to shut the fuck up now. I don’t wanna hear another damn word out of them regarding Gaza, or moralizing to the world. They will now get to see Gaza be dismantled.

            • @Nasan@sopuli.xyz
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              They really stuck it to the Democratic party, hope they’re fucking happy that their solution to the Gaza situation is to accelerate wiping Palestinians from existence. Blood is on their hands now more than anyone that did the bare minimum to keep democracy alive.

              • @Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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                148 months ago

                Nobody learned the lesson from 2016. We can’t stick it to the dems until the GOP goes away.

                I bet the dems are high fiving each other right now from all the donations they are going to get.

                • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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                  We can’t change how people work, adopting republican policies and compromising your democratic policies decreases turnout with the base.

                  We can only tell the democratic politicians to do what they need to do to win, which isn’t triangulating yourself 2 inches to the left of the republican to try to chase “moderate republicans” who prefer diet fascism to the real thing.

                  • @Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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                    Well i bet a bunch of people will say it never existed so what do I know. Maybe it’s all a illuminati scram.

              • @Montagge@lemmy.zip
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                158 months ago

                No he really is. What is more status quo than a rich white guy as president with conservative values?

                • @WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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                  158 months ago

                  Trump is campaigning on making massive changes to American domestic and foreign policy. I don’t like the changes he’s pursuing, but he is absolutely not running on the status quo. And that is, in fact, exactly what won him the race.

                  If he was just running on the status quo, he wouldn’t be a threat to democracy. Deporting 20 million people isn’t the status quo. Repealing civil rights isn’t status quo. Attacking or ending NATO isn’t status quo. Abandoning Ukraine isn’t status quo. Befriending Russia isn’t status quo.

                  Yes, Trump is a conservative white guy. But type of thinking, focusing on identity groups and demographics, is what has got us here. Kamala herself is a historically novel nominee, she was new in terms of personal identity. But she wasn’t actually offering anything other than the same milquetoast centrism of Biden.

                  This is the problem. People are hurting. Trump actually had something to offer these people. He said, “elect me, I’ll throw out all the immigrants, and by doing so I’ll lower the cost of housing and increase wages!” It’s a horrible, evil, and long-term unproductive solution, but he was actually offering SOMETHING. Democrats offered no meaningful answers to the things people are actually hurting on. The only thing Democrats offered were wonky dismissals of economic concerns by citing official inflation numbers and calculated real wage gains. (Ignoring figures like ratio of median housing cost to median wage.)

                  People are in pain right now. People are on the edge, driven to the brink by late-stage capitalism. Biden was a milquetoast centrist, but he was able to barely eek out a win by running on a lot of progressive promises in 2020. He walked away from a lot of those commitments and governed as the centrist he is. Harris offered just more of the same. Neither offered real meaningful solutions and proved completely incapable of handling the crises at hand.

                  Trump again, he actually offered solutions, or at least something that seems like a solution. Like it or not, he WAS the change candidate of 2020. And that is what won him the election.

                • @WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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                  That is NOT the status quo. You’re talking about someone promising to make utterly massive changes to US foreign and domestic policy. People are hurting for change, and if they can’t find that change on the left, they’ll find it on the right.

                  • @Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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                    18 months ago

                    it’s “status quo” back then not modern version. He said 1950s is when america was great in 2016. So dismantling everything in last 70 years is just going back to roots to him I imagine.

      • @InSamsara@lemmy.world
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        38 months ago

        They just slept

        Look at this snoozer. Absolutely sleepymaxxing. A bedtimepilled pillowcel. Got a blanket under his head just lost in the sleepy sauce.

      • @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        18 months ago

        The Democrat vote is ALWAYS 15 million below Biden’s RECORD popular vote number! Trump got HUGE numbers for a Republican. Do your homework, and stop trying to create a narrative using COVID numbers.

        • @Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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          38 months ago

          The narrative that people voted In the 2020 and chose not too in 2024? Doesn’t matter what dem numbers were in the past cause all it proves is how many people will consistently vote dem.

          I’ll tell you what the shock really is me. People voted for Biden not because they hated Trump but something Biden had that dem candidates going back to 2008 didn’t have.

        • LustyArgonian
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          18 months ago

          You realize the US population gets bigger over time, right? There should always been more voters every year because we have more people every year.

    • @Noite_Etion@lemmy.worldOP
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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.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        678 months ago

        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.

        • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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          128 months ago

          The climate is one thing that both would fuck the world.

          That’s a done deal at this point. The Democratic party would have slowed the rate of increase, but given the tipping points we’ve already crossed, we require actual massive amounts of removal of greenhouse gases, and major geo-engineering projects to try and prevent everything coming our way from climate change.

          This is less of a politics post, and more of a ‘we’re so fucked, and most people aren’t aware of how fucked we are that they think what the Democratic Party wants to do for climate would actually do a damn thing’

          Seriously, at this point it would require a complete overhaul of both our political system and economic system such that life would be unrecognizable to forestall gigadeaths.

          • @Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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            If China and India both go hard on climate action, that may be enough to turn it around. Because of their geographical position, they’re both much more firmly in the line of fire. But the US being out of the game for at least the next four years definitely makes things much, much harder.

    • @Saleh@feddit.org
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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.

        • XIIIesq
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          About one hundred million people declined to vote at all.

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            And fuck them, too. They’re just as responsible.

        • @Saleh@feddit.org
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          I would have been happy if the Dems had stopped supporting genocide, saving tens of thousands of lifes and then winning in a landslide.

          Thats what i advocated for for months. But the party would rather risk losing the election to Trump than stop sending weapons to a genocide.

      • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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        chose to ignore the devastating effects of inflation on normal Americans, instead of providing a concise plan of revamping the economy

        Come on. The party in office when inflation came back down. Inflation rate is near normal now. Blame them for not communicating effectively or blame voters for looking at cumulative inflation over four years, rather than resulting inflation

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      The only silver lining is that maybe the Republicans will just forget about trans people until it’s time to stoke the hate again for the next election.

      But yeah, very disappointing result. The country was willing to vote in a twice impeached convicted felon (whose sentencing will be postposed indefinitely, I suspect) over a gasp! brown woman.

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      My little vote was a piss in the ocean, but the DEMOCRAT PARTY had the power to run a good candidate, to fund a GREAT CAMPAIGN, but instead, they put Trump in power. It was so bad it has to be deliberate.

      And they got you to blame ME for it. Your fellow citizen.

      The power elites win.

      PS. I voted for Kamala, but I hate this shit of you blaming individual voters, like they aren’t just trying to vote for a better life for themselves.

    • @Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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      Exit polls show 12% of lgbtq voters voted for Trump. 12% of lgbtq voters voted to be jailed, castrated, and discriminated against by their country. That is not only terrifying but also embarrassing.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        18 months ago

        Jews for Hitler vibes.

        It didn’t go well for them either. Being “one of the good ones” won’t save you.