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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

Time and time again I remember this meme

Basically democracy is government after the people, by the people, for the people . . . but people are retarded . . .

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is it too early to start talking about the abysmal failure of the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" strategy?

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's more like: wut! I gotta get off my couch and what in line. Fuck that. It can't be that bad.

Oh it's going to be bad now but don't worry about voting again. He said so. You can stay on your couch and never vote again...even if you really want to.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

He said so.

Do stop with the liberal hysterics. It hasn't helped you much, has it?

Pretending to be democratic isn't something the US is going to stop doing any time soon, so yes, you will be voting again.

[–] bazingabot@lemmy.world 28 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There is a saying...

Make a mistake once and you can call it learning, make a mistake twice and you are eh... not so smart

Americans need education.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Something, something won't get fooled again?

[–] vordalack@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Biden must be laughing his ass off right now. Should have let the old guy run. Turns out no one really cared about the presidents age.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

The old guy should have never run for a second term so we could have had a chance at an actual full dedemocratic campaign out of someone.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 45 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

What devil has this guy made a deal with? No matter how stupid, obnoxious or abrasive he is, people worship him. He constantly screws himself over and then before he has to face serious consequences he trips on a rock and somehow everything's alright again for him. At this point he literally can shoot someone on 6th Avenue and get away of it. I think Trump is solid evidence that we're living in a simulation and somebody is fucking with us, because life just doesn't work the way it works for him. Somebody's thumb is on the scale.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What devil has this guy made a deal with?

He cut a Faustian Bargain with the soul of America. And like Faust, he gets to spend his days capering and clowning about his social superiors, making unholy mischief in a kingdom that is itself revealed to be terminally corrupt and wholely damned.

Trump took the Objectivist philosophy that's guided this country for a generation and embodied it. He is Reaganism in its manifest state. Just a guy entirely out for himself who has convinced 71M other people to do the same.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

What's more concerning is that millions more people saw it and didn't bother to stop him.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Jokes aside, he was heavily supported by Russia and Israel who do have quite some influence through social media

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[–] Ithorian@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (9 children)

People need to stop blaming voters, we all need to start understand why this happen more and more in the world and not judge the voters for their decision. I have some theories but its not the time or place, but stop say "people are dumb" or "People need educations"... 100 million people cant be all dumb or uneducated, go deeper!

[–] thewebroach@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

They've been conditioned for 8 years that any negative thing they read or hear about their leader is "fake news", and likely their own pride of not wanting to consider the possibility they could be mistaken has made them easy targets for the misinformation machine at Fox News to avoid telling them objective facts to instead pander to their emotions and tell them what opinion they should have. Mass manipulation by biased media.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago

Yes, yes they can.

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You're telling me... There's multiple issues and reasons in play... At the same time????

This is getting entirely too complicated for me.

[–] patacon_pisao@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I also think part of the problem is that with the internet, we may just have a lot of data readily available, so much so people are overwhelmed they just tune it all out. We can spend a lot of time wondering why people vote the way they do but if the losing party doesn’t take the time to be retrospective and humble as to why they lost then I can’t blame people for that too much.

[–] Timmy_Jizz_Tits@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It feels so fucking obvious to me and it has for the 20 years I've been voting, I fucking voted for dennis kucinich lol. There's a reason Bernie was able to cut through the noise. He had a blunt and obvious, class based, economic ideology. That's where he planted his flag.

The 'third way' Democrat machinery seems to plant it's flag on reactionary culture war issues. Even if that's only the perception, not reality, they always take the bait.

AND WHY THE FUCK DID IT TAKE SO GOD DAMNED LONG FOR TRUMP TO BE CHARGED FOR J6? If you want to call them Nazis you have to do Nuremberg when you have the fucking chance.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Im sorry, but if Gaza, egg prices, and Harris not havjng a Y chromosome is enough for a magat trifecta, the voters are the problem. Not just the ones who stay home or vote third party, all of them. Americans are whats wrong with America

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

God what an ugly bug he is.

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