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Yeah. Idk how I feel about this gotcha perspective when trans people and undocumented immigrants are facing state violence on a nearly existential level. Like, is this your response to that? To adopt this smug affect and do nothing? Business as usual for you, I suppose.
You'll have to forgive me for taking this post very literally. I am very scared for what is going to happen to my friends and loved ones in the coming weeks.
options are limited but they are there.
Okay you said whatever you wanted. Now what?
Brexit is still delivering all the "I told you so"s. It's less fun than it sounds.
Yeah, people keep saying "This time they'll see!" But, aside from the occasional "leopards ate my face" moment, the same people keep lining up for more of the same.
And much of the consequences are sloughed off on the people who are fighting hardest against it.
They're fucking around, and we end up finding out.
Oh, don't worry, on a long enough timeline, everyone ends up finding out. It's just that if they were capable of figuring it out, this all would have been avoided in the first place.
Yeah there seems to be this palpable expectation on Lemmy that any day now half of the voting public is going to have some realisation and say "oh my god what have we done".
It doesn't work like that though.
Most of the actual retarded things Trump said he would do like the tariffs et cetera will be done in performative way. Done in a way that isn't too disruptive or harmful but still lets him say he stuck it to China.
The more insidious project 2025 stuff isn't applied in real time. How does the media report on the slow corrosion of quality of life and rights to privacy et cetera.
I was in the US for the first trump election and in Britain for Brexit. And now I’m back in the US for this shitshow. It’s like I can’t escape the crazy – it’s following me.
Or maybe it’s all my fault and I’m a bad talisman. I dunno, just please make it stop.
I can't imagine the cognitive dissonance these fascists are going to deal with.
Unfortunately for the majority of them it won't be a problem. He'll perform exactly as desired "owning the libtards" and getting rid of "the immigrants". I wish I had a more optimistic outlook on the next 4yr but frankly we already know how it will go from his last term. At least to an extent.
No, it's not going to be "I told you so."
Conservatives will still blame Biden and dems for all the problems.
Also, there's a lot of people that will say, "don't be mean to them, that never changes their mind!" "talk to them, be empathetic"
Man, anyone suffering after voting for Trump deserves a big "fuck you".
Yeah, I will never forgive a 2024 Trump voter. They know who they voted for, they know who he is. No excuses this time. Trump voters claiming ignorance this time will not be accepted.
We told you the government doesn’t work! Just look how the government we elected doesn’t work.
That's Conservative Playbook 101. Take something working well, intentionally break it, complain that it's broken and needs to be privatized, rinse and repeat.
Not if historic patterns repeat.
Clinton, Dubya, Obama, and Trump all went into office with control of Congress and lost it at the mid-terms, so it's not unlikely that a portion of voters will flip in 2026.
They'll be back in 2028 though, when the Dems nominate Gavin Newsom and try replay this 'joy and unity' bullshit again.
Four years? In ten years from now, the elections of 2024 will be called the 'Last Elections' and President Musk will arrest people who will call for their return.
"You fuckers asked for this so either shut up or move"
Going to be the only thing keeping me going
I'm buying a bunch of "I did that!" Trump stickers to slap on empty grocery shelves. That's gonna be fun.
I picked up rows and rows of "Billionaires shouldn't exist" and "No human is illegal" myself. I need to see if my old ass shitty canon can print on sticker paper. Maybe get back into making stencils.