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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

The “shift in votes” map on the NYT is INSANE.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Biden can still execute him as official presidential order

[–] [email protected] 2 points 34 minutes ago

Can't just execute Trump himself. Once Trump is dead, there'll be dozens waiting to take his place. Gotta execute Trump, Vance, his cabinet, the Supreme Court so they can't undo their decision to make the president a king, and any republican in office that didn't turn their back on Trump

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I guess it's confirmed. Americans really are dumber than a bag of rocks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

a bad of rocks doesn't have 34 felonies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I guess people really do want fascism. We talk about it like it's an obviously-awful thing, but apparently most Americans disagree. Most people around the world seem to disagree, in fact. We laugh about the idiots voting for Trump, but far right lunatics are gaining positions of power all over the planet. It's not just Fox News-fed Americans.

It feels like we're building up to something catastrophic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Fox News is a vestige of the 20th century. Social media is the 21st century Fox News. Everyone knows it's bad but we have not reckoned with it. Everyone agrees it's bad then everyone returns to scrolling their echo chamber.

Unfortunately the social media oligarchs side with Trump. We're all fucked.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 hours ago

They don't see what he's done and what he's said. The people that put him over the edge this time were targeted for being ill-informed and tempted by magic wand campaign promises like "no tax on tips" or dumb things like gold sneakers. They aren't watching informed news or doing research about his past performance. They're simply voting on vibe alone and have been heavily targeted on social media to make them think everything sucks and he's the only one who can fix everything when in fact he's the complete opposite of them.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

This is somehow less of a gut-punch than 2016 when everyone just assumed Americans would do the right thing and not elect Trump. It still sucks, but it’s less of a surprise. The writing was kind of on the wall for awhile though, just given the fact that the election was as close as it was. Even if Trump hadn’t won, that he was able to run the most garbage campaign in history and was still tying it up was pretty damning of America.

So now we watch as we just peacefully transfer power to the most vile, irresponsible person on Earth and watch the world burn.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I can't fucking believe we did it to ourselves again I'm completely in shock, this is fucking ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I would say the same thing but just drive a car somewhere some time. People are the stupidest most selfish garbage you can imagine. And nothing brings that behavior out of them like driving a car.

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[–] [email protected] 362 points 9 hours ago (37 children)

I don't understand how this many people see everything that he's done and said, and still voted for him. I just do not understand. I don't want to live on the same planet as these people, nevermind in the same country.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

I know. It is very disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

Don't forget sexism too

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago

Still, even the biggest racist should look at him and think: there has to be a better racist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Aside from plant of other things that have already been said, a lot of people look at it as a team sport. They don't see it as having real consequences.

[–] [email protected] 144 points 9 hours ago (12 children)

From what I've seen it's people angry at the status quo and looking for a change in a desperate effort.

This is exactly what happened with Brexit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

In both cases Putin won.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

Status-quo politics is dead, many major western parties just haven't realized this yet. People want firmer political leadership that promises fundamental change and isn't afraid of breaking things along the way.

It's just fucking unfortunate that (in most countries) it's only the far right who are ahead of the curve at realizing this.

Center to left parties need to reinvent themselves and focus less on pleasing everyone or fighting losing battles. They also need to present a much clearer vision.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

For the record, we progressives in the US have been trying to foment that kind of attention. Messaging seems to be artificially limited by the corporate media, which is why groups like XR have had to resort to super glue hands onto the outer frames of art.

Every time we gain some momentum, serious violence appears, perfectly on schedule, to quell our desire for change.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This is what people do not seem to understand. Fascism has the backing of global capitalism. All of the multinationals and industries who have been top dogs for the entire industrial revolution — fossil fuel corporations, weapons manufacturing and the entire military industrial complex — all of the food supply chain, major media networks, social media networks, and big tech companies, who have built a more expansive surveillance apparatus than Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia — ALL of the leaders of the highly-centralized functional-monopolies of 21st C capitalism benefit from fascism. The 1/100 who says "not like this" is irrelevant.

They're all part of the big club (even if they are oblivious to it) and you aren't in it.

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 9 hours ago (18 children)

As an Australian watching this all unfold I just can't believe you guys did it again.

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[–] [email protected] 184 points 9 hours ago (14 children)

Great job, dipshits. I hope this personally impacts each and every person that voted for him.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Jesus fucking Christ not again

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