• Myxomatosis@lemmy.world
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    Expecting Americans to do even the bare minimum, such as playing by the rules, is expecting way too much.

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      This is the truth. Americans have forgotten the common good and looking out for each other. The boomers began the culture shift towards selfish assholism and the subsequent generations have accelerated it.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      When I felt disillusioned in 2016 from ratfucking and Trump winning, I got more and more leftist. Nothing has radicalized me after than the last 3 elections.

      Anarchism tries to help people without expecting a favor, unlike every other major political structure.

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        Anarchism tries to help people without expecting a favor, unlike every other major political structure.

        Anarchism isn’t a political structure…? It’s the lack thereof, no?

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          To me, it’s the idea no structure compared to the idea of structure. Libertarians just want corporations to take it over, everyone else want a state.

          Perhaps I should have said it better, I’m kind of in a state of stress and “If don’t laugh at the situation, I am going to cry more.”

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    WHY

    Why do we have to be the bigger people and accept this bullshit? THIS ISN’T WORKING.

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    Shes fine with it.

    Every stance she took will be adhered to, and she is going to get the Republicans in the cabinet that she wanted so bad.

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      Somehow I think the person who would have been the first female president is not “fine” with losing to Donald Trump.

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        If she really cared, maybe she would have declined the AIPAC money, set a redeemable platform, and sunk one of the easiest wins in US history.

        She didnt do that though. Did she?

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          It’s not a matter of “not caring” to win. She miscalculated and campaigned wrong. Did Trump lose in 2020 because he didn’t care to win?

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            Oh ya, miscalculated a whole shit ton of money into her pocket, again, still keeps all of her stances intact, and gets to cha ching make the AIPAC money ring and bury the Democrats again in 4 years.

            Youre right, its not that she doesnt care. Its that this is exactly what she planned.

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          You’re in an echo chamber if you think the general population cares that much about the situation in Gaza. Funny how all you talking heads hyperfocus on this one aspect that most people don’t care enough about.

          If you truly cared about it, then you would understand that Trump is going to be oh so much worse.

          You and your ilk are a one note song.

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            +14 points against my -44, -17, and -18.

            You are championing genocide.

            Mathematical proof this is a pro-genocide fascist echo chamber.

            Again, you right wing fascists are why Trump is in office.

            I really hope that you will learn something from your pathetic electoral failure.

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    Of course she made a concession speech. Because Democrats are constitutionally unable to accept the reality we voted into power 2016.

    The party deserves extinction.

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    Happily voted Harris, to defeat the christian fascists. But I think her concession confirms that she was never going to be the fighter we needed.

    First, Democrat’s gamble on pushing aside the progressive core (thanks to incorrect reading of Biden popularity and protests over Israel’s genocide) in favor of a coalition of former Republicans and mythical “decent conservatives” was a huge red flag. It has now proved absolutely catastrophic.

    Second, “the high road” has rarely extracted more than the absolute minimum at the slowest possible pace. This election proved it has failed us. Peace is not an option anymore. Unfortunately, we’re going to need to fight ruthlessly for every inch. Entrenched billionaire oligarchs, funding literally insane religious extremists and domestic terrorists. They will gleefully turn up the heat on our formerly cold civil war with their brutality over the next few years.

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      The worst thing about Trump by far is his refusal to accept a peaceful transition of power. It’s a national tragedy that he will never be held accountable for that, and that his behavior has been validated by winning another election.

      I’m glad she is setting an example of what a peaceful transition of power looks like, for those who apparently aren’t familiar with the concept.

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    What else is she supposed to say? Unfortunately, the people have spoken. They’re going to get what they have chosen and deserve at this point, and it’s a crying shame.

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      And what did you want her to tell people to march to the capitol and hang the vice president being willing to certify the election?

      Nah, Americans voted for Trump and his fascism, his racism so let them have it.

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      We can still try to obstruct via filibuster and other mechanisms. (Republicans have already shown us how to do it effectively.) But certainly no progress can be made for the next four years.

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          You’re putting far too much faith in the voters at this point.

          Depending on how the cost of living situation goes, Trump is either going to take credit for improvements set in motion before his 2024 term, or he’s going to astronomically tank it and blame it on the previous administration. No matter which happens, he will frame it to make himself look better than the Democrats while the MAGA crowd eats it up.

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            People’s feelings about the economy is the number 1 indicator of whether a party will be voted out of office.

            If Trump goes through with his insane tarrifs, inflation will skyrocket, people will be livid over the economy, and the Republicans in the Senate will be in real trouble.

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        As if Republicans won’t eliminate the filibuster. They have no use for it because they don’t plan on being in the minority ever again.

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    It aint even about moral high road, shes just ready to take the money and run.

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    I’m not accepting the results. Trump is not my President.

    I voted Harris and that was my pick.

    This is just absolute bullshit that she now turns and expects people who were voting not just for her, but voting for a continual track of progress for this country. She expects us to ‘accept it’. What about the people in LGBTQ who’re now fearing for their lives? Tell them to “Accept it” for what’s to come for them when the AmeriNazi Regime comes banging on their doors? What about the minorities who’re now fearing for their lives about getting deported? Going to tell them to “Accept it” as the AmeriNazi Regime scream and demand that they go back?

    What about the working class who’re now fretting over their resources and now looking down the barrel of having to take in more work and have little time to relax in life? Going to tell them to “Accept it” as the AmeriNazi Regime overworks and burns them out to death to support the upper class and corporate interests?

    Harris, I liked you and voted for you. But this is a ‘Fuck you’ to accepting the AmeriNazi Regime.

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      You’re just as bad as the stop the steal trumpers when you ignore the election. You need to accept the loss, you don’t have to just go back to doing nothing though. You can work to recruit voters to your side for the next 4 years instead of just the few months before.

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      I agree and stand the same. He is not and never was eligible to be a president. He is a fraud, a chronic liar and nothing else. I have zero respect for any of the three letter agencies in accepting his presence and with them, any of the “'supreme court judges” because they are not either. Not now and never.

      America is Dead. This is but a corpse and those are maggots.

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    Liberals once again just giving over power to fascists. Tale as old as time.

    Not even gonna resist? Really?

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      A bit different this time, since the people overwhelmingly voted for the fascist. The Nazi party in the late 30s only had a plurality in their parliament.

      But yeah it definitely rhymes… Though I’m honestly not sure what else they should do that wouldn’t result in all out civil war

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    The moral high road is littered with corpses, and it looks like we’re bound and determined to add more to the pile.