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Polls show Trump winning key swing states. That’s partly a failure of the press
(www.theguardian.com)
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I’m starting to feel like if that many people want him, then they fucking deserve him
Get your guns and your non-perishable food and tradable commodities that don't require special storage.
And be prepared to hunker down if shit really does hit the fan when he gets back in.
Everyone think back to the height of pandemic. The lockdowns, virtual all social functions stopping, talk of "curfews." Shortages of all kinds of normal items, stores were rationing toilet paper lol.
Imagine that but for years.
I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and BIPOC friends: Now is the time, get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn a little first aid, you just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your community. The police will not protect us, they've shown they'll happily shoot us in the face with rubber bullets and club senior citizens to the ground. If a caravan of MAGAts visits your neighborhood with bad intentions you'll find no support from those in power.
Work towards peace, prepare for the inevitable.
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Came here to say this. A society gets the leaders it deserves.
Yeah it made me pretty pissed when people were saying this same shit after right below 50% of votes were for staying in the EU but Brexit happened anyways. "All the British suck and deserve <negative effect of Brexit that's occurring> since they voted for it" no stfu, most of the population didn't even want it
It's also not even like it's only Americans whose lives will be directly affected by the next election but millions of migrants, Palestinians, Ukrainians and God knows how many more. So talk about the privilege of this comment, not to mention the dismissal of the half the country who doesn't want a return to 2020, to just throw the rest of the world under the bus because some may deserve it.
This is a nonsensical statement considering the person who got the most votes even in 2016 was Hillary. If we got the leader we deserved, we never would have gotten Trump.
The problem is that we have a fundamentally undemocratic electoral college system that prioritizes the votes of certain citizens over the votes of other citizens.
And then people suffer needlessly unless they choose violence
blaming the victim of a first past the post electoral system? How american of you