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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"But the felon promised me cheaper eggs."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I've been saying this all day now, when the Nazi eventually cries about the higher food prices because they deported all the immigrants our duty is to tell them: shut the fuck up, you voted for this.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I will now cut back on all social media. Lemmy included as I get a depression from what's happening in the US. What is painfully obvious is that we Europeans must stop fucking around and federate so that we have a fucking chance wedged in between despots and idiots.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

The current trend is sadly in the other direction. Fascists are rising to power and the countrys get more separated. More border controllers are happening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Best of luck, wish me good luck on getting out of here before everyone realizes they closed the boarders going OUT as well as IN.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Volt all the way baby!!!

Lets get the european federation on the way!!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is so. fucked. up. I'm not American (and thank fuck for that), but I'm actually feeling so ill and worried for y'all. I think it's time for me to block/unfollow any American accounts and news cause shit's about to get really fucking bleak.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I’m American. I’m so disappointed in my fellow Americans. And I’d wager around half of us feel similarly disgusted by these results.

Just know not all of us voted for this fascist. I have been trying to organize more and get my friends to organize against this. Clearly civil disobedience is needed, so I think organizing and donating to organizations that support anti-fascism would help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I would do the same. Imagine how ill I feel living here and being surrounded by red states. Woohoo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I went on holiday to the USA this summer. We had time, money, had never been and feared/expected the USA to elect Trump again. Looks like I made the right call. Stay strong USA.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

America is fucked. Ukraine is fucked. The world is fucked. The only glimmer of hope is Trump drops dead before his term is out.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The issue is that the heritage foundation has put JD vanced to take over for Trump when he dies

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Which, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, is actually scarier than just Trump. Both are nightmares, Vance is young and wants to make tech CEOs kings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That's the seriously fucked part of all of this... Trump will run his 4 years because the worst of us never die, then the DNC runs the resurrected corpse of Regan to court the moderate vote again, loses in another landslide to Vance, Vance gets 2 terms... By then Musk runs some fiefdom, Bezos runs his own, Zuckerberg run his Hawaiian fiefdom... After that if I'm not dead I'll make sure I am.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Of course. He's bankrolled by Peter Thiel and they make no false claims about it. Dude is a vindictive brat with billions to his name and absolutely 0 shame. He bankrolled Hulk Hogan's Gawker lawsuit over a grudge.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Americans are also watching in horror FYI

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Apparently those Mussolini style of speeches and the other 50 or so political suicides did not really matter as much as you would think. No matter the outcome this being this close I think spells the end of the USA as a rational power.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

America really really hates women.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Michal 13 points 2 days ago (10 children)

The rest apparently don't care either way

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

America wasn't built on just immigrants, it was built upon a certain type of immigrants: opportunists who placed greed above everything else. It shows.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The first waves, sure. Once you get to the Irish escaping the famine or the Italians escaping Mussolini, it became more about just survival.

The OGs were racist as fuck towards them, too.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The national identity of being Canadian over the last while has been every four years wondering if the downstairs neighbors are going to decide to restart up the meth lab they keep tinkering with and bracing for the sounds of domestic violence to resume.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Im more impressed than terrified. Choosing a guy who cheated on his wife instead of decrimanalised marijuana AND better healthcare. How???

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Cause muh price of eggs is too much

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Americans are watching this too and wondering what the fuck is wrong with our fellow Americans. This should not even be close.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

America is a fascist nation dripping in right wing propaganda.

If we elect Trump a second time, the only people who can express shock are the ones who have never seen a neighbor wave a Confederate flag, brandish a Blue Lives Punisher logo, have FOX News blasting away in the living room, or demand you laugh at their joke full of ethnic slurs.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

As an American:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

inhales

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Very accurate meme. This is me seeing that the votes between the two candidates are somehow close. This is me seeing how one of the two is even allowed to run at all.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I think it's insane how Democrats keep getting blamed for not picking the right people to run when Trump can seemingly say or do anything at all and not lose a percent of support.

One of the USA sides has to be perfect and the other can do nothing and it will still be close. Insanity.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago (16 children)

I'm really hoping Harris wins, and we can make politics boring again. I know that if Trump wins, we'll hear about all the insanity he will put in place for the next four years.

Sure, if he loses, Trump will cry foul, but that doesn't have the same legs as it would if he wins.

I just want Trump to be some washed out TV "celebrity" and politics to be as entertaining as it always is: not very.

I'm not American and all I hear about right now is American politics. Y'all need to figure your shit out.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Trump is not the problem. Trump is the symptom. The problem is a somewhat powerful minority faction in the US actively pushing to dismantle our democracy. Project 2025 wasn't written by Trump and didn't write itself.

Harris' win is step 1. We then need to push to shore up our democracy and prevent a more cunning trump replacement.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

Yeah its one thing if youre a trump supporter because then you are just a sheep but i actually dont understand whats going on in the head if those who have to think about the decision

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

His IQ is currently equal to his amount of felonies

Edit: The fact that this comment has exactly 37 up votes makes it even funnier

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

So far. He may become a genius over the next year

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (21 children)

Funny - it's the same for roughly 50% of Americans too - which is horrifying.

👁️ 👁️

Edit: sorry it was more than 50% of Americans. Fuck everyone. Goodbye.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 days ago

Watching America edging fascism is my pastime in between watching my own country edging fascism.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The worst one for me is that there's some chode near me that displays a flag on his house fucking bragging that he's voting for a convicted felon.

They're proud of the fact that they're supporting a criminal, and I bet they'd be ok with him if he was an open Nazi as well (they're just fine with the same tactics and having literal Nazi flag wavers in their midst).

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (6 children)

Adam Conover's last video changed my view on the shock. They're not voting for him despite his bad qualities. They're voting for him because of his bad qualities. Telling them he's a Nazi and a felon and blah blah blah will reinforce their idea that he's the right guy. When people who worked in his government come out against him, the response is, "Of course they did. They're part of the swamp we're trying to drain."

Reason is dead. We're never going to convince these people that Trump is unfit for the job and a horrible human being. It's time to stop being so shocked these people exist. They always have and will continue to exist. All we can do is show up and end the man's political career.

Post-election update: 14 million vote spread between Biden '20 and Harris '24. Trump was only down maybe 1½ million votes between '20 and '24. Hey Democrats, where the fuck were you on Tuesday?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I kept trying to tell people that polls and surveys is just astrology for math nerds

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (15 children)

With electoral reform, we could have more then two artificially limited options. We could have competition in our elections. We could be free...

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