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

We put our faith in democrats and the democrats lost. It's time for a new plan.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Want to know what’s fun? Watching your friends decide who’s fleeing, who’s arming up, and who’s lying to themselves. Welcome to queer communities in a red state in November 2024. Gods have mercy on us

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

Stay safe. Leave if possible.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Already in the process. My wife and I committed to leave on the 6th, and are currently packing. Our lease ends in the spring and at that point I quit my job and we move to a blue state (already have arrangements).

Oh and I got a passport two years ago. I’m living by the understanding that if you wait to flee until you absolutely have to, you may not be able to. Better to take some risks for safety that may just be better choices regardless. I’ve always wanted to live in a coastal state, I’m a little excited when I let myself forget the devastation that’s coming.

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

If you and your wife aren't opposed to camping, and can do so safely, you are allowed to set up a camp for one week at a time for free in any of the National Parks, that could give you a foothold to find a cheaper place in California. Cheaper is doing a lot of work in that previous sentence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Our friend out west actually offered us a guest bedroom while we look. We’ve actually gotten multiple offers in different cities. We’re just either waiting out our lease or leaving when it gets suddenly too hostile then staying with our friends while we find a cheap place (looks like we can downsize to a similar rent)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Well, congratulations on the upcoming move! I hope you like seafood, because as someone who has always lived in coastal states, having all the fancy regional fresh seafood around is really wasted on my dull palate. XD

My friend: "I found this really great seafood place, a little hole in the wall, let me take you."

My friend, after eating: "What do you think?"

Me: "Tastes like... fish?"

Don't like crabs, don't like lobster, don't like most fish... I wasn't born to live on the coast, clearly.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's time to get a passport.

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This has been a fucking long 2 weeks, and he’s not even in office yet, Jesus Christ

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not even the mercy of knowing most of the country is against him. Most of the country that gives a shit supports him.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If it gives you any comfort, I think there were a ton of people who "gave a shit", but were (and in many encounters I've had: still are) just too stupid to realize that "morally withholding" a vote for Kamala was going to enable something incalculably worse.

Those people aren't evil. Just unbelievably stupid. So much so that they're a danger to themselves and others. But not evil.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The outcome is the same, and they learned nothing from 2016-2020, so fuck 'em.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately, we're also fucked by this.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Ready for the military to go through the county and ethnically cleanse you, or your family, or your neighbors and co-workers? Ready to find out what bread lines are like? Ready to experience population collapse?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I did not make the connection and thought it's a seasonal thing or shit at work but you could be right

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Back in 2015, about 5 mo the after my youngest was born, I had the (at the time) most horrific day I ever had in my life. Long story short, I got fired from my job (for mistakenly thinking HR was on my side), my oldest son had a note sent home about a live breakout at his daycare, and it rained so hard in n 30 minutes that my house flooded (the top of the mailbox was almost under water).

I got home and was upset because of being fired (I was already beyond burned out from the job to begin with), and I was trying to patiently sift through my son’s hair to check for lice. I was not a very patient person at that point, said fuck it, and grabbed my hair clippers to shave my son’s head bald. I’ve never shaved anyone else’s head, but my own, so I probably was a little too aggressive, and the unit got hot and burned my son.

My 5mo was crying, so I took him and was trying to calm him down. Around this point the storm of the century began. It was so bad that lightning hit really close to the house (three times). Each time it hit, the lights would go off and back on, and then thunder struck. It was very disturbing to say the least.

Then the water began to rise. And it kept rising. And it wouldn’t stop. No matter how much I panicked and begged for it to stop. I was personally in tears. Then I noticed my neighbor trying to drive through the flooded waters, and her car got swept away by the water. I saw the water reaching her side view mirrors, and I handed my wife the baby and was about to bolt out the door to try to do “something” (it was straight instinct).

In short order, the rain started stopping, and all the water started receding. My panic slowly faded as I realized we weren’t going to drown. In no time my neighbors (most who we hadn’t met yet) all descended on my house with mops, buckets, and fans to help start cleaning up the mess. The carpet and bottom 6” of drywall were ruined. I spent my unscheduled vacation pulling up the carpet, replacing the soaked drywall, and even painting the office (it got flooded too).

Our office and living room was crammed into our dining room/kitchen (thank goodness for open concepts). We eventually replaced the carpet and painted everything. I wet vacuumed my car and removed 16 gallons of water, took out the seats, and put fans on it for a week straight.

Those neighbors became our best friends. We all still stay in touch and have multiple get togethers each year. A lot has changed since that day, myself included. I consider it for the better.

All that to say: this too shall pass.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (7 children)

That's a nice story and all, but what happens when your wife is an immigrant and your neighbors all decide to "do something about it?" Or they just say nothing as the federal goons come to deport them.

There are incalculable ways for this to NOT pass for millions of us. Saying this too shall pass is some privileged bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Saying this too shall pass is some privileged bullshit.

Or maybe people trying to give each other comfort and hope.

You're still responsible for taking whatever measures you feel necessary but lets not attack people trying to help.

You're not entitled to harm people on your side, we've done that for the last decade and all it's gotten us is a fractured ideology with a hundred different camps of people bitching about minor differences in what progressive things are good or not, and allowed a monster to get elected because nobody cares about trying to make leftists happy anymore. Lash out at someone else who actually deserves it.

Fucking hell, this is why we'll never have nice things. Our side is just as emotional but not quite dumb enough to unify and focus on one target.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Turn that despair into anger!

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Anger is like fire. It burns hot, but it needs fuel, and leaves behind nothing but ash.

I've been angry for a long, long time. Now I feel tired and broken. Nothing left but the occasional ember in the cinders.

I'll recover, I'm sure. But not today. And probably not tomorrow. Probably not for a while.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Lucky for you, I feel enough rage for the both of us. I am consumed by an unquenchable bloodlust of such magnitude that I genuinely do not feel like the words exist to properly describe it. All of these fascist fuckers think they are about to make us 'find out' but boy oh boy have they been doing a lot of fucking around.

I will not go quietly when they come for me or my neighbors.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never get tired of that follow up comic. It's just too real.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In case anyone reading hasn't seen the full thing:
https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine/

Just needs some of the text updated to current news.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I hope we get to the point where the fire can be put out. We're currently in the stage where the accelerant is being poured out everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Hey, cheer up. We got front row seats to a new political thriller with a power struggle, potential autocoups, suppression of dissent, protests, mass arrests, maybe revolts, maybe a civil war (no spoilers 🤫).

Hey you even get to play a part, its not everyday you get this opportunity. Cheer up, man. 🫠

Just imagine yourself being the protagonist in your little spin off movie. Awesome aint it? If you're lucky, you might get a full tv series. Or, you know, just get a short 10 minute film. (Who needs a series, Quality > Quantity ya know 😉) Who knows what the future holds.

If you get a interesting enough story, you could end up writing the next Anne Frank's Diary. 💀

spoilerSorry for being sarcastic, they say humor is one way to deal with grief. Ye know? The Death of a Republic. 🥲

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