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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Oops! All fascists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I don't want to offend any American here, but.........what the fuck is wrong with your entire country?

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

Why put this on all of us when only 1/3 of the ~~country~~ eligible voters in this country voted for him? When taking voter turnout into consideration (a third of the eligible voters didn't vote).

Eligible voters' results:

34% Trump

32% Harris

33% Did not vote

Don't put this on the other half of the country that abhors him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

2/3 didn't vote against him.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Personally, it kinda feels like a weight's been lifted. Now I can let go of the last shred of pretense of this country being anything other than a fat fucking joke.

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[–] [email protected] 196 points 1 day ago (5 children)

We are so fucked. The repercussions of this election are going to effect everything from SCOTUS to county courts. This is so utterly disgusting. People looked at the shit spewing from his mouth and said, "Yes, represent me."

Fuck this country.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I was born just before Reagan was elected. Growing up, I got the mostly mistaken impression that America had some of its shit sorted from Vietnam, WWII, and all that 20th century turmoil. A period of stability. Upward trending society. Reagan undid a lot of that progress.

I've been watching this country die, slowly, for 45 years. This has been such a weird time to be alive. Fighting over scraps we volunteered to subsist on instead of overthrowing corrupt and cruel systems. We had periods we thought we were recovering. We had hope. I feel today like there isn't any left. Another four years of this, and it will be worse.

He struck a fatal blow. He used the tools of fear and rhetoric to do it. The weakness was there, the vulnerability. And here is the next evolution of American fear. We're a country voluntarily destroying itself out of fear of our imminent destruction. We had everything, and we gave it away.

We heard the call of the void, and we've answered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Dying with thunderous "patriotism". If there was a nuke that could paint the affected area in an American flag, it would be used.

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[–] [email protected] 366 points 1 day ago (114 children)

I'm trans and I'm terrified, terrified for my queer friends and family, terrified for Ukraine and Palestine, and terrified for the planet.

If you didn't vote or voted for this piece of shit, fuck you. If you voted for him, you deserve the massive inflation and shit he's about to put you through.

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