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I was born in 1990. Fully a '90s kid.

I was born in 1990 and remember lots of stuff.

In absolute terms, they aren't the majority. 73m voted for him out of the 161m eligible voters in the US, or ~45% (Harris has ~43%). Still a frighteningly high number, but it also means it's possible to find support for resistance, at least if things start to get bad enough. Unfortunately, there are a lot of Americans that like to think that politics don't concern them and that we should just be apolitical. So they're going to need a wake-up call first before they would lend their support. Trump will likely give it to them in short order as his fascist policies start to directly affect them.

Also, keep in mind that the total population (~334m as of 2023) is much larger than the population that is eligible to vote. There are many young people that are too young to vote now but still old enough to fight tyranny, former felons who are ineligible to vote but eager to fight oppressive systems, not to mention the scores of people not counted among eligible voters due to not being registered to vote, either through complacency/disillusionment (see above) or active sabotage and disenfranchisement by Republicans (and in many ways, you could say these are one in the same).

Fascists may have power and have won the popular vote, but it doesn't mean it's the will of the people. It means they've successfully gamed our very broken system. But real, average people living their lives will fight when the oppression comes to them. Maybe it will be too late, but maybe not. Revolution only needs a single spark.

There won't be a next time. Congratulations, shit stain. You get to pay yourself on the back for your "morals" while the country burns to the ground.

I say "morals" because fucking obviously the moral thing to do is prevent Nazi Germany 2.0 from happening. But no. You get to pretend like you're a good person. But you're not. You let fascists take control and countless people will die at the hand of non-voters like you. You and everyone like you are deplorable in every sense of the word and you have no right to claim moral superiority.

Not really, no. Every Green I have ever seen in the US is either a Russian stooge or batshit insane (or both).

Atlanta is pretty incredible.

First of all, not all state legislatures are the same. Nebraska has a unicameral system, and despite the issues with the legislature, it's overall a much better system than a bicameral one. A bicameral state legislature makes even less sense than a federal one. The federal government should be unicameral.

This isn't 1789. We aren't some loosely federated collection of colonies anymore. We are one nation, and no citizen should have greater voting power than another. The interest of a state can be effectively represented by that state's representatives working together towards a common goal.

While that's true, it doesn't make it right. All representation should be proportionate.

I agree, but it should also be something people do because they care about doing the right thing and value democracy, irrespective of what social media tells them to do.

Bitch that's called voting.

God all these TikTok trends are so fucking dumb. I guess if it sways votes to Harris that's good, but what a sorry state of affairs we have that there are people out there that need to be drip-fed content in order to do their civic responsibility and stop fucking fascism.

Yeah, the huge trucks and suburbans are pretty insane. I'm American and drive a small-ish SUV (2023 RAV4 Hybrid) and we fill the extra cargo space (and passenger seats) all the time. Groceries can do it (not all the time though), especially if making one of our (infrequent) runs to Costco to restock on stuff that's a lot cheaper/more useful to buy in bulk. The other day I used the cargo space to transport a large (6 ft/1.8m) folding table and 8 folding chairs for my son's birthday party. And speaking of kids: car seats, strollers, diaper bags, etc. need a fair bit of room.