• Jolly Platypus
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    473 months ago

    Elections have consequences. Americans knew what they voted for. They fucked around and they are going to find out.

      • lychee🍒
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        73 months ago

        Europeans seem like they constantly need reminding of this. You people are also fucked for a myriad of reasons

        • @[email protected]
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          3 months ago

          yeah, I don’t understand why people think that it will not change anything here, first with the war next door, and we’re living on the same earth so the climate will be impacted everywhere not just locally in the US

          [edit] also: what do you mean, YOU people?!

          • @[email protected]
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            3 months ago

            So you actively want to be invaded by Russia? You want to be part of their imperial fascist regime?

            NATO is the only thing preventing that, and Putin knows.

            Why else do you think Putin spend so much of the Russian Propaganda machine actively making Europe more xenophobic and get so many extremist right-wing governments in play?

            Do you think the ones trying to revive the USSR are going to stop at Ukraine?

            I’d love for NATO to not exist. But as long as countries are afraid of being invaded by their neighbors, NATO is necessary. Russia is therefore the reason for NATO’s existence.

          • @Alwaysnownevernotme
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            23 months ago

            It’s cool how only the fascists bribed donated to our politicians.

          • lychee🍒
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            You think Putins imperial Tsarist regime is gonna save you from capitalism? Russian imperialism and western imperialism are two turds from the same ass moron. All these people know how to do is steal land and inflict suffering

    • @HappycamperNZ
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      113 months ago

      As much as I hate this its correct.

      With lying, external influence, racism, terrorism and general crime he was just democratically elected. Supporting democracy means that it has to be followed.

      It’s wrong, its a bad move, but its democracy.

      • @[email protected]
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        93 months ago

        No, the US constitution literally has a protection for this exact scenario: the electoral college. The founding fathers knew that the general population was stupid and could fall victim to a tyrant, so the EC was supposed to vote against the popular vote if that happened. They couldn’t have forseen the internet, though.

        Our government has a responsibility to protect the country and the constitution from those who seek to destroy it, and Trump and gang seek to destroy it. They all should face a military tribunal for sedition and treason, and be hung for it.

        • @beebarfbadger
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          33 months ago

          Technically, the US also has protections against wannabe dictators claiming they are above the law: a supreme court which, were it not undermined by that dictator’s toadies, should shut that shit down in a second. Still, there’s a difference between blindly following everything that court makes up out of thin air and supporting the actual rule of law. Same with democracy.

    • @kreskin
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      -73 months ago

      Biden/Harris knew they’d lose the left if they continued to ship weapons and they shipped them anyway. So here we are.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        Nobody is spending millions on an election campaign when they knew they were going to lose my dude.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          Not unless it’s other peoples’ money. Good thing US election campaigns are self financed /s

        • @BlitzoTheOisSilent
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          13 months ago

          They raised over a billion dollars after Harris got the nomination.

          They spent a quarter of that on sending door knockers to the same people’s houses 2-3 times.

          And they donate money to Republican outsider campaigns to try to siphon votes off the Republican incumbent (who they usually still lose to anyway).

          They would absolutely spend millions of dollars thinking they were going to lose. It’s not their money, and their lives will not change whether it’s spent or not.