• @T00l_shed
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    I mean the US is certainly in distress

    • @espentan
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      Definitely. Do we know if the people who wanted a criminal moron in charge are still cheering him on, or are they starting to catch on to the fact that his plan always was to thoroughly fuck everyone over? Well, everyone but his clique.

        • @SoftestSapphic
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          As long as the right people get hurt they’re happy.

          Republicans would shit their own pants just to make us smell it.

          They’re gonna be a lot less happy when they try putting armed citizens in camps and they get fucking shot.

          • @Juvyn00b
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            331 month ago

            Holy hell, the shit the pants statement is so on point.

          • chingadera
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            Time has shown that these motherfuckers don’t even care if “the right people get hurt”

            As long as there is hurt, and their preferred propaganda machine tells them, they’re happy.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 month ago

              They do care. They’re ok with people in authority hurting them but if a minority does, someone lesser than them, they’ll burn a fucking neighborhood down to get them.

        • chingadera
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          This is the most succinct you’re ever going to get

      • @[email protected]
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        461 month ago

        They’re completely caught in the misinfo and still cheering him on. Anyone getting hurt must have deserved it and if they’re getting hurt it just shows how important it is to hurt the others back.

      • @taiyang
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        Everyone just giving their opinion but the answer is mixed. Some regret, many don’t. And it’s not just disinformation, people have to deal with their own cognitive dissonance. Just on the radio earlier was an Arab man still defending vote for Trump because “it’s just rhetoric” right now. He’s willing to say it’s terrible rhetoric, but won’t come to terms with the vote being a bad decision.

        • @[email protected]
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          121 month ago

          They will deny it until they can’t and go right back to denial the moment they can.

          He’s their security blanket, their binkie. Any parent knows it’s nonsense but to the child’s mind the magic of the binkie it is real. Arguing the reality of the binkie is futile.

          Parents can rely on their child growing out of magical thinking but since these are adults, we’ve got to accept they are forever lost to the magic.

          Their need for president binkie cannot be argued with. It can be slipped from their grasp by logic or trickery. The magic must be shattered, utterly and irrevocably. Only they can choose when that occurs.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 month ago

            Yes, but actually no.

            Children, regardless of “magical thinking” naturally do not possess cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is a learned skill instilled into them by other adults. Everytime a kid asks “what’s wrong with daddy?” when he’s lying on the floor after having too much to drink, and the housewife replies “he’s just sleeping honey, now stop asking stupid questions” we gradually learn to deny our senses, critical thinking and reasoning skills. Children don’t need statistics or scientific journal entries, they can sense when something is wrong. If they see one of these protests outside on the way to the grocery store with mommy they can put two and two together without having to turn on CNN. Yet full grown adults can convince themselves a new pizza parlor must be opening.

            A child’s mind is better at discerning nonsense from the truth than you realize. It is we who repeatedly teach them that they are wrong.

      • @[email protected]
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        in south park he fucks illegal canadians to death, but in real life he is doing it to americans

    • Majorllama
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      Eh. The majority are chillin.

      This is exactly what they voted for.

      • @[email protected]
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        291 month ago

        The majority did not vote for this. The majority of voters didn’t even vote for this. He only won a plurality (<50%)

        • @[email protected]
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          He got the support of all the people who voted for him and all the people who didn’t vote against him.

          • @idiomaddict
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            131 month ago

            Lucky the USA allows everyone to vote no matter what; doesn’t schedule it for a standard workday, meaning nobody has to choose between feeding their kids and voting; plans out enough polling stations so that people don’t have to wait for hours without access to food, water, or seating; doesn’t surprise deregister voters with little notice; and sends out absentee ballots reliably with sufficient time to return them…

            • @ripcord
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              Georgia had both mail-in absentee voting and, especially, 2 weeks of early voting including on weekends. In most places the early voting lines weren’t terribly long. On election day most places were short.

              Most people still didn’t vote.

              Some people couldn’t vote. Millions of assholes just didn’t bother and are partly to blame.

              • @idiomaddict
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                Big difference between all (the comment I replied to) and most

        • @GeneralEmergency
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          Inaction is an action. The majority are ok with this, otherwise they would have voted.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            Given that he campaigned claiming he wouldn’t be enacting Project 2025 (even though it was obvious he would be), I don’t think you can claim people not voting are automatically okay with him breaking that very explicit promise.

            No. Americans do not want this. Americans especially didn’t want it done by some nutjob private citizen who has zero authority to do what he’s doing, and no oversight.

            • @GeneralEmergency
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              No. Americans do not want this

              Then they would’ve voted.

              By not voting they are saying they are ok with either option.

              That’s how democracy works. Voters can bury their heads in the sand, it doesn’t make the politicians go away.

              • @[email protected]
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                31 month ago

                Getting voted in is NOT permission to break the law.

                He’s illegally bypassing Congress with his actions. Doesn’t matter if this is what your dumbass voted for, it’s not how this works.

                • @GeneralEmergency
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                  Sounds an awful lot like you’re trying to convince yourself rather than me.

                  Doesn’t matter if this is what your dumbass voted for

                  The projection doesn’t help.

                  Trump has been pretty clear that this was his plan. Anyone surprised by this is just willfully ignorant.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    01 month ago

                    I shouldn’t be surprised by your lack of reading comprehension. I’m not really sure what you’re even responding to, none of it lines up with anything I just said.

                    And again, telling you he’s going to break the law doesn’t mean he’s allowed to break the law even if he is voted in after saying it.

                    This is that half of America is functionally illiterate nonsense the rest of us have to deal with.

        • Majorllama
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          No vote. No opinion.

          He got the majority of votes. He got the majority of the electoral.

          The majority of participating voters wanted this.

          Just because you guys cannot fathom how anyone would want this doesn’t mean this is the same panic inducing situation for them. The majority of politically active people in the United States of America wanted this to happen as evidence of the election we just held.

          • @[email protected]
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            281 month ago

            No. He got a plurality of the votes. Not a majority.

            The majority of participating voters voted against him.

            How many times do you need that repeated to understand?

            • @applejuicy
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              I mean, I’m sure you’re right. What I don’t understand is how that technicality is even relevant. Even if 40% of the people voted for this, does that not still mean you have a sick and dangerous population on your hands? We’re talking about tens of millions of people that voted for a fascist regime.

              • @[email protected]
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                101 month ago

                It means he doesn’t have the popular mandate they keep claiming they do.

                But yes. Half of adults are functionally illiterate. 5th-6th grade reading levels. They can physically read the words, but will only grasp the most basic surface level meaning. Republicans’ started attacking education decades ago. This is what they wrought.

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                Outdated data. The votes were not done being counted on November 10th. Trump got 49.8% to Harris’ 48.3%

                • Majorllama
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                  Ah. Fair enough. Last time I had seen it it was more than 50% still. Well then by a technicality not a majority then. I do love a technically correct statement so I’ll give you that one.

                  Still. More people voted for this than didn’t vote for this.

                  • @NABDad
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                    101 month ago

                    Still. More people voted for this than didn’t vote for this.

                    I don’t want to pile on, but if less than 50% voted for this, then more than 50% voted against it. The people voting against it didn’t vote for the same thing, but they did vote against this.

                  • @YarHarSuperstar
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                    Well if you love technicalities you should’ve realized that people who didn’t vote at all for any reason also didn’t vote for this. Technically.

                • Majorllama
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                  Yes thank you. It’s already been pointed out several times.

      • @[email protected]
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        I didn’t vote for him, but I am chillin’. The president, whoever that may be, has little impact on a citizens day to day life. I am far more concerned of who the governer of my state is.