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    Quick analysis: the US flushed itself down the toilet.

    • Likely fact: Republicans now control all 4 towers of the castle (president, senate, house of representatives and surpreme court).

    • Conclusion: the situation allows Republicans to steamroll legislation into force.

    • Further conclusion: US voters really don’t understand what they are doing.

    Climate: it’s bad, but one president’s rule is short. Trump will withdraw from the Paris treaty and sabotage domestic attempts to curb emissions. Europe and China will continue their attempts because they haven’t changed, and they want energy independence. Climate is a system with great inertia. We are beaten by the mistakes of previous decades, new generations will be beaten by our mistakes. Increasingly hard.

    Ukraine: the situation is very bad. The Biden administration won approval for 60 billion of support in spring, but according to Zelensky, only 10% has been delivered so far. Unless the DoD hurries the hell out of itself, Trump will close the tap on aid that Biden secured. Trump will try diplomacy, but Putin’s administration is made of a different sort of people. They are running for life while Trumpists are running for lunch. Putin will politely send him where sun doesn’t shine and continue grinding meat, now with an added flavour of North Korean. Ukraine faces a very difficult choice: fight a retreating war in conditions of decreasing aid, hoping that revolutionary conditions arise in Russia… or make peace with the attacker, giving them territory. Ukraine will need all the assistance it can get from anywhere. Knowing this, and knowing the risk of a Trump re-election, I started developing a drone system 6 months ago. It has gone through many iterations and might be capable of combat in the coming month. I didn’t sign up to live in a world like this, but hey, you take what you’re given. :(

    If the war in Ukraine gives Putin territory and peace as a result, Putin and his heirs know that you can get territory and peace with war: any place in Eastern Europe could be next.

    In summer, Congress locked away the keys for leaving NATO, but Republicans now control both houses and Trump has cleansed the party of dissenters. Trump can credibly threaten to withdraw from NATO or actually do it.

    Taiwan needs to find more alliances, because the US might become unreliable, and China knows this. The rest of the world needs to think if they can do without electronics during a Chinese attempt to conquer Taiwan.

    Democracy in the US: will be dismantled in favour of something like Hungary. We will see ministers who are oligarchs like Musk or irresponsible liars like Kennedy. Since the storm is near-perfect, I predict that democracy will give way to oligarchy. Risk of disturbances, repressions and internal conflict will grow.

    Until now, only unstable people wanted to assassinate Trump. Given these conditions, I predict that stable but ruthless people who see a danger to their future will join the game. They will reason as follows: “risk has reached certainty and there is still time to prevent outcomes”. If I was working in the Secret Service, I would increase protection on Trump 10 times (unless I hated him).

    • @[email protected]
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      I live in Eastern Europe, and seriously recommend your people start researching nuclear weapons. :(

  • @VantaBrandon
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    Anyone darker than this in America --> ✋🏼

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    If it is of any solace, the global oligarchs will be safe and well through all that is about to unfold.

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    Because so many people in the United States have elected to stab themselves - and EVERYONE else along with them - with a rusty knife, out of ignorant rage and lazy ignorance.

  • @SassyRamen
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    Don’t forget South Korea. Do you really think America will be on their side this time around with Dump and Kim being kissing friends?

    • @chiliedogg
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      It sucks from the inside, too. I feel so hopeless the middle of all this insanity.

      I can’t do this again.

  • @riodoro1
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    Do you guys seriously believe everything would be fine if he didn’t win?

    The world was as fucked yesterday as it is today. You just didn’t see it on the news. Does it matter if the civilization ends a week earlier?

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    No, I’m sorry, I just don’t think Kamala is making Gaza the number one issue, which is why I think the only reasonable choice is to either not vote, or vote Stein.

    edit: I cannot believe I have to add /s

    Literally every fucking election they pull this same shit, and every fucking election WE FALL FOR IT LIKE MORONS!!!

    The morons on the other side fall for “Trump is obviously a good Christian!”, but we fall for this which is almost as transparent as “Hey, look over there!”

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      “We have the Palestinians and we have everybody else rioting all over the place. You talk about Charlottesville. This is one hundred times Charlottesville,” Trump said during a presidential debate in July, equating pro-Palestinian activism with a 2017 attack by White supremacists in Virginia.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/27/trump-israel-gaza-policy-donors/

      https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/donald-trump-middle-east-foreign-policy

      https://www.nbcnews.com/news/trumps-plan-quell-protests-deport-hamas-radicals-rcna166168

      I hope you enjoyed your high horse. Because this might be the last Palestine protest you can effectively make.

      • @InverseParallax
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        That’s literally my point, the “muh protest vote!” is the kind of shit that always makes things worse. Republicans don’t protest vote, they voted for a rapist felon.

    • @NocturnalMorning
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      Can’t wait for the trump dictatorship aparratus to get started thanks to takes like this. Im sure Gaza will appreciate the sentiment all the same since trump has made clear his policies are even worse.

      • @InverseParallax
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        That’s literally my point if you can’t tell sarcasm.

          • @InverseParallax
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            Btw, you think I was being serious?

            THOSE FUCKERS ARE QUIET NOW!!!

            We’ll see a few gaza stories, maybe, but all the voices screaming are gone, they’re getting wasted on vodka and whatever else you do in St. Peterburg after a massive victory.

            • @WrenFeathersM
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              There’s a few smug “we told you so!” clowns still around.

          • @InverseParallax
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            I don’t see how… But then again, we’re post-sarcasm again :(

    • NoneOfUrBusiness
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      Sorry to piss on your parade but… Uh… Your attitude (the one behind the sarcasm) is the reason democrats lost this. That aside, at this point it’s probably less about Gaza and more about Harris campaigning with the brainpower of a 5 YO. Like if Trump is winning this badly then yeah it was hopeless to begin with.

      • @InverseParallax
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        Yup, my attitude is exactly why.

        Not the endless screaming voices of ‘BoTh SiDeS!!!’ and voting for anybody but stein is a vote for genocide, it was all me.

        Mwa ha ha, my evil plan has been successful, and I’ve finally enslaved the world’s greatest superpower to a elderly rapist in a diaper!!!

        Fucking stupid children, I swear.

    • @Draces
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      Sounds like “hey look over there” is exactly what you fell for

    • @SassyRamen
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      Not saying you are either a Russian or just a fucking idiot, but in my opinion someone that holds this view point, is either a Russian, or a fucking idiot. I repeat, this is not towards you, it is towards the Russians and fucking idiots that hold this view point.

      • @InverseParallax
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        I’m literally saying so many people fell for the russian trolls, and now we’re all fucked.

        • @WrenFeathersM
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          Yep. And Palestine is about to become a crater. They have no idea what they did.

    • Nougat
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      You’re getting downvotes because people didn’t get far enough through your comment. I almost didn’t.