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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

Those not voting to protest how Gaza is treated will be so proud of their action when Gaza is levelled by trump.

[-] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago

That guy needs a punch in the face

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Also: before

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 326 points 1 day ago

"Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda," Walsh wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

In other words "Damn right we lied to everybody! Thanks, suckers!"

I guess there's no need to even bother wearing the masks any more. Racism, misogyny and bigotry won the day. Handily. Republicans turned out in droves to sign up for more of it, and Democrats have said they're willing to accept it rather than elect a black woman. At that point, why even bother hiding it. Everybody knows what it is, and last night they said in pretty decisive fashion that they either actively want it or are at least willing to accept it.

We did this to ourselves. Trump made some small gains, but Harris underperformed Biden by roughly 10% or so. That means millions of Democrats sat home instead of voting for Harris, which also cost the Democrats some House and Senate seats downballot due to the lower turnout. There was no election fraud. This was a free and fair election. Trump won the popular vote. There are no excuses this time. We. Voted. For. This.

8-10 million Democrats stayed home. I don't care if you're "protesting Gaza", or if you're a closeted bigot who would rather sit out than vote for a black woman. Or whatever. If you stayed home rather than vote for Harris, you voted for this. In the words of Rush, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice". And you made that choice knowing it was a de-facto vote for Trump.

The GOP had a damn good night last night. And they couldn't even wait 24 hours before cramming it right down our throats. They couldn't even wait 24 hours to take the mask off. Give it a couple of days and I figure the national abortion ban will be the next thing they don't bother trying to lie about any more. Why bother trying to hide it? We already said we're cool with it.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 138 points 1 day ago

Don't forget that the Latino vote for Trump went from 25% to 45%.

The dumb bastards voted themselves into being deported and don't think Stephen Miller is going to have a soft spot for people here legally.

Hes gonna come for them all.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

There's a lot of christian fundamentalists among them too, and I think the "sitting out of it" could have affected that demographic too.

[-] telllos@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

It blows my mind. But it's the reality. In an ideal world every minority should be against Trump. But this isn't the world we live in. There is a huge amount of immigrants who are coming from ultra conservative society.

Some latino who are well established will happily kick the ladder so that other can't come in.

So it's not super surprising. Homophobia and racism isn't only a white people's thing.

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[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago

A guy at work today said he wasn't worried about prop 3 failing because he has a medical Marijuana card. Like, dude, you're a brown man on a list of Marijuana consumers and the modern day nazis just got elected and now wield the fbi and DEA with no guardrails. He's fucked and he refuses to see it.

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[-] _____@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago

I didn't even bother reading anything about project 2025 because I thought surely it wouldn't come to this

[-] Timmy_Jizz_Tits@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Ugh, it's bad. Mitch McConnells life work is about to be fulfilled. Courts are stuffed with gop goons to create a legit legal precedent for unitary executive theory. It's bad. I'm mostly worried about deportation and family separation. I think he's going to consider that a big thank you to the loyalty of his base. The cruelty is the point for a lot of those people. I'm worried that these policies will lead to race riots by Hispanics, especially if they fuck with DACA.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 3 points 6 hours ago

Hispanics were a big factor in electing him. They’ll get what they get.

[-] andxz@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago

If you think that's the worst that's going to happen I almost feel sorry for ya.

This is 1934 all over again, but even worse.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

The only bright side is that it’s unlikely they’ll be able to implement it across the country without a civil war. Yes a civil war is the bright side

[-] andxz@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Sadly, I tend to agree. It's not just the US either, this shit is very much a global issue.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago

It's all Harris's fault everyone so definitely do not blame the absolute human garbage who didn't vote even knowing the stakes

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago

I 10000% blame the Jill Stein voters and non voters

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Really? You wouldn't blame the millions of people that explicitly voted for a convicted, fascist criminal?

If Americans had any sense the race would've been between Stein and Harris, not between Harris and someone who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a presidency.

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Its obv. Trump voters are to blame. Just as much the non voters and Stein voters.

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

But not the 73 million people that wanted this explicitly?

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago

Of course those too. Thought thats obvious

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[-] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Would those votes have mattered? Last I checked on Nov 5 only 70k votes went to 3rd party and the gap between Harris and Trump was much greater

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

The 20 million people who voted Biden but not Harris would have mattered. Non voters are the same kind of trash as MAGA

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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago

Trump got more votes than every other party combined. I blame the Trump voters.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago

The weirdoes are excited about cutting off the porn, I guess.

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[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 76 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mutual aid will be more important than ever, join and build up your local groups if you're able, it will pay off in dividends in the coming years.

This election has only proven how electoralism cannot be relied upon, it's just us now. We need to build the world we want to live in, without corporate influence.

  • Search your local area + 'mutual aid'.
  • Help your local food not bombs.
  • Create a worker owned cooperative with your friends if possible, or join an existing one.
  • Help spread the meshtastic network to build up communication resilience in your community.
  • Plant trees in your community to help reduce the heat island effect for the coming heatwaves.
  • Create or join a community garden near you to bolster food availability and foster connections with those around you.
  • engage in guerrilla urbanism, make your community safer to walk or bike
  • encourage your coworkers to unionize under the IWW, contact them for help on how to unionize your workplace.
  • vote in your local elections to try and have a state or city government that is less hostile to the above actions, but continue to build decentralized power independently of them regardless. Do not make the mistake of handing off the responsibility to make things better to them, it's up to YOU, and your community, and hopefully other nearby communities doing the same, but that is all.

We have tremendous collective power if we just use it, and hopefully this outcome will result in us coming together and building that world in the shell of the old. Collective solidarity is our only solution left.

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[-] Repelle@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago

Now that it’s clear that Harris’s really well run campaign underperformed Hillary Clinton, can we finally end the myth that some failing of her campaign strategy or “likability” was the primary reason for her loss rather than sexism and Comey’s shenanigans? It really seems like a very large number of men just won’t vote for a woman in the US.

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 62 points 1 day ago

That's my big takeaway from this election. A well-qualified woman will lose to the most idiotic man possible because millions of men will just never vote for a woman. All of these people in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Michigan all showed up for Joe Biden, and all vanished for Hillary and Kamala, despite both being better candidates.

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago

You are assuming everyone saw her as well qualified. Some see it as electing a party rather than a person too.

Unfortunately for her, it was democrats that allowed corporate profiteering since the pandemic. Everytime she said the economy was doing well was idiotic.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

I heard a woman I work with, whose boss is a woman say two days before an election "I can't vote for a woman. They are emotional and make petty choices." And I was blown away.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

As the pettiest of all modern or maybe all presidents ever gets elected. LOL

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[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Women ended up not really voting for her either. She got worse results than Clinton did with women.

[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 6 points 23 hours ago

Hillary was a white woman. Kamala was not. Sexism isn't the only thing at play here.

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