• Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    19 minutes ago

    I’ve done what I feel is a pretty good job ignoring US election (canadian here), but the liberal head loss over this I sadly cannot ignore. Otherwise reasonable people acting as if the world has ended when this man has already been president ? Some of the same people who agreed with me that KKKamala is not in any capacity a “harm reduction” vote acting as if martial law has just been declared or some shit ? Maybe I’m just the disagreeable asshole but I just find this behavior sad.

    Obviously fuck Trump should go without saying how pathetically shitty that dude is but I mean come on. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been murdered and terminally wounded under the democrats, not trump. Roe v Wade was overturned under the democrats, not Trump. We have witnessed one of the most acute transfers of wealth to the ultra rich under the dems, not the republicans. The war in the Ukraine started and was goaded on under Biden’s admin, not Trump.

    I’m not trying to say in any sense that things will get a single iota better with republicans in office but I feel like I’m taking crazy pills seeing the reactions online and from people I would consider to be rational individuals. They might even be right that these things will get worse under another Trump admin more quickly or in different ways than if Kamala won, but still I find the reaction to it ridiculous.

    Not that any american needs to or should care about my opinion considering I’m relatively removed from the situation but like, am I being unempathetic or unreasonable ?

  • StalinistSteve@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    1 hour ago

    This shit was so predictable lmao at least the victory lap will be less violent than the “stolen election” protests, America now has a more fitting face

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    1 hour ago

    Mood around my campus was pretty dead today. I voted for big K but I am so incredibly disappointed by how this turned out. Also, she and Biden have apparently disappeared. She never even saw the crowd after the results were called.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    3 hours ago

    Idk why I do it but I’m watching lib Dutch talk shows and of course they are about the elections today and it’s expectedly insufferable

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    5 hours ago

    I wonder how much effect crptobros had in this election. Crypto pacs have spent over a hundred million dollars in ads smearing the candidates they didn’t like. Even Kamala Harris had to get in on the crypto grift when she put forward her weird proposal for protecting black men’s investments in crypto or something like that.

        • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlOPM
          11·
          4 hours ago

          Hopefully, but IMO its irrelevant which party controls which branch of government. Nobody’s stopping the collapse train.

          Overall I like that murica’s international standing takes big respectability hits, and less countries are likely to go along with whatever imperialist venture they have.

        • Rondomi🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          5·
          4 hours ago

          That’s the thing, I’m not even sure if it will be faster than if the Dems got in because they’re historically more prone to warmongering, thus getting the Empire into unwinnable military wars rather than economic ones.

  • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    6 hours ago

    Well… dems on Twitter are salivating over a completely flattened Gaza as revenge for their loss. Very cool…

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      21·
      5 hours ago

      Yup. Saw a few of them already saying they look forward to buying property in ethnically cleansed Gaza/West Bank.

      Also this:

      They really cannot keep their masks on can they?

      To them anti-fascism is just a vibe, and social justice causes just an aesthetic, a way to signal team loyalty. When push comes to shove and they get scratched all of their feigned sympathy with the oppressed goes out the window and they become foaming at the mouth Nazis indistinguishable from MAGA.

    • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlOPM
      12·
      5 hours ago

      Their true-crime fetish spills over into fantasizing about endless brown people being bombed by their own country.

    • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      5 hours ago

      you act like this was not always going to be the response, there level of care was not that high anyway, they where willing to suport a canidate who told people who suported Gaza that now was not the time

    • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      4 hours ago

      While you are talking about the destruction of America, is the True God of Christianity, Yahweh, already selling America to social liberals and flooding American with immigrants of mixed-European origin and non-European origin as punishment for their fake school death camp genocides against Indigenous people and their refusal to confess that the Nazi Holocaust is a cheap imitation of the ongoing war crimes by the Western European empires and British diaspora?

    • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
      27·
      7 hours ago

      You mean to say that –

      • switching candidates halfway through the election

      • having your replacement candidate be one of the few people somehow less popular than Biden

      • having said candidate go around openly endorsing genocide

      • telling leftists to ignore this, because genocide isn’t really a big deal

      – isn’t some kind of winning strategy to Unite the Left?

      • TonoManza@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        The funniest part is that

        • switching candidates halfway through the election
        • having your replacement candidate be one of the few people somehow less popular than Biden

        Isn’t a wholly accurate representation, as she surged after initially replacing Biden because she briefly represented “hope and change” …then she immediately threw all that momentum away to try and win over racist right wingers as a black woman.