ID: photo of actor Sinbad in a neon pink frame, he has a wide slightly awkward smile, and has his hand out to gesture asking a question, above in pink neon letters it says: “Real talk!” and in the frame next to the photo it says in plain black text: “so are we going to overthrow the fucking government or what?”, with his signature bellow
You asshole Americans couldn’t even be bothered to show up and vote against trump, y’all not getting off the couch to overthrow anything but a box of totinos
I think they didn’t show up because they lost hope. There was tons of doomerism and despair on the left leading up to the election. It seems many just threw in the towel.
It’s cowardly, IMO, to give up the fight and wallow in despair, and I confronted the doomerism wherever I saw it, including here, but I wouldn’t characterize it as laziness or asshole behavior.
Depression and deaths of despair have been increasing in the US for decades, and the people who diligently voted blue since the housing crisis have little to show for it. So while I’m angry they didn’t show, I can see why they lost hope. They need a promise of change they can actually believe in.
literally so true.
There was so much yapping and shit throwing going on after the election happened over on lemmy, but nobody wanted to confront the truth that trump did win, because democrats, did not vote.
This is the simple truth. It doesn’t matter how hypothetically perfect your ideal candidate is, if you aren’t going to fucking vote.
This has been my thought since the election. We’re a country of ignorant and selfish people and I’m just kinda trying to live life in the real physical world since that realization. But even then it doesn’t make me feel like I live in a shared material reality with people I associate with. Social media has completely cooked a large majority of the country and nobody gives a shit.
Too fucking real dude. I have lost so much hope I didn’t even think I had. I am shocked at just how wretched the average American is.
Yeah, we don’t have the sauce and now we are drowning in oligarchy controlled media and propaganda.
The best we can do is if Trump actively destroys the economy to the point of where people start to starve.
votes don’t do shit. Guillotines sure do.
both would do it, but only if you actually use them
Until the voting system is fixed the votes don’t mean much and certainly they don’t mean enough
Also have you seen the price of couches?
I think you missed the point… By a lot.