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I am not going to be sober if it turns out we have to deal with Trump (or notorious couch-fucker JD Vance) for another 4 years
i mean, even if they conced without objections they'll still be politically active. the 4 year campaign year starts now.
You're planning on sailing the high seas as a privateer if American society collapses today?
Well I wasn't but I certainly am now
What's crazy to me is I don't even know who's in charge of England or any other country for that matter. But it seems the whole world pays attention when us idiots decide to elect another idiot to run the rest of us idiots. Says a lot about our country that the whole world pays attention to what dumbass thing we're about to do now LOL. In my head I feel that those from other countries see our country like a really bad car accident that people drive by, slow down a bit and say oh gosh I hope everybody's okay when in reality you know damn well none of us are okay.
In my head I feel that those from other countries see our country like a really bad car accident that people drive by, slow down a bit and say oh gosh I hope everybody’s okay when in reality you know damn well none of us are okay.
… you said it, not me 😅 It's a combination of worry, horror and a sort of sick fascination.
But yeah the stereotypical joke of some Americans not realizing there's a world beyond their borders does have some truth to it. I guess it's sort of understandable given just geographical facts alone (let alone hegemonic status): continental US of A only has 2 countries as neighbors and one of them mostly speaks the same language, where in continental Yurop you can probably hit 4 countries with 7 languages on a 6h drive.
I drank a whole bottle of rum back on Election Day 2016 and was hungover for 2 days. I've already blocked out the next few days on the calendar.
15 years ago I worked at a small gaming startup and after some party or another my boss was hung over for two days, and he said that it's totally a thing that happens when you get older. Being a dum idjit I didn't believe him.
I do now.
You guys probably feel pretty powerless watching the US elections from other countries. If it helps, those of us who live here feel pretty powerless too. Even those who live in swing states, from what I hear.
Still voted, though.
No wonder you feel powerless, what with first-past-the-post voting and… well, everything else 😅
We've definitely got our problems here in Yurop too (like literal fucking neofascists being super popular), but at least we get proportional representation – I get to vote for democratic socialists so that it actually means something
Totally planning on being sick tomorrow and having to call out of work.
Either I'll be happy drinking and don't want to spoil the joy by having to go to work.
Or I'll be shitfaced, and totally hungover.
Honestly that's how a lot of people in the US feel about it too
honestly wish I could just pass out til Saturday or whatever.
Rum can help you with that.
I can only imagine; this wouldn't be a one bottle of rum situation if I lived there.
Y'all have my empathy, this shit can't be easy.
It's gotta hit harder if you're directly affected by the outcome.
During the Trump administration, every morning I’d wake up with vague existential dread, picking up my phone thinking “what now?” And every morning there would be some new shameful low. It was awful.
Oh I'm absolutely sure it does, and thank the fucking gods I'll probably only be indirectly affected