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It is my fervent and sincere hope that they get everything that they so richly deserve.
Many of them are low information, or high gullibility and won’t even notice because it’ll get blamed on something else or they’ll be told by their echo chamber that it’s not what they think. The important part is they “find out”, and they may not even while facing the consequences
Meh… I’m happy that they will get to suffer right along side the rest of us. And while this may not be a celebration by definition, I certainly have zero sympathy for a single one of them.
Celebrating can be considered immature. I'm out of compassion and empathy for idiots though. They will absolutely face the consequences of their actions and it doesn't mean I have to help them.
poor is such a weird word… in most cases it just means bad. Poor food quality, poor planning, poor critical thinking skills, etc….
but when we refer to a person, poor means a lack of money?
isn’t it just baking in the notion that impoverished people are bad?
Also in America there is an unspoken attitude that being poor is a moral failing because of the narrative that all you need to succeed is "hard work and determination". If you're not rich you must be lazy.
i’m going to call this the hegemony of the rich… but what’s the word for when people adopt the values of their oppressors?
Maybe not going to celebrate but I am all out of pity and tired of it all so several million people first on the compassion list.
Fuck off. I’ll celebrate if I want.
I'm not going to celebrate but the schadenfreude will be real and I'll probably say variants of "i told you so" for the next 4 years...
I somewhat vindictively hope it's every bit as bad as predicted this time, less actual nuclear war of course. But enough so that there's just no way any amount of social media shadow fails to prevent daylight getting through.
Next time we have progressive leaders there needs to be done what the tech bros and oligharchs feared: proper regulation of social media as journalistic organisations unless they e.g. remove algorithmic sorting, and take steps to remove anonymity.
My idea is you could have avatars/pseudonyms linked to a third party open source identification API which uses encryption keys. It doesn't reveal who you are to law enforcement (no one would want to use that) but it does reveal you are the same person regardless of your pseudonym if you get up to naughty business, leading to your reputation going with you to any participating platform.
Tech bros love that idea; I've seen a few blockchain-based versions.
Using the block chain is completely unnecessary though, so they've clearly got a money making angle.
If it isn't open source and non-profit, it won't work. ICANN for example could integrate it into what they do. Only then could it be part of internet regulations fairly.
Oh there's no more voluntary reform. They had that chance over the last 40 years. It's time to start actually regulating again.
That is what I mean yeah. Regulation and strong institutions to uphold the rules.
The rich ones are going to have permanent erections.
If it's gonna happen anyway, might as well get as much joy from it as we can.
I'll still laugh though. Tragedy can ve comedy.
I am glad they are learning.
They're not.
The pattern I noticed with Maga fans, is they all bought what he was selling: fuvk those other people. Maybe it is refugees and immigrates, LGBT, peaceful protesters, women. So much for society, vote for greed and self interest.
And they voted in support, so it seems like karma to me.
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This must be a joke article, because it just reinforced the importance of the “FAFO” jab.
When immigrants are rounded up at put into work camps, labor jobs will be gone.
When skilled immigrants are imported, not given citizenship and paid low wages for high profit, skilled jobs will be gone.
The whole idea of the New United States is slavery, and the rulers know that we are too entitled to be slaves—for now. So they poison us and starve us out until the next generation comes along and is much more obedient.
So yeah… it’s fucking hilarious when some dumb right wing turd thinks they are gonna MAGA.
This is what I fear most out of this. The plan seems to isolate us, and drag us all down. Nobody is talking about it.
We are. But the media is in on it, or, told to focus elsewhere… like continuing to talk about Biden.
2025 is WWIII, with china over Taiwan. That’s what the news will be focusing on. They will trick us into thinking these labor camps are good because we won’t be able to get cheap Chinese goods anymore.
Eventually everyone will turn their head because a “$5000 iPhone” will scare them away.
It’s pretty diabolical. But if those work camps become a thing, which might not happen because people here do get loud, then you might consider an escape (especially if you aren’t white) if you have the means.
We're all going to be in a lot of pain these next few years. I'm perfectly happy to celebrate the people responsible for creating that pain to also have to feel it.
I don't celebrate. I just use the word "consequences" a lot more now.
Sorry I have cancer and will probably lose access to my healthcare and die once they repeal the ACA.
I'm going to celebrate and get in their stupid bitch faces about it. Every time some loser fucking MAGA whines about how bad they've got it I'm going to harass the living fuck out of them about its their own shitty decisions biting them in the ass. They're going to hear about it every fucking day until I fucking croak! I'm sick of my life being fucked up because of ignorant fucking pricks. I'm ready to tell ignorant pricks exactly how fucking ignorant they are, and I don't give a fuck if they're too fucking ignorant to even understand my insults.
Fuck this civility politics bullshit, it's what got us here to begin with. These people deserve to be made social fucking pariahs.
Hell yeah
Fuck this civility politics bullshit, it's what got us here to begin with.
To expand on this a bit:
Reasonable people have been civil for decades, and the state of affairs has only declined. That decline has accelerated to the point where the unreasonable people are being ushered in now to control all of the US federal government, not by accident, but by the will (or apathy) of the citizens.
There are no more legal levers to pull. The time for civility has passed. In the short term, there's nothing we can do to effect positive change, but we can take steps to [email protected] the negative, slow it down, make it cost more (in dollars and effort). And we don't have a bunch of foreign allies willing to put themselves in harm's way to come to our rescue. It's going to be a long slog.
US citizens are going to need to learn to be very fucking resourceful, like Cuban citizens learned to be starting sixty years ago.
We need to accept that nobody and no institution is coming to save us.
I want to see community gardens. I want to see non-internet-connected community mesh networks. I want to see community medical clinics. Community 3D printing and basic fabrication, so we can actually fix things. Community mechanics and construction.
Take the ethos of Habitat for Humanity and expand it. Have communities tearing up old dwellings but preserve and fix the wood, metal and wiring to be re-used.
I don't know how to organize any of it, but change and help isn't going to come from the top down, it's up to us to organize it from the bottom up. That can be pretty daunting in especially conservative areas, trying to wake people up to needing each other.
Community mechanics and construction.
Take the ethos of Habitat for Humanity and expand it. Have communities tearing up old dwellings but preserve and fix the wood, metal and wiring to be re-used.
I get the appeal of self sufficiency and zero-waste, but the cost of labor will have to be startlingly low or resources devastatingly scarce for this to be worth it. As in, way below poverty wages or post-WWII Germany after it had be bombed relentlessly.
It’s not just waking any random people up either, but the crowd of ‘fuck you I got mine’.
I don't see why I should help the people who caused this
Those people cannot be helped and do not need material assistance. Much better to focus on the poor and build solidarity independent of political beliefs.
There are more poor Trump voters every day that are realizing they fucked up, as they learn about project 2025, see Trump's disgraceful proposed cabinet, and learn that food stamps and other assistance could be on the chopping block.