FatCrab

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

No. It is that Trump won with the support of over 70 million Americans. People are responsible for their choices. jfc

Everyone saying Trumps totals didn't change, yes, but their composition absolutely did change. But even that is besides the point. Even if they staged exactly the same, that's still really fucking problematic and its absurd to give these people cover for being shitasses.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Host Thanksgiving and only invite your mom.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm sure a lot has to do with your home server, but I don't think I've seen a single post about this where the top comment hasn't immediately clarified that this was most likely a reciprocal attack after these idiots were running havoc through Amsterdam. I've even seen mentions of them beating up an Arab cab driver (though haven't seen anything to confirm, tbh).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Couple it with privatizing the national weather service so there will effectively be no warnings, and most of FL is gonna be dead anyhow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

??? It is literally impossible for any voter to not know the devil they chose. No, over 70 million voters actively chose to elect perhaps the most incompetent and transparently stupid president in history back into office, but with a well known and well documented playbook this time around on how literally entry metric of American life, from domestic policy to foreign policy, will be made worse to the sole benefit of big corporate actors and 1%ers. A whole bunch of others were too apathetic to be concerned by this.

Voters ultimately made their choice. A lot of folks are going to die as a result, but unfortunately it won't be limited to just the idiots that actually chose this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No, Trump won it. He got votes and those votes were from people who cast them. Yes, democratic party has problems, but the far bigger problem is that enough people voted for Trump when given other options.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The Harris campaign put out an 80 page policy guidebook explaining what they were offering. Stop denying responsibility from the voters. A bunch of people wanted this and a bunch of others figured this was better than rallying around the one viable alternative, be it a form a protest or laziness. Voters are ultimately responsible for who we collectively elect.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You've said a lot here that I agree with, but ultimately the responsibility is on the voters to be competent, critical thinkers that at least attempt to be informed. And they (we) are not. But unfortunately this just appears to be an entropy point built into our current system. And it facilitates one party over the other. Republicans are an ideologically unified authoritarian block that denies critical and strategic thinking in its platform and is structured only to identify problems but not sustainable solutions. They've always been this. The current Democratic party, otoh, is a big tent party focused on long term solution plans to nuanced problems and has many stakeholders that are ideologically opposed such that actual compromise may be fundamentally impossible. I honestly don't know if this CAN be overcome. It's a tough spot to be in. What i do know is that the next 4 years, at a minimum, are going to be mad dash of regulatory capture and federal collapse the likes we haven't seen since the 20s.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (14 children)

I'm sick of this denial of voters culpability for their own votes. You are responsible for who you vote for and the outcomes. People voted for this and they are fundamentally responsible. Right now, folks just need to focus on making their local communities robust against the oncoming disasters.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

However, it only survives in space for 22 minutes, but then it resets to its origin so no biggie.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If he loses, I think we see the fractures in the republican party really start to cascade even more than they have since the last election. It'll still be a stewpot of regressive, reactionary, fascist fellating bullshit, but their goose stepping will be out of sync.

Meanwhile, a collapse of the Republican part opens the door for a likewise restructuring of the Democratic party, which has for decades now been a big tent party for people who aren't braindead, but is otherwise pretty ideideologically disparate. And before you wah wah wah FPTP, keep in mind that all RCV initiatives in the US have arisen out of Democratic party affiliated groups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, so you're actively avoiding engaging reasonably with what I and others are saying. Good luck to you. Sorry to hear you're comfortable with more Palestinians being murdered so you can signal on social media.

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