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[–] 75 points 2 years ago (41 children)

Hey Muricans, this is what you wanted and voted for (or could't be bother voting to prevent)... enjoy

or, hit the streets and remove the fascist gov you elected

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (36 children)

    I feel like the overlap of fediverse users and trump voters is close to 0

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (32 children)

    Yeah but there are a bunch of "I'm going to not vote to 'send a message'! who cares if that makes the nazis win?" types

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    You need an actual opposition party then. Blaming non voters is the dumbest thing you can fucking do and will make your situation worse and worse

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I agree.

    Labor party, Democrat, republican/ conservative, maga, etc. . And cut it out with this D/R bullshit. It's maddening. There are people that have a serious moral issue casting a vote for some of the choices given.

    I'm sure a lot of the people who sat it out are more informed and upset with what is going on than some of those that "chose the lesser evil". They have every right to be furious.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The opposition party could obviously be better, but I think they were strong enough that "no preference" wasn't the right choice. (After all, choosing not to vote is essentially a vote that says "I don't care who wins".)

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Right, because the people who voted against trump are the ones that can--in a single election--dismantle and oppressive two party system crafted by an oligarchy feeding people the illusion of choice so they won't riot. Of course the few of us who understand this and actually voted for the candidate with the best shot are able to do this. And of course we should have done this before all of the mass voter fraud being uncovered could lead to Trump taking an office he didn't actually win. You're absolutely right. Let me call everyone up and let them know we need to regroup.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

    You have no opposition party in America, your two party system also is a huge problem. In this way fascism will always win.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Exactly. And you have people like me who refused to vote for Democrats because while they might not be as horrible as Donald Trump, there is still too much wrong with them for me to support them. I get called a Tankie bot whether I don’t vote or I vote third-party so fuck the DNC

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  • [+] -1 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Participating in an election means you are agreeing to abide by the outcome of the election. By not participating you are protesting and saying I not recognise the legitimacy of this process.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago*

    Wrong. The act of living in the USA at all is agreeing to recognise their laws and processes and outcomes of elections. You sound like one of those sovereign citizens that think they can get out of arrest/court/prison by "not consenting" to it.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Correct. This is a major problem. The point is that it wasn't made by the people, and the few of us who understand how problematic it is can't simply make a new party and have it be successful. That doesn't fix the two party system. America is a shit show, but some of us are doing what we can, and that isn't enough but that's not our faults.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Exactly, so why are you blaming people if its not our faults? You are the one debating in defense of blaming people, voters, and non voters alike.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I'm not doing that. That's not what's happening. If you interpreted it that way, that is unfortunate. However, I am not, in fact, blaming people. Non voters couldn't have fixed this. Voters couldn't have fixed this. No one is being blamed. Except I'm kind of blaming you for not understanding what I said. But only kind of, and mostly as a joke.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I wonder how many of those were Russian bots

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think Lemmy was really big enough to have THAT many bots. And at least of the ones I saw, if they were bots they're doing an incredibly good job of making them blend, since many had a history of generally normal commenting before that time, and have continued posting normally since.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Previously I thought almost all of them were, but then I found out that someone I've known for years hold that view. Any mention that maybe voting for the democrats would be a good idea results in an angry speech about genocide; which somehow (I'm not sure how) even has them lean towards Trump.

    I appreciate the staunch opposition to genocide. But its kind of weird to see someone take a single issue so strongly to heart that their reasoning ends up inverted such that the candidate they favour is worse even on their one issue.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That reminds me, I wonder what @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world is up to these days.

    Paging @linkerbaan@lemmy.ml.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    8000 comments in 9 months, dead silent shortly after the election. (World, .ml is more active now)

    Jesus.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    @irreticent@lemmy.zip

    The Lemmy.World mods permabanned and removed my account after I made a detailled posed exposing them for being massive Zionists in one of my posts on yepowetrippingbastards which got removed by db0. (A powetripping bastard. Ironic).

    I am a lot less active since the trifecta of libs (db0, .world and blahaj) instantly ban my accounts. As soon as this was created I made a post about the Lemmy.world mods going on a Zionist power trip and removing my account and db0's response was to ban this account as well and censor the whole ordeal.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The DNC are Nazis that just focus on different issues

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    We all know opinions are like assholes, but this one wasn't even wiped

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The lesser of two evils is still evil

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The argument was more charmingly made by Geralt of Rivia, but the only potion you've got is Flavor Aid.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I love the quote by Victor Saltzpyre in Vermintide 2:

    "Do not be tempted to compare evils, lest you be tempted to cleave with the least of them!"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I swear I saw lots of "Genocide Joe" people around before the election so there must be some overlap of at least bots.. now where are these ppl when it comes to Trump's beach resort proposal of ethnic cleansing?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Honestly I'm just scared. I tried the civil way and voted and protested and went to marches and told everyone I knew. But now I'm just scared, it seems like the only option left is action of a violent nature and I don't know if I'm mentally prepared to throw my life away in prison or dead to try and stop the fascism. I know I have guns and if it tries to take me from my home I won't go down quietly, but I'm just scared to make the first move only to end up a martyr.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Boy, you really told those rednecks who have no idea how to use the internet outside of Facebook! I'll bet they won't make that mistake again!

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