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ya, but did she really flip burgers...? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/agedlikemilk@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 30 points 8 months ago (152 children)

Yeah but she loved the genoside, that’s why we have to have utter incompetent apocalypse every goddamned day for three more years.

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  • [–] 65 points 8 months ago (99 children)

    and also still have the same genocide happening, plus even more acts of war to boot

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (98 children)

    I'd argue a worse genocide.

    Dems were stuck on "but but Israel is an ally" and tried to gently suggest that they stop. But Biden did take some action. The US even built a port to send in aid. Now obviously we had the power to stop sending Israel money and supporting them. That's where they failed.

    Trump however just said good work and keep it up. He's encouraged Israel to go faster and joked about how great the strip will be once it's freely developed real estate.

    So yeah, one of these is clearly a worse option

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago*

    And the wholesale destruction of USAID and PEPFAR means people are simultaneously starving to death in chunks of the world, not getting vaccines, and also not getting HIV prevention meds, which means long term, HIV infection is going to increase worldwide over time. That is going to be a massive, silent genocide that will be orders of magnitude worse, but largely undocumented.

    That was a serious, serious fuckup on voters parts. Not to mention massive cuts to everyday things like critical medical R&D, science R&D, disaster preparedness, NASA, department of education, PBS and Corp for public broadcasting, department of health, FDA + food safety programs, and many other programs that people take for granted without thinking (housing grants for home buying, federal student loans, food stamps, weather prediction for natural disasters, Medicare/ACA/Medicaid, etc)

    His cuts to the IRS are going to result in less money for shit like bridges, roads, and electrical grids too.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Doesn't matter.

    The people who voted 3rd party or didn't vote because they were mad about Israel only ever cared about their own personal feelings. If they actually gave a shit about Palestine, they would have made the decision that hurt them the least. That's not what they did.

    It was all about their own satisfaction.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (43 children)

    Purists couldn't vote for the lesser of two evils. The choice was: vote for genocide or vote for genocide+even more horrible shit. Somehow genocide+even more horrible shit seemed more appealing.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    There was this whole argument that vote for genocide or vote for genocide+even more horrible shit was going to turn people off from voting. We now know that definitely happened. Letting that choice run was a pretty guaranteed losing strategy. Anyone with knowledge of American electoral politics knows voter turnoff = Democratic Loss, Republican Victory.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Instead we resumed the sale of 2000 pound bombs to Israel and found some new countries to bomb. That and the population of Gaza is still dying just after the election the bots seemed to stop caring.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    3 more years

    If he doesn't erode the government intuitions critical to elections

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    If he doesn’t erode the government intuitions critical to elections

    Oh that's a guarantee. That WILL happen.

    Not once in history has a fascist regime given up power without the use of force being applied to them.

    Donald Trump and various members of his admin have committed enough actual crimes/atrocities that come 2028 they will have to decide between the very real possibility of spending their lives in prison (or worse) or doing everything in their power to keep the regime in power. We already know what kind of people they are. We already know what their decision will be. And so do they.

    Martial law WILL be enacted. An attempt to defer, or outright cancel, the election WILL be made. These things are guaranteed to happen. Hope everyone is preparing themselves.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    while nihilism is satisfying to engage with you kinda just have to play with what you got and try to make the best of a terrible situation and feeding your feelings of doom won't help you get there

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    It's not just doom. It's fact.

    They WILL erode our electoral institutions. They WILL make a play to permanently stay in power.

    All existing facts indicate this will happen.

    So it's less doom, and more a warning to prepare.

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