The American electorate is stunningly stupid and disconnected from reality. Look up some of the trending Google searches on election day, they're stupider than you think

Yes: the guy who banned Muslims from entering the US on his previous term will end the war and bring peace to the Middle East.

monkey’s paw curls

palestinians are thoroughly genocided and Gaza + West Bank + other lebensraum in the area have all structures reduced to grade #7 gravel

That is also technically peace, in that there is no more fighting. It’s just a really bad one.

Truly, the gullibility of some people simply beggars belief.

Wait wait, I remember a guy who was constantly arguing and berating everyone about how Biden was just the worst Satan reincarnation or some shit and how we all needed to band together against both him and Harris. Oooh @HomerianSymphony , you still around, bud?

We'd like an interview.

I voted for Harris. I voted for Biden. I voted for Clinton.

I still wouldn’t warn a single one of them if they were about to get hit by a bus.

American Democracy in a nutshell. You get two choices, they're both awful for different reasons. One of them wants to see you executed for your religious beliefs/sexual preferences/nation of origin. The other is continent to sell bunker buster bombs to some raving psychotic mass murderers overseas. Nobody is going to do shit about climate change, though, so we're all on the clock in the long run.

Its harm reduction.

It increasingly feels like the closest thing to harm reduction the US achieved was the time Trump fucked up his COVID response and a bunch of his senior leadership choked to death on their own lung fluid.

Harm reduction is bad?

Obviously, it's not ideal, but one has to act according to the real life conditions... And in 2024, our only two options were "harm reduction," and literal fascism with literal concentration camps.

Fuck you if you didn't choose harm reduction.

HE SAID HE WAS GONNA

Well, when you completely crush a region, what comes after could be called peace, I guess.

Moscow. Same place they've always been. Just a lot less work to do now.

I mean Trump said what he has to say about Gaza. He supports Israel. This was before the election too. They have no excuse.

I guess you could argue that total eradication of anyone that Israel hates will bring peace so they were sorta right

I voted for the Westboro Baptist church because I'm a transwoman dating a cisman and I imagine that putting them in a position of power over me can only go well. /s

I love how you are being downvoted without anyone actually providing a counter point. Because you are absolutely right.

Leading up to the election lemmy was flooded with Palestine bullshit and Genocide Joe, and people that suggested it's a war started by fucking Israel and you should be boycotting them were downvoted.

A lot of people here got swept up in the propaganda, and it was painful to see how dumb my side can be, but here we are.

Orange man is coming and suddenly no-one is posting about Palestine and every thread I'm in doesn't have people screeching genocide Joe.

I'm fully convinced lemmy was flooded with foreign assets spreading bullshit and hurting democratic turnout.

It's painful to see how effective it was, an an issue so ridiculous I couldn't have believed it if it was in a book. Country X, with president Y attacks Z, and idiots here are screaming at county U with president J......