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These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,... whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 74 points 23 hours ago

And the thing is: Trump is not a clever man. In fact, he's blantantly, obviously, ferociously stupid. He didn't just appear out of nowhere. The rest of us have been watching this dog eat grass for the last 50 years.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 43 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The best part will be if he wins, those in power will just sit around with their thumbs up their butts waiting for fascism to take over on Jan. 20th.

EDIT: It's thumbs up their butts time for 2 and a half months.

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[-] index@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 day ago

People around the world already live in terror of what USA government may do to them

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[-] rsuri@lemmy.world -4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Ok everyone chill. Yeah, it sucks. But we kinda foresaw this ever since Biden decided to run again. Take a deep breath, think about it more later. The worst thing is to be angry instead of smart. Remember George Floyd. Remember specifically how everyone got angry and did dumb things about it, and today efforts at police reform are actually in a worse place than they were before he was murdered on video.

Think about ways to counter Trump that will be more effective and less just expressions of rage. I think the biggest problem is the media that really plays to Trump's reality TV-style politics. It's not enough to wine that the voters are too stupid, but what do we do about it?

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[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 89 points 1 day ago

Of the Dems win and they don't put a boot on the neck of this fascist movement it will take over eventually.

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.world -2 points 8 hours ago

Dems are chasing Repubs, so either party winning won't really change this fact.

With Dems we're delaying this outcome. With Repubs we're accelerating it.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 39 points 1 day ago

But that would require them to reign in the very same companies that sponsor them. One can hope, but it seems unlikely.

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[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Us on the left need to stop depending on a government whose military is overwhelmingly in support of Trump. We already know nearly all police are the same fascists (not to mention uvalde)

Arm yourself and train your family. Be silently ready for anything, don't make yourself a target

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

Top brass seem to swing the other way though. These are generations that tangled with Russia and china for decades now. They see much more behind the curtain than others do.

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 10 points 21 hours ago

If the US military was overwhelmingly in support of Trump Jan 6 would have gone completely differently.

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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

Also, vote if you haven't yet.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

I don't think I can

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 19 points 1 day ago

Yep, already dropped of my mail-in ballot in person and received an email from the county election supervisor that my vote counted 🤠

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[-] SlothMama@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

American propaganda is wild.

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[-] card797@champserver.net 194 points 1 day ago

Like. Did people forget how insane everyday was when he was President? Like you never knew what was gonna happen he was always wanting the attention.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

"There's a horse. In the hospital."

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 99 points 1 day ago

I'm just going to keep riding this horse until it fucking dies but the very first thing he did was take everything Obama did during his presidency and throw it out the window, including the pandemic playbook.

That playbook would have given us step by step instructions and reactions to deal with any type of suddenly erupting national pandemic like Ebola or coronavirus.

And because of this, which was by all measures a racially motivated attack on Obama, more than 1 million Americans died in a badly managed pandemic.

Trump's racism killed a million Americans.

It undoubtedly exacerbated the problem for the entire world and his total kill count is likely much more than that.

How can you let somebody who genocided millions of people through racism sit in the oval office?

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Not if you're a wage earner, sadly.

[-] Jeredin@lemm.ee 172 points 1 day ago

I just hope if he loses, it’s by a wide margin so there’s no challenge. Just decisive victory and we can all move on….

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 145 points 1 day ago

Don’t underestimate their tactic. For the republican presidential campaign, they will recognize only one of two outcomes: victory, or election tampering/fraud/manipulation. And, the wider the margin of win, the stronger the rhetoric will be.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Trump insisted he won the popular vote in 2016. That was him setting this whole thing up.

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