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  • aubertlone@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I think I’m just trying to convince myself…

    But it’s not over yet. Lots of votes to be counted still

    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Don’t give yourself false hope on the Presidential. It’s terribly unlikely.

      Our best hope is the house stays blue and they can be a roadblock for the next two years until the midterms, which is likely what happens.

      It’s going to be a tiring two years until midterms and four years until we can get rid of him. We’re going to have to fight tooth and nail to keep our rights and freedoms, but we can do it. I can only hope America wakes up once again from the nightmare.

      • fcSolar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I mean, there’s also hope, however slim, that Biden and Harris say “Fuck no, Trump will not be president again” and exercise some raw power to keep Trump out, or for Harris to engage in the same kind of legal fuckery Trump did. But, of course, Democrats are spineless by nature so neither of those things going to happen in all likelyhood.

        E: forgot a space

        • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          16 days ago

          I’m physically ill by this result, but this isn’t an option. You can’t save democracy by discarding democracy.

          Trump could do it because he’s a fascist - he wants to discard democracy. A healthy system would have checked him not just then, but barred him from running again. We haven’t had a healthy system in a long time.

          • fcSolar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            16 days ago

            This is a pretty naive take. The remaining dregs that passed for democracy here were extinguished a few hours ago. There’s nothing even resembling a democracy left here. The only elections we’ll have now will be show elections, if even that. Therefore, definitionally, we can no longer save democracy through democracy.

            But if I’m being honest saving democracy in the US isn’t really all that high up on my list of priorities at this point. We’re facing down an exacerbated Gaza genocide, another in Ukraine, then Moldova, and domestically, the genocide LGBT people in general, and trans women in particular. Not to mention the inevitable murder of Trump’s political opponents and journalists critical of his regime. We’re pretty firmly into the “any means necessary” zone.

            E: minor word choice change to reduce repetition.

            E2: Fix typos and spelling errors

            • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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              16 days ago

              Look I’m desperate for some cope right now, but the best the left has ever been was in resisting Trump in the streets from 2016 to 2020.

              The issue was that after four tiring years of struggle, we handed responsibility over to the electoral process. And as is tradition, the Democrats fucking blew it.

              Build back better? what a fucking joke. Pass literally any bill that makes a material impact to people’s lives and this election result doesn’t happen.

            • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              16 days ago

              Egos as big as Elon, Trump, RFK Jr. and others cannot work together for long.

              The infighting will absolutely happen. The reigns of power only allow one grifter to be king above all others.

              The Republican Party now needs to reward Crypto, Tech, Military-Industrial complex, Trump’s teams, Religious vote and more. It’s easier to keep unified before you have power, but inevitably now that the Democrats are defeated… Their egotistical selves are setting their eyes onto their next prizes.

              They will be satisfied with various positions of power for a few months at best. RFK Jr. Really doesn’t want to run the CDC, Musk doesn’t want to make the bureaucracy efficient. They will grow bored of their positions.