“He was only stabbed 23 times on the floor of the senate. We need to move on … and then finish wiping up the floor.”
If the past is any indicator of the future then we can expect the next four years to be non-stop Trump posting.
If trump would stop being a weird fascist people would stop talking about him, just saying…
Please no…
Sensible Erection (reddit precursor) had to spin off a-whole-nother site, Sensible Election for the '04 (I think?) election and aftermath.
I think we need mods to step up and enforce no politics rules
If they mods are promoting politics it is time to move on.
Every board is a politics board … Forever…
“Can we just get over the fact that your foot is blown off? It’s bumming me out.”
No
When has apathy ever backfired though??
When 15 million voters who could have swayed the election said “fuck it”. 15 million voters who voted democrat in 2020, that is.
That’s what I was getting at ;)
I’m not sure what apathy is and I don’t care!
Ironic! This post is a direct violation of rule 2. No politics.
If you haven’t noticed that’s all of Lemmy. This is the last post I will make that is political related.
Maybe delete it since it violates the rules anyway? Should help with your issues with political posts everywhere also.
Nah dog
It’s your post, dog. If you’ll like it to serve as an example of the very thing you’re here to complain about-
I’m not going to stand in your way.
I saw this post earlier and figured it was more of a meta post about discussions on Lemmy rather than a political post itself, but the thread is getting too heated for a meme community, and I’m going to lock.
That rule clearly isn’t being enforced at all, have you seen the state of this place?
So. It’s okay to break them if there’s no one that will enforce them……
Hmmm, that certainly sounds familiar.
Those who choose to abstain from politics submit to being ruled by their inferiors.
Or maybe I just don’t see the point of all this. The election is over and there is nothing that can be done if you fear Trump. Most Americans supported him so clearly thats what the majority wants for better or for worse.
“Submit and get over it!” 🤡
Ask us again in four years… I fucking hope.
This election is likely going to be looked back on as the point when things became completely untenable in the 21st century. The American empire will implode, billions will suffer, the climate emergency will accelerate to maximum, and geopolitical dynamics will become incredibly unstable. Shit is about to go fully awry. This was it, and the people who are already bored about it have played no small part in getting us here.
After 10 years, there will be no megafauna looking back at anything. We extincted ourselves and the planet. By far the stupidest species is us, and the IQ test was whether we could just not kill ourselves with our own waste. There’s a species of insect in Africa that’s lived on 1 rock for thousands of years and they are smarter than us in this regard.
We passed 7 of 9 planetary boundaries. We don’t talk about this or even the possible election interference that occurred because our media and journalism is broken. I can see personal videos on people’s personal accounts of the flooding in Spain, yet media in the US is failing to report extensively on this especially as a climate disaster. People literally believe that the government controls the weather before they believe that climate change is real (and please make sure to attribute all the increasingly bad disasters under Trump to him specifically).
I have had conversations about why basic rights are necessary. Conversations where I’m citing the fucking constitution and posting videos of speeches from the fucking 60s. I have to explain why ableism is bad.
Fascism is, frankly, part of the human collective psyche. It’s akin to an autoimmune response, so much so that there’s biochemical markers* in common with both states. The only way to calm down fascism is either let it eat itself (aka lots of death), or to be a collective anti-inflammatory. This means looking at things like Buddhist ideals of detachment and peace, Muslim ideals of charity (they invented the first hospitals which were free), Christian ideals of gathering together. Soothe and redirect (like a toddler) people who engage in inflammatory and violent speech. Win people over (being othering and exclusive is inflammatory - saying you can’t stand Trump voters is inflammatory and part of why those Trump people like Trump and Christianity - they include the deplorables).
And btw if political structures are akin to lymphatic system, journalism and communications are our nervous system. Just like in the body, one can attack and modify the other - our autoimmune response has severely damaged our nervous system and we kinda have the societal equivalent of relearning from a stroke in some ways.
*So much so that often a key dogwhistle for fascist speech is othering someone by calling them a tumor, parasite, cancer. Biochemicals responsible - low oxytocin (which is why they are pedophiles), histamine, mast cells, cortisol draining. See the undereye wasting of people in high stress including that little boy who was lost in the woods and in meth addicts
Oh good grief.
Yeah, it’s dramatic nonsense to assume Trump will do what he and his party said he’ll do.
…
Do I need this? /s
It may not surprise you that the person you responded to was a hard defender of banned troll universalmonk.
I’m happy to not know who that is :-) it means my filters are working.
Nice. They were a troll who started an account 2 months before the election and began immediately flooding lemmy with an average of 82 posts/comments each day. Just about everything they posted was encouraging people to vote third party.
After piles of complaints, the account was finally banned two weeks ago. Besides shilling for Stein, they also were a prolific sealion, knowing exactly how to piss everyone off to the greatest extent while “not breaking rules” (they absolutely broke the rule against trolling, constantly). Mods pretended this was simply a matter of a “shitty opinion” but when the outcry reached its climax, they finally banned the fuck.
Ahhh. I hope they were at least paid for that kind of effort. Otherwise, that’s a sad existence.
You think I’m being melodramatic? Historians make careers on turning points like this. We can never know exactly what will happen next, but we can at least be sure that normality is not on the menu.
My guess is that when asked if we could stop talking about it for a bit, you decide to multi-post your theses.
No one is arguing against you, just read the room before you spam it.
That ain’t me, I barely post… Though I do sometimes say too much.
A lot more ink is going to be spilled on this as it unfolds, and that too is what the people voted for - drama.
Not me. Anyways, I’m going to find another community.
Don’t let the door hit you
Normality has been off the menu for a decade or so, sunshine.
nice apathy + username combination
don’t worry- things have been stable since mcdonalds! nothing can change, just ask Turkey
Ngl seeing the American left wing bubble burst is wild and entertaining. I mean, I would never want Trump to be elected but people have gotten a huge reality check of what sort of online environment they were exposed to.
Ngl, seeing the naivete and ignorance about what just happened is wild and entertaining.
It is crazy to me all the things I’ve heard people just casualty say. There are people who straight up think he is going to start creating death camps.
He might not create policies you like but he is the president not a fascist dictator from WWII
Right? It’s insane.
I’m hoping this will blow over in a bit
I have NEVER wanted to be wrong more than in this very instant… but I’ve also never been more scared that we’re all right: Hitler 2.0 is about to make life suck for 99% of the population of the planet.
His ex wife, who he possibly murdered, said under oath he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches on his bedside table. He may not be Hitler, but he’s emulating him as close as possible. He will kill the entire planet. AMOC collapse is underway. We are all actively dead now. Good luck.
Read up, bud;
He literally promised to create concentration camps.
He is also a known liar, and I personally believe he’ll deliver that one partially to a small ratio that is still horrible but too small to count as the promise. But I can’t really fault people from fearing it’s not a lie.
You don’t understand he said this will be the last election. That’s obviously one of the few truths out of his mouth among the millions of lies.
No we need at least a weeo to fling shit and jump off the walls.
More like this…
No.
There’s no moving on from this, it’s the last peaceful election we are gonna get.
The idiots trying to downplay this are going to be very suprised in 3-4 years when they get drafted so the Republicans can declare martial law and stay in power for life
Who’s we? I’m not even in the same hemisphere as the dumpster fire that is the USA.
Sounds pretty fucking privileged that you even have the option of moving on from the topic
I haven’t seen anything productive in any of the conversations about it I’ve looked at. Just fingerpointing at who’s to blame. It’s pointless to argue now.
You might be right, but sometimes we sort through things by saying the wrong things first.
It is pretty easy to do. You just move on.
Well you can be cold and dissociated from reality, but the rest of us get to feel our feelings too. Why don’t you just move on that we aren’t moving on? Why don’t you just, idk, shut up, since you are all for shutting up? Lead by example.
I’ll just move on to better communities. End of the world memes are getting old.
Just curious, what if it turns out that you’re wrong? What will you end up doing?
I’m not but we can cross that bridge when we get there.
Maybe I’ll bookmark this comment so see where we are in 4 years
Lol will we have internet in 4 years?
No. You’ll be and so will we.
What an awful thing to say.
I guess we know (if they live in the US) what they didn’t do on tuesday.
Kinda hard to ‘move on’ while watching other people across the pond lose their human rights and possibly getting invaded by Russia myself.
We will have to see what happens. Hopeful Trump will mean with Putin right away.
If not he is prepared to sign off on more aid.
and do what? carry on like nothing changes for worse? yknow, plain water is better for you than koolaid
No no no, why would we want to MOVE on from this 🧐👆. I MUST voice out my DISSATISFACTION with this election’s results 😤🇺🇸 even in NOn political spaces 💪 in the process shrouding other content that has nothing to do with it👏. I must also make it known to NON AMERICANS just how much this affects them as well 😔😔 because AMERICA 🇺🇸😤🦅 is the CENTER OF THE WORLD.
RAHHHH!! WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅👮🔫🔫🔫🔫🙍🏿♂️
this, but unironically. Largest economy in the world, largest military in the world, and we just handed it to a giant toddler who thinks I should be tortured and killed for being gay. If you think you won’t be affected, then you’re as stupid as I am for thinking this country had a chance.
What a narcissistic thing to say: “oH, We HavE tHe LArGeST EConOMy, mILItaRY, and blah blah blah”. There are many countries in the world that have dealt with serious problems before Trump was ever elected, would have still dealt with those problems if Kamala won the election, and will continue to face these problems after Trump’s term.
You’re speaking from your high seat of privilege ignorant of the happenings in other places. What gives you the right to tell me how my life is going to be affected because of this. Like Kamala was some fucking Messiah that would have rid the world of all its problems.
Get off your high horse man. There are places that have been shitty before you were ever born, and will be shitty after your death.
I will not apologize for offending you with facts. Also, try reading my comment again and respond to what I actually said, instead of what you think I said.
Save your breath. We exist in the rarified space that is “aware-American” that GwammarPowice can’t acknowledge because MericaBad. The immediate future looks grim.
They do the same thing tankies do. At some point it is necessary to touch grass. (or snow)
Sure!
So how about this climate change huh? Ecological collapse in just a couple of decades from what I hear. And really no one with significant power anywhere doing anything but speeding it up.
Discuss.
