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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/statecraft@lemmy.cafe

It appears Trump is going to be the next president of US. I'm not sure such a thread is needed in the first place, but here goes.

Feeling anxious? Desperate? Got the expected result?

What do you think went wrong? What do you think went right? What do you think the future holds?

EDIT: it's official - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/us/results

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I got the news right before bed, so I didn't sleep. As the cool headed one in my family, I'm having to give pep talks to folks who are genuinely very frightened but there isn't really anyone to do the same for me--- plus, being more informed than my family, I'm also the most likely to actually know how fucked we are.

This isn't a great morning and I still have to teach a class later at an all women's university.

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If it makes you feel better, the one genuine silver lining I’ve found is my family in the military say that the odds of these chucklefucks getting full military support is very unlikely.

But is such a small silver lining…

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's only good for the threat of him trying to use the military on his own people. Small silver lining indeed.

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

We’re all (earth) gonna get all the ugly that happened 100 years ago on the nose and everyone who voted for trump or didn’t vote at all will wonder why. Market crash Ww3 Interment camps Greatest depression

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

An uninhabitable planet.

[-] Alice@beehaw.org 18 points 1 day ago

I've hated this entire election year because the MAGAs are riled up and I've been getting harassment for masking, being vaxxed, and (apparently) looking queer.

(I am queer, but I went back to presenting as a cishet woman ages ago. I don't know what their deal is)

Yesterday a guy came into work with a confederate flag tattooed across his scalp. They might as well scream everywhere they go that they support slavery.

I'd love to get on T while it's still legal but the only gender clinic nearby got set on fire.

I think it's only going to get worse now that they're emboldened. Their hatred has once again been rewarded.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.cafe 22 points 1 day ago

Not American. Sorry for you guys

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[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 day ago

Feeling like Kassandra. All the data showed that this was a possible scenario but both far-leftists and libs thought it was over-reacting.

[-] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 day ago

feeling like Cassandra for having correctly predicted a 50/50 call where everybody knew it could go both ways

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[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Huh? Leftists were telling everyone harris campaign was trash... Stop with this nonsense.

We'll be here helping manage the shit show thats going to follow.

[-] Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 1 day ago

But you also didn’t offer a constructive alternative to a Trump presidency.

I know you’re all on your anti-genocide high horse by abstaining from the vote, but the silence from the far left has allowed the exact same genocide to continue in Gaza, along with the potential genocide of minority groups in your own country.

So, bravo. As a leftist myself, I hope you feel the brunt of this presidency more than those who tried to fight it.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My state went for harris as i said it would. Ive said repeatedly harris' campaign was horrible due to its lack of populist labor policies etc. but yes, the genocide and complete shutdown of student protestors was a massive issue.

I didnt bury my head in the sand. Now what are you going to be doing these next 4 years to fix this? I know what ill be doing.

There was no constructive alternative to offer. Trying to brow beat people to harris wouldn't work and the dunces for harris wouldn't hear anything. Not even an ask to stop a fucking genocide. Get it now? People wouldn't even hear a simple call to stop fucking mass murdering people. Never mind anything more nuanced.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah. Plenty of anti-electoralists/accelerationists were happy to spread propaganda to help Trump. Now, as a far-leftist that doesn't buy that tripe, I'm gonna have to try to help people whose lives are now in far greater danger while they get off on their "moral superiority". Those people and Stein supporters can go fuck themselves while the grown-ups try to save people from the intended death camps.

EDIT: I didn't mean "regular" leftists like progressives and anarchists.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

laugh go look at the numbers stein did jack shit. Keep burying your head in the sand.

Pennsylvania:

You refused to hear a call to stop a genocide you think you would have down anything remotely useful to shift harris on things like labor rights, healthcare, non competes, and monopoly busting ala khan?

Your problem was turnout. And you wouldnt even hear the call to save Wisconsin for harris. Probably the only state where 3rd party candidates did matter.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

Your problem was turnout.

Turnout always is the problem. The anti-Harris propaganda was intended to discourage voters, and it worked. Congrats.

And you wouldnt even hear the call to save Wisconsin for harris. Probably the only state where 3rd party candidates did matter.

No "you" here. I'm a pragmatic voter and anarchist who in the course of a day has gone to an extremely high chance of losing loved ones through state-sponsored murder, political violence, and suicide. So, you'll excuse me if I don't give a fuck about the pretend "moral high-ground" of those claiming to care about genocide while putting their fingers on the scale for "turbo genocide", greater inaccessibility to health care, more monopolies, and more union busting.

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