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[-] hydration6148@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago

I'm from the other side of the world, and when I was a kid, we were taught the story of Abraham Lincoln in school... how he never gave up. Lincoln grew up poor, his business failed, his wife died, and he lost elections again and again. But finally, he became the president. So, what lesson do we learn from this, kids? - like that.

Now it feels like we’ll be teaching kids about Trump—34 felony counts, 6 bankruptcies, 2 impeachments, 1 violent insurrection, and a couple dozen rape accusations... but hey, he didn’t give up either! xD

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

As an aside how was the fact he used to fight bears for fun not in a school book? You want engagement tell them Abraham Lincoln used to drop haymakers on bears for fun.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago

i don't think posts about him are appropriate here. the kind of dystopia wants to bring is not the boring kind. it's straight up cartoonish shit, like the government from v for vendetta

[-] MrSilkworm@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

A few thousand years ago the ancient Greeks said:

"δὶς ἐξαμαρτεῖν οὐκ ἀνδρὸς σοφοῦ".

Roughly meaning: A wise person doesn't make the same mistake twise.

But again some people keep doing it

[-] aisteru@lemmy.aisteru.ch 13 points 18 hours ago

I think you're understanding it the wrong way. It does say "A wise person"

[-] don@lemm.ee 20 points 22 hours ago

Those of us who gave it our all don’t deserve this.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What devil has this guy made a deal with? No matter how stupid, obnoxious or abrasive he is, people worship him. He constantly screws himself over and then before he has to face serious consequences he trips on a rock and somehow everything's alright again for him. At this point he literally can shoot someone on 6th Avenue and get away of it. I think Trump is solid evidence that we're living in a simulation and somebody is fucking with us, because life just doesn't work the way it works for him. Somebody's thumb is on the scale.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 21 points 22 hours ago

The day after he was convicted on his 30+ felonies, he had the biggest donation day of any politician in US history, probably Human history. Jeff Bezos prevented any news outlet he owned of endorsing Harris, Elon Musk Did a million dollar raffle for Trump voters. They DO NOT WANT to pay taxes, and they DO NOT want to pay people who make their money. That's all this has ever been, and they know Trump would fuck his mothers corpse for a nickle and will absolutely shift the tax burden to the poor and middle class as hard as he can, and he has a majority in the legislature, and full stop OWNS the most extreme and corrupt Supreme Court we've ever seen, and he will stack it even higher this term. It is a GREAT time to be a corrupt politician in America, no one is going to taste a single consequence for this fuckery.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

What devil has this guy made a deal with?

He cut a Faustian Bargain with the soul of America. And like Faust, he gets to spend his days capering and clowning about his social superiors, making unholy mischief in a kingdom that is itself revealed to be terminally corrupt and wholely damned.

Trump took the Objectivist philosophy that's guided this country for a generation and embodied it. He is Reaganism in its manifest state. Just a guy entirely out for himself who has convinced 71M other people to do the same.

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[-] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Time and time again I remember this meme

Basically democracy is government after the people, by the people, for the people . . . but people are retarded . . .

[-] blazera@lemmy.world 136 points 1 day ago

It's 80 degrees in November. America has reelected a climate change denier. SUV sales continue to rise.

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[-] bazingabot@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

There is a saying...

Make a mistake once and you can call it learning, make a mistake twice and you are eh... not so smart

Americans need education.

[-] Minnels@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

And you know what? They will probably get less of that now. Yay!

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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

Is it too early to start talking about the abysmal failure of the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" strategy?

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Lets discuss the "we're really Republicans, so you Republicans should really vote Harris who will now ignore all leftists who intended to vote for her until they feel like shit and stay home instead of electing her!" strategy Harris tried to use just like Hillary tried to use that also entirely fucked up her voter base because the Dems DON'T want to vote for a Republican in disguise, and SHOCK the Republicans DO NOT CARE if you are 100% identical to their candidate, or ever MORE of a Republican than their candidate they are playing sport politics, they would elect a child molester, convicted felon, calling for ethnic cleansing, and removing all human rights of Women, they DON"T FUCKING CARE! They have no idea what politics, policy, or governance even is, they just want to WIN! Go RED Team!!

[-] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

Note that the strategy of courting conservatives didn't move the needle even an inch. She got the exact same percentage of votes from registered republicans as Biden did. And yet Democrats are already busy setting up the narrative how this is the fault of unelectable left-wing politics (lmao) and they need to move even further right. It's sickening.

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[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 309 points 1 day ago

Literally in a car with an immigrant right now who voted Trump because things were cheaper before covid.

FFS.

[-] DerArzt@lemmy.world 190 points 1 day ago

Anecdotal evidence that the right is for the uneducated.

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 104 points 1 day ago

Anecdotally... About 75% of the right that I know/met.

The other 25% is a mix of racism, greed, and conspiracy theory.

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[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago

So sad that dumbasses who think the President controls grocery store prices and gas prices have done this to us all.

I voted for Harris and my state went red for Trump as usual. Just sad and disgusted at it all today.

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[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 208 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So guilliani is gonna be bailed out, Vince McMahon is gonna get a pardon too, same with Elon for whatever he wants to do, and pretty much every evil billionaire out there. I also think Trump has no interest in governing, and this administration will be Vance and his project 25 people running the show

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[-] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 day ago

Shithole country.

[-] vordalack@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago

Biden must be laughing his ass off right now. Should have let the old guy run. Turns out no one really cared about the presidents age.

[-] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

The old guy should have never run for a second term so we could have had a chance at an actual full dedemocratic campaign out of someone.

[-] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 11 points 23 hours ago

Or just let any white man run. I’m sad to say it but this country hates women and it hates people of color.

[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 178 points 1 day ago

Fuck this shit

[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 62 points 1 day ago

The entire rest of the world needs to be on watch, trump is a potential threat to other countries

FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN AMERICA GET THE FUCK OUT NOW

[-] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 98 points 1 day ago

Lol and go where? From what I can tell, Canada has a housing crisis and is tilting right. Western Europe is already getting sick of immigrants and dealing with the far right.

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 day ago

You realize that unless you have a second citizenship it's not easy to just up and leave for another country?

[-] RawrGuthlaf@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago

Even that isn't enough unless you have a lot of money laying around and some kind of support network in whatever country you plan to escape to.

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[-] Zimroxo@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago

I can't even afford to live HERE, in the country I was born and raised in. How do you expect me to move somewhere else and gain citizenship there?

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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago

What is so fucked that the US isn't an anomaly. Authoritarianism has been on the rise since the 90s and we don't really have any more true democracies. The crazy right-wing jackasses that people back in 2000 and 2005 thought were just kooks and nutjobs are now 100% mainstream and they're taking over their respective countries... We are not in a good place.

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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago

Diabetes, please do your job.

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago

I have to remind myself that the only silver lining of being Californian and unable to really effect this outcome of this race is that we're also least likely to pay any personal consequences. Still bad, but I feel for people in states with less protections for LGBTQ and immigrants, and especially for people in countries that are completely fucked right now unless something crazy happens.

I know already that my state and several other blue states have been working on a contingency plan ever since Biden looked like a certain loss, months back. Then again, might make little difference if he goes full fascist, but a silver lining is a silver lining none the less.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Over here in Florida where they're banning books and censoring LGBT from schools. All my family (besides my parents and siblings) are Republicans and are actively voting to the person who is trying to legalize murdering me (trans, closeted) 🙃
My teacher is also an anti masker.
Send help pls.

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