Being a minority and or voting liberal

Yeah, usually they’re openly fucking children.

It’s not just that. Demonizing minorities creates a boogie man fascists can point to and say “This the terror that only I can save you from”, and scare dipshits into becoming their followers.

The Electoral College was supposed to be one protection against that

Instead, it only enabled it!

I haven’t noticed until you just now pointed it out. It feels so insidious.

Well, most of us don’t actually get to vote. Technically we can, but if you don’t live in one of 7 swing states your votes straight up doesn’t matter. That’s why we tend to have such low election. Turnouts, voter suppression is built into the system. Something none of us chose, because the system has been in place longer than any of us have been alive.

To make it worse or educational system has been slowly getting dismantled for generations. That makes huge swaths of our population a lot easier to manipulate. Again, something that has been going on for longer than any of us have been alive.

" Why don’t you just protest, or riot?" You might ask. And we do, unfortunately America is fucking huge. This isn’t like trying to organize a protest in most European countries. It’s an enormous organizational challenge. And if you start succeeding at that organizational challenge, there’s a decent chance you’ll get disappeared by the CIA. It doesn’t help that we have an incredibly militarized police force. It’s just salivating at the idea of arresting or beating the shit out of protesters. Go back and look at videos of the George Floyd protests if you’d like some examples. Again, This is a ball that’s been rolling longer than any of us have been alive.

Not to mention, I don’t know if you remember this, but ever since elect Trump’s first presidency there have been dozens upon dozens of Republicans who got caught attempting to rig elections. If you think that all just suddenly stopped the 2024 election, you’re being willfully stupid.

And yeah, there are definitely Trump supporters here. And I agree: that minority of Americans absolutely deserve what’s coming to them. But what about the rest of us? What about all the people who did vote against the fascist? All of the people risking life and limb to protest? All the children who unlucky enough to get born here? All the queer people, AFAB people, and POC getting our rights stripped from us? Do we deserve this collective punishment just because a bunch of hateful dipshits want us to suffer?

You’re using the same line of reasoning that ends in Palestinian toddlers labeled as “Hamas terrorists”

I can tell you’re a good, empathetic person from how you blame victims for their own suffering. Keep up the good fight, comrade! /S

Yeah. He better be careful. He might get slammed next!

Damn, so many ways to criticize Republicans and this is the best you can come up with is “hehe, women are sexdolls”. Pathetic.

Many of those people who could’ve voted but didn’t believed the lie that their vote doesn’t matter. Does that make them stupid? Gullible? Irresponsible? Perhaps. Does it mean they understand and support what’s happening? No it doesn’t.

Our education system has been decaying for decades. We are fucking FLOODED with propaganda. Our very voting system is heavily rigged against us. Sure, we could’ve done better, and should’ve done better. But I think it’s monstrous to imply that an entire population deserves the horrors of fascism.

They’re not incompetent, they’re malicious. They’re intentionally trying to fuck the country over.

Hey, plenty of people would “slam” him in news articles, the wheels of justice still turn! ^please ^don’t ^riot ^its ^scary /s

Well, “criticizing Israel’s government for committing a genocide” anti semitism is still bad. But “being a fucking Nazi” antisemitism is fine /s

It’s definitely gonna suck for me here in the US, but I’m really not convinced it’s going to make a huge impact worldwide. There will be some instability as the power vacuum gets filled, probably in large part by china. But that means the rest of the world is just trading one authoritarian, hegemonic neighbor for another.

I guess the process probably will exacerbate climate change faster than otherwise, and that’ll definitely impact the world in a number of huge ways, but that’s already happening.

Americans gave him an overwhelming win

Not without heavy voter suppression in his favor, and a number of states showing some suspiciously, statistically unlikely results.

I mean honestly, this country has needed a good general strike for a long fucking time, for a lot of reasons.

He isn’t making an incompetent mistake. He’s making a deliberate choice to fuck over California, and by extension the US.

Increase taxes, but only on the poor.

In the article it specifies you to remove pronouns from your email signature. Definitely less fertile ground for malicious compliance, but it’s still doable.

Oh wow, authoritarianism bad? What a hot take /s