Comment by Limonene@lemmy.world on Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All

I just hope federal services (like applying for a passport) don’t become Twitter-only after Trump appoints Elon as Secretary of Enshittification.

Oof. Poor Americans. The 4 year shit show you’re going to have to put up with.

Cute that you think it’ll only last for 4 years.

Nah, most people are going to live their lives and see absolutely no effect from anything done. No single administration has the ability to totally fuck up the country in the amount of time they have. That’s why you get the big swings back and forth between the two parties. Also, the news is very good at sensationalizing absolutely everything and making you think that, oh my god, it’s the end of the fucking world. What are we going to do? Run around like chickens screaming with our heads cut off and shit.

We know that Ukraine will be betrayed by the Trump government. A Russian victory will embolden Russia to further threaten Europe. This will also embolden China and other authoritarian states.

We also know a Trump government will stop climate action. Unfortunately, this will also signal to many other governments that they can do the same.

We also know that immense cruelties will be perpetrated such as the family separation policy of the 1st Trump presidency

But yes, if you are white, straight and middle class or rich, you’ll be able to think all is OK until such time as the authoritarian ascendancy led by China and Russia affects your own life, which might be a decade or more away.

How many people do you think would be affected by his deportation policies? I’ve heard a number of around 10 million, and that’s 3% of the population, which, while absolutely terrible, means that the other 97% isn’t going to really care.

I know the last time he was in office his immigration policies made it impossible for some people families to come over. I worked with a couple people struggling with that.

Those 3% (going by your math):

Pick crops

Contribute $90 billion or more in tax for the county via sales tax.

Without those people, we have no food, and immediate inflation begins. You know, the thing everyone was bitching about that was literally caused by Trumps inaction on COVID.

This affects EVERYONE in the US.

Not to mention that the construction industry- particularly housing- just stops.

“Stimpy, sometimes your wealth of ignorance astounds me.” – Ren Höek

Food prices will go up, not down. I think everyone cares about food prices right now.

I’m not just talking about outdoor crop picking work. A friend was laid off from a food production company this week and Trumps not even sworn in yet. You can’t make this stuff up it’s so ridiculous. So, anticipate job losses for non immigrants as well.

2/3 of the factory line is Hispanic, and the majority of that is rotating work visa people. In this way, you can pay much lower wages.

Part of it was tariff threat, no one would place orders, everyone’s on hold on the production/supply/buyer chain, waiting for January, so the income of the business dropped to zero this week and is projected to stay there through January. Again, this is food production, not bread or flour, or anything basic like that, but it’s still food.

So, with no income and the threat of loss of cheap production labor, all the American citizens were laid off this week. Whether or not the business will eventually declare bankruptcy is undecided, but that talk is definitely on the table.

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I’ve made a huge mistake breaking my personal rule to avoid all political content and I’ve regretted that immediately

Trump was already elected before and quickly became irrelevant after his 4 years.

And who is going to be the next US President?

And who is nominating a Russian asset to be DNI?

And who is nominating a child sex trafficker to be AG?

And who is likely to nominate an antivax, anti-science lunatic with brain worms to head the dept of Health and Human Services?

And who is planning to eliminate the department of education and NOAA?

Previous administrations have done damage through incompetence and/or malice, but the plan this time is on another level. They’re going in with the goal of breaking everything.

Dobbs and Chevron would disagree with your claim of “irrelevant”. You might not be aware, but that’s not the same thing…

Well, except for the people that are dead from his actions. For example, the ~461,000 people who died from COVID due to him making every wrong decision. For those people, it doesn’t go on. Because they’re dead.

No single administration has the ability to totally fuck up the country in the amount of time they have.

Women in need of reproductive health services in red states would like a word.

No single administration has the ability to totally fuck up the country in the amount of time they have.

Trump: “Hold my Diet Coke”.

Rotflmao, you didn’t read project 2025 🤣

Thing is, mate…fascists rarely stay inside their boarders. This is going to be the whole world’s problem in about 3 months.

Maybe for the rest of our lives, however long that is…

upside: maybe fashism will kill us all before climate does? yay?

With the fascist in power they’re going to speed up the climate destruction

So maybe the fascist will kill us with the climate

yay?

I’m glad you guys are looking at the bright side of life 😊

I’d rather eat rats and survive inside a hole in the ground in 45⁰C weather than die in a war, but that’s just me.

Hey, no eating cute rats

NGL dying due to climate is definitely preferable to dying due to fascist hunting people like me

Trump wants adulation, not conquest. Push come to shove you can get him out of the oval office by making him figurehead Emperor, as long as it comes with immunity he’ll accept.

On a scale of Mussolini to Hitler, he’s like 250% towards Mussolini.

international us policy is very similar between republicans and democrats. you guys are already the whole worlds problem. 🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

im sorry but trump will be your problem. until the empire decides to turn up the violence dial again that is, which is something both parties do sometimes.

4 years if laws and constitution stay the same and are followed… first term he had people alienated into him who were at least slightly appropriated for their positions, this time people who has nothing to do with their positions are being appointed simply for being loyal to him… Let’s see if any of them won’t let him do anything drastic within 4 YEARS

It’s more than 4 years. We just crawled out of Trump inflation and now are going right back in.

Dismantling and breaking is easy. They can do a lot of that in 4 yrs. Building takes decades.

There’s also a global effect. Would Putin have ever attacked Ukraine without a Trump term? How about Israel’s taking self defense into genocide territory?

America leads by example and the last example was an impulsive 3 yo with a giant military force and a dead diplomacy department in the executive branch. There’s permissiveness in that.

You mean head of DOGE? Because we live in the timeline where a terminally online edgelord with the brain of a 14yo and the body of a 54yo makes meme government agencies.

Anyway, get your passport now. They’re good for ten years, enough to last at least through the tentative end of Trump’s circus.

The new online passport process is unbelievably good

They better not ruin it

oh yah i just renewed using the new process, got my passport back in less than 2 weeks.

Narrator: they ruined it

Just tell all your friends to do a passport. It will be ready if shit hits the fan and they must leave the country.

Ooh, thanks for the reminder! Mine expires next year. Best renew it now before they fuck that up, too.

The fact that this is an actual possibility is absolutely hilarious.

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