I see so many people talking about passports and moving. I’m on a fixed income, and barely got an apartment with my mom cosigning. I’m fucking stuck in a red state and I feel so fucking screwed.
Also lets stop acting like most of the voters were misled, lied to, bamboozled into voting for trump. They saw the racism, sexism, hate, and disrespect for the law and others and they LIKED IT. They want this. They aren’t idiots they’re fascists.
It’s important to remember there are 340 million people in the US. Only 70 million, counted so far, voted for Trump. Of those 70 million people, many of them will also be targeted by the fascists, who make up a minority of that group. We outnumber the fascists. We do a disservice to ourselves and others by making it seem otherwise.
The number one polled issue for Republican voters was the economy. They got duped by Fox fucking News. Jokes on them when the Republicans inevitably tank the economy.
The real question is will the mass deportations or the tariffs do it first. Hopefully the tariffs. If we’re going to be dysfunctional as a country, we might as well do it before making camps.
Conversely, at most 68 million people voted for Harris. That means roughly 270 million people either didn’t vote or voted for fascists, which means they’re either so disenfranchised they couldn’t vote, are idiots, were scared for their livelihoods and lied to (meaning they’re still idiots, but at least they’re also cowardly), or are fascists themselves.
I don’t know when we’ll learn, but given our ever-deteriorating education system I don’t think it’ll be anytime soon.
There’s no sense in lashing out at nonvoters. We need to organize in order to make a difference.
I know. hug I know.
I’m super terrified myself. I’m scared. I don’t know what I’ll do.
Except for one thing: I’ll survive. GodDAMN that motherfucker I’ll survive. Even if I have to survive just to spite him, TRUMP WILL NOT CLAIM MY LIFE. >:(
Me too. Although I’m not out yet. I’m thinking I’ll need to scramble, now, to put in my name/passport changes before I potentially lose the chance. Of course, I don’t pass, don’t have the wardrobe, makeup or body to pass. I wanted to wait a little longer before coming out, lose weight, fix my shit, you know. Don’t have the money to do anything, change anything how I want.
Well, one silver lining is that at least this can serve as motivation to jump-start your journey. We need more silver linings…
Yeah umm, me and my spouse are now creating a plan to at least get us to the most blue state we can but… fuck
I’m a straight milquetoast white bloke so I can’t really talk, and I’m not American so I didn’t really have a say, but I feel so sorry for everyone effected by this.
The US just turned around and put themselves back 70 years, if not more. How fucking hard is it to accept people for who they are? Is that country really so self centered and stupid?
Don’t go thinking you’re unaffected! This election has sealed the fate of the entire world in regards to being destroyed by climate change.
I would encourage you to not assume votes for Trump were necessarily endorsements of what he stands for. My vote for Harris certainly wasn’t an endorsement of her policies (such as pro-Israel, pro-fracking, etc.). Like many people, I vote for the lesser evil.
Lots of people are voting Trump out of anger about inflation and price-gouging. Sure, his base is made up of bigoted individuals, but I’m talking about the people who voted for Obama, Trump in 2016, Biden in 2020, and Trump in 2024 - these voters are mostly working class folks, they are more diverse than you would think, and they are mostly upset about the economy and punishing the incumbent for not taking better care of them.
We can criticize these voters until we’re red in the face and there are plenty of legitimate critiques, but it’s helpful to remember the rage of poor people rarely gets channeled in healthy or constructive ways. I believe Frantz Fanon noted this about the violence that boils up in response to colonial imperialism, and while it doesn’t directly apply here, I think there are some similarities worth considering.
It’s a combination of the right-wing infosphere brainwashing people and systemic flaws in our democracy that allow for minority rule. A minority of the population in key states needed to fed Republican propaganda for decades and that’s what happened.
Unfortunately, this will have global implications. Trump’s foreign policy will allow dictators to do whatever they want. If anyone reading this knows a place they can go where they can be safe, don’t let me stop you. But, this is going to allow dictatorships to carve the world into spheres of influence.
The way we push back against this is by organizing.
anybody outside the us want to adopt a cute trans girl? I’m partially housetrained already! and I only bite occasionally.
Might be a good time to check your documents, make sure you have a U.S. passport, that it isn’t expired, etc.
Only if you stop using Pancake mix. Maybe send you to train with @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone afterwards :)
You mean to train, as in training to make good pancakes without premade mixes, or to train as in it’ll drive you all the way to Rheinland-Pfalz
The first, well if you replace the it’ll with I’ll(or from your point of view you’ll) that would also be in the cards.
