285 points

The US is looking pretty fucked right now. RIP

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97 points

Did it to ourselves

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91 points

I did not. I did my damnedest in order to try and inform everybody who was around me. I try to help bring up all of the aspects and all of the problems. Our biggest failure is all those who didn’t even vote. Not those who did but those who couldn’t even be assed to get off of theirs and go out and fill out the form. But let me Tell you what this administration did Nazi coming… My unadulterated ass now being even more bold and happy just telling them to fuck off. Might as well start feeding them the same bullshit they’ve been doing to us for the last eight years. I am now refusing to do absolutely anything involved with anything that they want done I am going to drag my dick on everything and anything I might construe as being helpful to their cause. I’m going to bitch and moan as loudly as possible . I’m going to be the most cantankerous pain in the ass that anybody has ever come across.

That orange fuck can get stuffed should have stayed in oompa loompa land maybe And I’m just saying maybe lighten up on the amount of tanning cream that he’s using or at least tell his apprentices they need to slow up cuz we all know Mr tiny hands is incapable of squeezing the fucking bottle himself. Don’t want to accidentally use too much energy might be construed as exercise and that might actually physically kill him God damn medical oddity. How can somebody eat that poorly and do literally nothing and still be walking around.

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19 points

The biggest failure was the Democrats who nominated Biden in 2020. That primary was the last offramp that could have avoided a fascist takeover, either in 2024 or 2028, with Trump or a Trump clone.

The return of Trump might just have bought us another shot in 2028, but it’s not looking like the Democrats have learned much. Trump has a lot of similarities to Hoover and, as bad a President as he was, he was great for Democrats and progressivism. If the Democrats can get their heads out of their asses, the Trump Presidency might open a path to save the country - assuming we survive it.

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We haven’t had any agency in this for a long time. The two parties run the show on behalf of our billionaire owners.

I’m almost hopeful, in a perverse, accelerationist sort of way… Trump might break this country badly enough to force a “renegotiation of the social contract”.

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5 points

Ah yes, the “both are the same” trope. Remember when Biden threatened to invade Sweden? I think it was the day Hunter Biden was working as secretary of commerce.

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5 points

One party fought tooth and nail to get cheaper healthcare for the vulnerable. I was one of them in my 20s. That same party regularly votes in favor of the middle and lower classes and doesn’t take our rights away. Reduces prescription drug prices. Bans medical debt from showing up on credit reports. Forgives student loans.

Americans chose to give total power to the party that does the opposite.

Not. The. Same.

We can have a better future and inch towards things like universal healthcare by electing the only party that can be influenced. We’re actively choosing not to.

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8 points

Yes we did… as was said a long time ago, the only thing that can destroy America is America

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5 points

Well that’s not true. 49% of voters voted against him. Many of us did a lot more than vote. We failed to stop him, sure, but that’s a different thing.

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5 points

Well, that’s democracy. The fact that Donald Trump, famous dumbass, got even 20% of the vote would be embarrassing, but he actually won the election. Twice. As a convicted criminal (once).

I had pity the first time, but this one is totally on you guys. This time I’m here to browse /r/leopardsAteMyFace and I brought popcorn.

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3 points

What percentage of your adult population vote for him? Isn’t it something like 1/6th of your population?

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Part of living in a democracy is accepting that 49% isn’t enough

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84 points

At least all that stuff about a weaponized DOJ is over right?

The only thing worse than Russia is a wannabe Russia that had a feasible choice.

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82 points

The only thing that Americans can do is obvious and yet all I’ve seen online is finger wagging and “hot takes”. Fucking embarassed for you.

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49 points

If we protest we lose our jobs which means we lose our healthcare. Are you beginning to see how they have us by the balls?

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20 points

Wouldn’t that even more of a reason to protest? It’s almost a meme at this point, but the US is the only developed country without universal healhcare. But people keep voting for the party that countless times has threatened to cut even Medicare.

And if a random dude in Germany knows this, every voter in Bumfuck, Nebrahoma should, too, but here we are.

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18 points

Almost half of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. One day of missed work means that their kids could starve.

It’s just not that simple. Believe me, we all wish it was.

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5 points

Don’t worry, neither party gives a shit about healthcare. It doesn’t matter who we vote for.

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I mean, the democrats haven’t given us healthcare either, despite having had the opportunity more than once. Best they’ve done is make a nationwide marketplace and told us we have to buy healthcare from one insurance corporation or another, or we get fined in the form of additional taxes for not contributing to billionaires.

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5 points

And our homes, meaning our family members also become homeless

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1 point

organize, unionize, the second best time is now

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1 point

If someone has you by the balls and they won’t let go, then cut off their hand.

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39 points

There’s a reason every American was raised on the mantra of “violence is never the answer” and “if you fight back you’re just as bad.”

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Peaceful protest against tyrannical governments only work if they’re seen as an opening offer backed by the potential for non-peaceful escalation.

Too bad one party decided that guns were bad and spent the last 50 years disarming itself.

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31 points

First of all, “one party” simply asked for regulation instead of bending over for the NRA without it even reaching around to return the courtesy. Second, there is a reason why lone gunmen shoot up schools and not military bases.

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13 points

What are you gonna do when the government comes after you with your scrawny ass weapon? It’ll work against a neighbor, sure, but the military can see through your walls using wifi alone. There’s a literal helicopter above your house tracking your every move. They know more about you than you realize. This is the strongest army in the world we’re talking about.

And, even if violence sounds tempting, there are so many things to do before any of that, like resist and organize. You can definitely fight back in man other ways besides a picket sign and a gun. I’m not sure why those are the only two options.

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9 points

This is such a crazy assertion. I know plenty of democrats who own guns. They just generally don’t make it their personality.

It also ignores the massive arms difference between a government of today and its citizens vs when the constitution was written.

Lots of change has happened in the US as the result of protests that go violent, but none have ever succeeded using guns.

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19 points

Americans can vote, and a majority of them voted for this a short few months ago. This is exactly what he said he would do. This is what he did the previous 4 years he was in power. Americans want this. They don’t even have the excuse of popular vote this time around. They fully committed to this.

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5 points

thinking that voting is the only necessary political action is how you all boiled the frog

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3 points

I’m not fighting in a violent revolution against an insane retarded fascist controlling the most powerful military on earth because some people explicitly chose to not prevent the fascist from taking office out of their sense of virtue pearl clutching.

I’m not fighting in a fucking violent revolution against an insane retarded fascist controlling the most powerful military on earth because some people explicitly chose to not prevent the fascist from taking office out of their desire to pressure me to fight in a fucking revolution (left accelerationists), I hope they have fun getting shot/tortured by fascists.

I owe both of these groups nothing. I did not choose to be born and I did not choose their revolution, I’m out. I hope they’re happy with the shitty world they’ve enabled.

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3 points

49% of voters, about a 3rd of eligible voters

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49.8% (so rounding it would be 50%) and 3 million people more than in 2020. And a whole a while 14 million more than in 2016. Eligible voters who didn’t vote made an explicit choice and are equally complicit.

They had a choice of a dumbass and literal criminal and a prosecutor and they made their choice.

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3 points

Yup.

As an American I can confirm that Americans are fucking stupid.

Hope you’re comfortable with us having the most powerful military to ever exist. I’m certainly not.

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3 points

If only there was an amendment for that very situation…

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1 point

All the 2A nutjobs who have been waiting their entire lives for this turned into fucking crickets.

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1 point

The nutjobs still think he’s on their side, unfortunately.

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70 points

Huh, fired? For what cause?

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59 points

A criminal is the head of the governing body that makes the laws. Why even bother asking why he’s not following them?

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55 points

Attempted justice.

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21 points

Oh don’t worry about that -they’re reclassifying then as at-will first. Which is the crookedest hiring policy ever. We have it here in Illinois and it’s total bullshit.

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14 points

“cause what are you going to do about it?” Apparently

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9 points

Its US. You can be fired at any time. What do you think this is? Europe?

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11 points

By private companies. Federal employees have a lot more protections.

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Literally, from the article:

It was also not immediately known how many of the fired prosecutors intended to challenge the terminations by arguing that the department had cast aside civil service protections afforded to federal employees

That tells me federal employees have different rules and they may have a path to make things uncomfortable for a while. Whether that’s worth the effort is up to them.

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I live in a at-will right to work state, so I understand that. But not every state is an at-will right to work state, and surely the way federal employees are treated is legislated differently and not on a state level. Do federal employees have zero protections?

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7 points

Right to work means non-union employees can’t be forced to pay dues in a unionized workplace. It has nothing to do with at-will employment, which allows an employer to terminate an employee without cause at any time.

The only non-at-will state is Montana.

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3 points

On paper or in practice?

Because seems like whatever president says goes.

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7 points

Fascism is here. Causes aren’t required anymore.

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7 points

The BS reason they gave is in the article. We all know the real reason is that they aren’t loyal to Dear Leader.

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1 point

Probably because they think he is incompetent and should be in jail. If your employees don’t respect you and think you should be in jail, then they might not be a good fit.

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69 points

The system didn’t fail them, voters did.

If being convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud and civil liability for rape did nothing to persuade voters then there was nothing Jack Smith could have done to change their minds either.

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This is the real nail in the coffin.

Take Trump and Republicans entirely out of the equation and you’re still left with a majority of braindead stupid Americans. That problem ain’t going away anytime soon.

Our populace simply isn’t intelligent enough to maintain a democracy.

We’re cooked.

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4 points

This is the mental dead end I reach every time. It’s not even just “elections have consequences” or “voters are frustrated.” It’s that huge numbers of Americans are passionate supporters of this specific monster. Many of them have bad reasons, or are ignorant, or have been deceived, but the support that matters is there.

Things like the electoral college, FPTP, and gerrymandering are serious problems we need to fix. But fixing those will not fix the hearts and minds of the people. There is so much more that has to change.

It has had me seriously wondering if whatever hellish stuff Trump’s handlers have planned to dismantle the government is going to be the FASTER way to get to the part where we rebuild something better.

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5 points

While voters do share some responsibility, they correctly mobilized and ripped this asshole out of office 5 years ago. The voters were failed by Merrick Garland, who clearly didn’t think treason or insurrection were that big of a deal.

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Yeah, but that took an unprecedented situation (once in a century pandemic) and a million+ dead Americans. He absolutely would have won a second term if COVID didn’t happen.

American voters are pretty goddamn stupid and there’s really no way around that.

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