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These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,... whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People around the world already live in terror of what USA government may do to them

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

The best part will be if he wins, those in power will just sit around with their thumbs up their butts waiting for fascism to take over on Jan. 20th.

EDIT: It's thumbs up their butts time for 2 and a half months.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Can't the president do anything he wants right now???? 🧐

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[–] [email protected] 213 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Like. Did people forget how insane everyday was when he was President? Like you never knew what was gonna happen he was always wanting the attention.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm just going to keep riding this horse until it fucking dies but the very first thing he did was take everything Obama did during his presidency and throw it out the window, including the pandemic playbook.

That playbook would have given us step by step instructions and reactions to deal with any type of suddenly erupting national pandemic like Ebola or coronavirus.

And because of this, which was by all measures a racially motivated attack on Obama, more than 1 million Americans died in a badly managed pandemic.

Trump's racism killed a million Americans.

It undoubtedly exacerbated the problem for the entire world and his total kill count is likely much more than that.

How can you let somebody who genocided millions of people through racism sit in the oval office?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago

It's a cult. They have people denying COVID ever existed. Heartily rejecting vaccines.

There's just too much to list but it only ever makes sense if you take whatever he's doing as right and readjust everyone around him to work does it ever make sense.

The fact that this election is even close is absolutely insane to me.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (7 children)

It's crazy that the vote is apparently close. Really goes to show how many "average" americans have utterly lost any connection to actual reality and have guzzled enough of the kool-aid to believe the weird whacky world of wonders the religious fascists constantly conjure up.

I wonder though, is this ultimately a failure not of the education and internal offices, decades ago? We let schools let people down, leading to them becoming undereducated terrible parents who let their kids down and made them vulnerable to be exploited by republicans and churches and crypto grifters. :(

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 days ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (11 children)

If the Dems win and they don't put a boot on the neck of this fascist movement it will take over eventually.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (7 children)

But that would require them to reign in the very same companies that sponsor them. One can hope, but it seems unlikely.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Like what happened after the last presidential election?

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[–] [email protected] 171 points 2 days ago (35 children)

I just hope if he loses, it’s by a wide margin so there’s no challenge. Just decisive victory and we can all move on….

[–] [email protected] 144 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don’t underestimate their tactic. For the republican presidential campaign, they will recognize only one of two outcomes: victory, or election tampering/fraud/manipulation. And, the wider the margin of win, the stronger the rhetoric will be.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Its 7 minutes until polls close where I am. I voted absentee but still thinking of everyone that still needs to vote

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Also, vote if you haven't yet.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (12 children)

You're not worried about him falling off the toilet and dieing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That'd be a real shame.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Hahahahhahahaha you think Trump is the last guy to feel threatened by? The dude was just the starter. There's a whole movement now with tons of corrupt politicians who will try to get a shot at the presidency. I'm thinking about the Florida governor for example.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Trump and team don't need to win the election. They just need to make it tainted with enough irregularities that it forms the basis for the entire thing to be called into question. Even if that evidence is created by them. And this time they're more prepared for that outcome. They've had years to work on his scenario.

The court cases and investigations will go on for years.

Doesn't need to win a vote at all.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

They already won culturally, as they managed to shift the political culture closer towards theirs. They also managed to set issues that are "theirs". We see the same shit in Europe, were supposedly progressive parties are implementing the wildest dreams of racist anti-immigration, anti-refugee, anti-science and authoritarian surveillance state policies that the fascists dreamed off. All in the name of "stopping" them, while neglecting actually relevant issues like social services and infrastructure investments. Rinse and repeat and by the time the fascists take over all they have to do is remove the remaining formalities of division of power and democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I wonder if those folks who cast a protest vote for Jill Stein will be sleeping soundly tonight... I sure hope not. I hope they're fucking terrified.

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