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Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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Frankly, I'm sick and tired of nipping MAGA lies in the bud every day. It's been the better part of a decade of this bullshit already... I fucking hate that my countrymen chose this for us for the next four years. Fuck every Trump voter, but a much bigger fuck you goes out to all the jackasses that stayed home on the 5th. You're complicit, and I don't give a shit why you think fascism is "okay" as long as you got to punish the Democratic Party for your grievances.
I think the bigger message is that our information environment is totally screwed.
The eye-opener for me was watching our local news station interview college students coo and rave over how "strong" he was and repeat (apparently not) obvious misinformation.
It wasn't about apathy, not really... He just won an influencer war. And now the CEO of Twitter is basically president..
Wait until the idiots graduate and look for a job. The Orange Bag of Shit holds the record for US unemployment and he has a very good chance of breaking it again.
To be fair, and president would have been screwed over during covid, even if they had "contained" it (which, looking at China, seems highly unlikely).
Exactly, until media reframes this from distraction politics to a call to action none of this matters. Wake me up when we have a functioning government again.
I'll be focusing locally on building mutual aid networks and contributing as much as I can to local policy and governance.
mutualaidhub.org/
I'm sick and tired of anywhere near half of the voting public choosing him.
If you voted for Harris, you're complicit, and I don't give a shit why you think blue fascism is "okay" as long as it means your rights are protected at the expense of others
Edit: to be clear, I mean complicit in the currently occurring Palestinian genocide and overall maintenance of the status quo
"If you voted for the only other viable option in the election, you're responsible for Trump" is a very strange claim.
My choice was Trump or not!Trump.
I picked not!Trump. Harris could have been a literal turkey sandwich on a plate, I still would have voted for her. She's not great, I actually wanted to vote for Bernie Sanders in Andrew Yang's body, but that's not gonna happen.
My choice was revolution or status quo.
I picked, and continue to pick, revolution
Contrary to what you may believe, sitting at home and posting on lemmy is not a revolutionary act.
Contrary to your belief, posting on Lemmy isn't the only thing everyone does...
Like, I've been posting a lot to lemmy... This Saturday, I'm going to the range with a close group of family. Before shooting time, we're doing a STB refresher course. Sunday, over dinner, we'll be planning out the garden plots on the street.
I'm not interested in making the feds' job easier by proving myself to you. How about you do something meaningful for your community instead of patting yourself on the back for filling in a useless bubble in support of diet fascism
That’s nice dear. Now run along. The grown ups are talking.
Love it when the trash takes itself out. 👋
Well the revolution you picked got us 4 more years of Trump so 😬
Nah, the DNC's choice to run with Harris, and doing it last minute, coupled with a focus on trying to convince hungry USians that the economy is great, so they should stop whining did it.
Hahaha, is it a hidden secret revolution? I see no sign of it or it's effects...
Just because I choose it doesn't mean it 'wins'. Just like how y'all chose Harris and she didn't win
I do my own local praxis, but I assume we live in different places
revolution? No candidate is or ever will offer revolution. That's not a choice you can make at the polls
Exactly? While I did vote for De La Cruz since I was there anyway to vote on other races/amendments, the context of this discussion is people who didn't vote
I mean not voting is not picking revolution either, it's just handing more power to those who do vote.
Voting at all legitimizes the system, and lulls people into a false sense of satisfaction with having "done their part." Abstaining is valid
"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make" mfer
^ literally people who voted for Harris, lmao. Sacrificing others for your own temporary safety
Cool, lemme know when y'all get started. I'm not seeing any torches and pitchforks yet, or even people with baseball bats and masks. When "revolution" finally gets off of Lemmy/Matrix/Signal and into the streets, I'll believe it.
Ooo I get to say the thing!
Edit: (so you'll understand what praxis is)
Ah, theoretical revolution. The most effective kind.
Read it. But a few million comrades living out actual solidarity and comradeship, joining mutual aid coalitions, feeding unhoused people and refusing consumerism still isn't affecting the systems of hierarchy and oppression, monopolization of violence, rules of place, terror, and exploitation. The quiet Revolution in the homes of families and certain workplaces, some scattered neighborhoods and the hearts and minds of comrades around the nation still isn't stopping the cops from dragging us to the camps, the landlords evicting us, and the employers squeezing us. We've tried educating, discussion, solidarity, activism, and some of us even tried sabotage and outright violence, for over a hundred years, yet the imperial core seems strong as ever, and the zones of accumulation continue reaping profits and resources from the areas of dispossession. Children are still dying from weapons bought with our blood and sweat and labor. How then do we truly dismantle these systems of oppression, when our own relatives call us brainwashed traitors, when our neighbors support the oppression of others, and the very product of our labor is used to perpetuate violence?