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tbd
I'm not blaming any race, ethnicity, or culture. I'm blaming people who voted for Trump and people who didn't vote. I'll be getting T-shirts made that say, "Don't blame me. I didn't vote for the orange shitbag douche!" On the other hand, I live in a red state that went to Trump. I can't help to think that since I don't live in a battleground state, did my vote actually count or help since we still have the antiquated electoral college in play. I just hope we aren't as f#cked as I think we are.
Our Dutch public broadcasting did a piece of how small the group that actually impact the selection actually is. It's so mindboggingly small for a country which such an idiocratically large, worldwide impact.
A little over 30.000 Americans deciding the impact for the whole world (whose sheer reach I absolutely hate) was where they ended up on.
(source video, in Dutch)
In the Netherlands, a vote of mine and 69.000 others on one specific person means they're in the (Dutch equivalent of the) House. This happens quite a lot more often than one would expect.
I can't help to think that since I don't live in a battleground state, did my vote actually count or help
Nope!
Those people are responsible for the next administration (republicans) killing everyone in Gaza and Lebanon. And they just voted to fuck Taiwan & Hong Kong. You voted for death, congratulations.
Taiwan & Hong Kong
And Ukraine
plus females, LGBTQ+ and every child that dies from a childhood disease in the USA.
And atheists, Muslims, Jews, any non Christians really.
Americans forgot about Ukraine long ago
Not true, I just left it out as an oversight. Слава Україні!
They're all gonna evaporate into nothing. In fact they've already started to go. Some other pressing Internet topic will be the next topic du jour in the Moscow time zone.
You're talking into the wind.
Russian FSB agents who built strong fake online profiles to sow disorder are all shaking hands and celebrating now
Ending international support for Ukraine is still a priority, so keep an eye on any issues related to Europe and movements that opposed Russia's expansionist policies.
I mean it will probably begin with Trump halting us military aid to Ukraine and then immediately and forcibly setting up a trade route to purchase Russian natural resources at a dollar for a dime. And gas prices will drop in the US for a bit. And all Trump supporters, will go “see.” Because they are incredibly myopic and selfish. And then Trump will quickly drop out of nato because fascist natural resources are good so we join some axis powers. And at that point we might civil war and Balkanize. Or who knows. Whatever it is, the future level of human death and suffering has just massively increased.
I still have some hope for Ukraine. The military–industrial complex has to be more powerful than Trump and it will want the weapon shipments to go on.
Everybody has to lie in that bed, including people who didn't vote because they don't live in the US. Congratulations, guys, you did it.
The good news is that last time it pushed the world to try and distance itself from the USA and that will probably make then lose influence even more.
The alternatives don't exactly look great, though. Geostrategically this is a massive win for Russia and China.
Europe has all it needs to become a plurinational super power, even without the few pro Russia States
Sure. But they're just incapable of formulating any sort of strategy (and acting on it, of course). And fascism is very much on the march here too.
Maybe it should go out to whoever decided to skip the primary. That’s what changed my vote.
You're a tool.
Skipping the primary, there was not enough time to mount a full, proper campaign.
How'd you think it'd go if weeks more were spent on a primary?
Face it, you took the fashy bait and fucked yourself.
Over 3 months of campaigning is more than enough in most of the western world. Some countries don't even allow campaigning for that long. It's a very American thing to think you need something like 6+ months to campaign. Also, not enough time for a full campaign but enough time to sit down with Liz Cheney? What do you think she would've done with the extra time when she's already scraping the bottom of the barrel some republican voters?
How'd you think it'd go if weeks more were spent on a primary?
Looking at the polling data, even worse? Her approval skyrocketed because people thought (with the Walz VP pick) she might actually lean left, and then it tapered off when she started presenting herself as a moderate.
I think the democrats handled this hilariously badly, and I have almost zero insight into American politics aside from what gets regurgitated over internet news sources.
If a primary was held, whi the hell would the candidates even be?
It's unfair of me to assume, but I do assume that the average American voter knows even less about American politics than I do.
Harris was at least known. Walz even lost his own state, for fuck's sake.
What primary?
Not a big Arab population in GA or PA. Let's not blame MI and WI for the DNC running a second Biden term until the final hour and ratcheting right on everything.
Not American, and I don’t think the democrats are as bad as republicans, but pretty sure that this bed was made by the people who simply wouldn’t take genocide out of their platform.
So do we. Nobody wins here.
I see Democrats are taking a page from the Pick Up Artists' handbook and using vote negging now.
You might need to go ahead and join the dots on that one, champ.
They went from vote begging, to vote negging. It's when you berate someone to manipulate them.
Pointing to the direct, incredibly predictable outcomes of someone's actions is negging now? If you say so, champ.
You know what's also predictable. Giving voters what they need and demand, then winning elections when they vote for you. I know crazy huh? But sometimes trying to intimidate and berate them doesn't get them to do what you want.