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[–] Blackbeard 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Instead of listening to leftists in 2016 that said this would be the outcome, liberals shut us down and insisted theirs was the only way forward.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Being a leftist in America means two things to me. One is that it means I hate it when Im right, and two is I'm right more often than I want to be.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 8 points 1 month ago

That's just being a leftist, period.

[–] 2ugly2live 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was the election that made my mom say she wasn't going to vote anymore, which was really heartbreaking.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

None of us are going to get to vote anymore

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm sure we'll get to vote. Will it matter is the bigger question. Elections are a great way to give people the impression they're not living under tyranny.

[–] Myxomatosis 1 points 1 month ago

With the way Elon and other billionaires threw their money around during this election, it makes voting feel pointless. We have Citizens United to thank for that though.

[–] 2ugly2live 1 points 1 month ago

True enough 😔

[–] cabron_offsets 1 points 1 month ago

Pretty much, yeah. Shit’s just fucked.