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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And yet there is so many people thinking they will make an exception for them.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I'm one of them, surely they will spare me as I'm part of the group, right?"

schadenfraude, we're gonna live of schadenfraude for 4 long years

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

If we're lucky then Trump dies, there won't really be another cult of personality like him. Even now he's coasting on his old persona, he's just a grumpy old man with limited ability to remember much of anything.

[–] brightandshinyobject 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Vance would be much worse than Trump, Vance can take orders.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Nobody's going to be fine. Tariffs on our 3 biggest trade partners are going to raise the prices of nearly everything by 25%

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Who could possibly have the foresight to know that making things more expensive won’t lower the prices?

[–] chiliedogg 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If we're lucky.

At least he's not raising the effective tax rate on the bottom 95% of.Americans.... right?

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[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And mass deportations are going to lead to food shortages and massive price hikes at the grocery store.

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

They will imprison people and make them work the fields.

[–] kshade 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nobody’s going to be fine.

Not even Elon?

Promise?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Weird way to make the economy better for working people. Hmmm

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And just like everybody else, you forgot the Native Americans.

You know, the ones that they're trying to remove their citizenship based on some 140-year-old law that has already been superseded by other better law?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I really, really, don't understand how/why Native Americans are treated so bad. It makes no sense to me. Then their artifacts and regalia will be copied or sold for top dollar. It's insane.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Oh shit, why hadn't that come up in my head? You're right. I'm dumb.

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[–] DougHolland 6 points 1 month ago

One of my best friends in childhood was Duwamish, and his family had it rough. Haven't seen him in 50 years, and all that was forgotten come meme-making time. I'm guilty as charged, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think that society becomes hopeless at some point. Ruled by 5th-generation lizard monsters. You can't fight that.

Attend to the health of your own soul. Cultivate your own garden. Buy a gun.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Even if you don’t match any of them… worry

[–] AngryCommieKender 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yep. I'm cis, literally the whitest kid you know, and male. I just bought a backup crossbow.

[–] dufkm 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In case your primary crossbow jams up? Clever.

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[–] makyo 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah nothing is off the table. A bunch of incompetent bootlickers backing an elderly dimwit conman without any serious checks or balances? Recipe for disaster in any number of ways.

[–] Resol 35 points 1 month ago (20 children)

I'm not even in the US and I'm worrying. Especially due to the fact that I'm both Moroccan and queer (specifically aroace). Guess I'm not visiting the US at all during his term.

[–] surewhynotlem 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't visit us. Don't travel here. They need to understand there's financial consequences to making this country unwelcoming.

[–] Resol 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the advice I'm following. And it's really sad because I was so interested in seeing the US in person for a really long time. Now some scumbag came to ruin it all.

[–] surewhynotlem 18 points 1 month ago

We'd love to see you after we fix our little fascist infestation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just heard an ad on a podcast inviting me to visit Key West, Florida, which is apparently an LGBT resort paradise.

Not happening, not even if they paid me.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Dude I'm in Canada and shit's looking bleeeeak

[–] Resol 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

We're never alone. Community is our strength. This is as important right now as ever.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I fit in at least 5 of those

[–] disguy_ovahea 11 points 1 month ago

Maybe the rest just need to relax for you to fit in

[–] Death_Equity 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Have you tried not being you are?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Oh, you'll be fine as long as you don't have to work to live. If you are rich enough to live of the work of others.

Everyone else is fucked. The plutocrats are going to make sure of that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (6 children)

We must follow the teachings of Luigi.

And apply it with the methods of Ted Kaczynski.

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[–] CritFail 13 points 1 month ago

I've always considered Musk to have the look of the Innsmouth about him; pale clammy skin, wide eyes clumped above his guppy jaw. I hope he will be lured by the ancestral calls and return to the murky depths in due course.

[–] Crashumbc 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's there right in the middle of it all.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Magats

I’m one of the good ones

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 7 points 1 month ago

... or actually dependent on social security or medicare ...

[–] brucethemoose 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Poor is the most loaded word here. Less than $300K a year is probably the cutoff.

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

Always two, there are. No more. No less. A Master and an apprentice.

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

How did we get to this, I thought the progress he have made would have actually stuck in some people's heads (I've voters). Unfortunately, some people don't understand what the progress was for because all they think about are their wallets and control of others

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

I'm going to be good all the way. I'm happy being dead knowing I'm not on the same plane of existence as these douche nozzles.

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