Remember the dark years from 2016-2020? Doom scrolling became a huge thing back then. It’s not going to stop if we fall back, again. It’ll be doom scroll after doom scroll of rights being stripped, of the president looking like a fool globally, etc. never ending shit storm.
If the other person gets elected? Someone’s going to complain that she got her nails done on taxpayer dollars.
Trump visited a Trump property 428 out of 1461 days of his term, and he played 261 rounds of golf, about 1/5 of days of his term. Almost $150 million charged to American taxpayers, for him to travel there with full security, play an 90-stroke game, kick his ball, called it 65 strokes to his friends, make dirty deals without oversight, travel back with security, eat a cheeseburger and angry tweet from the toilet. Every 5 days. Laziest president we've ever had.
To be honest, it's his only redeeming quality. Imagine someone equally evil and selfish but smart and competent.
Yes. It's why here's there.
Notice how they put him as soon as Trump started denying project 25. Perhaps all bullshit for the public but maybe not all bs. The Heritage Foundation might have actually gotten a bit spooked and put in a good yes man like Vance.
The apparatus around him is exactly that: evil, selfish, and smart. Project 2025 is only one example of how the mistakes of Trump's laziness will not be repeated. There's now a motivated and strategic fascist leadership and engaged bureaucracy ready to be emplaced as soon as he assumes power this time.
Do you not spend at least half of every day being angry about how much capitalism sucks? Filthy shitlib, you're no better than a right winger /s
It's no wonder the right is on the rise all around the world, they don't have "purity tests" the way a lot of left wingers do. They don't give a shit, if you support the cause then you're one of them.
But the left? "Oh you don't 100% support everything I want? Guess I'll just not vote because both sides are just as shitty"
To clarify, I'm an NDP voter which is the left most party in Canada.
Oh you sweet, summer child. After the election ends, we're going to have at least a month of coordinated all-out fighting from the fascists to stop the votes from being certified -- if Georgia's and Arizona's popular vote results get accurately reflected in the final EC tally it'll be a minor miracle -- and years of "stop the steal" election denial and stochastic terrorism after that.
And that's the best-case scenario.
Considering that Biden is currently in power, and the Democratic Candidate is the VP, I don't think there's any danger of a contested transition. Once the votes are counted, the only fuckery the Trumpists could pull would be organized violence, and the military is firmly under Biden's control.
Once the votes are counted
You do realize the MAGAs have been appointing "stop the steal" conspiracists to positions throughout the elections bureaucracy and are trying to recruit 100,000 poll "watchers" (read: saboteurs) specifically to try to stop that from happening, right?
Four years ago, the Trump campaign filed 50+ lawsuits trying to throw out votes because of alleged fraud that were basically all thrown out because no fraud could be found, and failed to stop states from certifying votes because the bureaucrats were doing their jobs. Now, they're in a position not only to severely obstruct the counting and certification in the first place, but also sue over accusations of fraud that will be credible because their dumbass followers will have committed it themselves!
And of course, it'll all be juuuuust stochastic and "lone wolf" enough that the Trump campaign itself will have [im]plausible deniability for directing it. The Heritage-Foundation-stacked courts will fall over themselves in their haste to clear Trump of any wrongdoing, while simultaneously saying "aww shucks we still have to invalidate the vote tho" or slow-walking any case they can't plausibly say that about. This will result in either Trump crossing the 270 EC vote threshold by courts handing him wins for states where whole swathes of results for Democratic-leaning precincts have been thrown out, or throwing out enough results that neither candidate gets 270 votes so that the election gets decided by a "one state, one vote" poll in the House. Either way, Trump regains the Presidency "legally," all Hell breaks loose with Project 2025 and the Supreme Court ruling making the President a king, and American democracy as we know it is over.
Please: save this comment, come back to it on Inauguration Day, and mock me for being wrong when democracy and the rule of law prevails. Be merciless about it! Ridicule me to within an inch of my life for my silly, unfounded worrying. I'm serious: please do that and I will love you for it.
Because I have no greater wish than to be wrong about this.
I'm not reading all that.
I was responding to someone who is worried about the time between votes being counted and the swearing in. The fuckery you mentioned initially doesn't address that, since it occurs during the vote count. If your criticism needs to exceed the scope of my statement, then I'm not going to read it.
No, you were responding to someone worried about the time "from November 5 till January 20." That's very much inclusive of the vote counting and certification, not subsequent to it. If you're gonna use pedantry as a petty excuse for bad-faith contrarianism, the least you could do is not fuck it up!
And "i'M nOt goInG to rEAd iT" -- really? What are you, a small child having a tantrum? Quit huffing hopium and whining about being confronted with reality.
That's true, to a degree. However, If they do something egregious enough, I suspect Biden or Harris will be able to deal with it without expending political capital. What, aside from denying a recount do you think they might do that would have an impact?
Precisely. The real ugliness and violence is currently only simmering. The election is when the boil begins. And the boilover comes after that.
Remember: if Trump wins, there will be disorder, dispersed violence, and then state violence: mass deportations and the disruption and dissolution of various dimensions of the state itself as fascism assumes the helm.
If Trump loses, there will be broad social conflict, disorder, and intensive violence, including a rise in domestic terrorism. I'm actually concerned we will see something like "The Troubles" in Ireland. Federal and state agencies and institutions will be attacked as well as infrastructure: things like power stations and bridges.
There is no threading the needle here. Either scenario results in chaos and violence. Both scenarios result in an increase in danger and a decrease in stability. There's no winning move. We'll think back to this moment as "the good days." Strap in.
To be clear, Trump losing (not just the vote, but also his inevitable attempt to seize power anyway afterward) is definitely the vastly preferable scenario here -- "Troubles" are way better than a full-blown dictatorship -- so stopping him is, if not "the" winning move, at least the do-or-die first step towards it.
There is no validity to a dismissive "eh, either way it's gonna be bad" attitude here. We are in an existential fight to achieve "pretty bad" because the alternative is "absolutely catastrophic."
Recognizing that things are going to bad regardless of who is elected is simple pragmatism. There's nothing dismissive about it at all. Quite the opposite.
Harris winning the election (which, in terms of the electoral college, she's currently on pace to narrowly lose), will not decrease the amount of active fascists in the United States, so, regardless of who wins, there's going to be trouble and there's going to be a lot of work to do that can't be done with upvotes, downvotes, or social media posts.
It would be wise for people to be prepared for what is to come. Ignoring it makes it worse.
Edit: for instance, there is a man in the woods near I-75 by London, Kentucky picking random people off with a rifle right now. I'm afraid we're going to see a lot more of that kind of stochastic terrorism, which will not simply go way if Harris wins. There are serious problems in America.
There's nothing dismissive about it at all. Quite the opposite.
I mean, somebody downvoted your previous response. My best guess as to why is that your "either scenario... there are no winners" bit was perhaps poorly phrased and easy to misconstrue, so that's what I addressed.
The US election cycle is continuous. Someone will win in November, there’ll likely be some bullshit to keep it in the news until inauguration day, then give a week before the party that lost starts the process of finding their pick to contest the next election.
From a foreign perspective it’s tedious as fuck. Our elections are called and wrapped up within 8 weeks, and even that feels too long.
Your comment makes me wonder if 1930s Europeans thought German politics were similarly tedious.
God, I can't wait. Hopefully, at least a few months of peace before the midterms start going.
You think the Oompa Loompa is gonna lose quietly?
Oh no, friend, that's when shit gets real.
You have to block regular words like "weird" now. It's too ubiquitous. Might as well stay offline until Christmas.
Lemmy with a politics blocklist must be very different. Is there a channel that shares lists?
I have a very long list of blocked political keywords and yet somehow Lemmy users find a way to make political posts that get around all my filters. It is very frustrating. So now I have started just blocking individual users if they post about politics, because a person that posts about it once is most likely going to do it again.
Lemmy without politics is kinda a ghost board. There is maybe 3 or 4 new posts a day. For someone who is not so active, its not much of a problem, but compared to Reddit it is highly frustrating that so much Lemmy content is about politics.
Lemmy without politics is kinda a ghost board. There is maybe 3 or 4 new posts a day.
I think your approach of blocking any user who posts about politics is eliminating the most prolific posters when 95% of their stuff is non-political. This is not to say your approach is bad, just that it doesn't actually represent "Lemmy without politics".
If someone posts one politically charged comment or article, they're going to do it again. Now, I am not talking about posts asking a question or being some part of a legitimate discussion, I mean users that post articles or comments that are "supporting one side/attacking the other side." If someone says "Why is Lemmy politically left leaning?", that is different from "God doesn't exist but Karl Marx did." A bit of an extreme example but maybe you understand. The topic involves politics in the first example but it is not directly about politics or trying to push one political ideology over others.
IMO, it does represent "Lemmy without politics." Because I don't want "Lemmy with a little bit of politics" or "Lemmy but a political echo chamber with only politics I agree with," I want "Lemmy with no politics." That means I block everything, left, right, progressive, conservative, I don't care. I don't want to see that garbage, I have to deal with enough of it in real life. When I am on Lemmy I just want to see my specific interests which I subscribe to, and the sad part is that many (not all) Lemmy users will make political posts in non-political communities, like tech or meme communities. Reddit did this too, but it was not to this degree, and perhaps it was because Reddit had more users to dilute it.
i dont know, but i have common names from us politics and its mostly quiet.
trump, boebert, kamala, musk....
i dont mind politics in general as long as its not that hypersensationalized us vs them american stuff.
I blocked a few US politics related communities. I still see US politics but to a lesser extent. I am satisfied with the results.
They're not going to let us have peace and quiet after the election. That's when the real shit begins.
I got a weird counter example for you, the "Where are the children" community that opposed family separation and indefinite holding times under the Trump Admin.
Biden took office, executive ordered holding time limitations and reimplemented criminal only ICE focus. The community kept posting, much lower popularity obviously, because figuratively the war was over and we could all go home.
This is aspirational. The election is going to get dragged out as long as possible and then longer and then there will be violence unless we win the lottery :(
