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  • OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I don't know, I am more scared about what's going to happen with them rather than finding any of this stuff funny...

    At least where I live, it's Trumpland, and the chuds out here are armed and dangerous. I can easily see some of his more diehard base losing it and going on shooting sprees.

    • ShoutyMcSocialism [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah if Trump loses I definitely see some spree shootings in our future the day after it's finally called. It's inevitable. Their entire identity is attached to this one idiot. It's what happens when you have no real ideological framework. You can be a communist or anarchist forever, but you can only be a Trump idiot once.

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      4 years ago

      I feel like it's an inevitability that the unwashed asses are going to go shoot up a mall no matter who wins this election. At this stage, we might as well push the ones who will over the edge and get it over with. It sucks, but the powder keg is going to burst no matter what happens so we might as well do it. I hope you stay safe, homie.

      • OhWell [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        At this stage, we might as well push the ones who will over the edge and get it over with.

        Oh yeah totally. Tell that to the brother, sister, and other family members of the victims they end up killing by shooting up a mall or something.

      • MarlKarx [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        you americans are so funny, you imaging yourself as a "powder keg" , boy thats just the movies , you are no powder keg, you a soft scared and to cowardly to kick what ever needs to be kicked in and so easly confused,.. there is no powderkeg, you are not what you imaging you are,... Americans dont ever actually stand up to authority , you just call a actuall "separatist War" that your established local authority orderd you to fight against the overseas Authority a "revolutionary War" and then feel good about yourself.....

      • Classic_Agency [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        At this stage, we might as well push the ones who will over the edge and get it over with.

        Because it will totally all blow over and won't escalate into an actual civil conflict.

    • Royalmauz [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      They'll be too busy going to brunch to actually care about politics for the next four years.

  • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Na if we're going to discuss bourgeois electoral politics then Biden winning is a lose for the world.

    If Trump wins the Deep State (represented by characters like Robert Mueller and the like) will continue sabotaging Trumps presidency, the world will continue to lose respect for the US, an outright break of foreign policy with Europe will likely occur after Merkels remarks (Europe is basically holding its breath for a Biden win)

    All of the above is good for the rest of the world

    If Biden wins the fascist right will get rid of Trump and organise behind a character that likely is ideologically fascist, competant and much more charming

    So in 4 years you'll be exactly where you were now but instead of an incompetant buffoon that hates the CIA in charge you'll have a cold, calculated ideological fascist wholly committed to US empire

    Under Bidens wing of the Dem party the foreign policy will be ridiculously violent to people in the 3rd world just so a few scraps can be thrown to the USians

      • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        That's not how power works. As long as Trump is President the actual power struggle won't occur until he's confirmed he's on the way out

        And quite frankly i think the world looks practically the same whoever wins

        Merkel disagrees with you as Germany looks east due to fraying ties with US

        As Germany reappraises its longstanding reliance on the United States amid growing tensions with Washington over security and trade, there is less doubt among the country’s leaders about the necessity to reenergize its partnership with China, Germany’s largest trading partner.

        https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/07/germany-china-trade-coronavirus-us-351922

        If lesser evilism is your thing Trump is it

        • peepeepants_mcgee [any]
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          4 years ago

          counterpoint: my life sucks more if trump wins and at the end of the day that's who I care about most

          • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            Your life is going to suck anyway.

            The economy is about to go into meltdown and the dollar is about to become worthless due to the nonstop money printing

            The difference for you will be that a Dem will take the blame for this in the next 4 years if they're elected whilst the right consolidate into actual fascism vs Trump getting the blame

            • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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              4 years ago

              the dollar is about to become worthless due to the nonstop money printing

              Are you talking about the Federal Reserve printing money? Because quantitative easing won't cause hyperinflation

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      a character that likely is ideologically fascist, competant and much more charming

      Are there any potential candidates that fit these?

    • Enzo [he/him,use name]
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      4 years ago

      one of the pros of trumo winning is that there will be a revolution sooner

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I know that in the big picture, we are totally screwed by either Biden or Trump. Both options are so bad. However, I choose to cope by knowing I will either get a ton of satisfaction by seeing the tears of either the chuds or liberals, that is what I choose to focus on.

  • Circra [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Given Covid is happening I think a lot of the right's intellectual giants are gonna be hurling themselves behind the anti mask stuff.

    Really looking forward to some fash grifters banging on about how an all meat diet protects against Covid better than masks.

    • Royalmauz [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Good. They'll all eat themselves to death within the next ten years.

  • P1d40n3 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Typical liberal, shilling for Joe Biden. /s

    • scramplunge [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Look at this loser, putting a sarcasm tag on an ironic leftist meme site.... or however the old script went.

      • Randomdog [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        /s stands for Stalinist.

        E.g.

        Purging enemies of the people and industrialising agriculture are cool ideas /s

        • MagisterSinister [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          That's a common misconception. The /s stands for "seen" (by the Politbüro) and marks party-approved posts. As it originated during Stalin's first 5 year plan, that was later conflated with Stalinism.

      • luka467 [they/them,he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Giving out odds here, based on absolutely nothing other than my hunches

        Tom Cotton - 4/1

        Tucker Carlson - 5/1

        Marjorie Taylor Greene (aka the QAnon woman in Congress) - 5/1 - Given that Q is probably going to be the dominant ideology of the Republican party, I'd say this is incredibly likely

        Kanye - 100/1

        Trump (again, for the fuck of it) - 500/1

        Jeb - Evens

        Dan Crenshaw - 50/1 - Odds will change based on whether he shoots out his other eye in a tragic wanking accident

        Suggestions are encouraged

  • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    yeah it's basically a choice between the right wing doing 4 more years of their worst and continuing to build up arms and grievance while the dems field more and more right wing candidates, or biden wins and we get the military pushing trump out semi-happily and chuds not being willing to take up arms because cops told them not to.... obv neither choice is great but the bidenverse is technically a bit better what with creepy uncle joe being able to at least turn the executive parts of the government around policy wise very quickly from so many of the directly harmful things they've been doing... idk i think there's a lot riding on us going back to a neoliberal hellscape as normal and recognizing that it doesn't fix anything. as long as we're not getting libs to confront their own policy not working we're not radicalizing them toward anything more meaningful.