People in the US, please care and look after the vulnerable people in your lives.
There’s a sign you can see in many shops that sell beautiful but fragile items: LOVELY TO LOOK AT, DELIGHTFUL TO HOLD, BUT ONCE YOU BREAK IT, THEN IT’S SOLD. You can say the same about democracy.
“projects” is doing some megaton lifting
I mean, reading the Project 2025 Manifesto ain’t that hard.
He cheated, Russia literally ran interference campaigns. How are people accepting this?
Between the gerrymandering, electoral college, stacked courts in case it was close, the whole thing was rigged already. All the land outvoted the people.
I mean, he’s also going to win the popular vote as well. This isn’t a land outvoting people thing. He just won out-and-out.
All the gerrymandering and EC fixes in the world wouldn’t have changed the outcome if he just got more votes.
Because even if they did, it doesn’t matter. Welcome to the other side of the conspiracy believer coin
I am Indian. How will this affect us
The US has a massive political and cultural influence all over the world. Trump’s victory will open a whole new Pandora’s box when it comes to geopolitics, climate (in)action, and support of racist, sexist and xenophobic policies. His campaign strategy will probably be used by politicians all over the world, and will embolden them to try more and more unhinged bullshit.
I don’t know how it will personally affect you, but it probably will in many many direct and indirect ways.
The world is going to be fucked by climate change way more and faster than it otherwise would have been.
The internet will finally shut the fuck about about the presidential ellection.
First time, eh?
Nar i just turned my filters off i can handle 1 days worth.
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Nah, we’re in for another 4 years of nonstop Trump drama like before.
SCOTUS already effectively made him a king. The notion that we’ve got only four years of drama is incredibly optimistic.
I’m hoping he just keels over by then, he can’t be long for this world at his age and at his health.
Then we get who knows how many years of slightly less dramatic but significantly worse christo-fascist Vance. The US is fucked and it’s going to take a big chunk of the world with it.
Vance lacks the cult of personality, though. With Trump out of the picture, his former loyalists will scramble and turn on one another to fill the power vacuum.
Yeah but thats more entertaining than listening to whiny bitches claiming that the other side is hitler while symultaniously bombing gaza.
Glad you find fascism entertaining. You’ll enjoy Trump turning Gaza to glass then.
Because harris wouldnt have done the same thing? This isnt fascism ur diluting the word and in doing so disrespecting 6million people.
Guess what‽ It no longer matters what Kamala would have done, she lost the election. Trump has promised to help Israel wipe Gaza off the map to end the war. Since you find his fascist antics entertaining, you’re in for that treat.
Also, how much time do you save by not typing out “your”?
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Oh man.
You just got a lifetime of it. No end in sight this time.
You are unbearably naive. There will be an ellection in 4years then u can have the most important ellection in american history for the 46th time in a row.
That’s not necessarily true. Russia holds elections as well, doesn’t mean they are free and fair.
It’s pretty naive to think that the US cannot become a de facto non-democratic state.
Like the last couple of elections were free and democratic.
I guess counting of the votes was.
But the system is sufficiently rigged already, Russians just don’t bother with such complex mechanisms. Why, when you can just steal. After all, a different kind of people.
I guess counting of the votes was.
The 2000 and 2004 elections in russia are generally considered free and fair (2004 perhaps less so, but I digress). That didn’t really have an impact later on.
But the system is sufficiently rigged already, Russians just don’t bother with such complex mechanisms. Why, when you can just steal. After all, a different kind of people.
While I agree in general, having lived in North America for a decade (including US) and russia for over a decade, you’d be surprised about the similarities in certain (emphasis on certain, not even close to all or even many) elements of “national thinking” in the US and russia. That being said, historically US has had a positive impact in the world. I can’t think of a single thing that russia has done that has had a positive effect (even their much fetishized celebration of WW2 victory is a ruse as the USSR initially sided with the Nazis to split up Europe).
Well im very confident it will remain as free and fair in future elections as it currently is. May even get more fair if he introduces voter id.
I think your confidence in this is exactly why it can happen.
This is not some sort of secret knowledge, the topic of democracies sliding into de facto authoritarianism is a well researched topic.
And the mode by which this happens is often slow and steady, largely driven by complacency and corruption.
The first step towards authoritarian is the revocation of free speach. The only people trying to control that as of present are the left. Ill start listening to what u have to say the second trump bans people speaking their minds in public or puts american citizens people in concentration camps.
Maybe not about elections, per se, but I think you forgot what happened between 2016 to 2020. Almost every day news headlines were like “Trump tweets dumb thing”, “Trump announces dumb thing”, “Trump does dumb thing”. This election period was quieter on the scale of things compared to then, and we’re headed right back for it.
Yeah thats just the worlds best reality tv show. The ellection is just propaganda bots screaming at eachother.
