We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to do

A law that said the press can not be for-profit, would never happen, but would probably help

The Kenyan Ambassador to the UN once addressed criticism of his country's relationship with China thusly:

"Every time the English visit Kenya, they bring a lecture. Every time the Chinese visit Kenyan, they build a hospital"

Valid take. The military industrial complex is a terrifying ordeal.

We haven’t been

I can't beleive the number of New Yorkers (NYC residents and expats) that trust Trump. He has wreaked havoc across the city and metro area with terrible buildings, stiffed contractors, and constant financial mockery. His post-TV show perception has done an insane job of making even the most affected people forget what a sack of shit he his. They really think 1. He runs businesses well due to his continued financial growth and that 2. Running the country like his businesses will somehow benefit them, the national equivalent of those laid off from his private endeavors.

So anyway, that's how I know they just racist assholes.

Can't the president do anything he wants right now???? 🧐

Its mostly just the echo chamber. But its quite sad in here for sure.

Edit: Hilarious that you were being upvoted until my comment gave more context to what you meant. Mindless lemmings.

You've convinced me. I won't vote for Joe Biden today.

It's a little funny to see Americans saying "genocide joe" like if the USA endorsing a genocide was a temporal thing and not the freaking constant of the last century

Exactly. OP is most privileged take, most useless "allies".

I don't think I can

Yep, already dropped of my mail-in ballot in person and received an email from the county election supervisor that my vote counted 🤠

Yeah, and I plan to vote against Netanyahu's buddy who keeps saying he should do "whatever it takes to finish the job". Stop pretending that a Trump presidency will be better for Palestine. Literally everyone who actually cares about Palestinians in good faith knows that a vote for Harris is a vote for harm reduction.

You're showing your privilege here by admitting you aren't scared of Trump's plans, which involves oppressing millions of people, because you're confident you're not one of the groups he plans to oppress.

The major difference is that he's not president this time, Biden is. Republicans only control the House, and that control is narrow. He will try, but he has very few people in government who support him this time.

They already won culturally, as they managed to shift the political culture closer towards theirs. They also managed to set issues that are "theirs". We see the same shit in Europe, were supposedly progressive parties are implementing the wildest dreams of racist anti-immigration, anti-refugee, anti-science and authoritarian surveillance state policies that the fascists dreamed off. All in the name of "stopping" them, while neglecting actually relevant issues like social services and infrastructure investments. Rinse and repeat and by the time the fascists take over all they have to do is remove the remaining formalities of division of power and democracy.

Frankly that is BS

Anyway what happens if he wins fair in square? Would there be a group of people who refused to accept it? Maybe even a violent mob on the capital?

I think both sides need to chill. I've seen so many people questioning the polls even though there is little evidence to back it up. We don't need mobs from either side causing chaos. I think a lot of uncertainty is coming from US adversaries who want to destabilize the US. It is scary how well it is working.

Also calling the election into question isn't a problem by itself. If they want to do a recount that is perfectly fine by me. I think it is way more important to have accurate results. Follow the law and official policies. If doing a recount means settling a dispute then go for it.

That's true.. They just need enough to start a civil war (and the entire point by Trump, and the rest of his cronies is to stay out of prison).

And all he needs to do, is start a coup, but not be 100% upfront this time. And he's been sowing those seeds.. He also needs to take over the justice system and the voting system (and he's been trying to do that too). The idea, like dealing drugs or the mafia, is to try to put measures in place so that other people get blamed

"There's a horse. In the hospital."

Yes.

I'm just going to keep riding this horse until it fucking dies but the very first thing he did was take everything Obama did during his presidency and throw it out the window, including the pandemic playbook.

That playbook would have given us step by step instructions and reactions to deal with any type of suddenly erupting national pandemic like Ebola or coronavirus.

And because of this, which was by all measures a racially motivated attack on Obama, more than 1 million Americans died in a badly managed pandemic.

Trump's racism killed a million Americans.

It undoubtedly exacerbated the problem for the entire world and his total kill count is likely much more than that.

How can you let somebody who genocided millions of people through racism sit in the oval office?

It's crazy that the vote is apparently close. Really goes to show how many "average" americans have utterly lost any connection to actual reality and have guzzled enough of the kool-aid to believe the weird whacky world of wonders the religious fascists constantly conjure up.

I wonder though, is this ultimately a failure not of the education and internal offices, decades ago? We let schools let people down, leading to them becoming undereducated terrible parents who let their kids down and made them vulnerable to be exploited by republicans and churches and crypto grifters. :(

I woke up every day worried that we'd nuked Spain overnight.

exactly what i was thinking about. it was such a tense and shameful period.

Just as insane as it is today if you ask me

If you're so concerned about 3rd parties being a spoiler, then you must work towards replacing First-past-the-post voting in your state.

With a more representative electoral system, people would be free to vote for those they feel best represent them, with their vote still being counted against the republicans.

State level electoral reform is possible, some states have already done away with FPTP voting, and others are voting on it!

Given how this structural flaw in our voting system can be repaired, and your high level of concern of the spoiler effect, I invite you to my asklemmy post to discuss your new commitment to replacing FPTP voting in your state after the election.

Voted PSL, and yah, I am terrified.

The difference is I am also terrified about what will happen with the Democrats in power. About the unlimited slop being handed to the military-industrial complex so they can ship guns to Israel to continue a genocide. About the crackdown on immigrants and refugees. About the global poor being crushed under the bootheels of American-led capitalism.

To support the Democratic party is to actively decide to place less value on the lives of non-Americans, something I simply cannot do. You want to vote for Harris as harm reduction, be my guest. But understand that the problems facing America cannot, and will not, be solved by voting. Voting should be an absolutely minor thing in the totality of your political actions. Join, start, or support a union. Find what mutual aids groups are nearby, and participate. Join protests. Pressure your local politicians. Support your comrades in their direct action campaigns. Build political power that is under your control, not the control of a system invented in the 1700s by a bunch of wealthy white slaveowners.

Hey, if they get their way, they may not be afraid of Trump. But they should still be afraid. There's only one way to beat Nazis and their enablers, and if that's the solution it takes, so be it, no sympathy for Nazis and their sympathizers.

Isn’t Jill Stein effectively a republican asset at this point? Like not just a spoiler candidate but one actively funded by the right?

You definitely are going to sleep better by not supporting any criminal with blood on his hands. There's many other things other than voting you can do to change things for good, if you are not fine with Jill Stein and believe she's evil don't vote for them either

Of course they are sleeping soundly. They'd literally be marching into the camps convinced they did the right thing.

With how few actual thoughts go through their minds I'm sure they'll sleep well enough.

I think if he loses theres a good chance that the people behind him will knock him off.

You know what works better than a hero? A martyr.

Policy-wise it is the same Grand Old Party. The vibe and rhetoric is different, but the policy is mostly all there.

The last election was almost perfectly 50/50. It think it will be very close this year as well.

I thought the same thing in 2016.

The fact that you said fortnight implies that you don't truly understand the animus of rural america

ive been disconnected. what happened?

bUt tTIs iS thE MosT iMPortANt elEcTIOn oF OUr liFeTImE..... until the next one, and then the one after that, o and the next one after that....