Post-election blues

Most likely, you're on the track.

Unless you're a cis straight white man...
- They hate their own followers just as much as anybody else. Anybody who thinks the leopards won't eat their faces is delusional.
- Better also be financially well off
- Who's not openly atheist...
  Lucky I'm not and would be willing to hide people if necessary.
- Unless your poor.
I'm Canadian, but I think after next year I'll be on our own track, only with a slightly smaller and less effective train
- But there'll be a friendly announcement apologizing to the people about to be run over, right?

I tried to pull the lever but lost to all the people pulling the other way.

It wasn't even exactly that. It was MILLIONS of people who voted Democrat previously just sitting this one out. I don't think there are 15 Million "Gaza or bust" voters so this was just pure ignorance...
"Trump is horrible, but the Democrats made inflation. I'm not voting for either." (Conveniently forgetting COVID and the necessary cash injection that helped keep people paying bills on time and kept businesses afloat to be there to rehire when lockdowns ended.) Ignorance...
Not that it was perfectly executed by any stretch of the imagination, but the alternative was everyone "non-essential" goes broke and businesses everywhere collapse. There was no world where we just didn't do lockdowns, we don't have the luxury of hindsight when something new happens obviously. We probably didn't need the lockdowns because COVID spread regardless :(
- I don’t think there are 15 Million “Gaza or bust” voters so this was just pure ignorance…
  I believe there were 15 million "oh look, Harris is besties with Liz Cheney and continuing the half assed approach that Dems keep doing so who fucking cares' people. I totally see why her poll numbers kept dropping over the course of her campaign after a strong start.
  I still voted for her, but at that point is was just another vote against Republicans.
- Hey now, you cannot blame voters. Only rage into the void about Democrats, that's the only thing that can help. I mean it clearly worked before, right!? /s
  Source: many Lemmy users.
- There was no world where we just didn’t do lockdowns
  Maybe the world where Trump implemented the pandemic response plan that Obama left for him. But, no, we got Mr. Inject-Bleach-And-Shove-A-Lightbulb-Up-Your-Ass.
- We probably didn't need the lockdowns because COVID spread regardless :(
  Gee I wonder why that happened. Couldn't have been this
- Yeah, I would be utterly shocked if the Gaza issue lost her that many votes.
  It's utterly detestable how short voter memory is.

Yup. Robert Reich posted something that ended with "Take a moment to breathe, then let the resistance begin."
And like, buddy, I'm sorry to say, if your resistance is only just beginning, then you are resisting the wrong thing and you will be ineffective. You should be fighting the entire empire, not just the unmasked pieces of it.
The election is your chance to ask for your preferred enemy, but if you don't get it, your job doesn't change.
I wonder how many fellow lefties work for Xitler's empire who are planning sabotage ops. As long as the payload wasn't humans, watching a SpaceX rocket spectacularly fail would put a smile on my face, knowing that silent resistance is in motion
Turn that bolt just a few degrees to the wrong direction
Syntax errors? WOMM
LFG, burn this mother fuckers scam empire to the ground
We'll make it to Mars on our terms, once we have a home to return to
- I had a chance to buy a Tesla. Chose not to. Chose a Volvo instead. All heroes don't wear capes.
  Hmm. I should buy a cape. Hey Google, remind me to buy a cape.
A general strike? Protests? Before this election I would have agreed with you. Now... half or more of the workers you'd need to pull that off voted for Trump.
A general strike right now would basically just be leftists self-blacklisting themselves and doing the fascists work for them.
If there's anything this election has shown, it's that there's no unity on the left. Who are we organizing with since it's clear that the cultists are a lost cause and the left can't be relied on to show up when it matters most?

Might be a lot smaller than a lever, but if you are a republican don't stand there empty handed. Grab your dick and start jerking that puppy. This is what you always wanted you dumb sick fuck.

Eh, he might be a cis het white Christian who hates what's going on?
- Me. I have a sense of building survivors guilt as I watch my LGBTQ+ friends panic. I'm offering them support but I am aware that I can personally avoid being targeted and it pisses me off. Why should I get to be relatively okay while my friends suffer an incoming genocide? The thoughts that come from that feel self destructive. Like hurting myself just to prove I had something to lose. In reality the best thing I think I will be able to do is help my friends under all circumstances and go from there. Maybe join my local Socialist organization to assist in a larger assistance for the coming years. Idk man.
DNC leadership should be tied to the track.

From your moral high ground knowing you didn’t vote for genocide

"I didn't vote for genocide."
"Good for you. Here's some genocide."
- Exactly. Except this genocide comes with a side of racism, sexism, and crime.
- I think previous poster is being critical of the moral high grounders that just sold the planet out, not actually supporting that shit.
  SpongeBob "We did it, Patrick!" meme energy.
  Looking at their comment history, they don't appear to be a dipshit.
LMAO. Do you really think that? You have the moral inferiority because you are part of the reason for the pain and terror getting much worse, both in Gaza and for every minority in the US. A direct consequence of you and your likeminded's actions.
- I was attempting to criticize the people who simply couldn’t vote for Harris for moral reasons, leading to a lower turnout than Biden in 2020, and allowing Trump to win.
  I somehow failed to convey my point with that comment. Sorry for the confusion.
This will be everyone in Gaza when rapey gets in power.
You sure showed us who's in charge of the party. And didn't give a shit about anything else.
Voted for Harris, btw.
- I’m not trying to argue, but I honestly don’t follow. Do you mean the DNC?

I mean you could also take the "don't buy from US based corporations for 1 year challenge" starting january 1st 2025. Stock up on any corporate goods you need now then buy nothing for a year.

The pandemic market rallied because of a bailout after consumer spending plummeted. Would be a shame if the same thing happened and suddenly there was no emergency for a bailout to sail under.

They won't have time and energy for persecuting people if the economy is broken.

Record/pirate a bunch of movies/shows then cancel streaming for a year. Buy any electronics now before the tariffs start. Buy surplus canned food etc. Then see how little you can spend the entire year of 2025. Planning on doing tourist stuff inside the US? Don't. If you work at a big corporation consider deleting an important email and see what happens.

Lets fuck around.

Go extreme minimalist. Buy practically nothing you can live without. Boycott everything. Politicians only listen to their gdp and stock numbers.

As a non-american, yup...

You could always blow up the trolley.

Who could?
- You could! With the power of reading!

You can yell at the train driver, you can make a team to stop the train, you can start building a new track, you can become a train driver yourself.

I would become a train driver myself. Same track but a better view.

No.

Then you're going to have to learn some double-thing and join the fascists to make yourself feel better. Because Americans tend to hold feelings far more important than facts.
- No. I won't just watch. I will fight

Victims are too white...

Most of the darker skinned ones were already run over further back on the track.

And this is why libs are made fun of for their feckless electoralism.

Try organizing and building mutual aid networks instead of just sitting on your ass and watching.

Maybe in 4 years you'll be better prepared.

If only there was some🔻thing we could do.

Why? I'm tired to the tracks just like you.
- That sounds like less of a why issue and more like a how issue.

Why would you waste so many prison slaves?

Also, why are you all so worried? Surely the cops will protect us! That was the plan after eventually disarming the working class right? Are yall saying that the democratic party was wrong to pursue gun control?

Funny how it's the Dems fault the conservatives elected a fascist leader.
- Its the DNC's fault. They ran a masterclass on how to lose to a dementia afflicted fascist clown.
laughs like a school shooting

This metaphor has always been poor. Trains are locked on tracks. Harris's campaign could have steered away from biden and his low approval rating, distance from the voters, and genocide, at any moment she wanted to. She wasnt locked on tracks. She chose to steer toward the right the entire last month of her campaign, losing a trickle of voters from her base every single day. She chose to steer away from addressing peoples complaints about reduced buying power instead of sympathizing with them. She chose to say she'd put republicans on her staff if elected, and listen to their ideas. She chose to take the AIPAC bribes. She wasnt at all locked on tracks and being forced to take that money. No one did this TO her. She did it to us.

Pretending she had no choices in order have someone else to blame for her choices is a really unfortunate takeaway, and dooms the party to continuing to think in ways that will lose. The massive unpopular -- historically so even-- incumbent lost. Thats what happened.

Can we stop pretending this election was about Gaza?
- It was about Gaza for a lot of us. Shall we stop pretending it was about the economy either? Shall we stop pretending Biden had some of the lowest approval polls on record for a president going into reelection and that Harris couldnt put together any departure from Bidens ideas? While we're at it lets all pretend Biden was one of the all time greatest presidents, regardless of his approval ratings.
  Any other realities you want us to "stop pretending" about, in order to make you feel better?

So the question is do you watch or turn away?

The little engine that could

I’m not watching