• @Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    32618 days ago

    “Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda,” Walsh wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

    In other words “Damn right we lied to everybody! Thanks, suckers!”

    I guess there’s no need to even bother wearing the masks any more. Racism, misogyny and bigotry won the day. Handily. Republicans turned out in droves to sign up for more of it, and Democrats have said they’re willing to accept it rather than elect a black woman. At that point, why even bother hiding it. Everybody knows what it is, and last night they said in pretty decisive fashion that they either actively want it or are at least willing to accept it.

    We did this to ourselves. Trump made some small gains, but Harris underperformed Biden by roughly 10% or so. That means millions of Democrats sat home instead of voting for Harris, which also cost the Democrats some House and Senate seats downballot due to the lower turnout. There was no election fraud. This was a free and fair election. Trump won the popular vote. There are no excuses this time. We. Voted. For. This.

    8-10 million Democrats stayed home. I don’t care if you’re “protesting Gaza”, or if you’re a closeted bigot who would rather sit out than vote for a black woman. Or whatever. If you stayed home rather than vote for Harris, you voted for this. In the words of Rush, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”. And you made that choice knowing it was a de-facto vote for Trump.

    The GOP had a damn good night last night. And they couldn’t even wait 24 hours before cramming it right down our throats. They couldn’t even wait 24 hours to take the mask off. Give it a couple of days and I figure the national abortion ban will be the next thing they don’t bother trying to lie about any more. Why bother trying to hide it? We already said we’re cool with it.

    • @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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      Don’t forget that the Latino vote for Trump went from 25% to 45%.

      The dumb bastards voted themselves into being deported and don’t think Stephen Miller is going to have a soft spot for people here legally.

      Hes gonna come for them all.

        • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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          718 days ago

          For real. ~45% of them deserve to be round up into camps or deported. That’s what they voted for, after all.

          • @M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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            *the monkeys paw curls

            45% of the Latino population in the us that voted for Harris are deported. Or they just somehow sink Puerto Rico.

      • @telllos@lemmy.world
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        It blows my mind. But it’s the reality. In an ideal world every minority should be against Trump. But this isn’t the world we live in. There is a huge amount of immigrants who are coming from ultra conservative society.

        Some latino who are well established will happily kick the ladder so that other can’t come in.

        So it’s not super surprising. Homophobia and racism isn’t only a white people’s thing.

      • @xpinchx@lemmy.world
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        This is sort of beside the point you’re making, but a lot of 1st/2nd generation Latinos still look down on immigrants. “We did it the hard way, so they should have to as well” similar to bootstrap mentality.

        It’s some real mental gymnastics, but I’ve had several latina girlfriends over the years and some of their families were poor or super well off, but they openly hated Mexicans and/or Puerto Ricans.

        That number isn’t really that surprising.

      • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        There’s a lot of christian fundamentalists among them too, and I think the “sitting out of it” could have affected that demographic too.

      • @ATDA@lemmy.world
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        Well technically I don’t think you can vote to deport yourself since you need to be a citizen to vote federally.

        Now voting to have your friends and family removed, now we’re cooking!

    • @ashok36@lemmy.world
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      A guy at work today said he wasn’t worried about prop 3 failing because he has a medical Marijuana card. Like, dude, you’re a brown man on a list of Marijuana consumers and the modern day nazis just got elected and now wield the fbi and DEA with no guardrails. He’s fucked and he refuses to see it.

    • I will note at the rate things are going Trump has like a 85% chance of beating his 2020 numbers and a small chance of beating Biden’s 2020 numbers. It’s not JUST Harris poor turnout.

      (Also her turnout was only bad by 2020 standards, it’s still higher than John Kerry or Gore or Hillary)

    • @SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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      Blame everyone but Harris huh?

      She, along with Hillary, never once bothered to try getting Stein voters to switch to her. It was both their downfalls. Trump did all he could to get RFK voters to switch to him.

      • @Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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        3618 days ago

        I’m not saying you’re necessarily wrong. But Trump won by far more than Stein pulled away from Harris (Outside of maybe Michigan). Even if she did court those votes, it probably wouldn’t have mattered.

        But last night wasn’t the result of a political miscalculation that they realized in hindsight. She underperformed when compared to Biden by roughly 10%. 8-10 million Democrats that voted last time opted out this time. That’s a shellacking. 8-10 million people said “I’m not going to vote for Trump, but I’d first step aside and let Trump win anyway over voting for Harris.” There was nothing she could have done to win them over. Her campaign was doomed from the start. She just didn’t know it at the time.

      • @Frozengyro@lemmy.world
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        Stein has well under a million votes, her votes wouldn’t have made a difference if Harris got every single one.

        • @SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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          Tell that to the person above me. People either voted for Stein or stayed home (since Stein wasn’t on the ballot in many states).

      • …RFK Jr did just as much damage as Stein did and got almost the same number of votes despite being off a ton of important large states. He’s the reason New Mexico isn’t so close it’s a Swing State. It ain’t the greens

      • @GlobalCompatriot@lemm.ee
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        518 days ago

        They went further than that this year, instead of trying to win over disenfranchised voters they completely ignored anything to the left of Chaney

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    Mutual aid will be more important than ever, join and build up your local groups if you’re able, it will pay off in dividends in the coming years.

    This election has only proven how electoralism cannot be relied upon, it’s just us now. We need to build the world we want to live in, without corporate influence.

    • Search your local area + ‘mutual aid’.
    • Help your local food not bombs.
    • Create a worker owned cooperative with your friends if possible, or join an existing one.
    • Help spread the meshtastic network to build up communication resilience in your community.
    • Plant trees in your community to help reduce the heat island effect for the coming heatwaves.
    • Create or join a community garden near you to bolster food availability and foster connections with those around you.
    • engage in guerrilla urbanism, make your community safer to walk or bike
    • encourage your coworkers to unionize under the IWW, contact them for help on how to unionize your workplace.
    • vote in your local elections to try and have a state or city government that is less hostile to the above actions, but continue to build decentralized power independently of them regardless. Do not make the mistake of handing off the responsibility to make things better to them, it’s up to YOU, and your community, and hopefully other nearby communities doing the same, but that is all.

    We have tremendous collective power if we just use it, and hopefully this outcome will result in us coming together and building that world in the shell of the old. Collective solidarity is our only solution left.

  • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    It’s all Harris’s fault everyone so definitely do not blame the absolute human garbage who didn’t vote even knowing the stakes

        • @WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Most of them at least (misguidedly) think they are doing the best thing for themselves/the country. Non-voters just couldn’t be bothered to take any responsibility at all.

        • @Freefall@lemmy.world
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          Wow, what an incredibly stupid point to make.

          We didn’t win the race because we only put two wheels on the car. yEAh BuT whAT iF ThE fiNish linE WasNT So FAr FRoM THe StaRt…NoT thE RaCE TeaMs FAUlt.

      • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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        Really? You wouldn’t blame the millions of people that explicitly voted for a convicted, fascist criminal?

        If Americans had any sense the race would’ve been between Stein and Harris, not between Harris and someone who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a presidency.

      • @Scolding7300@lemmy.world
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        Would those votes have mattered? Last I checked on Nov 5 only 70k votes went to 3rd party and the gap between Harris and Trump was much greater

        • @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          418 days ago

          The 20 million people who voted Biden but not Harris would have mattered. Non voters are the same kind of trash as MAGA

        • @Freefall@lemmy.world
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          3rd party defenders coming out of the woodwork. Sorry you are all to blame. Let’s make it easy for these fools and just say “everyone who didn’t vote blue” instead of “3rd party and nonvoters”. Put all the garbage in the same garbage bag.

      • @b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        You should blame yourself for not pushing the democrats to take a principled stance against Israel, or any kind of benefit for working people, or anything at all that would inspire people to vote that wasn’t the gun of fascism to their heads.

        “It’s HER turn” didn’t work for Hillary and it wasn’t going to work for Kamala.

        You may now proceed to gloat in your self-satisfaction and continue to not unionize your workplace, not join a mutual aid group, not join the SRA and be flabbergasted next time your efforts to tell people online to VOTE have the same effect.

        • @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          518 days ago

          Why would I blame a german for democrat actions? I blame the voters in the US who chose fascism over democracy. These are Trump voters, Stein voters and non voters. They ensured there will never be a free election in the US again.

          And are you stupid? How can a german in germany join any of these organizations? You really are the dumbest person I argued with about this. You try to attack me personally and fail embarrassingly because you know nothing about you.

          From the tantrum you throw it looks like you are one of these vile pieces of garbage that didnt vote. Steigbügel Halter des Faschismus.

  • Repple (she/her)
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    Now that it’s clear that Harris’s really well run campaign underperformed Hillary Clinton, can we finally end the myth that some failing of her campaign strategy or “likability” was the primary reason for her loss rather than sexism and Comey’s shenanigans? It really seems like a very large number of men just won’t vote for a woman in the US.

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      That’s my big takeaway from this election. A well-qualified woman will lose to the most idiotic man possible because millions of men will just never vote for a woman. All of these people in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Michigan all showed up for Joe Biden, and all vanished for Hillary and Kamala, despite both being better candidates.

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        I heard a woman I work with, whose boss is a woman say two days before an election “I can’t vote for a woman. They are emotional and make petty choices.” And I was blown away.

      • @Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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        You are assuming everyone saw her as well qualified. Some see it as electing a party rather than a person too.

        Unfortunately for her, it was democrats that allowed corporate profiteering since the pandemic. Everytime she said the economy was doing well was idiotic.

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      I mean, her campaign was pretty awful in a lot of ways. It started out strong but since the DNC it was misstep after misstep. I dunno about you, but I love hearing the president say they’ll only be different than Biden, because they’ll have more Republicans in their cabinet. I love hearing they’re going to build the wall. I love hearing them talk all the time about the fact that Cheney endorsed them. I love hearing how profracking they are. And I love their silence on the genocide in Gaza. Certainly, sexism and racism plays a role, but let’s not kid ourselves here.

    • @Wintex@lemm.ee
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      Sorry, but she had a ton of hype and squandered it by saying she would be the same as Biden, would have the most lethal military, didn’t separate on Gaza, focused on small businesses instead of all Americans, flipflopped on Medicare and fracking in both the worst ways, picked a progressive vp and caged him in bad neoliberal talking points instead of adopting his hard agenda, and tried to push for a republican written border bill instead of trying to reframe the issue in a any progressive way. Most Americans, Republicans included care about immigration and ALSO agree on a pathway to citizenship.

      People gave her the benefit of the doubt and she told them to accept her as she wanted to be. You can’t continue to shame a voter base indefinitely, politicians are supposed to campaign in a way that wins votes.

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        618 days ago

        Hillary was a white woman. Kamala was not. Sexism isn’t the only thing at play here.

    • @djsoren19
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      “Really well run” seems like a bit of an exaggeration when people were doing vote-swaps in swing states with liberals who didn’t want to vote for her.

    • @Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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      Her campaign was awful. Her whole deal was that she was going to do more of what Biden did. You know, the guy we didn’t want to reelect so she stepped up to run? Also she pushed right the whole time. She gunned for centrist votes. She should have leaned into Walz’s policy ideas on a broader scale. In fact, walz probably would have had a pretty good chance if he were the DNC candidate. She also campaigned in the strangest places. Why on earth did she rally in Houston? She could have gone anywhere in the swing states with the Beyonce performance but she went to a city that was already going to vote blue on a state that has a moonshot’s chance to flip from red. She should have spent more time in GA, PA, and AZ. But hindsight is 2020.

    • @rishado@lemmy.world
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      No, because the truth is not as simple as that. Dems ran on a terrible campaign again, and lost again. Underselling “our” party’s shortcomings is a surefire way to another loss next cycle.

    • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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      We’ve all elected women to all kinds of positions in all kinds of states, and even both major parties. We can’t just blame that.

      • @Event_Horizon@lemmy.world
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        There’s no way to block 100% but if they went full “fire wall of America”, they could block enough to the 80% of people who don’t know how to use a vpn, it would look like they’re doing something.

        And then you get the added bonus of blocking all those nasty foreign websites talking about freedom, democracy, equal rights and more!

      • Tell you what. I just got a couple boxes of canvas. If they do “ban porn,” I’ll dedicate every one of these brand new canvasses to making erotic paintings out of spite.

        And I mean, I’m not even a porn consumer. I just fucking hate fascists.

        *though I also* happen to enjoy creating suggestive imagery, as well as painting nude figures. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • @djsoren19
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          Look as bad as today is, I’ve gotten some amount of chuckles imagining my potential role in the future of underground furry porn trading, so thank you.

      • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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        I live in a state where we now have ID verification laws. It effectively blocks the big players with the quality content.

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        Oh, a dedicated and motivated set of xtian nationalists sure could make everyone miserable over it. They elect a fascist dumbfuck and people cannot even fap in peace if it were up to them…you know, “freedom” and “small government” and all that.

    • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      He may not even have been lying. He’s demented, and he didn’t even read the daily white house briefings. There’s no way in hell he’d pick up a 900+ page document. It’s in his Christian Taliban handlers best interest to keep him in the dark. It’s not like his voter base expect him to know what his policies are, because they don’t even know. They’re just voting based on a general vibe (aka feefees).

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        It’s true, his dementia, inate stupidity and lack of interest gives him plausible deniability for many topics.

  • @_____@lemm.ee
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    I didn’t even bother reading anything about project 2025 because I thought surely it wouldn’t come to this

    • @Timmy_Jizz_Tits@lemmy.world
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      Ugh, it’s bad. Mitch McConnells life work is about to be fulfilled. Courts are stuffed with gop goons to create a legit legal precedent for unitary executive theory. It’s bad. I’m mostly worried about deportation and family separation. I think he’s going to consider that a big thank you to the loyalty of his base. The cruelty is the point for a lot of those people. I’m worried that these policies will lead to race riots by Hispanics, especially if they fuck with DACA.

      • @andxz@lemmy.world
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        If you think that’s the worst that’s going to happen I almost feel sorry for ya.

        This is 1934 all over again, but even worse.

        • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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          The only bright side is that it’s unlikely they’ll be able to implement it across the country without a civil war. Yes a civil war is the bright side

          • @andxz@lemmy.world
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            Sadly, I tend to agree. It’s not just the US either, this shit is very much a global issue.

  • Phoenixz
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    Those not voting to protest how Gaza is treated will be so proud of their action when Gaza is levelled by trump.