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Yes. We know it is.
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If by "we" you're referring to the American people as a whole, then no, no we don't. So many people I talk to are treating this like just another 4 years of republican shenanigans; I rarely find someone in real life who understands just how close we are to all-out war.
Yup, even my democratic friends think things will be fine.
It's because they are too comfortable, not affected personally yet.
They spent the last X election cycles pushing back against the sky is falling hyperbole every time a new administration came to power. They’re used to brushing this off. They are following their programming.
Meanwhile the whole time we were raping and pillaging the world (like actually, literally) and they pretended we weren’t the bad guys on the news and in the books.
They haven’t snapped out of it yet. They won’t until the pumps run dry and the grocery shelves sit empty, and then they’ll wonder how it got this bad.
I am actually taking a real assessment of how I want to be spending my time. The future was never "guaranteed", and it's never been guaranteed to anyone. But it feels a lot more tenuous now.
That's scary
Yup. I’m in my 30s and my (now retired) parents legitimately are like “come over for dinner but no politics!” My brother is a couple years younger (also in his thirties) and has fallen so blindly to the Facebook misinformation MAGA loop. And it’s really frustrating to just pretend like everything is fine. I love my family, but they are fucking stupid and it’s exhausting to play dollhouse with them like we don’t live in the world we do.
It is known.
So it shall be written
It’s funny how so many people always praise every word that man says, but when he urged everyone to vote for Harris…
crickets.
Because she's just melanin hillary. The last 2 decades of democratic nominees have practically been soulless robots that mean well but bore the everliving shit out of anyone when giving long speeches and explanations. Not that it's wrong at all, in fact it makes perfect sense in a live audience context where you have undivided attention in the room. However, television and internet are short attention mediums and unfortunately, right wing talk shows and radio and podcasts have DOMINATED that realm of information. Democrats simply aren't "hip with it" anymore at all and no amount of explaining will fix it. They need to have a 45 or unders with 20s energy being as loud and mad as the democratic party actually is at this idiocracy, and non stop shouting it on all mediums with taglines and hashtags. Instead we get people like Gore who bore you to sleep and Hillary who platforms as safe yet uncaring.
Well it’s a good thing we avoided that catastrophe, isn’t it??
No, he started off by urging people to vote for him.
I dont know if its possible to reverse course anymore. The world has seen what Trump is.
Maybe we passed the point of no return, but doesn't mean there's nothing you can do to prevent further damage.
Bernie is right about a good many things, as usual.
It’s messed up how few like him there are ☹️
It's more dangerous than if we were unpresidented
from another thread:
...they have broken norms, you're telling the truth is good, needed and wanted...what the fuck are we doing? no offense to the ~3to5 million who showed up yesterday
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