I’ve already cast down my bucket where I am. I have no realistic prospects of leaving the country. It’s quite possible that the humble but still prospering niche I’ve carved for myself in the last year is in imminent danger, maybe even at a personal level.

I’ll say it. I’m afraid. I knew nothing good could come of this election, but having one particular brand of fascism without even performative opposition to slow down whatever acts of revenge or just outright looting and mayhem it wants to do while the climate crisis accelerates… well, I’ll say it again. I’m afraid.

That’s the post.

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    Dem Whig 2.0 speedrun

    Paraphrasing the partiotism line about “if they took the threat seriously, all of these people (Hillary’s Kamala’s campaign staff) would’ve been led into a tiled basement with a drain in the floor for this failure”

    Real time of monsters hoursgramsci-heh

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    They did a “Hillary”[1]


    1. “Doing a Hillary” means that a person is so assured of victory that they do not do basic tasks needed to acquire said victory, which results in them losing the competition. See also: The turtle and the rabbit ↩︎

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      I don’t think they were so assured of their victory. They seemed extremely anxious the entire time because of Hillary. That said they did double down on the same centrist strategy that Hillary did.

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        I dunno, promising nothing at all indicates you are very certain you don’t need to promise anything in order to win. Biden lied thru his teeth to get in office.

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          You also can’t make promises of any real change while also pivoting right. Not making any promises was apart of the strategy of appearing as the “normal” candidate. Obviously this is a dumb as hell idea but I do think its what the Harris campaign was thinking: promise nothing and the voters have nothing to be upset about.

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    Yeah, I thought / hoped the democraps would at least keep the congress, but they sucked too much even for that. I’m really not looking forward to a fully chud government.

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    Call me a lib but I’m still doomeristic about the results.

    Liberals are so ineffectual that they have fully lost the culture wars. Climate change and pollution will accelerate and make the air much worse, more and more lgbt rights are going to be cut and for eight years straight the GOP has been on fire.

    Democrats are officially a third party as far as I’m concerned.

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      A lot of people are going to get hurt more than before, especially those perceived as enemies of the winners of the culture war.

      I have nothing funny to say about this. Humor about this escapes me now.

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        If I don’t find a way to laugh about this and transmute the disgust I feel for the average white amerikan into spite and mirth, I think I’m going to pop a vessel and go straight-up CARVER.

        …I might be jokerfying in real time i dunno

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    I’m so jealous of the people who have the money to just pack up and leave. I don’t even have a passport. I think that even tho kopmala sucks it’s only natural to feel anxiety at what’s going on. I’m just buckling up for the ride I guess. ameriKKKa strikes again

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    This solidified my decision to leave the country. I can’t believe that, with all the shit at stake, we chose to actively oppress ourselves, and honestly I don’t think I can continue to live with the people who did that. While I had already given up hope for this country, I have now truly lost any faith I had left. I guess that’s for the best, in the end. May this hasten the fall, I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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    “ouuugh i’m moving out of the country im going into the woods” that’s great man glad you have all that money in savings, the rest of us dirt poor proles have to stay here and actually try to survive.

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      If you’re talking about me, I don’t have much of anything left in savings. I can’t go anywhere further. Where I am now is all I got and survival is all I can really hope for, at best, and that may just be a matter of how long.

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    definitely cannot afford to leave, so we’re making a tiny little outpost of okay in Ohio here, so any hexbears looking to leave, if you need a stop on your way out the country, lmk ❤️

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    How did the libs fuck it up this bad?! Did they take classes? Did they get a 1910s comedy acting coach? A piece of cheese could have run a better campaign. A piece of pasteurised cheese!

    They fucked up so bad they can’t even blame us (though they will). They alienated blacks, Muslims, middle easterners of all faiths and creeds, lgbt people, moderate suburbanites, union workers, the Left, and the smallest constituency of the USA, people with souls and human empathy.

    JDPON now. Xi, launch, I am no longer asking.

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      Every neoliberal that has won in recent memory was because they had the momentum of the masses (often begrudgingly) behind them. And every time they get in power they forsake their actual base and buddy up with the people who should be their enemies.

      The Pod Save wine cave brunch Sorkinites don’t understand this. The day to day republicans they interact with are going to be Liz Cheney or W. Bush stans, so they’re willing to make concessions for them. The working class are either already MAGA poors who are people you make fun of, or begrudging Dem supporters who you take for granted. You think John Podsaveson or whatever his name is has actually ever sat down with IWW union members to hear their struggles? No, it’s “well my friend is a registered republican and he thinks Trump is vulgar!” then they spend time and money appeasing that endangered species while the average person drowns.

      And that’s assuming there isn’t an ongoing genocide that the whole world can see.