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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

We have lost, democracy has lost, today the American people have lost to tyranny. All the Americans can do now is collect themselves and reorganize, the next four years will be the toughest years in American history and its effects will ripple across the world.

[–] null 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

today the American people have lost to tyranny

Welcomed tyranny*

"Sure we're all fucked, but at least by not voting I defended the white man's natural right to rule! We were never gonna vote for an uppity black woman who's better than the alternative by every conceivable measure, and the Democratic party failed us for not acknowledging that. If we ever get elections again, maybe they'll have learned their lesson!" - non-voting racist sexist "democrats" in the USA

[–] preludeofme@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago

That's if it's only 4 years....

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 135 points 23 hours ago (10 children)

You reap what you sow, America.

It's going to be wild seeing the mass round-up of all the Latinos who voted for him.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 107 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

you likely won't see it, as freedom of the press will likely be one of the first things to go out the window

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[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 119 points 23 hours ago

You dumb fucks.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 93 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I'm in shock... Good luck to you, American Democracy. It was nice knowing ya.

This time there's no saying you didn't know. This time there's no saying "well more voters wanted different". You get what you get, apparently enough people fall for "look over there" types of distractions in politics.

The clock to progress has been set back at least 10 years. I know digital-age low-information fascism is on its way to Canada and I am definitely not ready.

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 26 points 19 hours ago

The 80 year cycle reset is upon us.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 86 points 23 hours ago (13 children)

Kind of an unsatisfying but still well deserved "TOLD YOU SO" moment... I knew those fuckers would be moronic enough to vote for this shit faced fascist again, while everyone told me to expect a Harris landslide... The fact that everyone talked about fucking grocery prices, tech research, housing prices, kids, abortions, and other (in the grand scheme of things) irrelevant bullshit that won't matter anymore, while we're literally about to seal the deal on our fate as a species, tells you clearly that no one wants to understand where we're headed and what's at stake.

But since nothing matters anymore, here's some more predictions from yours truly:

  • The US will turn into a fascist state (Tankies: AcKcHyUaLlY... ☝🏻🤡)
  • Ukraine is going to get fucked by Russia, genociding them for good. The only chance here would be if NATO went in to liberate Ukraine before Trump is inaugurated, but neither Biden nor the rest of the West is going to have the balls for that.
  • Moldova will follow right after.
  • Taiwan will get fucked by China.
  • The world will fall into an economic crisis due to the fall of TSMC.
  • The rise of far right extremism & politics will continue within Europe.
  • NATO Alliance will be practically gone.
  • Far right countries in Europe will join Russia.
  • Russia & Friends will invade and annex the Baltic States.
  • The world globally failing to do anything to curb emissions will fall into a climate collapse. Causing food and water shortages, severe natural disasters, millions upon millions of climate refugees - which will get shot at the borders due to the now far right policies. All other issues above will amplify with the world state worsening and becoming more and more unstable.

TLDR: Nothing fucking matters anymore, we're done. Thanks, you dumb fucks.

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[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 75 points 22 hours ago (8 children)

I voted for Harris but I can't help but feel democrats did this to themselves. We've held a decent amount of power over the last 20 years but have done shockingly little. Just slowly letting our country dry and shrivel, leaving people increasingly desperate. Times like these make people seek change, ANY CHANGE, including voting for a dictator. Status-quo politics will fail every time during times like these. Who wants to die slowly?

All authoritarian countries are born from desperation. Chinese communist party, Nazi Germany, the USSR, Iran, North Korea and soon America.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 72 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (32 children)

Called it, using Allan Lichtman's own 13 keys principle (in ways that he himself overlooked), and on a heavily downvoted comment.

Where I was wrong was with how narrow the result would he. It wasn't even Gore v Bush levels of close unlike when Lichtman's 13 keys prediction previously failed. Kamala lost the popular vote to a convicted felon that tried to usurp democracy and is the reason why abortion is no longer a federal right. The Republicans spent the last few weeks crapping on Haitians and Puerto Ricans, yet won some districts with large Latino populations.

This is what happens when Democrats ignore their voter base and choose a cabal of unpopular and uncharismatic candidates to carry the torch. The bar is now so low that we need James Cameron to venture out into the Mariana Trench and lift it back up again...

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