SupremeAC said:So what's election mania like stateside? It's becoming intollerable here with about half of the news articles focusing on the US elections. It's nearly a good thing that we've had the floodings in Spain to at least ofer a diversion from the news about the US.
It's been intolerable here for a couple months. I'd say that it's all going to blow over in just a couple more days, but it's going to be a very tight race. Accusations of election fraud are going to be yelled as soon as it's over. Trump even accused election fraud when he won the first time, because he thought there were some states that he should have won by more. Unless Harris wins by some dramatic unexpected amount, shit's going to go on for months over here.
Trump won.
On the bright side, my prediction was correct! That's the important thing.
robio said:Not to try and sound overly dramatic, but as I scroll through my social media, I get the same feeling I do when I walk my dog through the neighborhood after a hurricane hits.
Like the worst of it is behind you and you're out in the sun again?
SupremeAC said:
Like the worst of it is behind you and you're out in the sun again?
More like you stayed up all night being stressed. And technically it is over now, but you're walking along looking at the damage and you realize it's going to take about 4 years to get through it.
Well, at least you'll get some good meme's out of it?
Her deference to the party, her donors and political elite + her endless and unshakable support for an ongoing genocide in the middle east, is something I couldn't stomach.
I'm disgusted with politics right now, in my own country and around the world. I don't even believe we live in a democracy anymore.
When the same 2 parties swap power every few years, is this really the only choice we ever get? It's pathetic.
I think I’ll play some Fallout to prep myself for how the world is going to be like. Also going to start saving my bottle caps.
SupremeAC said:Well, at least you'll get some good meme's out of it?
I've already seen a good one that said with Trump winning, all Americans are Floridians now
I might have been quiet around here but I still exist and will continue to do so, even if it's against the wishes of the majority of voters.
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There are no real words to use for this nonsense. This is the times we live in, media is being controlled by megalomaniac billionaires. Misinformation is more important than truth. People would rather an asshole, lying, racist, rapist, felon be president than allow certain people to have equal rights or just be called what they want to be called. That's the country we live in, they aren't hiding it anymore.
Apparently the 10 richest people in the world just got 64 billion dollars richer when Donald Trump won the election. Elon Musk was at the top of the list.
Archangel3371 said:Apparently the 10 richest people in the world just got 64 billion dollars richer when Donald Trump won the election. Elon Musk was at the top of the list.
lets be real though, that's small change to them. I don't think those 10 people even noticed that.
I don't know what disturbs me more. 4 years of Trump eroding the constitutional state, or his billionaire bromance who runs twitter like it's his personal plaything getting a say in how a country should be led.
SupremeAC said:Apparently Musk chimed in on a call between Trump and Zelenski.
I don't know what disturbs me more. 4 years of Trump eroding the constitutional state, or his billionaire bromance who runs twitter like it's his personal plaything getting a say in how a country should be led.
He already did through bribery lobbying, anyway.
Now we just all shout at each other like opposing football teams.
Globalisation "failed" and people are pissed. Let's face it, it's the economy and inflation.
It was a comment on the purpose and nature of the violence, so more so the former. Ethnic cleansing is openly the goal of Israel according to public policy both in the long and short term, and numerous statements from a variety of government officials. Ethnic cleansing is achieved not through battles, but mass murder.
Personally I don't think it will cost them too much international goodwill in a way that matters. The closest comparison in recent history is apartheid South Africa, and while Western governments were in support of apartheid even though a lot of their citizens were not, South Africa being an apartheid state offered increasingly insignificant material benefit to them, so when people got super shitty about it there wasn't too much to lose by letting it fall.
Israel, on the other hand, is fantastic for Western governments. It's not only economically-alligned like, say, the Saudis, but culturally, too. All the better for tormenting the barbarians in the Middle East. And it has the even better added bonus in that it can be used as a Jewish scapegoat for enacting Western-backed and funded policy in the region. What's not to love about it if you're a Western politician? Let the Jews turn your own policies into a hysterical revenge fantasy so that they face all the flack for it. It's genius, and pretty in line with how Jews have been used throughout European history. Give them the dirty but necessary jobs, then blame them for carrying them out when you put them in that position in the first place! It's kinda funny if you think about it.