I see so many people talking about passports and moving. I’m on a fixed income, and barely got an apartment with my mom cosigning. I’m fucking stuck in a red state and I feel so fucking screwed.
Also lets stop acting like most of the voters were misled, lied to, bamboozled into voting for trump. They saw the racism, sexism, hate, and disrespect for the law and others and they LIKED IT. They want this. They aren’t idiots they’re fascists.
It’s important to remember there are 340 million people in the US. Only 70 million, counted so far, voted for Trump. Of those 70 million people, many of them will also be targeted by the fascists, who make up a minority of that group. We outnumber the fascists. We do a disservice to ourselves and others by making it seem otherwise.
The number one polled issue for Republican voters was the economy. They got duped by Fox fucking News. Jokes on them when the Republicans inevitably tank the economy.
The real question is will the mass deportations or the tariffs do it first. Hopefully the tariffs. If we’re going to be dysfunctional as a country, we might as well do it before making camps.
Conversely, at most 68 million people voted for Harris. That means roughly 270 million people either didn’t vote or voted for fascists, which means they’re either so disenfranchised they couldn’t vote, are idiots, were scared for their livelihoods and lied to (meaning they’re still idiots, but at least they’re also cowardly), or are fascists themselves.
I don’t know when we’ll learn, but given our ever-deteriorating education system I don’t think it’ll be anytime soon.
There’s no sense in lashing out at nonvoters. We need to organize in order to make a difference.
No sense, but I’d like to see the morons who kept bullshitting that there is any kind of sense in not voting. The dumbest fucking people anywhere
It’s hard to understate how fucking awful the accelerationism was this last year.
Given the results of the election, it seems that the accelerationists might have had the right idea.
Accelerationists have never been right, their argument is self-defeating.
The heart of the accelerationist argument is equating red and blue, claiming the blues’ inability to completely undo the damage of the reds is intentional and makes them no better – that the purpose of a system is what it does.
But by that logic, the purpose of accelerationism is to enable fascist ascent, and that makes them indistinguishable from fascists.
A burning building doesn’t get put out by watching it burn. And the fire can in fact spread to the next building. Things can always get worse because there is no bottom. Things will only get better by making them better.
The accelerationists got what they wanted. And everyone, including them, are worse off for it. We’ve gone from not utilizing the limited time window, to avert the worst of climate change, to choosing to use that time to pollute as much as possible. We may in fact succeed in reaching 5°C before 2100.
It’s likely because of them that this was the outcome. 81M votes for Biden in 2020 and 10K less this year when it really mattered?
Sorry guys. I’m not American but I’m sorry for what is probably going to happen. We can only hope not
I know. hug I know.
I’m super terrified myself. I’m scared. I don’t know what I’ll do.
Except for one thing: I’ll survive. GodDAMN that motherfucker I’ll survive. Even if I have to survive just to spite him, TRUMP WILL NOT CLAIM MY LIFE. >:(
Me too. Although I’m not out yet. I’m thinking I’ll need to scramble, now, to put in my name/passport changes before I potentially lose the chance. Of course, I don’t pass, don’t have the wardrobe, makeup or body to pass. I wanted to wait a little longer before coming out, lose weight, fix my shit, you know. Don’t have the money to do anything, change anything how I want.
Yeah umm, me and my spouse are now creating a plan to at least get us to the most blue state we can but… fuck
anybody outside the us want to adopt a cute trans girl? I’m partially housetrained already! and I only bite occasionally.
In the US and I would but I’m in the same situation unfortunately :(
I don’t know what I can do to help anyone, are there any organisations which directly protect, or perhaps help relocate at risk trans people that I can throw money at?
I had a look through the listed resources on the post election post but nothing jumped out to me, perhaps I missed something though.
I feel ill. I wish I could go back to sleep, but I’m too wound up on fear and trepidation.
And here I was thinking that my egg cracked too late to be a part of the civil rights movement.
I was planning on moving to Washington, but I really wanted another year or two to get things together first. Looks like that’s not an option anymore.
Speaking of, does anyone know of any good mutual aid groups that could use a hand in the Olympia region?
I feel sorrow for my brothers and sisters and enby pals who will have to endure these uncertain times.
I hope not too many of us die or suffer a lot. But I feel powerless to help much.
Can someone just euthanize me, it’s the human thing to do
I need to get my skills up to snuff and get a new job… the idea that I will technically be working for that failure of a human being is nauseating. I refuse to be complicit.
There’s nowhere to even fucking go, half the rest of the planet is going the same direction or is otherwise semi reliant on the US
On the other hand, if all the good people give up the fight and leave it to project 2025 to find their replacement the public as a whole will be in even greater danger.
Obviously it’s not fair to expect you to put yourself in danger for everyone else, but it might just be worth considering of forms of resistance.
I’m in a hard red state, working for a branch of government that already leans fairly red (DoD). Not even being hard on myself, I am a dime a dozen IT technician that coasted into my current position. Frankly, I think I’ve wanted out for a while now, there’s just nowhere else to work in the area.
That’s unfortunate but I understand, I just didn’t want the thought of working for him to be the only reason. Be safe.
- Smorty [she/her] ( @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•11 hours ago
I’m not a US person, but I would like to know what exactly is so bad about the trump man.
Besides looking funi and not being all that cool, did his win last time influence trans people that much?
Or is he just really pushing the anti-trans agenda harder this time?
Maybe I missed a twitter post or something, I’m just confused about why people are only now thinking of moving out.
Did you see the whole project 2025 thing?
- Smorty [she/her] ( @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•10 hours ago
Nope I did not see the whole project 2025 thing. Imma look at it now and probably edit this comment when I’m done
Key points include classifying “transgender ideology” as pornography, banning porn and making it a sex offense, introducing the death penalty for sex offenders. All those together…
- Smorty [she/her] ( @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•7 hours ago
Sooo they wanna ban porn (people totally gonna like that), making it classify as a sex offense and then point at transgender people and allys and say
look, they're offending me!?That’s actually insane
Its… Scary. I’m not even in the US and it terrifies me.
- Smorty [she/her] ( @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English10•10 hours ago
Ok WOAH this is scary! This reads like a dictatorship and strong influence of the people leading the country.
Also
Eliminating woke propaganda at every level of government.sounds like such a shitpost, but they seem to mean it.Removing critical race theory and gender ideology curricula in every public school in the country.Ok oof. They really mean it.Using the word “woke” in official political messaging really has thrown me for a loop this election cycle.
And yeah. This shit is scary. Trump tries to downplay how linked he is to this, but its a facade and a bad one at that.