• REgon [they/them]
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    118 months ago

    Hahaha you think it’s going to end after the election? Midterms are coming up in just a little over two years! Not to mention counting the votes!

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    748 months ago

    You will not stop hearing about it after it ends because 1/6 of the country will believe the election was stolen regardless of the result.

  • GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]
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    88 months ago

    Agreed. It will be tragic if the election continues for another week like last time in Georgia. Which means, because the lathe turns, it will actually end in an electoral tie and the election will be decided by months of debate in Congress.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    178 months ago

    election season is every 2 years and most of my life it lasted for 4 years, but now that all the elections are stolen/challenged, it’s more like 4.5 years with recalls reducing the season to like 1-1.5 years.

    it is an efficient and extravagant system for fundraising.

  • Yukiko [she/her]
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    148 months ago

    I’m sick and tired of it. The commercials are disgusting and annoying and I’m sick of hearing them when I just want to watch 80s Price Is Right

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    258 months ago

    Eh, I’m kind of looking forward to it. We all know we won’t get to see anyone we like win, I made my peace with that years ago. But I will get to see a large group of Americans that I really despise lose. And they will not be able to handle it.

    • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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      8 months ago

      Fuckin mood. I feel like one of those jackasses watching the first Manhattan Project tests from afar. There will come a day where I quote Oppenheimer regarding these times; but right now? I just wanna watch the geyser of liberal tears that are certain to occur like the first mushroom cloud to fruit skyward from afar with a pair of binoculars in one hand, and a blunt between the fingers of the other.

      Red or blue, doesn’t matter to me. I just know it’s gonna be some fuckery and I can’t wait to watch.

  • ItalianMessiah [he/him]
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    158 months ago

    No, they’re gonna delay it a week before to keep the rest of the world on edge while our politicians just edge to it.

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      298 months ago

      We can push the Dems left after that election. It’s important to vote blue no matter what in ‘26 because Glorb Shitto is pushing for horrible policy. ‘28 is president year, and we gotta Vote Blue and never question.

      Maybe in 2030 if the Republicans aren’t trying to take away rights… we might be able to slightly nudge the Dems left, but politely, and after informing them we we’ll still vote no matter what. agony

  • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]
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    8 months ago

    My wife and I are going on an international vacation and will be in the air through election night and into the next day. It’s on a Boeing, so assuming we don’t crash it’s going to be our own little sanity preservation chamber. Hoping that we can make it through the whole two weeks without even hearing about the results.

  • @[email protected]
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    48 months ago

    Hate to admit it, but the US president election result will affect the entire world.

    The election of “the most powerful man/woman on earth” is no joke.

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      I agree, which is why it’s even sadder that it is a joke. And even if you think they’re different domestically, they’re identical on foreign policy.

      So the rest of the world already knows what’s coming in that regard. I’m just sick of hearing about it.

      • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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        58 months ago

        I feel like Trump is probably gonna be a little lighter on Ukraine and a little heavier on Taiwan/Palestine, but it’s only by degrees

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          heavier on Palestine

          Heavier than billions of dollars in genocide equipment and full-throated legal and military protection and collaboration? I don’t think America will, or really can, kill them much harder than they currently are being killed. The other two may be true, but that is a light give-and-a-take.

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            “I had a bad experience with Bibi,” Trump says. In his telling, a January 2020 U.S. operation to assassinate a top Iranian general was supposed to be a joint attack until Netanyahu backed out at the last moment. “That was something I never forgot,” he says. He blames Netanyahu for failing to prevent the Oct. 7 attack, when Hamas militants infiltrated southern Israel and killed nearly 1,200 people amid acts of brutality including burning entire families alive and removed women and girls. “It happened on his watch,” Trump says.

            our big wet boy thinks that Bibi isn’t murderous enough. this is also not posturing and chest beating, this is actual action

            https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

            that, and

            Trump says he would join Israel’s side in a confrontation with Iran. “If they attack Israel, yes, we would be there,” he tells me. He says he has come around to the now widespread belief in Israel that a Palestinian state existing side by side in peace is increasingly unlikely. “There was a time when I thought two-state could work,” he says. “Now I think two-state is going to be very, very tough.”

            complete elimination of Palestine

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      108 months ago

      Changing the figurehead on the ship of international capital doesn’t do much to change its direction