the speed at which the US is falling apart is astounding

complete subversion of the organs of government by corporate forces

the almost immediate erasure of anything trans-related

families being ripped apart, people being deported and dehumanized in general

it feels like a prelude to the violence

the tech freak fascists have the reins now

the thiels, musks, and yarvins of the world get to see their vision carried out in amerikkka

the world burns

  • xiaohongshu [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    That’s the point. The system is designed to punish. You’re supposed to be afraid.

    They want people to get a taste of what will happen for thinking that they could withhold their votes to defy the system. If you don’t vote for us, we’ll make sure you’ll suffer even worse.

    The real question is how many people who sat out of the election will start voting for Democrats again.

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      voted blue like a chump. At the time I thought it was just a meaningless red state vote but now i feel like it was than worthless, it was actively harmful… anything that legitimizes demonrats as a party is just feeding into the same mechanisms that let them snuff out any hope for change over the last 40 years

      and even then they would still punish people like me for being too far left and not buying into third-way-ism so fuck em. fuck em all and never let anyone tell you otherwise

      it’s been said before but electoralism really is a fuck

      The real question is how many people who sat out of the election will start voting for Democrats again.

      good question, honestly after the biden administration i feel like their remaining goodwill is rapidly dwindling. Beyond being completely ineffectual to begin with theyre now an opposition party with zero power, so theyre worse than useless… people are really mad rn and theyre not doing anything, whether that’s because they won’t or can’t doesn’t really matter I think