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[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago

It feels like the Lion King but Scar killed Simba as well.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

And all of the accounts that I've been tagging here for the past several months doing everything they fucking could to get Trump elected? Nowhere to be seen. What a shock.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago

Why should Dimitri log into any of his burner accounts? The job is done.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 26 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Lemmy's universe is fairly small potatoes for an election this big

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[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 184 points 13 hours ago (9 children)

So, I always thought it was just a mean bully thing to say, but, as a group, Americans really are dumber than a bag of rocks.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 29 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I used to be the guy who said things like: you can't just call a whole country stupid. Bush was bad, but mistakes happen. Okay, bush was bad, what makes you think his son is better? Got it, so you learned that he's not better. You voted a second time? Okay that's kinda stupid if you ask me. And now? What are you even supposed to say anymore? A bag of rocks can at least be hucked at some american

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[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 71 points 12 hours ago (8 children)

It’s not just Americans buddy. Open your eyes.

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 347 points 14 hours ago (71 children)

I'm trans and I'm terrified, terrified for my queer friends and family, terrified for Ukraine and Palestine, and terrified for the planet.

If you didn't vote or voted for this piece of shit, fuck you. If you voted for him, you deserve the massive inflation and shit he's about to put you through.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 96 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Harris got 15 mill less than biden. Trump got same number of votes basically.

They just slept

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 100 points 12 hours ago (25 children)

America made it clear that they will not vote for a woman. Especially a woman of color. Fuck America

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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 179 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

The Supreme Court will be changed for a generation. I’ll never see a moderate court again in my lifetime. Alito and Thomas will step down and Trump will appoint 40 year old partisans to the bench. The damage he is about to inflict on our institutions the next 2 years will be irreparable.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 11 hours ago (5 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@slrpnk.net 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

today the American people have lost to tyranny

Welcomed tyranny*

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[–] preludeofme@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago

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

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 26 points 10 hours ago

The 80 year cycle reset is upon us.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 185 points 14 hours ago (13 children)

Now watch the effects ripple through the world. Now that a guy like him can be elected, politicians around the world will take note and use the same playbook. And it will probably work.

We already felt it in France with the 2016 US election, I can't imagine what the next decade will be like...

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I see everyone pointing the finger at the wrong place. We have two corrupt privately run parties. First past the Post literally puts us here. Places like Sweden won’t have this problem because they allow their politics to represent nuance rather than two corporate parties.

sweden’s parliament a few years ago

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