• Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
    311·
    4 hours ago

    The most annoying thing over the next few years is going to be listening to:

    “What happened to my helthcare?” "You voted for Trump who promised to take it away. " “But I didn’t think it would effect me!”

    “Why are the prices of groceries so high?” “You voted for Trump who promised to deport all the illegal farm workers who picked your food for low wages.” “But I didn’t think it would effect me!”

    “Why did my daughter/wife/girlfriend/mother die in a hospital parking lot?” “You voted for Trump who promised to make life saving healthcare for women illegal nation wide.” “But I didn’t think it would effect me!”

    “What happened to the minimum wage?” “You voted for Trump who promised to lower it.” “But I didn’t think it would effect me!”

    “What happened to the Palestinians?” “You voted for Trump/voted for a third party candidate which allowed Trump to rise to power then he gave Netanyahu the go ahead to wipe them out.” “But I didn’t think that would happen to my family!”

    Suck it up. This is your bed. You shat it in. Now lie there and be quiet. We’re tired of your bullshit.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    25·
    8 hours ago

    Oohh, totally forgot about Taiwan

    So that will be a new Chinese provence within 4 years

    Ukraine will be new Russian territory soon

    Palestine will be new Israel soon

    Man, the joy

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
    38·
    10 hours ago

    Enjoy president Vance America. Trump will die soon or will just Golf while Vance and his project 2025 people run the show

  • perestroika@lemm.ee
    59·
    13 hours ago

    Quick analysis: the US flushed itself down the toilet.

    • Likely fact: Republicans now control all 4 towers of the castle (president, senate, house of representatives and surpreme court).

    • Conclusion: the situation allows Republicans to steamroll legislation into force.

    • Further conclusion: US voters really don’t understand what they are doing.

    Climate: it’s bad, but one president’s rule is short. Trump will withdraw from the Paris treaty and sabotage domestic attempts to curb emissions. Europe and China will continue their attempts because they haven’t changed, and they want energy independence. Climate is a system with great inertia. We are beaten by the mistakes of previous decades, new generations will be beaten by our mistakes. Increasingly hard.

    Ukraine: the situation is very bad. The Biden administration won approval for 60 billion of support in spring, but according to Zelensky, only 10% has been delivered so far. Unless the DoD hurries the hell out of itself, Trump will close the tap on aid that Biden secured. Trump will try diplomacy, but Putin’s administration is made of a different sort of people. They are running for life while Trumpists are running for lunch. Putin will politely send him where sun doesn’t shine and continue grinding meat, now with an added flavour of North Korean. Ukraine faces a very difficult choice: fight a retreating war in conditions of decreasing aid, hoping that revolutionary conditions arise in Russia… or make peace with the attacker, giving them territory. Ukraine will need all the assistance it can get from anywhere. Knowing this, and knowing the risk of a Trump re-election, I started developing a drone system 6 months ago. It has gone through many iterations and might be capable of combat in the coming month. I didn’t sign up to live in a world like this, but hey, you take what you’re given. :(

    If the war in Ukraine gives Putin territory and peace as a result, Putin and his heirs know that you can get territory and peace with war: any place in Eastern Europe could be next.

    In summer, Congress locked away the keys for leaving NATO, but Republicans now control both houses and Trump has cleansed the party of dissenters. Trump can credibly threaten to withdraw from NATO or actually do it.

    Taiwan needs to find more alliances, because the US might become unreliable, and China knows this. The rest of the world needs to think if they can do without electronics during a Chinese attempt to conquer Taiwan.

    Democracy in the US: will be dismantled in favour of something like Hungary. We will see ministers who are oligarchs like Musk or irresponsible liars like Kennedy. Since the storm is near-perfect, I predict that democracy will give way to oligarchy. Risk of disturbances, repressions and internal conflict will grow.

    Until now, only unstable people wanted to assassinate Trump. Given these conditions, I predict that stable but ruthless people who see a danger to their future will join the game. They will reason as follows: “risk has reached certainty and there is still time to prevent outcomes”. If I was working in the Secret Service, I would increase protection on Trump 10 times (unless I hated him).

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      161·
      11 hours ago

      One big difference between Hungary and the US are guns. It’ll either can lead to a revolution much easier than in Hungary, or a Krystalnacht that is followed by the return of KKK-style lynchings.

      For Ukraine, peace is not a real option. They can choose between war and being oppressed by Putin. And now, how they want to go out in history: in a war with glory, or under Putin’s boot who tells them: “no, you’re Russians, speak Russian”. I refuse to call “ethnic cleansing” peace. At best, it’s just the illlusion of such, because tanks are not crossing state borders.

      Fascists like Trump choose their henchman based on loyalty, not skills. He will just get a lot of badly trained soldiers as basically meat shields.

      • margaritox@lemmy.world
        7·
        7 hours ago

        Not only that, but “peace“ deal with Putin will only benefit Putin, as it will give him time to regroup and improve his strategy, while the military aid to Ukraine stops. Then he’ll say: “oh shit! Ukraine is attacking us again! They broke the peace deal” and continue the invasion. 

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 hours ago

      This may be misremembering, but I thought I once heard of some people in Taiwan (a small, but vocal, number) liked Trump because of his “China Bad” rhetoric.

      It’s not quite as spicy from my side of the world (Australia), but I really do not like the idea of our closest military ally being controlled by a fascist.

      Just seems like risky business, ya know?

    • perestroika@lemm.ee
      27·
      13 hours ago

      I live in Eastern Europe, and seriously recommend your people start researching nuclear weapons. :(

      • needanke@feddit.org
        2·
        1 hour ago

        France and the UK still have nuklear weapons, I would think the rest of the millitary would be more of a problem.

        I would suspect both sides would not use nuklear weapons unless they get really desperate. So what is currently deturring Putin from attacking eastern europe is the thread of the reagular US millitary just kicking his ass and having no chance of gaining any land. But if it was just nato without the US he might gamble on them not using their nukes if he just takes, say northern Finnland, which he might think is feasable without US-troops.

    • Eunie@feddit.org
      51·
      9 hours ago

      I think Taiwan will be fine… for now. Trump is so Anti-China I doubt the US will drop its support. Eastern Europe however is basically fucked now

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    99·
    16 hours ago

    Because so many people in the United States have elected to stab themselves - and EVERYONE else along with them - with a rusty knife, out of ignorant rage and lazy ignorance.

  • SassyRamen@lemmy.world
    81·
    17 hours ago

    Don’t forget South Korea. Do you really think America will be on their side this time around with Dump and Kim being kissing friends?

    • Resand@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Honestly at this point, in a 1 on 1 war between south and north, I’d wager on South. Will still suck super bad tho

      • Ascend910@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        15 hours ago

        Don’t they already got all the technology in place and all they need is time?

        • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          7 hours ago

          I think so, iirc South Korea, Japan and a few european nations are considered functionally nuclear capable in that they have all the material, fascilities and scientific knowledge to assemble nukes in a very short timeframe should it become desirable.

  • tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz
    18·
    15 hours ago

    If it is of any solace, the global oligarchs will be safe and well through all that is about to unfold.

  • riodoro1@lemmy.world
    551·
    14 hours ago

    Do you guys seriously believe everything would be fine if he didn’t win?

    The world was as fucked yesterday as it is today. You just didn’t see it on the news. Does it matter if the civilization ends a week earlier?

    • Zink@programming.dev
      1·
      59 minutes ago

      Do you guys seriously believe everything would be fine if he didn’t win?

      Of course not, and nobody is saying that. But it would be better. Harm reduction is good even though we can’t actually ever fix the world.

      Does it matter if the civilization ends a week earlier?

      Um, yes? It’s safe to say that both you and I will die some day. I’d rather that be in 100 years versus tomorrow.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      13·
      7 hours ago

      We fear it will be a decade or more earlier. We fear the difference between my children having a habitable environment and my children having to deal with ever increasing climate disasters. We fear losing human rights, consumer protection, any semblance of a safety net. We fear increasing polarity in what is already an untenable situation. We fear descending into chaos and tyranny, and taking parts of the world with us.

    • 5715@feddit.orgDeutsch
      351·
      14 hours ago

      Does it matter if the civilization ends a week earlier?

      Yes.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2368·
    16 hours ago

    No, I’m sorry, I just don’t think Kamala is making Gaza the number one issue, which is why I think the only reasonable choice is to either not vote, or vote Stein.

    edit: I cannot believe I have to add /s

    Literally every fucking election they pull this same shit, and every fucking election WE FALL FOR IT LIKE MORONS!!!

    The morons on the other side fall for “Trump is obviously a good Christian!”, but we fall for this which is almost as transparent as “Hey, look over there!”