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  • daikiki@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    We’re doomed. If 51% of the country has decided, based on a neverending stream of lies, that we should all die rather than receive basic health care, then there’s really nothing much left to argue about. America has has decided it would rather commit suicide than acknowledge that there are people who DO know what they’re talking about and actually listen to them.

    That’s it. We’re done. We’re all gonna die of some easily preventable plague because we didn’t fucking ostracize these idiots twenty years ago. The country is now run by the people who actually believe the comical lies the GOP used to tell to keep the idiots compliant. I don’t think you can come back from that.

    • Fondots@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Although if we want a more pessimistic view

      If we assume that “eligible voters” is a roughly representative sample of the country in general, well over 51 percent of the country either voted for this (directly by voting for trump, or indirectly by voting 3rd party) or didn’t care enough to even show up and vote.

      Because that’s what happened. Something like 3/4 of eligible voters decided that this was an acceptable outcome.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      It’s just history man. Most of us in the first world are, for the first time, on the wrong end of it. The Expanse called it the churn.

      Some part of me is laughing, “Have y’all not studied history?!” It’s our time to witness the fall of the empire. But hey! The 80s and 90s were fucking sweet in America!