just wait. anti-muslim fear-mongering will start soon, and then we’ll go to war. i give it less than a year
Why does this even need to be said? I hate this planet.
Ummm yeah, you’d be surprised at how many people think Trump is anti-war
I know. Can’t wait to see the daily goalpost movements from Trump voters doing everything they can to avoid admitting they fucked up. “Nah it’s ok guys, the camps aren’t concentration camps. Didn’t you hear Vance call them ‘forced timeshare rentals’? That’s all they are, so it’s ok.”
And then what % remains diehard after all of the awful shit he will do.
And, sadly, which group my parents fall under. If they can’t admit they were wrong, I’m not sure I can have them in my life. I cannot abide fascists, and they need to know that what they support is not only not ok, it’s actively damaging the future of their own children and grandchildren.
And “not ok” is putting it far too lightly. It’s morally abhorrent and they should be ashamed.
Tough decisions ahead…
“But mah 401k”
Peace is bad for business
“You could have had the friendly genocide, but noooo”
Well, no shit.
I’ve been phasing out US channels from my social media and I think it’s time to block Lemmy politics and other US-focused politics discussion from here as well. I don’t have much compassion for what Americans will endure the next however many years, but man, it does suck for everybody else.
all of my friends voted for harris and many of them campaigned for harris, including myself. no compassion is cool though- also cool to take the time to tell people you’re not only lacking in compassion, youre good with out-group homogenity in place of actual thinking. it’s also good you’re just burying your head in the sand, but take the time to ensure other people know that’s what you’re doing.
Screw that. I am forced to deal with US politics and culture in enough areas of my life to be shamed for refusing to care about their self-harming tendencies. I don’t have a need to care about what the US do to themselves in the same way I don’t have a need to care about what Argentina or Hungary or Russia do to themselves. At least Russians don’t have a real choice.
Admittedly, I did have the compulsion to write that down here at all, as opposed to those other examples. In my defense, that’s because a) I literally wrote that as I clicked the “block” button in this community, and b) it’s insanely hard to not pay attention to the US. It requires active effort. This community isn’t even called “US politics”, it’s just called “Politics”. The US dominating my media is the default stance of the world, I have to take aggressive action to make that not be the case.
i mean thats all fair. i do hope that if the politics in whatever country you live in take an authoritarian tilt or shift in a way thats openly hostile to you, you dont have to read someone writing that they have no compassion for you. i mean i will survive this, but its not very nice
Hah. Been there, done that. Partially thanks to the US, actually.
All countries have their history. It’s part of why I don’t feel I’m obligated to watch.
I feel like the middle east is sort of just like, haunted, doomed to eternal conflict by malevolent specters.
(Yes, I know those specters are the military industrial complex, colonialism, ancient civilizations, authoritarian rule, oil and natural gas, sectarian divisions, Israel, religious extremeists oh god maybe it is haunted)
I think some non-voters knew that he would burn our system to the ground, and thats what they voted for.
As long as the United States exists and the world still uses petroleum, there will never be peace in the Middle East. The genocide is Gaza is nothing more than a business decision by democrats and republicans, to keep the region destabilized so that it can’t resist Western imperialism.
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There will soon be no Palestine either.
There will, however, be much more genocide.
No way :O
This must be where the “Genocide Joe!” tankies are having some pikachu face.
Why? Don’t think people who’d be considered tankies and recognized Biden as being being genocidal generally thought trump was better. I mean some Americans probably because Americans are politically illiterate and trump sometimes says he’ll do peace so doubtlessly some believed him. But I don’t think people saying genocide joe are surprised
Tankies saved Palestine 🤡
There hasn’t been peace in the middle east in what 1-2 thousand years? I highly doubt a president was ever changing that unless they nuke the whole thing.
There hasn’t been peace in the middle east in what 1-2 thousand years?
Uh… No. For about 60 or 70 years. Maybe 80 tops. The Ottoman empire, the Arab* empires after it and the colonial/post colonial states after it were decently stable. It was neo-imperialist Western interference that fucked everything up.
*gross oversimplification
I mean, the Middle East is almost as bad as Europe for warmongering.
warmongering
The only current war in Europe is an european country not wanting to be invaded and destroyed by Russia
