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'Everything got worse': Gen Z express frustration, regret after Trump vote
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It’s a shame idiots didn’t listen to those of us who said exactly what would happen. You fucked around. Now you found out. And in the meantime the rest of us got screwed. Gee, thanks.
As a non-American, I repeatedly got told to shut up and mind my own business when I complained about Trump. Well, he got elected and fucked the US, and fucked the rest of the world, and he's threatening to invade my country so it turns out it was my business after all. Cheers for that.
It a shame they didn’t listen to Trump.
He said EXACTLY what he was going to do.
"I'm gonna run this country like one of my companies."
Like a fascist dictator, right into the ground...
beholden to Russian interests
It is kind of funny how the US simultaneously exalts FREEDOM and tyranny. The tyranny being the private realm, where your boss has total control
The issue is that freedom is a paradox; if everyone can do whatever they want, what if doing what you want to do prevents someone else from doing what they want to do? We needed some way to figure out who was allowed to do more, and we decided might makes right. If you want the most freedom for yourself, you need to limit the freedom of others as much as possible, and that's just what those in power did, and continue to do.
Which is why we should be talking about "workplace democracy" instead of "socialism".
He talks so much and said multiple conflicting things.
he talks so much and never says anything at all.
No, he lied and said he was going to stop all the wars and start no new ones. Kamala on the other hand, promised to have the most lethal military ever. Don't you remember?
I’ll never understand how they could ignore literal millions of loved ones and trust a rich spoiled known scammer to change things for the better for them and not himself, on top of all of us explicitly saying he and republicans will purposely crash the economy and hurt innocent people for fun in the name of religion and conservatism.
People will belive anything if they want it,or fear it to be true.
Did I just find Wizard’s First Rule in the wild?
Yes
Nice! Having read the first book over 20 years ago and having never watched the TV series, that’s a pretty awesome find for me.
Right, I know that intellectually. I’ll never understand it in my heart.
It's not Trump they trust, it's his misinformation machine. Manosphere for boys and trad wife content for girls. Andrew Tate evidently knows better than their own people.
Same reason capitalism persists.
If we're lucky, some of the "both sides" people might take note.
Ah, who am I kidding, they only listen to fascist propaganda.
(not that the establishment Dems don't suck, mind, but still an order of magnitude better than the fucking fascists)
The unfortunate part of this is that even if the Dems got in, all this other bs would still be brewing until the gop got in power again anyway, and no one would be fighting as hard to establish a socialist movement right now.
That's just about the only silver lining, at least more people can see the consequences of the systems they enable this way. Hopefully the admin doesn't destroy the world first...
Ever consider the possibility fascism and socialism both suck?
The center is being squeezed by people suffering from internet brain rot on either side pushing for failed systems of the past. You're getting a taste of why fascism sucks. Do you need to actually experience why socialism sucks for yourself rather than just reading a history book?
If you burn your hand on one burner on the stove do you assume that pressing it on another burner will make it better?
You don't even know what the word "socialism" even means; why should we listen to your opinions?
You can enact some socialist policies without become a socialist society.
Socialised healthcare and education is a no-brainer.
They fucked around and we all found out.
Except for literally everyone, no one warned them!
The rest of us either fled or dug our heels in and prepared. The MAGA voters who regret their votes are welcome to sacrifice themselves to the frontlines
Fascist statement.
But Harris wouldn't support Palestine ...
Listen, I really really like puppies, and that guy doesn't care about puppies at all, so I'm not voting for him.
What, you're worried that the kill-all-puppies party is gonna win? Come on, they're ridiculous, they're not gonna make it, so I may as well vote for them just for the thrill of it.
I get it, I'm not an American so can't vote for either. But I do wish my country would get rid of the first around the post system so my vote for the "I like puppies" party actually meant something. And people didn't have to feel that they have to vote for the "kill shelters have the right to defend themselves" guy just to stop the "I hate puppies" guy.
She WAS going to support Ukraine and now that’s fucked also.
"Hey idiot fucking listen to me"
Perhaps the case made to them wasn't made in the most appealing way. Voting is actually about appetites, thus winning messages are more apetising.
People with no critical thinking skills vote the way they do because of their emotions. And that's the problem. If more people voted based on logic and reason and the common good, we would never have been in this darkest timeline.
Yep, and I think Trump is particularly good at manipulating the emotions/apetites of his voter base.
You tired of winning yet?
The idea of winning is always going to be the more appetising idea.
The entire point of a campaign is to get votes...
2020 people held their noses and voted Biden, and the people running that geriatric puppet show used it to latch onto power and do whatever the fuck they want.
Jamie Harrison only knows how to take bribes from the wealthy, that's why he lost to Lindsey Graham despite breaking fundraising efforts. As DNC chair from 2021 to 2025, he did what everyone expected him to do who knew who he was.
He raised a shit ton of money and lost an election because of not caring about anything else.
The real shame is uninformed people not understanding the DNC is just whatever the chair wants it to be, and when the chair changes you judge the organization by the current chair, not the one who fucked up and got fired
We have 2 choices. One is better. This discussion has now concluded.
As long as the US (or any other country for that matter) sees politics as something you only do every 4 years, nothing will change, or at least not to your advantage. Oligarchs have money, but have the numbers. Get involved locally, vote at every level you can, find who in your community has the same ideals as you, change small things first.
No. There infinite more. You just resign yourself to the fascist ones.
Americas would be better off if everyone took civics classes.
Or plain history. Repeating it is precisely why they can't see choices C-Ω.
How has that strategy been working out for you? Oh you lost to an obvious fascist? Twice? Might want to reopen the file and take another swing, lol.
Might be aggressive stubborn people like you are the problem
In other countries the candidates seek popularity, this is a weird place where there was only ever one correct choice, between two people who are absolutely disgusted by you, and will do as much harm as they are allowed to do, but one is clearly an idiot. The other was selected, not by a democratic process but by a machine, and then the corporate media says they're the most electable, despite there being zero evidence of this.
We were about to make history by electing the first president who didn't participate in a primary. She was anointed. Just this once, we gave up even on the name Democrat. No Kings indeed! It wasn't Republicans saying this, it was Black Lives Matter, those people you all also hated because they were too loud and they weren't even that loud!
Mark my words, the next time Democrats shame everyone, it'll be before another cancelled primary, not after. They'll be upset that you're mad about the cancelled primary. "Do you want (some asshole) to win???". It'll be soon, too. your Democratic representatives do not believe in democracy, they did believe in a certain process and we finally lost that too. We have nothing left but respectability aesthetic.
I hope the DSA crushes you all and takes your damn toothbrush too. I hope they double in size, then again, then again, And i hope every single one of you goes back to brunch satisfied that you were definitely in the right whenever it was a dichotomy. I hope it's fucking delicious and you never have to think about politics again. I hope you get all the things that'll make your life easier, and I hope you don't even have to understand what it took to make that happen. I hope my children can be like you. An artist and a chef. The only difference is they won't be forced to become the sort of people who had to give up so much, everything stripped away from them because they had no choice at so many different levels, no, they will make choices and enjoy it. Fuck you. I hate you all so fucking much and I still want your life to be so wonderful. I hope you retire and you remember how the boomers treated you and how mean they were, and i hope you treat my grown children better than the boomers treated you. I hope my son ends up your neighbour and you never have to meet me or know anything about me because I would fucking HATE you. We will create a society where you do not have to participate in genocide in order to live a normal life, and you won't even know how, and it'll be fucking great.
I'm going to waffle house. 1:40 am and haven't eaten in a while, I'll be ok