Your New Order Has Arrived

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Ah, no, i thought more about that there were different types of slavery (african, british, etc.) that somewhat worked with society but US took of every style the worst parts and made it an inter-generational instead of a limited-time thing.

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And I'm sure their policies would introduce runoff voting for future elections; but as it stands, most voters are currently voting out of fear of "the other big party" - for which voting Green poses an extreme risk.

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but as it stands, most voters are currently voting out of fear of "the other big party"

Which is a confidence game. The big parties only matter because people have been convinced that they matter. Once this illusion is broken, real progress can begin, but until it is broken the US will simply continue its vicious cycle into oblivion.

Besides, what chance to Dems have of winning at this rate anyway? What chance did they have leading up to this past election as they covered up Biden's dementia, enabled a genocide, and imposed a candidate of their choosing after denying the people actual democracy? Are they redeemable?

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I'm not at all ready for it, but I've been acutely aware it was coming since the night of Nov. 6th.

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Yes, yes they are. Actually the Republicans at least have the virtue of being honest about being evil. Dems are too cowardly to even admit that.

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I hope these fuckers are happy now. They got what they wanted. Or just ignored the problem and now that it's not going away they've finally realized that maybe they should have voted differently. Or at all.

I hope y'all bastards suffer.

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The US has only had 1 president who wasn't Christian and that was Thomas Jefferson who thought the Bible had been adopted by to many political ideologies that tainted the better moral frameworks.

Every president after has been directly and only Christian. No Jewish, no Buddhists, no separation of church and state ever allowed.

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Yeah that's taking advantage of a privilege that practically zero other people have to flee to a safer distance from the problem. That isn't helping clean up the mess and doesn't entirely fully remove you from it.
It allows you to claim you aren't involved because you stay uninvolved but it's not the same as being helpful or even being offerable advice to anyone else other than a percentage so small it rounds down to zero.

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I am saving my queer daughter's life.

I suppose you would rather me stick around and have her marched into a camp?

Do you have any kids? Would you sacrifice children for your cause?

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Doesn't mean that people weren't desperate for an alternative. People don't have the knowledge you do and often don't think through every possible outcome. If they know they are suffering and there is a chance for change they will leap towards it even if it's out of the pot and into the fire. Humans crave change and the status quo has been used as a cludgel against them for decades.

You can be upset that this is the change that's happening but don't blame people that are suffering and try not to be smug about it when they suffer more or they will never view you as kind to their plight.

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I didn't say that. I was pointing out the privilege of your statement when you offer that as a solution to this issue.

You can use the idea that anyone pointing it out is some villain who would have your family hurt but that's not reality. It's just an emotional response to protect your mindset. That's fine. Don't treat me poorly because of it though. You already got more privileges than the queer people left behind who may be in what you fantasize and have nightmares of.

It's not a sacrifice if we can't leave. It's just reality. Something you have a privilege to alter to ignore.

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This is what you said:

It allows you to claim you aren’t involved because you stay uninvolved but it’s not the same as being helpful or even being offerable advice to anyone else other than a percentage so small it rounds down to zero.

As if that was why I left.

I never even claimed I wasn't involved, so it's just a lie anyway.

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Stupidity and ignorance are way too widespread. It should not take a genius to figure out that trump and the GOP are pretty much against the working class. I’m not saying democrats are saints, but at least Biden tried to cancel student loan debt, and somehow that got looked at negatively??!?

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You have said that you are out the mess through the system, not entirely true, but through a privilege of the system. I have seen your other comments around telling people that there is no more action that can be taken and that this was the only choice but for most people the ONLY choice IS to stay.
Just because it's not working out for you doesn't mean it wasn't a privilege. The amount of people that could walk that path that you are taking is again very small.

I'm sorry that it's not working out like you hoped but going around telling people the only way out is apathetic leaving to another country and then to now feel bad for you for. I can only offer my general empathy for dealing with struggles but I have no other for you. Now while you still seem to admonish everyone else without the same privilege you don't recognize.

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If you think they're rethinking their choices, or are even aware of any of the issues, you are a god damn child. They live in a bubble and think things are better than ever.

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Spooky season has been canceled due to being witchcraft and satan worship. You will instead be assigned a pew at your local evangelical church for reeducation.

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At the end of the day, they’re still pathetic amerikkkan exceptionalists who think “we are better than this.”

We are not better than this, and we never have been.

Fucking pieces of shit got us where we are.

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I mean most of us were acutely aware of it since November of 2016 and perhaps even before, but yeah. So far the awareness seems to be more of a punishment because we can see the train wrecks coming but can't seem to convince the drivers of the car we're in to actually stop parking on the tracks.

Perhaps blissful ignorance may save our mental state.

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I avoid news a lot more than I used to because all it does is cause distress about things I have no control over. In his first term I at least had the hope that the shaky guardrails were there to keep him from going too far, but those are gone now and I'm fully aware I live in a country under a fascist regime with no opposition from anyone with the power to do something about it.

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