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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 360 points 1 day ago (65 children)

I'm trans and I'm terrified, terrified for my queer friends and family, terrified for Ukraine and Palestine, and terrified for the planet.

If you didn't vote or voted for this piece of shit, fuck you. If you voted for him, you deserve the massive inflation and shit he's about to put you through.

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

The only silver lining is that maybe the Republicans will just forget about trans people until it’s time to stoke the hate again for the next election.

But yeah, very disappointing result. The country was willing to vote in a twice impeached convicted felon (whose sentencing will be postposed indefinitely, I suspect) over a gasp! brown woman.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 137 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I’m straight and white, and I am also terrified for my queer friends and family. I figured Israel was always a lost cause but Ukraine is going to be so fucking stupid and painful when they get starved after we offered support.

If you didn’t vote or voted for this piece of shit, FUCK YOU

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 99 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Harris got 15 mill less than biden. Trump got same number of votes basically.

They just slept

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 104 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

America made it clear that they will not vote for a woman. Especially a woman of color. Fuck America

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 44 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I suspected if she lost it was because she was a woman. Others are saying it was all Gaza and they didn't vote in protest. A commentor replied to me showing the margins are like 10s of thousands in one state.

She seem way better than Hillary too. Hillary reminded me of my grandma but in all the bad ways.

Guess Trump may nuke the whales. Tried to nuke a hurricane.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 32 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone who didn't vote in protest needs to shut the fuck up now. I don't wanna hear another damn word out of them regarding Gaza, or moralizing to the world. They will now get to see Gaza be dismantled.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 31 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

They really stuck it to the Democratic party, hope they're fucking happy that their solution to the Gaza situation is to accelerate wiping Palestinians from existence. Blood is on their hands now more than anyone that did the bare minimum to keep democracy alive.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 12 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Nobody learned the lesson from 2016. We can't stick it to the dems until the GOP goes away.

I bet the dems are high fiving each other right now from all the donations they are going to get.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

We can't change how people work, adopting republican policies and compromising your democratic policies decreases turnout with the base.

We can only tell the democratic politicians to do what they need to do to win, which isn't triangulating yourself 2 inches to the left of the republican to try to chase "moderate republicans" who prefer diet fascism to the real thing.

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Either that, or that America will not vote for the status quo again.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 19 points 23 hours ago (13 children)

Trump is the status quo as well so apparently they will

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[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago

Being that I'm not transgender or American I don't think I can personally understand everything you're feeling right now. All I can say is be strong for yourself, and your friends and family; we all need to support each other if we are going to get through this.

And a double fuck you to anyone who voted for Trump.

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago

Not even there.

All I have to say:

What....

The...

Fuck....

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