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[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com -5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

if it’s going to be that bad, why don’t you leave?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I see your point. It's noted. If I can work a few things out, it's not off the table.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

It's not that easy for most people to move to a different country.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

where do you suppose would be safe and willing?

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 61 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I get this, but probably the best way to feel safer is to forge local connections. Check on your neighbors, they'll check on you

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 61 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, many neighbors in the US have decided to take it upon themselves to install a fascist dictator as the head of our government.

In fact, the only way that many of those neighbors will "check in" on their neighbors is through a scope.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 62 points 5 hours ago

My district voted 86% for Trump to 14% for Harris.

I have no neighbors. Just people who will report me to the secret police in the future.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's really for your own good to go to Camp Christian and learn not to be a pagan

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I've been there, not impressed.

besides, I'm not allowed back. something about I "scare the congregation".

I say those with a wicked heart will always fear judgement.

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 35 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Me and my neighbors will check on each other quite often. As we will be cell mates.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

No, that's silly. You'll both be campers at "Liberty Rehabilitation Camp!"

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 hours ago

And if your neighbours voted for this?

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 hours ago

A friend in the UK called me first thing this morning to check on me. It meant the world. Please do check on your friends in the US, now and regularly. ❤️

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 13 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Rule 2.

But sure, we can do that. It's not particularly difficult to find news from the US in other parts of the world.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 26 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think you'll want to trust the news much longer. Not coming out of the US, at least.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry about that. We pay a few of our own journalists to live in the US and report the news. I occasionally read or watch both the European and unfiltered American reporting and they're not alike. I think we still get a picture resembling something close to the truth. At least generally speaking.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Like I'm saying you need someone to go into the camps, which they won't have clearance, and look for the mass graves.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Hmmh, that's usually postponed until after a war is over. At least to gather the exact numbers. But the other side isn't going to conceal it. They're going to brag about it. So we'll know anyways.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ummmm .... no .... your military has been dishing out misery all over the world for the past 80 years.

US poor now get to see and feel what the rest of the world has been going through.

We're all too busy trying to look after ourselves because of what you guys have left everyone everywhere.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The empire may have deserved to fall but still hate to see it happen like this.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, trumps not like darth sidious with a gloomy mystique and sinister powers but he's definitely the American version of that. Like you cross darth sidious with ronald mcdonald and trump pops out

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 minutes ago

He was literally based off of Richard Nixon (per Lucas), but yes this still checks out.