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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 3 points 35 minutes ago

Not yet. Not for a little while. First, a few things have to happen:

  • When the Department of Education is obliterated and schools nationwide collapse, it will also cause economic turmoil, because a lot of MAGA idiots work for federally-funded school systems in red states. They just voted to have themselves fired.
  • The inevitable nationwide ban on abortion will kill a lot of women who believed it wouldn't happen and voted for him - despite how much he bragged about killing Roe.
  • Measles, mumps, and rubella will all make startling comebacks as vaccination plummets. Seriously guys, get vaccinated while you can. Oh, and COVID-19 is going to have a massive resurgence once RNA-based vaccines are banned in the United States.
  • With the purging of civil servants from the FBI, the IRS, and various other letter agencies, we're going to have a giant, stupid government staffed primarily by incompetent sycophants. Expect actual, productive work associated with any of them to grind to a halt. Expect the FBI to expend resources needlessly investigating whoever Trump hates at the moment. Expect the IRS to make mistakes that aren't in your favor, and you can't do anything about.
  • Infrastructure week will forever be in the future, while actual infrastructure will be falling apart due to lack of funding. This problem will be felt the most in red areas, despite efforts to punish blue ones for voting for Harris.
  • If you receive health care through the Affordable Care Act and you're MAGA, you'll be very surprised to learn that "Obamacare" was another name for it, and that you've just lost your health care. [insert "congratulations, you played yourself" meme here]
  • You think things are expensive now? The inevitable flood of tariffs, with no adults in the room to tell Trump it's a stupid idea, will jack your prices up enormously. If you thought COVID-19 inflation was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
  • The deeply, deeply stupid MAGA people who believed that Trump would leave their LGBTQ+ friends - well, former friends - alone will find out the hard way that voting to remove people's rights is a good way to make them disown you.

After things are going really, really badly, and there are only Republicans in government to blame, a few will begin waking up and realizing they've been had.

And by then, it will be too late.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I actually don't think it will, because I believe America will have stopped being the "united" states by then and it will no longer be called America.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 points 15 minutes ago

It will be called the Free American Independent Theocratic Hegemony according to the history books.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't mind the whole "our president is a felon" thing, I mind that he was able to use the smallest loophole imaginable to escape any consequences of being labeled a felon. Well, I guess the smallest loophole would have been leaving the planet, and I'm just as pissed that wasn't his exit strategy.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Give him time...

[–] Wytch@lemmy.cafe 2 points 43 minutes ago

America will regret its decision to stay at home and let the cult reelect DT

I mean, same thing kinda but like...

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 73 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

A man with 34 felony convictions can’t win the presidency in a nation where trust in institutions is high. It’s only in a culture where the justice system has long since lost its legitimacy that a man with such a thick criminal record as Trump glides by relatively unremarked. That one man can so effortlessly game American institutions to his own benefit says as much about the decrepit state of America’s institutions as it does about the moral decrepitude of the crook.

Well, no shit. It's the same shit that sane people have been saying for a long time. If only the media wasn't completely dominated by the billionaire class, we might actually be able to organize around collective outrage, but most people seem content to just consume whatever Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump tell them to consume and not think beyond that.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Their media is dominated by whispers in an echo chamber and at some point we're gonna have to acknowledge the profound impacts. Someone makes a joke about kitty litter boxes for the furries in the school on telgram, next thing you know it's on discord, then people are talking about it. Wildfire. That literally happened in Minnesota. These guys think they're the counterculture and don't watch news

[–] Daze@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

This has been the major talking point in our house today. Rewinding the time, how did first-time 18 year old voters spend their very formative teenage years? What media did they consume at the time, and how?

Also, a question to the open because I can’t remember exactly: When did yall learn about the holocaust in american high school? For me it was maybe sophomore year? Weren’t these kids either social distancing, “attending” virtual school, being nutrient-deficient all the while, and also possibly running for their lives from a school shooter?

It’s possible these kids don’t even know what the holocaust is, and a large portion of eligible youth that only hears news from the Joe Rogan podcast just voted to repeat hell because “orange man funny, woman didn’t go on my favorite show”?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 49 minutes ago

It's almost as if the GOP has been systematically dismantling our education system for 40+ years.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

That's a really good point about distance learning, but the most troubling thing is that this is a gigantic insidious thing that is affecting a billion people around the globe with no regard for demographics, and in our breadth of knowledge, we don't even have any frame of reference. We have a good understanding of what happens when someone's put in solitary confinement for a long time, or blasting a group with propaganda for a long time, or small groups that decide to turn away from society, but nothing in the world has ever happened on this kind of scale, not remotely close, as if a billion people are just turning feral, for lack of better word to describe it. We don't know how to guide them back or anything. At some point it'll have a name, it'll be a syndrome. Is it gonna get worse and worse? We'll find out

Edit: I think I should elaborate just a teeny little bit further. The crux is that this group spurns any Socratic dialogue because it's too obvious, and Occam's Razor is so simple that they choose to believe it's what 'they' want 'you' to think, and opt for Occam's Space Laser every single time. That's what I meant by 'feral'. When the majority behave like that nobody knows what'll happen because you can no longer bother to integrate them, they're the society now

[–] hohoho@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

At some point it'll have a name, it'll be a syndrome.

If history repeats itself then it almost looks like we could be entering the modern dark ages. So how do we fast track to a New Age of Enlightenment? A new age of reason. How do we excise ourselves of the scourge of christofascism?

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

almost looks like we could be entering the modern dark ages

It was never guaranteed that society post-industrial revolution will eventually progress into a utopia. The past 150-200 years of relative decency and attempts at a democratic and fair civilization may have been an anomaly in human development. It may have been as short and fleeting as democratic Athens...followed by a couple thousand years of tyranny.

[–] hohoho@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Nothing is guaranteed. But what would you like to see happen? What world would you like to live in and to hand off to the next generation? Focus on that and keep your eye on the prize

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Hopefully not WWIII but usually a country pulls its head out of its ass and embraces unity and exceptionalism when a very imminent and palpable existential threat is visually confronting them. If not probably brain drain and all that slow bleed stuff

[–] Daze@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I’m glad someone else sees it. Honestly I’m completely uncertain this will be reversible sans dire, dire consequences. We could agree that a syndrome exists, to the tune of generating masses of cultist followers, but even if we did, said followers would call it fake news and think nothing more. What combats that??

[–] hohoho@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Call them out. Call their weird cognitive dissonance exactly what it is. Throw it back in their little snowflake faces

[–] Daze@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t have hope that we can defibrillate america back to life 😭

[–] hohoho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

All you can do is try. One conversation at a time, one step at a time. Don’t give into despair, that’s what the fascists want you to do.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I wonder how much of my family will die in the upcoming Holocaust. I wonder how many of them will look back at voting for Trump and realize where they went wrong. When Trump's accelerationist cohorts start trying to get Israel to burn, I wonder how many of my Israeli family members will say, "oh well, at least we got to kill lots of Palestinians. I was worried Harris might have slowed us down."

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

We're all gonna get what MAGAts deserve.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 14 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

No, they’ll just blame it on minorities

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

They'll blame it on the Democrats, progressives, liberals, gays, trans, atheists. They blame anyone but themselves.

[–] hohoho@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

They’re afraid of their own shadows, aren’t they?

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 hours ago

Narrator: They were not allowed to

[–] Nyciferi@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Which part of America? If you mean the 71 million, then, no.

[–] clgoh@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Face eating leopards are coming for a lot of them too.