• Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    I see so many people talking about passports and moving. I’m on a fixed income, and barely got an apartment with my mom cosigning. I’m fucking stuck in a red state and I feel so fucking screwed.

    Also lets stop acting like most of the voters were misled, lied to, bamboozled into voting for trump. They saw the racism, sexism, hate, and disrespect for the law and others and they LIKED IT. They want this. They aren’t idiots they’re fascists.

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      It’s important to remember there are 340 million people in the US. Only 70 million, counted so far, voted for Trump. Of those 70 million people, many of them will also be targeted by the fascists, who make up a minority of that group. We outnumber the fascists. We do a disservice to ourselves and others by making it seem otherwise.

      The number one polled issue for Republican voters was the economy. They got duped by Fox fucking News. Jokes on them when the Republicans inevitably tank the economy.

      The real question is will the mass deportations or the tariffs do it first. Hopefully the tariffs. If we’re going to be dysfunctional as a country, we might as well do it before making camps.

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        Conversely, at most 68 million people voted for Harris. That means roughly 270 million people either didn’t vote or voted for fascists, which means they’re either so disenfranchised they couldn’t vote, are idiots, were scared for their livelihoods and lied to (meaning they’re still idiots, but at least they’re also cowardly), or are fascists themselves.

        I don’t know when we’ll learn, but given our ever-deteriorating education system I don’t think it’ll be anytime soon.

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    I like how accepting the world is a very dark place, where you work hard for your own points of light, helps me appreciate how dark this day is while being minimally affected emotionally. Feels to me that being more comfortable with darkness/bad luck/mortality/terror/“The bad parts about being human” (or whatever you want to call it) gives me more space and safe-environment (in mindspace) to understand how completely screwed some things are. Stay strong & Good luck ❤️

    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      yeah, I dunno - that just sounds like detachment from the looming consequences, which can sometimes be easy (at least for me, dissociation seems to be a common coping mechanism for me) but it is unwise if it prevents you from taking the necessary actions to protect yourself.

      I was in good spirits even after Pennsylvania was called for Trump early this morning, so I get it. Feeling worse after some sleep, though.

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    I know. hug I know.

    I’m super terrified myself. I’m scared. I don’t know what I’ll do.

    Except for one thing: I’ll survive. GodDAMN that motherfucker I’ll survive. Even if I have to survive just to spite him, TRUMP WILL NOT CLAIM MY LIFE. >:(

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      Me too. Although I’m not out yet. I’m thinking I’ll need to scramble, now, to put in my name/passport changes before I potentially lose the chance. Of course, I don’t pass, don’t have the wardrobe, makeup or body to pass. I wanted to wait a little longer before coming out, lose weight, fix my shit, you know. Don’t have the money to do anything, change anything how I want.

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    14 hours ago

    Yeah umm, me and my spouse are now creating a plan to at least get us to the most blue state we can but… fuck

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    I’m a straight milquetoast white bloke so I can’t really talk, and I’m not American so I didn’t really have a say, but I feel so sorry for everyone effected by this.

    The US just turned around and put themselves back 70 years, if not more. How fucking hard is it to accept people for who they are? Is that country really so self centered and stupid?

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      Don’t go thinking you’re unaffected! This election has sealed the fate of the entire world in regards to being destroyed by climate change.

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      It’s a combination of the right-wing infosphere brainwashing people and systemic flaws in our democracy that allow for minority rule. A minority of the population in key states needed to fed Republican propaganda for decades and that’s what happened.

      Unfortunately, this will have global implications. Trump’s foreign policy will allow dictators to do whatever they want. If anyone reading this knows a place they can go where they can be safe, don’t let me stop you. But, this is going to allow dictatorships to carve the world into spheres of influence.

      The way we push back against this is by organizing.

    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      8 minutes ago

      Might be a good time to check your documents, make sure you have a U.S. passport, that it isn’t expired, etc.

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        You mean to train, as in training to make good pancakes without premade mixes, or to train as in it’ll drive you all the way to Rheinland-Pfalz

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          The first, well if you replace the it’ll with I’ll(or from your point of view you’ll) that would also be in the cards.

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            Aaah I see.

            I know this is mostly a joke, but making pancakes with nice and reasonable people sounds really really nice.

            Just imagine! We’d meet up, play Settlers of Catan and make pancakes!? And maybe we’d watch a movie?!?

            That would be super cool! Like this -> (🥰😎🤩😍🥘🦄💖)

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              You can count me in, i dont get the chance to play catan often :(

              Well it started mostly as a Joke/Support, but if ich_iel manages to plan a meetup, i dont see why we couldn’t, atleast with the fellow Germans/Surrounding Countries :)

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    I don’t know what I can do to help anyone, are there any organisations which directly protect, or perhaps help relocate at risk trans people that I can throw money at?

    I had a look through the listed resources on the post election post but nothing jumped out to me, perhaps I missed something though.

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    I feel sorrow for my brothers and sisters and enby pals who will have to endure these uncertain times.

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      thanks - maybe consider contributing to their mutual aid networks so they can afford DIY hormones, so they can be housed when fleeing red states, etc.

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    I hope not too many of us die or suffer a lot. But I feel powerless to help much.

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    It’s hard to know what to say. Just know that you aren’t alone and you still have support from many millions of allies, even if it may not feel like it right now.

    I weep for every woman, minority, and member of the queer community who tried to stop this. It sickens me to witness fascism growing not just in America, but the world over.

    There are truly scary times ahead. Stay strong ❤️

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    14 hours ago

    Good luck everyone - hope to see you all again.