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[–] [email protected] 127 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

It's a lot quieter since the election. Almost like they were, paid or not, bad faith actors with one goal.

Hm.

I happen to be of the opinion that they were all, or almost all, just useful idiots who truly believe that Trump winning would result in the FALL OF THE AMERIKKKAN EMPIRE and subsequently some kind of world socialist revolution. Instead of, you know, Trump's slump just being sludging up all extant institutions and encouraging crony capitalism and repression of workers' movements the world over.

I mean, they probably still believe that, for that matter, but being confronted with the reality of ushering in fascism triggers some cognitive dissonance with their performative allyship, and they don't like that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I say this with no sense of irony or desire for the fall to happen; but he hasn't even taken office yet, time will tell [sigh].

I still struggle with the internal conflict of 1) wanting this to all just work out and we come out the other side 4 years from now with our democracy intact, albeit with a lot of changes I disagree with or 2) hoping for stage 2 of FAaFO to unleash the leopards while I laugh and the idiots who voted against their own best interests cry that their faces are being eaten. The human in me really hopes for the former, but the wanna-be-standup-comedian in me has a darker heart.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I say this with no sense of irony or desire for the fall to happen; but he hasn’t even taken office yet, time will tell [sigh].

Oh yeah, my point isn't that they haven't 'succeeded' in that goal of seeing the US collapse; they very well may have depending on how things shake out. My point is only that their actual motivations were not, largely, their stated motivations, and the starkness of what is facing minorities in the US now makes them uncomfortable, knowing that this is what they were cheerleading for. And also that the collapse of the US isn't going to look anything like they think it will.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

ahh gotcha. 100% agree! aka FO in full effect haha

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Sounds like there was a wave of bannings too, judging by the comments.

There will be plenty of topics to come that will provide similar outlets considering what is pending.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

UniversalMonk was permananned. They tried to evade the ban with other accounts, but those also got the ban hammer.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

OH that's the other guy lmao, I remembered anti and another that was big on the bluemaga BS but completely forgot what his user was lol

Can't believe it took that long to get the permaban lolol

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

I just looked at my history and so many of these fucks deleted their posts and just peaced.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

Getting banned on 10/31 might have something to do with it too. ;)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So uhhh, I went to check their accound, and they're still posting? Not only that, they were banned from this community a while ago.

Like can you guys look up stuff before claiming anything?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Libs like to ban people and then celebrate silence as a win.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Republicans doing it too doesn't contradict what they said.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I did, they hadn't made a comment for 15 days when I checked

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

shhh, you're on .world, you don't want to anger the liberals or you'll get labelled a russian bot

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

I blocked so many accounts over the past few months. The propaganda posters were freaking everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The one from [email protected] who was screeching (literally) all day every day for months about "BlUe MAgA" this "Both sides are the same" that and constantly telling people to vote for Jill Stein and how you shouldn't "vote for genocide" as if Drump was the better choice.

Suddenly stopped after the election lmao

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

It was so plain to see once you get past the "fee-fees" of the bullshit. Patently obvious to anyone with a shred of humanism.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm still here, the Democrats lost so bad that all the protest votes combined couldn't close the difference.

Democrats let more people get kicked off Medicaid by "ending COVID" than they lost by too.

If you want to be considered the "lesser evil" option maybe get less innocent people killed in your term.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Before: "EVERYONE VOTE THIRD-PARTY, WE CAN DO IT TOGETHER!! NEVERMIND A THIRD PARTY HASNT WON A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION EVER! JUST DONT VOTE FOR GENOCIDE! THEY'RE ALL JUST REPUBLICANS ANYWAYS!!!! ARRGH"

Now: "Um ACKCHULLY we're a tiny majority so we're not responsible for this, k bye!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/unwinding-watch-tracking-medicaid-coverage-as-pandemic-protections-end

Further, over 25 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid during unwinding, even though overall enrollment only declined by about 13 million people.

As of 6:50 a.m. ET on Nov. 7, Trump had 72,641,564 popular votes and Harris had 67,957,895. Trump currently leads Harris by approximately 4.6 million votes.

3 times as many people got kicked off medicaid under Biden as Harris lost by. Maybe try reading what I'm saying next time.

Who am I kidding, you'll never learn anything from this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you'll never learn anything from this.

And you're incapable of taking responsibility for the contribution you made to the shit show we're about to have. All you guys have done since the election is blame everything else, pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Your party is in power, it gets held responsible.

I'm not here to make you feel better about their mistakes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Further proving my point they're you're unable to take responsibility for your contributions to the shit show. Either that or you're just a straight up MAGAt going through buyers remorse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Expressing an unorthodox political opinion online has a comparable impact to kicking millions of people off their Medicaid. noted ✅

My state went for Harris even with my protest vote. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

My state went for Harris even with my protest vote.

You have no idea the effect your words have on a globally accessible service. Your state was fine. This time. But your whining about bLuE mAgA and not voting or voting for Jill Stein could have been seen by anyone. Not even just here, I've seen that blue maga crap on TikTok ffs, so you can't even say "well, it's not like it was seen by enough people that mattered".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I voted PSL actually, and I don't even use tiktok.

That you're running into the same opinions on there too indicates that this is a broader sentiment and that if younger people are complaining about blue maga it could be a behavior/performance issue from Democrats rather than regarding propagandists on a niche forum poisoning everyones minds.

I doubt that my many international readers had any impact on the election.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

God, I hope so.

If our reach is wide enough that the democrats lost because of us, then it means they have no choice but to win us over if they want to win.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you want to be considered the “lesser evil” option maybe get less innocent people killed in your term.

Oh boy, I can't wait to see what the lesser evil of abstention gives us! Nothing like enabling genocide of minorities in America, am I right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Suddenly stopped after the ~~election~~ ban lmao

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

They were contractually obligated to spin the loss before they got the last paycheck

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

I'll just go ahead and save this post to share during the next election to hopefully help encourage others to tune out the new ones that will show up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Are you crazy? Anti democrats and their border violence, pro police and pro genocide agenda are still around. We are just organizing as always and no longer have to deal with blue MAGA arguing for your favorite genocidal imperialist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

What are you dealing with now?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Cool! What are you organizing?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This subreddit is pretty ban-happy and unaware of itself, "trolling or worse", but I can confirm that at least on reddit, I went back to see what a user who claimed Trump would be better for Palestinians than Kamala now that it is clearer what is going to happen, and the user had been deleted although the comment remained.

There are astroturfing and troll factories active throughout all social networks that people are too dumb to acknowledge, they seem to expect straight up propaganda posters. The worst thing is, they probably have lists of people and timezones they should focus on, and their participation is so targeted that your comment calling out their flagrant manipulation doesn't matter no matter how many upvotes it gets. They are probably even able to identify who users are across networks based on participation patterns alone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Hahaha fantastic

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

This is QAnon-level shit, but on the center right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Hm… Linkerbaan hasn’t posted in a month.

Wonder what happened to all that fervor for Palestinians.

Edit: evidently they were banned from .world so I can’t see their stuff from here, even if I go to the account directly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Their main account was perma-banned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't you be working on preparing a resistance instead of making memes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

People on the left still desperately trying to make excuses instead of accepting that they fielded a horrible candidate.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've said this one and I'll probably have to say it again.

Trump was a senile diaper wearing rapist and convicted felon who said he would bang his own daughter, leaked classified secrets to Russia and made fun of veterans.

In a sane world a dessicated cat turd would have beaten him in every single state.

That does not mean Kamala was worse a worse candidate than that, it means we don't live in a sane world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Liberals =/= leftists

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago
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