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[–] [email protected] 171 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Americans have been poisoned with the idea that any kind of aid to poor people is the cause of poverty.

And now we're going to get a hard dose of what its like to live in a country without social benefits.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As someone on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and in HUD housing….. I’ve been terrified since Jan 20th. But I had hope that this bullshit might be stopped because I foolishly believed the Democrats would grow a fucking spine.

All these people who keep telling me I’m over exaggerating (on both sides) — especially my own family — will be shocked when I’m homeless or disappeared in the next few months.

This is a nightmare that never ends. I just want to wake up and for it all to be over.

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago (47 children)

This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (26 children)

Damn, really sounds like some sort of political party should have tried to capture voters interest instead of pushing the status quo that has been suffocating folks for their whole life.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (91 children)

This shit is so fucking lazy.

Biden enacted plenty of progressive asks during his term. Harris outlined plenty of progressive asks in her campaign as well.

Just because it wasn't 100% of what YOU personally wanted doesn't mean it wasn't good legislation.

Hope none of your family dies because of this, because if they do it's on you, mr protest voter.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The percentage of people who don't vote hasn't changed much in 100 years. Call them lazy, uneducated, apathetic, etc, it makes no difference. They don't vote and that's all there is to be said about it. If you're waiting around for them to start voting for your preferred candidate you're going to be waiting for the rest of your life. Stop talking about them and start making other plans.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The difference in non-voters between 2020 and 2024 was enough to swing the election.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

So, between someone who doesn't allign 100% with my views and it's not a nazi and an actual nazi, much better to choose the nazi, right? I mean, I guess it's your vote so you can do as you please with it, but I reaaaaaally hope you don't get any of what's coming for you, because you know... you voted for all this so there is no empathy left in me for someone who's getting what they asked for.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is what I call "what America literally voted for".

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (7 children)

*Won the popular vote but still a minority (<50%) voted for this.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (17 children)

That's because 1/3 of voters tacitly support this shit by not voting.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I'm not into politics. It doesn't impact my life."

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I said this a million times last year on the leftist threads to people crying about the lesser evil. I don't wish any pain on their lives but I also don't know how to get through their thick skulls how real life can get unless they experience it from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I hope they have the day they voted for.

Simple as that. My empathy for those people is gone.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The fptp voting system and gerrymandering did a lot of heavy lifting.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

That's the reality of America's FPTP system.

If you did not vote for Harris, then you helped (directly or indirectly) Trump get elected.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (9 children)

30% of America voted for sitting on their ass and going "meh, whatevs" in November.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)

On the DemocracyNOW broadcast today they called it social murder. I think that's more accurate.

"Theft" implies a transfer of wealth, but that's not how government funding works. They aren't taking money from the poor to give it to the rich, they are just taking money from the poor because they want them to die.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Cutting benefits for the poorest.

Recipe for civil unrest, riots.

Riots mean more militarization of police, more authoritarianism, and domestic camps like Arpaio’s shitholes.

Now you have opportunity for forced labor to take the place of the exploited migrant labor we used to have.

Republicans just wanted to put minorities back in the fields as essentially slaves.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It’s almost like they aren’t aware of this piece of history

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Gonna be honest with you.

Americans don't have the balls.

Hope I'm wrong. Pretty sure I'm not.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

You know, the last ten years have been a whole lot of "no way that will happen" and then that thing happens. I never ever would have believed that Luigi would have caused the kind of outpouring that he did or possibly even set a UHC bankruptcy in motion. We're sitting on a powder keg, saying it'll never go off because the sparks never caught for long before.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I wonder what the red states are going to think when their government cheques get cut?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago

Whatever they're told to think.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Make America Great Again, they never said for whom.

While this administration justified its urgency for punishing tariffs on Canada and Mexico due to a fentanyl crisis taking life of thousands of good Americans, the same administration is about to take life of hundreds of thousands of good Americans itself to make billionaires wealthier.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

"I didn't vote for this!" - Every dumbass that voted for this.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

As others have pointed out, this is social murder.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wonder how many typical maga idiots, if they even are aware of what is happening, are wondering why donvict is not hurting the people he "needs to be hurting". The others are probably blaming Biden.

And then I have to wonder what the bothsiderists/centrists and so-called "leftists" that were claiming Harris/Biden were no different are going to say as they wake up to stuff like this? They were and are spending so much time on trying to gaslight everyone and telling people that an economy that had so many positive indicators and was trending in the right direction was just terrible, etc., ignoring the fact that a dummy like donnie could easily destroy what others have built...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

They’ve largely disappeared, as the foreign disinformation campaign has successfully concluded. Only the most pretentiously loud and gullible are left.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So obsessed about things named after America that they are in track for the second American revolution

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Food and health. Wow

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