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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Honestly, Germany being the last bastion of sanity in the world is a twist I bet nobody saw coming 70 years ago....I can just hope that we won't f... that up in our own next election, and that France somehow manages to repel its own ultra-right wing party. Than we have a chance that at least the EU will stay calm in all this, despite the trouble brewing in Poland, Hungary and Austria.
Just for the record: I'm British and have literally never posted in On-Topic Conversations before now, and I've been on the site since February.
I need some kind of reassurance here. I usually have a talent for optimism, but here I'm struggling a bit. I don't want to be a doom-mongerer because A) it makes me feel like shit, and B) it's kind of an oversaturated market right now. I want to have something good to say to my friends, family and work colleagues. Can someone give me some kind of reassurance here? And since this is the serious part of the forums, apparently, if you're going to say 'there is nothing good that can be said', then don't say anything; I've heard it all months before Trump was actually elected.
Thanks for completely ignoring that last part. I guess I shouldn't have put in spoiler tags. :V
edited 9th Nov '16 2:22:09 AM by PresidentStalkeyes
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!You know, there is one thing that I find funny (in a dark way) about how Trump's victory is attributed to unexpectedly high white male turnout: It increases what credibility was already possessed by fictional stories in which a gendercide turned the USA into a Lady Land is considered a good thing because "(white) men are evil/stupid".
edited 9th Nov '16 2:20:45 AM by MarqFJA
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Uhm....uhm...maybe we survive the next four years and Trumps incompetence and the consequences of them will at least deter the voters of other countries to fall for empty right wing promises that easily? I mean it worked with Brexit, right? The enthusiasm for leaving the EU has never been as low as now as the UK has shown would kind of clusterf... leaving truly is and how little its own politicians were prepared for it. So just maybe Trump will be a cautious tale for other countries?
edited 9th Nov '16 2:22:14 AM by Swanpride
I started this post thinking I had something to offer you, but... yeah, I don't. The best I can say is that the people who didn't vote for Trump still exist, and I hope this gets everyone out and fighting against the inevitable attacks on human rights. The best we can do now is damage control.
It's been fun.No, impechemnt only works on crimes commited while in office.
The yanks are fucked.
They cant fight it, the only "fight" ammercia allows is this, elections.
Its over, they could take away every right a citizen has and there is nothing they could do any more.
Not that there going to go that far, but it is going to be BAD.
edited 9th Nov '16 2:24:00 AM by Imca
@nervmeister: Welcome to the real world. It's a necessary consequence of democracy - either we make nice with people with abhorrent views and baked-in racism (impossible), we crush and disenfranchise them, or we let them vote and risk dissatisfaction and disunity on our side giving them the mandate. The latter is much easier when you consider the fact that the Republicans are much better at crushing Democratic turnout than vice versa.

... OK, I need to take a break from this new insanity you just sprung on me before I say something I may really regret. I'm already struggling to cope with the insanity that is the impending Trump presidency, thank you very much.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.