God, this is how so much of the internet feels right now. We're all staring down the barrel of a gun, but God forbid we say anything out of turn or it's #NotAllAmericans until your screen explodes.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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I didn't vote for this shit, in fact I voted and warned against it for 3 elections in a row.
Sadly 1/3 of Americans actively support this shit, while.another 1/3 were more than happy to sit back and let it happen.
Americans at large deserve this. I have to constantly remind myself that this is what people in this country voted for, and it's only right for us to suffer the consequences of our elections, otherwise people here will never learn. I do feel sorry for the people who get caught up in this stupidity, but there are too many Americans who are shielded from the consequences of their words and actions.
I have to constantly remind myself that this is what people in this country voted for
*What they accepted. There are a lot of ways to help fascists that don't involve voting for them and aren't mutually exclusive with voting against them. Fascism takes a lot more work on both sides of the aisle than just winning an election, and I for one am not letting the DNC apologists off the hook.
Meanwhile in Denmark: No, I think we're going to take another approach.
Man I was hoping someone in the comments would translate that insanity, but damn 😂
Thought that was a clip from a kids show at first. Nope!
It's a clip from a kids movie. :)
It's called "Terkel in Trouble"
I see that Wikipedia labels it an "adult movie", but it certainly wasn't treated or thought of that way in Denmark.
"tHiS iS nOt WhAt I vOtEd fOr"
The harder part isn't that I didn't vote for it, but the sheer numbers that support it. It represents more of this country than I ever would have imagined. And I've gotten to listen to people in person use completely psychotic taking points that are fed to them. It's so disheartening how stupid so many people are
I feel like we’re all missing the point here. Sure, most people probably didn’t want THIS to happen, and want to distance themselves from the those who voted for him most recently. The reality is way more layered than that. It’s not just those that voted for him once, or even twice. All of our actions and inactions that led to the politicians and presidents prior to this being elected, allowed the policies and loopholes for this to happen. And so much more! This should have never been an option for us to choose. We all helped in some capacity whether we realize it or not. It’s now impacting the rest of the world more clearly than ever, and they’re mad. They should be. We need to do better.
How the fuck did I help? I gathered signatures for the 2020 primaries in Mississippi. I moved from Mississippi to Washington to get out of the cesspool. I got involved in my local elections. I canvassed for my local progressive politicians. I went to protests to be a part of one of the largest American protests of my generation. It’s not my fault that I wasn’t born in Africa to an emerald mine family to be able to buy large media corporations and spew bullshit and buy elections. It’s not my fault that people are corrupt up top.
This is giving major “yet you participate in society” vibes.
That’s amazing, we need more people like you to do all that work. It just seems like, rather than taking the opinions of people online so personally, we should take what’s going on personally. It sounds like you worked your butt off to inform people and encourage them to vote and do the right things, but we still ended up here. We fail as a whole, and we succeed as a whole. Right now we’re failing.
I gathered signatures for the 2020 primaries in Mississippi. I moved from Mississippi to Washington to get out of the cesspool. I got involved in my local elections. I canvassed for my local progressive politicians.
We're not talking to you, you did what you could, go to the back of the line please and put the indignation in a secure box to use later.
But also understand that if you really did these things, you make up a razor-thin margin of people, the vast, vast majority of people don't involve themselves at all in their community. Like, an absurd amount of people do not care what's going on in their city or their local elections, and people like you are such a small minority that we can say broadly that "everyone" is responsible without you needing to feel you personally are being singled-out.
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I also get swamped with downvotes when I tell people the objective fact that far, far more of us are responsible for the state of things than anyone wants to admit.
The chief sin we all carry is lack of involvement with our local and state governing, or even just basic community-building. We ignored warning signs, we set the problems aside in our every-day life. We didn't organize ahead of time when we saw redpill kids rising in numbers across online spaces and Donald Trump memes growing in popularity. We didn't push in a real-world way to mitigate the harm being done by outside influences, misinformation and online grifting of our feelings.
Imagine if more of us volunteered to serve on school boards and had a voice in those spaces and said "Hey, I'm seeing a LOT of young guys right now online saying they just hate women and dating and hate themselves, like, it's growing, we really need to get ahead of this and start talking to the students here, maybe some after-school reach out and structured life-coaching before these young guys start going to washed-out British kickboxers for help."
Would it have changed the world? Probably not, but it all adds up, every thing we can do helps towards making a better future, it doesn't have to be a singular action that shakes up the status-quo.
Agreed, no singular action got us here, and no singular action will fix it. I’d like to believe, independently we all mean well and thought we were doing enough. As a whole, we did not. No one person is going to fix this, we need to work together to make this better, regardless of who we feel us at fault. Saying sorry or yelling “not it!” helped get us here. Let’s all be part of the solution, being complacent is exacerbating the problem.
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