I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. I have some “voted Trump the first time, but not the second” relatives that have a lot of the same ideals as me without the knowledge or level of class consciousness. I have no answers but look forward to reading the responses.

ryan and his friends told me i was being sa’d, in fact, severely so, but i was too naive and liked them too much to realize and that it was their job as friends to protect me.

By who, all the e-boys/men you were talking to? Because that would be a concern of mine if I were an adult in your life. Are these men grooming you? Are they making comments you are uncomfortable with?

If you are willingly participating in any romantic or sexual behavior, I only suggest caution - Don’t date any of them at your age, and for Gandalf’s sake, don’t meet with them. You can easily fall in love with someone online because they are what they want you to see, but also they could be legitimate sexual predators. I’m just being fr with you here - I know you think, “no way, I know them so well,” but so thought a lot of teenagers who went missing about the person on the other end. And it’s bigger than some weirdo now, you could be legit human trafficked.

That’s a more difficult one as I don’t know what’s happening at all the state levels. I suspect there was already election tampering in the last election, and I believe that will be even easier now. There is also the factor of, as you said, more stringent laws regarding voting that will push out some people (and many more POCs will be disenfranchised than ever before), but I don’t know how many people that will affect. Then there’s the looming possibility that Trump will effectively stop elections by invoking martial law or something similar, because of things like mass demonstrations (I am feeling a bit more hopeful that this will happen, but not betting on it).

Overall I’m not confident enough that I understand all the facts to give a real percentage chance, and I think it also depends on how much the administration believes an election can harm them. What do you think?

Fascism has good reason to shut down free and fair elections. My prediction is based on if elections do occur.

85%-90% because red states aren’t going to flip anything, and I don’t think there are enough flippable seats to make a difference. I would be surprised, and even if they do get a razor thin majority, what will they do under a Trump presidency? They will claim, same as they do now, that there’s nothing they can do.

Even people at protests are talking about “getting everything back in 2026” like there’s going to be elections by then. It would be cute if it wasn’t so sad.

This isn’t really how 14 year olds text, right?

ironically

That’s usually how it starts.

Do it for @LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml, who hasn’t a tub because they are a renter! 😭

I am now envisioning a Chad type, just standing there looking all grizzled and stoic when, just like a chinchilla, he just drops and rolls.

MONSTER! IT’S GOT WHAT BABIES CRAVE!

he argues that American democracy is a failed experiment

Based

that should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations.

Oh, damn nevermind….

Yeah, another for my block list.

Everyone in here: Taking about sinks.

Me: Checking out this twink.

I did not know these things, but makes sense…

I made this one. Thanks for the compliment! 😅

Edit: btw proudly made in GIMP!!

French Canadian Otters to the US Americans.

I’m not your dude, bro!

Yep, Napster was the first I remember. It got sued too, by Lars Ulrich of Metallica. I also remember Limp Bizkit and some others doing a Napster tour to give a middle finger to the artists making a big deal about piracy.