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JP 01:12 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
It’s not over yet!
JP 08:55 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
Disappointed is all I can say
Kate 10:04 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
In 2016, Anil Dash wrote this piece and it still applies, but mostly to Americans. They’re the ones who have to organize and get to work now. We just get to look on in dismay.
Chris 10:49 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
Condolences? Odd to offer sympathy to a group that got what they wanted, both by popular vote and electoral college. You didn’t get what you wanted, but they got what they wanted; it’s you (and me) that needs condolences, not them. I guess you mean to say to condolences to Democrat readers.
Alas, Trump’s win is hardly a surprise. The Dem establishment idiotically refused to have a primary contest. Instead, to their woke brains it was more important to anoint a checkbox candidate. Despite her mere 30-something-% approval rating, her inability to win a single delegate 4 years ago, her lying, flip-flopping, etc., etc. A literal loser.
She got less of the black vote than Biden, she got less of the latino vote than Biden. Maybe the DNC will at last give up on the identity checkbox game, and allow an actual contest, to choose a candidate that can win something small before trying to win something big. But I’m not holding my breath.
MarcG 10:52 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
I think this can still serve as a wake-up call to Canadians to get involved in anti-fascist action. It’s not like we’re not part of the same idiotic zeitgeist.
walkerp 10:57 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
Great point, MarcG. We have our own authoritarian driven by (and using) Russian propaganda to deal with.
Kate 11:05 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
Chris, you don’t understand. My condolences were just as much for the people who voted for him.
Tim S. 11:44 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
If there’s the Dems have proved over the past 8 years, it’s that calling Trump a fascist doesn’t stop him (or his voters). He may be one, but the effort needs to go into proposing an alternative, not just opposing.
Kevin 11:48 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
The leaders of the Democratic party are so inept that I have often wondered if they are actually working for the Republican party or are they just Administrators from The Good Place.
Uatu 13:16 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
Well it’s going to be interesting to watch Gilead IRL
Chris 18:23 on 2024-11-06 Permalink
Kate, ah, I see. I guess that makes sense from your pov, if not from theirs.
MarcG, if you mean “antifa” style, more of that crap will just get even more normies to vote right wing.
Kevin, yeah I used to think that. But now I think it’s less that they are inept and more that their real values are not actually what you want them to be, or what they purport them to be. They are still the lesser of two evils, but god damn they suck.
MarcG 09:06 on 2024-11-07 Permalink
I was thinking more “talk to your neighbours” but if you want to punch a Nazi I won’t stop ya.
Kevin 10:38 on 2024-11-07 Permalink
Chris
I lived in the US and the ineptitude of the leaders of the Democratic party is a frequent topic of discussion.
There is a vast gulf between what voters want and what the party does.
Chris 10:40 on 2024-11-07 Permalink
>I was thinking more “talk to your neighbours”
Ah, well that’s all well and good!
>if you want to punch a Nazi I won’t stop ya.
Here I’ll disagree. If you want to punch a Nazi, I’ll try to talk you out of it. And if you do it anyway, I’ll report you to the police and hopefully have you arrested. I don’t think self-appointed activists should be judge, jury, and executioner (“puncher” in this example). Violence should be a last resort and reserved to the police (imperfect as they are, and yes they should be better!).
Kevin 12:19 on 2024-11-07 Permalink
Unfortunately some people cannot be reasoned with, and in that case all you can do treat them to the consequences of their decisions.
Anyone who declares themselves a Nazi following the events of WWII is identifying themselves as such a person.
Ian 21:39 on 2024-11-07 Permalink
We literally fought a world war about this. Nazis are scum, and if you call the cops to protect Nazis, you are a collaborator.