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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

well one guy said he's so sure trump will win that if he loses then he's gonna suck my dick. i don't want this dude to suck my dick but out of principle i might have to make him do it if the time comes.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Shaking your head while getting your dick sucked to show you disagree but you gotta prove a point

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

"this hurts me more than it hurts you"

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

Just get him to kiss it. You don't have to have any kind of sex with a chud and they're still likely deeply humiliated

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing. There will be some stochastic terrorism and hate crimes probably, from the most unhinged, but the jetski dealers of America are not going to pry themselves out of their McMansions to fight a guerilla war, lol

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Correct, and I came in here to say it. MAGA Americans are still Americans, and the overwhelming majority of us are completely housebroken.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They won't do violence against the government because they're all cowards.

Instead there will be a wave of violence against women, including femicides, because they'll blame their wives and families and neighbors and random women for voting for Harris and "lying about it." There's a gender violence time bomb ticking in the US and it freaks me the fuck out.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They won't do violence against the government because they're all cowards.

Didn't they already do that a number of times in the MAGA era, not just that Jan 6 thing, including ransacking government buildings because of covid lockdowns?

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

True, I guess when I think of violence I don't think about property damage and there will certainly be isolated lone wolf attacks.

On a societal level, though, I think it will just manifest as racialized and patriarchal violence as "revenge" for Harris winning.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

You may be right. I unfortunately am familiar with misogynistic domestic hog rage.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

tase themselves in the balls and ass

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

We can only hope

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Grumble, whine and post like they usually do. January 6th ain't happening again.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, a big motivating part of Jan 6th was that the left had had our own riots so they didn't wanna get left behind. Not to mention Trump is too out of it to instigate another insurrection.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Keep in mind that they’re completely disconnected from reality. They thing pro-Palestine protestors are trashing universities and that several cities are basically rubble since 2020. The left doesn’t actually have to be rioting for them to think we are.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Probably nothing. Like the rank and file MAGA voters are all eight years older than they were in 2016. Most of their street fighting units were dismantled a long time ago. They were old dorks without any real taste for getting blood on their knuckles in the first place. Trumps original street fighting outfits got a lot of media play but I doubt if there were ever more than 10,000 of them in the whole country that actually had the capacity for direct violence.

The strategic strengths of the MAGA fash (as opposed to BlueMaga) currently lies in their control of the courts, police, and media. They completely crushed police reform, the dems normalized the use of police and military against dissent, and the MAGA fash have control of all the institutions they need to unilaterally end abortion, healthcare, and to continue and possibly complete the genocide of trans people, plus whatever other goals they want. IANAL and I don't entirely comprehend the limit of the SCOTUS, like what degree of legislating from the bench the Dems will tolerate without resistance, but with control of the SCOTUS the GOP can sorta/kinda rule by decree now. Whether they will and to what extent they will is an open question, but they've already overthrown critical legal precedent on things like Roe and some key labor laws.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

We see a big bump in hate crimes. Trump won’t concede. Dems do yet another performative investigation into voter fraud and find none because there was none. Trump still won’t concede. Liberal legacy media hems and haws about how uncivil it is but ultimately nothing comes of it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

I think no matter what happens they will be annoying and complain about owning homes

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They're not about that life. As much as Americans love their guns their troops and as much senseless violence occurs the vast majority don't have the taste or hunger for a legit civil like they keep trying to hype up. They can wear all the camo, skull, goofy warrior quotes they they want mandem who feel their life will fall apart without after a few hours of no wifi can't fix their mouth to tell me shit. i-cant

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

americans only love violence when its inflicted on brown people far away. when it comes to actually putting their own life on the line they are the most cowardly people on earth

Death to America

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

Seen people talk about oh america has more guns than people. Whats that gotta do with being ready for a civil war though? All these violent events these dudes brag about like gang violence or mass shootings are relatively sporadic when you consider how big the country is and doesn't actually impact commerce and daily running life really. A legit civil war changes that drastically. They are not ready for that smoke

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

All the guns and blue lives gear is them trying to hype themselves up to go to war. But they don't realize that buying luxury goods and identifying with a brand is not really relevant to winning a civil war.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Honestly, probably nothing. At most they'll do some pathetic show like Jan 6th again. Bunch of boater kulaks with no sauce.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It probably doesn't matter because Trump is winning this. But if he loses it would be so funny if he ran again in 2028. He's gonna have Biden brain by then and it will be awesome.

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

I think Trump already does have biden brain, it just manifests itself in a way that is harder to distinguish than Bidens because of his (trumps) normal baseline. Like, yeah Biden will gaffe and whatever, but also trump speaks in rambling paragraphs and covers 20 different topics at once

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm a bit of a doomer when it comes to the potential of the American conservative movement to birth a violent revolution. Nothing Ever Happens Gang, take heed:

January 6th 2021 proved two things to me; first, there is latent revolutionary potential among the conservative bourgeoisie in America. They are willing to fight and die to bring about a utopian future being promised to them by QAnon, they just lack cohesion and a vanguard faction. The blackshirts are ready, they just need their Mussolini.

Second, it showed that the FBI and other agencies had a major blindspot for the MAGA conservatives, and weren't embedded deep enough with them to pre-empt something like J6. There are a lot of theories that they must have known but just let it happen anyways to entrap people. But frankly when I see a situation that could be explained by the government having either godlike super-prescience 47D Chess skills as part of a trap, or by organisational incompetence like we saw with the Secret Service back in July in Butler-- I stick with 'incompetence'. It's a lot more

These two things create a perfect storm for the savvier and more prepared folks among the conservative movement. The General Flynns, the Ivan Raiklins, the Ammon and Ryan Bundys, the Dan Bonginos, and the Steve Bannons of the nation. People who want to see the current order completely overthrown, have connections throughout the right-wing media/'intellectual' worlds, and a willingness to either use violence or direct other people in using violence. All it takes is loose coordination between these kinds of people and the militia movements, and you've got the spark of something bigger beginning. A few attacks on key highways and parts of the electrical infrastructure, and they can create a huge shock across the continent that could have a ripple effect of inspiring the kinds of people who who weren't at J6 but wish they were.

If Kamala wins, I fully expect Trump to try and use legal bullshit to try and overturn it, but the conservative bourgeoisie (who fully back him in that, but want to see blood, not lawsuits) might try to kick off a rebellion out west. If they fail, MAGA will say they were feds and forget it ever happened. If they succeed, they can help Trump pressure the Biden admin to relinquish power to Trump in order to avoid a civil war redux.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

January 6th 2021 proved two things to me; first, there is latent revolutionary potential among the conservative bourgeoisie in America

how can the conservative bourgeoisie rebel against themselves? they already run everything and have everything they want. they're mad about culture war issues but that's never going to be enough to get people to risk their lives in large enough numbers to lead to a "revolution." i think they'll accelerate the pace at which they take over the deep state and impose christo-fascism from above, but that doesn't require anything like a revolution

Death to America

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't think they have any revolutionary potential. There are a large number of far-right people willing to do violence, but how many of them are willing to risk losing their lives or their businesses or their treats? They're only willing to drive their trucks through crowds because they know there's a good chance they'll get away with it. They're also incapable of organizing with their peers, they'll only attend a meeting if they get to threaten the school board or whatever. They view discipline as an unjust imposition on their freedom.

They can do terrorism but can't engage in sustained conflict, they're basically like Israel settles but less capable and less unified.

But ultimately the US is declining into some kind of neo-fascism anyway. It doesn't rely on their revolutionary potential, it's just the logic of our ruling institutions.

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

Idk, they vandalize the White House again, and dems be like maybe-later-honey "Another Jan. 6th", then proceed to give 1-10 year sentences, and parole if they're "polite" people

Then the reactionary victories by a thousand cuts will continue

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i just hope it's fucking funny honestly. kill a couple senators, beat a cop in the streets, i don't fucking care. death to amerika.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Gonna be hard to top getting tazed in the balls and dying tbh

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Red MAGA are the soccer hooligans of Burgerland politics. I think they'll be feral hogs whether their cult figure wins or loses.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Probably make their families life misserable.

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

Complain a lot, talk a lot of smack and pretend like they're riling up for a civil war while they're drinking their fifth can of beer that day as their gun continues to rust away from lack of care.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lathe-of-heaven

It will be easier for the Republican party to distance itself from Trump, whether it takes the opportunity or not shrug-outta-hecks

Probably a bunch of states will see a new third party called something like The Trump Party or the MAGA Party and operate like the Tea Party did for a while... just with a whole lot less financial backing. These will be independent state level parties and not a national party with branches in the states where they've formed. Lots of factionalization and infighting and financial shenanigans will ensue.

There's gonna be a whole lot of squealing for about 6 months after the election results are finalized about a stolen election which will hurt Trumper voter turnout in the next elections, "if the country is so corrupt that TWO elections were stolen from my guy trump-drenched ... then what's the point in voting?"

Probably the same amount of mass shootings as has become the "norm" for the USA but more manifesto's citing Trump's repeated loss as "proof" of an irredeemably corrupt US political process with no possibility of positive reform, the only solution being nihilistic destruction instead of tossing out a bad system and replacing it with a fundamentally different system with positive goals for humanity.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"if the country is so corrupt that TWO elections were stolen from my guy... ... then what's the point in voting?"

Bernie - Trump 2032: 3rd time's the charm!

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

Shit their pants in anger

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

nothing if the feds don’t want something to happen. Jan 6 was as controlled as you can get.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

as much as I want them to do another Jan 6th, they realized the consequences the first time.

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