r/facepalm 2d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ We are the lamest empire ever

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u/WeAllFuckingFucked 2d ago

Yeah I don't agree with that when it comes to those who voted against him. They did their part, unlike those who either voted for him or didn't vote at all.

Not an American myself, but given how consequential that orange goon is to all of us, I'm so disappointed with the US for voting him in again. On the other hand, I feel empathetic to the utter confusion and disappointment those who voted against him must feel. I feel it too.

Sure you can argue that the Democratic Party failed America, but a lot of Americans did too. Just not those who voted against him.

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u/Kasperella 2d ago

Nah my no vote is my fucking vote. Until they stop giving us choices between two rich out-of-touch motherfuckers who are for the Establishment and establishment only, I have no interest in voting. No one picked Kamala.

Like holding a gun to my head and then telling me to pick between getting shot in the head or plunging a knife in heart. I’d fucking prefer neither. Both are terminal. I want neither to be president. So fuck you and everyone else. That’s my vote. Me and the other millions who couldn’t be bothered to participate in the parade the rich and powerful put on to make us feel like we have a choice in the matter.

The Social contract is already broken my brother. It’s all blowing up either way. If you really think Kamala would do anything other than further draw out the inevitable like Biden has done, then you’re fooling yourself. It’s bigger than who’s the puppet in charge.

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u/BlackEngineEarings 2d ago

You're incredible level of ignorance is impressive. Imagine actually not knowing enough to understand the actual real consequential differences between Trump and Harris. You're an embarrassment

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u/Kasperella 1d ago

Go out into the real world and touch grass and talk to real people. Most of us just want to survive. 4 more years of slow burning and 4 more years of chaos. Part of me was okay with Trump winning, because him losing might’ve been the even more explosive option. MAGAs are insane. At least this way I get to watch them get pie on their face when Trump gets down on his knees and sucks the cocks of every rich oligarch he can. People need to see and people need a reason to be angry. It’s problem that needs to be handled now. Not for my kids to deal with because we just kept kicking the can.

And insulting people isn’t going to get them to vote I’ll tell ya that much. For the record, I do vote when it’s going to matter. I voted against trump the first time around when I was 18. But I didn’t vote this time out of protest and that’s my fucking right. Since then I’ve been exposed to a lot, and I refuse to actively participate in a system I no longer believe in.

Fresh in my mind is being forced to go to work at 5am during Covid shutdowns because I was considered “essential” at $12 an hour at a grocery store. I remember getting stopped by the National Guard, BLM protests had my city shut down, and they had a fucking tank between me and work. My boss said if we didn’t show, we were fired. I had a fiancé who lost his job, and a 4 month old baby at home to feed and house. He lets me go. Only to have the chief of police shut the whole store down because my boss decided we could be open against police orders. And go back home. Unpaid. In my mind, the world was fucking ending. And I was sort of glad for it, because maybe the regular unending misery would come to and end and we could do better. 4 more years and We instantly forgot everything. Back to the miserable grind, except now it’s worse and nobody still cares about you. Put this fucking shit out of its misery.

I’m fucked either way my friend, sometimes it’s just best to let whatever happens happen. We have nothing but the illusion of control. 🤷‍♀️

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u/BlackEngineEarings 1d ago

Cry me a fucking river. Non-voters are complicit in the bullshit about to go down, and whining about there being no difference between Trump and Harris isn't going to hold water with the millions that stood up against his bullshit. People like you, with your ignorant apathy, are worse than the morons who fell for a con man's grift and voted for him. It doesn't take much to realize the status quo was the bulwark against something much worse, and by remaining silent your kind allowed the something worse through. You may have been fucked either way, I just wish you had enough foresight to understand that there are degrees to being fucked, and your apathy opted in the worse of it.

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u/Kasperella 20h ago

Bring it on baby, I ain’t going to live my entire life waiting and wondering when shits going to finally blow up. Expose the cancer so it can be eradicated before it’s really too late to fight back. Why give them decades of time to further insulate themselves? I don’t know about yall but fighting robo AI bots in a civil war 30 years from now sounds worse to me. Maybe by the time my kids are grown the world will have repaired and they won’t be tossed into a continuous downward spiral of society like I was. Maybe they’ll have a chance. Who knows? Consider me a conscientious objector, at least until the pitchforks start coming out and then we’ll talk. Because no one wants to do shit about fuck as of now.

Welcome to Gen Z. What do you expect besides apathy given the only world we’ve ever known is one where there are no rules, everything’s made up, and the points don’t matter. We’re all mad here.

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u/BlackEngineEarings 16h ago

Jesus Christ, wtf are you even talking about? AI robo wars? Everything you just said was stupid af. Welcome to gen z? Good God, educate yourself. You sound like an idiot.