I’m not even American and I just feel overwhelmed with dread…

What it means for Amercians, but also what it means for democracies around the world.

I’ve felt this kind of dread only a handful of times in my life, and it always meant this is just the start of something far worse.

I just hope I’m wrong, I hope the worst things we said will happen will not, I hope we all look back and laugh at how dramatic it all was.

I hope you are all keeping safe and not forgetting how fascists and dictators fall out of power, not peacefully that’s for sure.

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
    0·
    8 days ago

    you’re not wrong. and the united states being the worlds only superpower, what happens here, effects everyone everywhere. i thought everyone was ready to admit this after trump fucked up the global pandemic response through ineptitude. doesn’t matter where you live, who you are, or what you do, anywhere in the world, the united states has fallen to a fascist who in league with russia and the saudis is going to destroy what we’ve come to rely on as western democratic civilization. there is no where to run. there is no where to hide. the very best the vast non billionaire majority of us everywhere will be able to do is survive.

    • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
      0·
      8 days ago

      what happens here, effects everyone everywhere.

      This is what people are going to find out very very soon.

      The current situation has ties to their own country’s security and safety, when it all comes down to the guy who has ties to leaders who are “not-so-nice” and will be kicking some VERY large hornet nests.

      Yes, Europe. Laugh at the dumb Americans, but y’all are going to reap the consequences of this outcome, too, unfortunately.

  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
    0·
    8 days ago

    If it wasn’t going g to happen now it was going to happen 4 years from now. These people were never going to go away. Now we just have to let them burn the country down to completion before people come back to their senses. It sucks we have to be the ones living through it though

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    0·
    8 days ago

    For some reason it just falls into the same category in my head as all the other horrible shit happening around the world. With all the wars and genocide and torture and slavery and starvation, i just cant bring myself to care about the US election. I know rationally that all those things will be worsened to some degree by trump, but it just doesnt evoke anything in me.