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LillyPip

@ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

  • maga neighbour came over and lost morale

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  • I’m not in love with democrats, either, don’t get me wrong. I’m far to the left of them.

    I wasn’t always disabled, and had a couple of good decades as a firmware and software developer and UXD, and I built my career from nothing in the late 90s, teaching myself and staying ahead of the curve. I was doing pretty well until about 15 years ago when autoimmune issues started attacking my nervous system, causing seizures and massive GI issues, to the point I literally can’t eat food anymore.

    I HATE not being able to work, and would do literally anything to have my career back.

    But despite how much disdain I have that the democrats aren’t what I wish they would be, fascism is objectively worse in every conceivable way. For me, it’s a matter of life and death.

    I’d rather not have to vote against fascism, but that’s how far the Overton window has shifted, and there were only two choices. We chose wrong.

  • maga neighbour came over and lost morale

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  • Please do, and thanks for being open-minded. I’m going to copy part of a comment I made from the other day so you know where I’m coming from:

    I’m fully disabled, and most of my friends and family died within the last few years, so I have no support network.

    I’m already struggling to survive, having to choose between food and medicine, and am overdrawn every month. All my savings are gone. I have literally no money to my name, and have been barely staving off homelessness for months. I rely completely on social services now, which trump has vowed to cut.

    I will not survive this administration. My fellow Americans have voted for me to die.

    I’ve spent a lot of time truly learning about how all of this works, because it affects me more than most people. I am not kidding that I’m pretty sure I won’t survive another trump administration. That’s based on objective fact. Things will be getting a lot worse for your parents soon, too, and I’m very sorry for that. We were on track to actually recover and improve our conditions, and that progress will now be reversed.

    I really wish US voters weren’t so susceptible to misinformation and propaganda, but here we are.

  • maga neighbour came over and lost morale

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  • maga neighbour came over and lost morale

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  • The economy moves slowly. The impacts on your pocketbook over the last 4 years were a direct result of the tariffs trump imposed during his previous stint in the White House, his absolutely abysmal reaction to Covid, and several other things he and his cronies did during that time.

    Biden fixed much of that, and as a result, inflation in the US slowed so it was less than in other countries that were impacted by many of the same market forces. It was already too much to completely reverse, but it was far better than it would have been otherwise.

    But instead of understanding what actually happened, loads of people seem to think the president can just flip a lever and the whole economy will turn on a dime – despite decades and decades that show that the economy is always better under democrats. Because democrats fix things, so the next republican administration looks good for a few years, then republicans break things, so the next democrat administration looks bad for the first few years. The economy is as nimble as the Titanic.

    So now, the US has voted the same guy back in who wrecked the economy that we’re still feeling the effects of, so he can reverse Biden’s improvements and instead make it far, far worse.

    People’s inability to learn the absolute basics of how the economy works is about to fuck us all.

    e: formatting

  • Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want

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  • Isn’t this how it always is, though?

    Of course those affected turned out. We always do. We’re often getting tear-gassed when 98% of people aren’t even aware a demonstration is happening.

    The whole problem is a great many people can’t believe there’s an issue until it affects them, personally.

    That’s the heart of it all. If this author had ideas on how to fix that, we’re all ears. Not sarcasm – we’ve been working on that for a very long time.

    e: shameful English

  • Trump AG prospect warns Letitia James: ‘We will put your fat ass in prison’

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  • Porque no los dos?

    Oligarchs should know by now not to stand near upper floor windows.

  • What Is Fascism?

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  • Kamala Harris recently painted Donald Trump as a fascist. Not to be outdone, the demagogue and convicted felon called Harris a fascist, a communist and stupid.

    Well, one of them is stupid.

    Someone who was already president once should know enough about politics to know you can’t be a fascist and a communist – they’re diametrically opposed: communism is far left and fascism is far right.

  • What Is Fascism?

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  • It’s the victim-blaming mentality of an abusive relationship.

    ‘If the left hadn’t burnt the dinner, the right wouldn’t have hit them.’ We brought this on by not being perfect.

    Fuck that. Fascism does not ask permission. It actively foments and exploits any weakness, like a predator, then gaslights you into thinking it’s your fault.

    Could the left do better? Absolutely. But that doesn’t mean we deserve the fascism that’s been testing the fences like velociraptors for decades, eroding education and the media, sowing misinformation, conspiracy, and discord, and cultivating mistrust and apathy on a scale never before seen.

    They need us to blame ourselves, to stay divided, and to point our fingers everywhere but at them. We need to stop making excuses for them.

    Blame the fascists for fascism.

  • Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want

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  • I have no choice at this point. I’m fully disabled, and most of my friends and family died within the last few years, so I have no support network.

    I’m already struggling to survive, having to choose between food and medicine, and am overdrawn every month. All my savings are gone. I have literally no money to my name, and have been barely staving off homelessness for months. I rely completely on social services now, which trump has vowed to cut.

    I will not survive this administration. My fellow Americans have voted for me to die.

  • Pentagon officials anxious Trump may fire the military’s top general

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  • That Flynn wasn’t recalled to service to be court-martialed is a travesty.

  • Pentagon officials anxious Trump may fire the military’s top general

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  • Trump AG prospect warns Letitia James: ‘We will put your fat ass in prison’

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  • If you thought journalism was bad before, when they were only compromising their standards for money, just watch now that it’ll be money and threats.

  • Trump AG prospect warns Letitia James: ‘We will put your fat ass in prison’

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  • The Reversion

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  • Unfortunately, though trump is lazy and has no plan, the christofascists pulling his strings are motivated, smart, and have been working on a comprehensive plan for years. Trump can just sit on his ass – his only real job is to be a rubber stamp.

    Now that they have a mandate, any real opposition can be ousted and replaced by loyalists. The guardrails that existed in trump’s last administration are mostly gone now.

    I’m usually optimistic, but looking at the situation honestly and closely, it really does look dire now.

  • Military officials reportedly discuss how to handle illegal orders from Trump – live | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

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  • They didn’t argue that in good faith. They knew the likelihood of that actually happening is near zero. If he was going to be impeached for anything at all, it would have been for inciting an insurrection – which is actual treason – and we all saw how that went. And they didn’t have the trifecta back then. There’s even less chance of that now, and they know it.

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  • They’re planning to dismantle the Department of Education. Vouchers will be a moot point soon.

  • Yes, Republicans who vowed retribution are now admitting Project 2025 is real

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  • This was likely true.

    Trump didn’t need to know about it, and (since by all accounts, he’s functionally illiterate) he certainly never read it. Project 2025 is the brainchild of the same groups who chose Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Cavanaugh. Trump likely knew very little about them, too.

    Trump was chosen because he’s easy to manipulate and is too incurious to care much about actual governance, so he won’t get in their way. All they need is for him to sign whatever they put in front of him between rounds of golf.

    Trump likely didn’t know much about Project 2025 – but that absolutely did not mean it wasn’t the plan all along.

  • JD Vance says US could veto NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms

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  • America will regret its decision to reelect Donald Trump

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  • Also:

    • When NOAA is dismantled, the National Weather Service gutted and privatised, the National Flood Insurance Program abolished, and FEMA ‘overhauled’, the government’s ability to predict and respond to increasing climate disasters will be severely hampered. Private insurance companies have already been fleeing at-risk areas, so the impact of future hurricane seasons will be devastating.