Brexit is still delivering all the "I told you so"s. It's less fun than it sounds.
Yeah, people keep saying "This time they'll see!" But, aside from the occasional "leopards ate my face" moment, the same people keep lining up for more of the same.
And much of the consequences are sloughed off on the people who are fighting hardest against it.
They're fucking around, and we end up finding out.
Oh, don't worry, on a long enough timeline, everyone ends up finding out. It's just that if they were capable of figuring it out, this all would have been avoided in the first place.
Yeah there seems to be this palpable expectation on Lemmy that any day now half of the voting public is going to have some realisation and say "oh my god what have we done".
It doesn't work like that though.
Most of the actual retarded things Trump said he would do like the tariffs et cetera will be done in performative way. Done in a way that isn't too disruptive or harmful but still lets him say he stuck it to China.
The more insidious project 2025 stuff isn't applied in real time. How does the media report on the slow corrosion of quality of life and rights to privacy et cetera.
I was in the US for the first trump election and in Britain for Brexit. And now I’m back in the US for this shitshow. It’s like I can’t escape the crazy – it’s following me.
Or maybe it’s all my fault and I’m a bad talisman. I dunno, just please make it stop.
Still pretty fun not being in the UK. Though I do feel bad for everyone not having voted for this shit.
Yep, even though millions died, we are not saying I told you so cause them idiots doubled down on it and got so obnoxious that the I told you so energy died.
I don't think it's exactly going to be fun, I just know the only pleasure that's left is schadenfreude.
No, it's not going to be "I told you so."
Conservatives will still blame Biden and dems for all the problems.
Yup, they still deflect to Hillary's emails and shit when you call out new cabinet positions. If we could harness their mental gymnastics into physical energy we'd solve the climate crisis.
Also, there's a lot of people that will say, "don't be mean to them, that never changes their mind!" "talk to them, be empathetic"
Man, anyone suffering after voting for Trump deserves a big "fuck you".
Yeah, I will never forgive a 2024 Trump voter. They know who they voted for, they know who he is. No excuses this time. Trump voters claiming ignorance this time will not be accepted.
Right, there's no satisfaction in pointing out the results of a conservative power grab. Their narcissism makes them immune to introspection or self-awareness.
Not if historic patterns repeat.
Clinton, Dubya, Obama, and Trump all went into office with control of Congress and lost it at the mid-terms, so it's not unlikely that a portion of voters will flip in 2026.
They'll be back in 2028 though, when the Dems nominate Gavin Newsom and try replay this 'joy and unity' bullshit again.
It's the deeeeeep state!
Don't forget the "I wish dems did better!". You and me. Both but... Buckle up.
Who cares about conservatives? we talkin about who didnt vote or those "swing voters"
We talkin bout practice.
"You fuckers asked for this so either shut up or move"
Going to be the only thing keeping me going
I'm buying a bunch of "I did that!" Trump stickers to slap on empty grocery shelves. That's gonna be fun.
Yep those things need to be EVERYWHERE after they had those dumbass Biden ones, and the best part is that this time they'll actually be correct
I picked up rows and rows of "Billionaires shouldn't exist" and "No human is illegal" myself. I need to see if my old ass shitty canon can print on sticker paper. Maybe get back into making stencils.
Bold of you to think it will end in 4 years.
2016: "it's no like roe is going away! People are over reacting!" 2024: "...."
I'm saying. Like are we even going to have an election in 4 years? The dude violates every Norm, every tradition.
The small part of my brain that is conspiratorial be like, he's not moving the inauguration inside because of the weather or any threat, it's for the optics, It's for watering down the ceremony of the transfer of power, because he doesn't intend to have another one.
The authoritarian right will keep pushing until people push back harder.
Poor Norm.
As much as I enjoy saying "I told you so," which is a LOT, I'm really goddamn tired of being proven right so fucking much.
The main issue, which I find with conservative voters a lot, is that unless they are obviously and directly impacted by something they will never notice or link actions and consequences.
Instead of I told you so I might just start saying
I'm really goddamn tired of being proven right so fucking much.
I can't imagine the cognitive dissonance these fascists are going to deal with.
Unfortunately for the majority of them it won't be a problem. He'll perform exactly as desired "owning the libtards" and getting rid of "the immigrants". I wish I had a more optimistic outlook on the next 4yr but frankly we already know how it will go from his last term. At least to an extent.
In spite of themselves. Despair is a useless emotion.
You already can. Just look at how liberals are literally going insane, having delusions and hallucinations because they fundamentally cannot comprehend the inherent contradictions of their own existence.
Climate change wasn’t real enough for half the country, so now everyone has to suffer.
Yeah. Idk how I feel about this gotcha perspective when trans people and undocumented immigrants are facing state violence on a nearly existential level. Like, is this your response to that? To adopt this smug affect and do nothing? Business as usual for you, I suppose.
You'll have to forgive me for taking this post very literally. I am very scared for what is going to happen to my friends and loved ones in the coming weeks.
options are limited but they are there.
- stay in the dangerzone, conveniently marked in red on the map
- move to a blue state that has a solid track record. if you're willing, flood red counties and turn them blue/purple to help maintain stability of the state
- leave the country, how long before cheeto king claims a blue state administration broke "federal laws" and arrests them and replaces them with loyalists?
$20 eggs is merely part of the 29D chess move that will eventually make eggs free!
Just keep waiting.
"Guys, guys, eventually the price will go down. We just need to consolidate the producers to one, then they will definitely lower it to a reasonable price." - Smug Asshole
Once one billionaire owns literally everything he will finally have sufficient power to lower the price of eggs.
It's been like that for the last 2 months.
Silver lining is that we're looking at a clown-show fascist circus instead of an effective fascist takeover.
This might very well not (yet) be the "burning of the reichstag and declaration of the state of emergency" part of the fashist takeover. Trump is incompetent but if he does to much damage the government might just complety collapse and musk and zuck can enact a monarchy.
I am much more afraid of the people in the second row ready to take over than of trump himself.
They moved the innuagriation indoors because "reasons". Monday is going to be fun, for sure.
Dude I hadn't smoked a cigarette for like 2yrs and then after election day... I'm smoking again.
Bro... Governments came and go. Don't let that dictate your health. My aunt died of lung cancer with an o2 mask clamped to her mouth. It is the worst way to go. I'm rooting for you
I appreciate you bro 💜 my grandma died from lung cancer too, horrible shit. I'm hoping that by the time I'm old, they'll be able to grow clone lungs 🤞
Okay you said whatever you wanted. Now what?
It's one thing knowing it's going to happen, it's going to be something else entirely when it does.
It's like knowing you're going to die. We all "know" our day is coming, but we don't really appreciate that until we get old or someone close to us passes away.
This is false and we know this from the pandemic.
Once you can’t agree on facts, you can’t be right retrospectively.
Millions of people died, if you google US yearly death rate you see a very obvious spike.
To me that is the smoking gun that the pandemic was in fact very deadly.
I haven’t been able to say I told you so to any anti vaxxer.
It’s not about logic, it’s about outrage, and that’s gonna increase moving forward.
What is this picture?
Looks like it's from the set of Game of Thrones.
Just like when George left the production team of the HBO series.
Since you believe in facts so much, you must agree that during American hegemony the world has never been more prosperous.
Is this how people think? “Haha I told ya it was gonna be shit! I was right and you were wrong!! So you deserve to feel guilty for all the suffering!”
C’mon guys. We’re better than this.
They will be extra shit years, but good years weren't on the ballot.
Our economy would have to undergo fundamental change to reign in greed and reckless metastasis for that.
(yes I voted for regular shit years out of harm reduction)
Don't vote for corporate lackies. It only encourages them.
“I told you so when I stayed home on voting day, didn’t oppose it, and blamed it on democrats while calling every leftist who isn’t just like me a fascist!”
-American leftists
no no. they called everyone a Nazi because they were supporting the genocide in Palestine.
everyday I'm on this platform I'm convinced that at least 70% of the content is generated by Russian and Chinese propagandists. because at the end of the day nobody can be this obtusely uneducated of the facts.
If you want to lose in 2028, just stick with that smug nonsense, even though you know it doesn't work to win people to your side. Dems have spent the last three elections driving away votes they need if they want to win, and eventually you're going to have to learn to engage with people in a reasonable way if that's what you want.
It is wild, though, that after three disastrous elections in a row (and yes, I"m counting Biden barely squeaking to a win as disastrous) you still think it's a good idea to annoy the shit out of everyone in your social circle.
There is nothing smug about this. This post isn’t about winning people to “our” side. It’s about a dark acceptance of the downfall of society. One that anyone who’s been paying attention has seen coming for a long time. We vote, we gripe online. It does nothing. Because it’s designed to do nothing. We recognize it yet, it’s all we can do. We either hold hands or we fight. Either way we burn together.
It's 100% smug.
If the problems that began under Biden continue under Trump, and your message isn't 100% "Come back to the Democrats. This is how we're going to make it better," along with a solid plan to actually do it, you will lose again. The words "I told you so," shouldn't even be in your vocabulary anymore after the last three elections.
It isn't rank-and-file Democrats. At least, not directly. It's their shitty candidates. And they might've actually gotten Sanders nominated, if the DNC hadn't forced Harris on us.
There was no way that Harris was going to win. It didn't matter how nice or persuasive her supporters were. People could clearly see that she was an empty suit.
If you know it all, why don't you know how to win an election?
Because you can't fix stupid.
Sometimes you just have to punch yourself in the face, just to see if it hurts. Then do it again.
They can't win when they aren't even allowed to pick the candidate. The DNC already plays with a stacked deck, but they still thought that the risk of a Sanders nomination was too likely. That's why they forced Biden/Harris on us.
Starting with a ceasefire on his inauguration day...
….that Biden proposed and negotiated. Also he hasn’t been inaugurated yet lol.
No, Trump is just so awesome, that his powers go into effect before he's even inaugurated! Are you ready to start winning?!
I really have to praise Trump and Steve Witkoff for what has happened in the last few weeks in the Middle East. It is not Biden, but Trump, who has made it possible for a ceasefire, he says.
Because the past few years were good, no complicity in genocide or anything.
Edit: you are free to downvote but you can’t hate Arabs and Muslims and at the same time expect them to vote for you. At least conservatives are honest about being hateful.
So you'd rather vote for the people who want to actively kill you, instead of the ones that mostly just ignore your problems? That's just fucking stupid.
So you'd rather vote for the people who want to actively kill you
Where did they say they voted Republican?
instead of the ones that mostly just ignore your problems?
Democrats didn't "ignore" the genocide, they funded it and enabled it
Democrats don't like it when you tell them that Biden will only be remembered as the person who enabled the Palestinian genocide. But it's true.
They even dehumanize and demonize Palestinians just to justify their support for Biden. Tribal mentality at its finest.
I am quickly learning that I should keep my distance and not engage. People who deny things that are clear as day are either lying or choose to be willfully ignorant.
Did you tell me that the dems would rather support a genocide than nominate a winning candidate? Cause I agree.
Or do you mean like how trump was supposed to be worse for palestinians than kamalacaust, but then dude got a ceasefire before even taking office? Because I never would've predicted that.
dude got a ceasefire before even taking office
Lol Trump was not responsible for the ceasefire. Read the news
Trump was 100% responsible for the ceasefire according to the news.
You do know that Trump did the exact opposite, right? He deliberately (and illegally, mind you) pressured Netanyahu not to accept any ceasefire deal until after the election, sacrificing thousands of innocent civilians to make sure he could campaign on the issue.
Wow, that would be a really big controversy in a normal world.
The orange dude DIDN'T get a cease fire. Hamas and the Palestinians realized that what Biden had to offer is better than the extinction that Trump will support.
That's so wrong. The palestinians were ready to accept a ceasefire MONTHs ago.
Hamas accepted that deal in June. Netanyahu refused it. Trump made Netanyahu accept it
You are consuming extreme Democrat propaganda if you think Hamas blocked the deal.
