Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today

[armoredthirteen@lemmy.zip]

#3 depends where you are on the hit list I suppose. I'm trans, so I'm well past worry-o-clock and am actively making arrangements to leave the country. Someone like a cishet white male tech worker has a lot less to worry about though

[nabdad@lemmy.world]

Still. More people voted for this than didn't vote for this.

I don't want to pile on, but if less than 50% voted for this, then more than 50% voted against it. The people voting against it didn't vote for the same thing, but they did vote against this.

[gammelfisch@lemmy.world]

Kudos to the person who is sending the correct message. Everyone who believes in protecting the US Constitution should fly the US flag upside down.

[giddygap@lemm.ee]

There's nothing that can be done. Republicans have every bit of power there is. At least for the next two years.

[echolalia@lemmy.ml]

This is the message of the enemy. I am not sure what there is to be done, to say this:

There’s nothing that can be done.

is to give up. The only thing that we ordinary people can know is that the democratic party is unable/unwilling to form an effective resistance right now.

[chonkyowlbear@lemmy.world]

There is always one type of power the people have.

[allonzee@lemmy.world]

Maybe we should double down on capitalism again.

It's the only move the US has used in living memory.

[ripcord@lemmy.world]

Georgia had both mail-in absentee voting and, especially, 2 weeks of early voting including on weekends. In most places the early voting lines weren't terribly long. On election day most places were short.

Most people still didn't vote.

Some people couldn't vote. Millions of assholes just didn't bother and are partly to blame.

[bigbananadealer@lemm.ee]

shitposting 🫵

[moncharleskey@lemmy.zip]

"50+ bought in the last month" hmmmmm

[corkyskog@sh.itjust.works]

Like when Elon gets rid of "all regulations" make private bounty hunters/hitman legal again?

[jj4211@lemmy.world]

This is a strong reason why I would think it a tactical error to mess with the elections. Elections are the pressure valve that people are willing to wait for. You can do so much harm and all is forgiven if you step down after an election loss.

Take away that mechanism, and you put all your leadership at huge risk, for minor benefit (history has shown they can get their way like 90% of the time anyway, the "left" will barely even say anything about their material goals and let them stand).

[tisktisk@piefed.social]

You found a way to scream withouy caps--impressive
I wish you the best comrade!

[andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works]

Pissposting too

[solomon42069@lemmy.world]

You could rise up. Isn't that what all the guns are for?

[ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works]

Anything is legal if it's not prosecuted.

And with a dismantled government, how much can they really prosecute?

[majorllama@lemmy.world]

Yes thank you. It's already been pointed out several times.

[taiyang@lemmy.world]

Everyone just giving their opinion but the answer is mixed. Some regret, many don't. And it's not just disinformation, people have to deal with their own cognitive dissonance. Just on the radio earlier was an Arab man still defending vote for Trump because "it's just rhetoric" right now. He's willing to say it's terrible rhetoric, but won't come to terms with the vote being a bad decision.

[taiyang@lemmy.world]

Oddly, the recent thing in LA was via TikTok, but to be fair their knee bending is probably superficial at best.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

Well if you love technicalities you should've realized that people who didn't vote at all for any reason also didn't vote for this. Technically.