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What frickin' bizarro world did I wake up in?
I feel like Cordy:
Cordelia: Spike's a hero and you're CEO of Hell, Incorporated. What frickin' bizarro world did I wake up in?
Seriously. What IS this?
Also, Jon Stewart argues against the idea that all Trump voters are racist (I have not watched it, but the ONTD crowd are NOT happy)
Here's Miss Manners explaining the problem (x):
FYI I have added two more tags:
darkest timeline (usa)
This is for stuff to do with Fuckface von Clownstick and the fallout from the administration
never give up never surrender
This is for stuff you can do, how to protest etc etc.
And finally, re. normalisation, I went and found this passage:
Oh, and BRITISH PEOPLE! Here's a petition for you:
Do not make Nigel Farage a lord
IT HAS LESS THAN 9000 SIGNATURES!
Cordelia: Spike's a hero and you're CEO of Hell, Incorporated. What frickin' bizarro world did I wake up in?
Seriously. What IS this?
Anderson Cooper is trying to normalize ultra-racist Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck is vehemently protesting it. This is our world now, folks. https://t.co/TfM6AxClCO
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 16, 2016
Also, Jon Stewart argues against the idea that all Trump voters are racist (I have not watched it, but the ONTD crowd are NOT happy)
Here's Miss Manners explaining the problem (x):
FYI I have added two more tags:
darkest timeline (usa)
This is for stuff to do with Fuckface von Clownstick and the fallout from the administration
never give up never surrender
This is for stuff you can do, how to protest etc etc.
And finally, re. normalisation, I went and found this passage:
There are now a good many summer visitors to the village. The bathing-beach by the pier, with its array of banners, begins to look like a medieval camp. Each family has its own enormous hooded wicker beach-chair, and each chair flies a little flag. There are the German city-flags – Hamburg, Hanover, Dresden, Rostock and Berlin, as well as the National, Republican and Nazi colours. Each chair is encircled by a low sand bulwark upon which the occupants have set inscriptions in fir-cones: Familie Walter. Stahlhelm. Heil Hitler! Many of the forts are also decorated with the Nazi swastika. The other morning I saw a child of about five years old, stark naked, marching along all by himself with a swastika flag over his shoulder and singing “Deutschland über allies.”
The little Doctor fairly revels in this atmosphere. Nearly every morning he arrives, on a missionary visit, to our fort. “You really ought to come round to the other beach,” he tells us. “It’s much more amusing there. I’d introduce you to come nice girls. The young people here are a magnificent lot! I, as a doctor, know how to appreciate them. The other day I was over at Hiddensee. Nothing but Jews! It’s a pleasure to get back here and see real Nordic types!”
Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Novels
Oh, and BRITISH PEOPLE! Here's a petition for you:
Do not make Nigel Farage a lord
IT HAS LESS THAN 9000 SIGNATURES!
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I mean, it's not like, that's it, the Nazis have won and it's all over. Everything in society is reacting, shifting. In the same way that Trump can be read as a result of Obama, I think the end result of Trump will be similarly strong and opposite. I think both parties are going to be profoundly changed and re-aligned. I think quite possibly the balance of power between our branches of government will change. I think quite possibly we'll see more states reaching for greater independent powers. I think our sense of who we are as Americans has already profoundly changed. I think the mentality of American exceptionalism is probably dead soon. I think about the NY Times noting that white Christians are now a minority and all those stories about how white people figured out how to vote as a block and the stories about how how we're feeling now is how minorities feel all the time and I'm seeing that we're realizing and coping with the feeling that everybody in America is a minority right now. We're learning as a society right now how to deal with having a country with no majorities. It's not happening thirty years in the future, it's happening now.
I think this profoundly changes our relationship to media. You see it happening already, in the conversations about how did this happen? What was the media's culpability here? What is the responsibility of outlets like Facebook to police fake news? Trump has threatened the press, wants to tamp them down. I think it just as likely he raises a beast. This may save journalism. Probably it won't look like journalism as we knew it, but I think it's going to be a vital institution for us in the years ahead.
And I happened to be reading a book going into the election about the way that connections (resources, trade, data, migration) are taking over from nation-states as the defining organization of our world. Part of this is the idea that the world is now domination by inter-connected mega-cities whose residents feel more like citizens of the global city than they do their individual countries. A very real danger of this, the author points out, is that the cities abandon their hinterlands and these areas are completely left out of the new world--that one sat heavy in my stomach last Tuesday night. I'll tell you, for all the talk of red states and blue states we've had for twenty years, this time feels different. The palpable sense that the coast cities are a fundamentally different place from everywhere in between and the residents of both have no understanding of each other's situations--very real. I don't know how you fix that. Maybe, down the road, the country does break up. It's always been a somewhat unwieldy conglomeration.
And, in conclusion, there is a deep core of me that loves change for its own sake.
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The other thing I've thought about is how everything is out in the open - no denying the racism now! :(
Ok, we've arrived, will get back to you later.
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Wake me up when 2016 ends.
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OMG, yes. Our world has been tilting to insanity for over two decades. We finally landed in it. It's like waking up after being in a steadily increasingly abusive relationship for several years and realizing that it IS an abusive relationship...and there is nowhere else to go.
*HUGS*
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*HUGS*
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Stacey
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And now I have to figure out how to communicate with my mother, who I haven't called since the election. She supported Trump because "if he has such lovely children, it must be good".
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What is this world coming to?
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Sometimes the truth can be stranger than fiction.
I know I didn't agree with what happened but now Donald Trump has A LOT to live up too.
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Some good news:
+ The ACLU published a full page NY Times ad calling on the president-elect to walk back his campaign promises.
+ Nonprofits Opposed to Trump’s Ideology See a Surge in Donations
the ONTD crowd are NOT happy
To be fair, they never are happy. Otherwise they wouldn't be on ONTD.
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They said the Trump voters voted Trump because they were angry - but that vote has now angered everyone else...
It's like waking up after being in a steadily increasingly abusive relationship for several years and realizing that it IS an abusive relationship...and there is nowhere else to go.
S'like the SNL Election Night sketch.
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*nods* Also 'give him a chance' means ignoring everything he's said & done so far... That's difficult.
And now I have to figure out how to communicate with my mother, who I haven't called since the election. She supported Trump because "if he has such lovely children, it must be good".
Oh. Sorry, I've got nothing.
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Although oddly Glenn Beck gives me hope. Like, if HE can change, surely there's hope for others?
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And thankfully Trump is walking back SOME of his promises. Like failing Clinton. Sadly not enough. :(
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Aye. I wish someone would shout at them: DO NOT COLLABORATE WITH THE REGIME!!
And I'd seen those two good news, yes. I have hoarded a couple more. <3
To be fair, they never are happy. Otherwise they wouldn't be on ONTD.
*snerk* Very true.
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Yup. If the racism (etc) wasn't a deal breaker... why not?
Wake me up when 2016 ends.
You want to wake up when Trump actually become President???
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(I have never signed a petition so fast...)
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Although The Moff's was yesterday. :)
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It is kind of like the twilight zone I suppose.
What is important to note that its the people who voted him in and he said what he knew would win those votes. Bizarre strategy as it was.
The aftermath of being elected is what he has to worry about now.
No point in being too upset. If he is serious about making America great again, then he needs support in doing that.
However if he alienates certain people than thats going to make things difficult.
Time will tell.
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Right?? Because all of America has been painted with this brush. And we don't like it too well.
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I pretty much think Trump wants to end American democracy and install himself as dictator-for-life like his hero, Vladimir Putin. That affects Canada in a BIG way, so I'm going to do everything I can from here to prevent it.
Plus, I have a lot of friends in the U.S. who are going to be personally affected by this fascist regime, and I want to do everything I can to help them. The hate crimes have started already. America has shown the world its true face, and it wears a Swastika.
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Nah, he's good at TV. We always knew that. Professional demagogue.
No point in being too upset. If he is serious about making America great again, then he needs support in doing that.
Well, he means 'for white, straight, male people'. Everyone else is screwed. Guess we'll get to see how America copes with a fascist...
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I did NOT like the writing this year. :(
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What I'm saying is that its going to be very hard for Donald Trump to live up to all the demands he so "eloquently" said he'd achieve.
If he were to follow through with all the racial, cultured or discriminatory views, than his going to obviously make things worse.
I really don't like this situation but I also don't like the rioting against Trump either.
Its all a mess. I just want Donald Trump to learn to be a better person from all of this!*overwhelmed*
Personally I'm just trying to pass my final assessments.*stressed*
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But that doesn't even really matter. The deplorables have been emboldened, and they can't be packed away again. :(
Personally I'm just trying to pass my final assessments.*stressed*
Turn off the internet and concentrate on studying!