I get it, 50% residents of one of the most influential countries on earth will be very upset, with a lot of geopolitic consequences.
But for some, we cant change the outcome in anyway, I hate the way content even on the Fediverse becomes. Yes its important but man. I was all into 2016 elections but it doesnt really change anything anyway. Americans go vote and all, though.
I just wanna talk about kernels and factorio, man
Tomorrow is the last day to vote. I imagine all the talk won’t be over until noon January 20th with the transfer of power to the new administration.
So what I’m trying to say is only a couple more months.
Then it’s time to start focusing on midterm elections.
The majority of the talk will be over by the time the election is called. At least, the majority of it on here.
I think you are underestimating the chaos trump’s horde has planned. Unless it’s an absolute blowout for Kamala (and likely even some then), the close of the polls on Tuesday is just act 1.
And then of course insurrection 2.0 election boogaloo
Hah! It’s adorable that you think it will ever stop! The next set of congressional midterms is only two years away. They’re already ramping up the rhetoric for those!
We have to start gearing up the 2028 Presidential Election.
You think you’re going to have one?
Not anymore.
if trump wins, lets hope not, Jan 6 / jan 20 won’t be as relevant, since dems are not into coups
I’d like to be calm but since I live in a country neighbouring Ukraine … yeah, I’m scared
Trust me, I’m from u.s. and I hate it
I’m sick of every single comment tho any political article being, “Doesn’t matter. Go vote.”
Like, no shit. Stop commenting the same damn comment on every article.
Only 1 more day til it’s just U.S. riot news
And election fraud claims! Oh, the excitement.
I’ve got money on a week until it’s US civil war news
Not to be a downer, but the political ramifications matter significantly, and vice versa. This planet is way too small now, and I patiently monitor the politics of many countries to see how the world shifts in relation to peace and climate change.
This corresponds to everything, including games and distros if one country (not just the US) suddenly collapses.
I happily await the day politics calms down, the wars settle, and we focus primarily on climate change and science as our main passions once again.
So we should just talk about it ad naseum until we’re even more miserable?
No thanks. I can’t change the world beyond my vote so I’m just gonna live my life.
the political ramifications matter significantly
Can your obsessive worry change the outcome in any meaningful way? No? Then your obsessive worry is damaging both to you and to those you inflict it upon. This is doubly so when you inflict it on an international audience who doesn’t even access to the horse and pony show Americans call an election.
For the downvoting cowards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Ue5Qy6w1w Go downvote that too.
How I’m getting by…although this post showed up unfortunately 😂
This is hilarious.
Nice list, could be used for a meme
I take it you don’t play Magic The Gathering
Also Shapiro is misspelled
Sorry haha
Forgot Kanye and senator Armstrong
Kennedy now. Should probably add Thiel in there too; he doesn’t show up in news often, but when he does it’s a horror that makes Apartheid Manchild look small-time.
It drives me mad how the UK media obsesses over US Presidential elections because they’re still pretending the “special relationship” exists, yet they pay hardly any attention to European elections that actually have more impact on the UK.
They’ll literally cut away from UK news to bring a campaign speech from Trump or Harris. Why? We don’t get a vote in it, so we don’t need to hear it.
We gotta pretend we give a shit about your crowns and all that, so I don’t want to hear it.
Lol no you don’t
It’s only fair, the US does the same shit with UK royalty.
Well, talking about the EU might remind the rubes how shit things have gone since Brexit, so of course they don’t want to bring that one up.
The monkey’s paw is beginning to curl on this wish.
i honestly think this election is part of an ongoing cold war that has spread across the world and turned hot in Ukraine
we are all part of it and can participate
Yay!
Ironically, I was happy that this community was one of the few without posts about that election.
Haha i quit reddit not because of the api change and the stupid blackout/protest. But to get away from the propaganda.
Small reddit pages are the best, but yeah front page reddit seems like a lot of political/corporate content
booo not casual
It takes two to make a conversation so to make it casual both parties must converse casually. If you are the only comment opposing this conversation’s casual nature then it’s not the person casually initiating conversation that is at fault but your response that is making the conversation *heated.
non-casual/uncasual/anti-casual/casual-lessidk what the word for opposit of casual would be lol.“heated”
Fuck that’s perfect. The parent comment’s edit is a shoutout to you lol.
haha, thanks
Cheers to a casual as fuck conversation 🍻
Edit: fuck itd be so cool if there was a way to only allow voting to reference how casual you thought a comment thread was and keeping a ranking of the chillest of the chillest casual conversations lol if not voting then maybe a button similar to reddit’s gold used to be where you awarded the casual-est conversations and have the ranking based on the amount of casuawards you were given🤔
yea, that’s a good idea.
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I’ll use shruggy emoticons as a stand-in for now
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That would be great indeed
As an American, I’m just as sick of it as you are. I voted by mail weeks ago, but because I’m in a swing state I’m bombarded by mail and text messages.
Anyway, I recently switched to the CachyOS kernel. I won’t try Factorio though because I know I’ll get horribly addicted.
I’ve been trying to limit my election posting to the explicitly politics communities. I think that by blocking all of them, the non US people can hopefully keep the election chatter down to at least a dull roar, although I realize a lot of it is also spilling out into everywhere.
You folks have my sympathy, in other words. Hopefully in a week or so, we won’t need yours.
One more day. Just one more day. Election day is tomorrow, and by the early hours of the morning after, it’ll all be over.
No it won’t. The bullshit will continue with all the election denialism, the rhetoric and violence. Not to mention an the Republican state governors that will fuck shit up.
It ain’t over.
That bullshit will continue, but the obsession of the upcoming election will die down. For those of us who are interested in politics, it will remain an active time; for the majority of people, and thus the constant, annoying buzz of election articles on here, it’ll be over.
i dunno… one thing about trump: he’s basically guaranteed ratings for the media–ALL of it. and he’s pretty much a bottomless supply of absolutely apeshit bonkers headlines which will probably only increase regardless of the outcome of tomorrow
This is unfortuantely going to be dragged out for weeks while counts are finalized and certain candidates start claiming victory fraudulently. Just like the last election 🙄
Do you know when the first reliable results will come in?
I bet it will be quite late over here in the EU though 😔
Edit: thank you both, guess I’ll see the results in the morning :-) or if I go pee in the middle of the night 😋
Depends on how close it is. 2020 was a bit chaotic on account of COVID; 2012 and 2016 were both decisively called before 5 AM EST.
The first polls on the East Coast close at 2000, which will be 0100 Wednesday morning in the UK, 0200 CET.
It will take a while to count up all the votes, though, particularly in states where they don’t start counting the mail-in vote until the election closes. I bet when you wake up on Wednesday we still won’t really know.
Well, they’ll know how a lot of places will go, but this one will be probably close enough that I doubt that we’ll be able to make a solid call on the election as a whole very early.
And always possible that there could be a Florida “hanging chads”-style challenge and effort to trigger recounts in any place that winds up extremely close in results, so that might extend it.
We won’t know the winner til Thurs eve or Friday. My money is on Friday.
