Post-election blues

If you are from the US and you criticized people living under authoritarian regimes for not rioting hard enough, this is your time.

You still have it easy. You won't be taken into prison for standing with a piece of blank paper. You won't be beaten with batons and taken into custody for reciting Constitution. Yet. Go ahead before it gets there, and may you never see a true authoritarian horror.

Otherwise, all your words are not worth a dime.

Most likely, you're on the track.

Organize. Sabotage. General strike. Protest. Political action isn't one day every four years.

I tried to pull the lever but lost to all the people pulling the other way.

Victims are too white...

I mean you could also take the "don't buy from US based corporations for 1 year challenge" starting january 1st 2025. Stock up on any corporate goods you need now then buy nothing for a year.

The pandemic market rallied because of a bailout after consumer spending plummeted. Would be a shame if the same thing happened and suddenly there was no emergency for a bailout to sail under.

They won't have time and energy for persecuting people if the economy is broken.

Record/pirate a bunch of movies/shows then cancel streaming for a year. Buy any electronics now before the tariffs start. Buy surplus canned food etc. Then see how little you can spend the entire year of 2025. Planning on doing tourist stuff inside the US? Don't. If you work at a big corporation consider deleting an important email and see what happens.

Lets fuck around.

Might be a lot smaller than a lever, but if you are a republican don't stand there empty handed. Grab your dick and start jerking that puppy. This is what you always wanted you dumb sick fuck.

And this is why libs are made fun of for their feckless electoralism.

Try organizing and building mutual aid networks instead of just sitting on your ass and watching.

Maybe in 4 years you'll be better prepared.

Except those people tied themselves to the track and started the train themselves... Completely voluntarily.

Yep. I'm focused on looking after my community/friends who have targets on their back now.

Other than that I look to republicans and say "alright, this is all you now. Better be perfect!" They shouted and screeched that their way was best. Their god is in the seat. Time to deliver a "great economy"

The only thing is the viewer should be tied to the track.

As a non-american, yup...

You could always blow up the trolley.

You can yell at the train driver, you can make a team to stop the train, you can start building a new track, you can become a train driver yourself.

No.

I’m not watching

If only there was some🔻thing we could do.

Someone in the secret service should leave a security hole so someone can kill trump

The little engine that could

This metaphor has always been poor. Trains are locked on tracks. Harris's campaign could have steered away from biden and his low approval rating, distance from the voters, and genocide, at any moment she wanted to. She wasnt locked on tracks. She chose to steer toward the right the entire last month of her campaign, losing a trickle of voters from her base every single day. She chose to steer away from addressing peoples complaints about reduced buying power instead of sympathizing with them. She chose to say she'd put republicans on her staff if elected, and listen to their ideas. She chose to take the AIPAC bribes. She wasnt at all locked on tracks and being forced to take that money. No one did this TO her. She did it to us.

Pretending she had no choices in order have someone else to blame for her choices is a really unfortunate takeaway, and dooms the party to continuing to think in ways that will lose. The massive unpopular -- historically so even-- incumbent lost. Thats what happened.

Why would you waste so many prison slaves?

Also, why are you all so worried? Surely the cops will protect us! That was the plan after eventually disarming the working class right? Are yall saying that the democratic party was wrong to pursue gun control?

So the question is do you watch or turn away?

You can throw yourself in front of the train coward

From your moral high ground knowing you didn’t vote for genocide