As someone who lives in the Southeast US that works for a European company with children with their amazing mother who happens to be black, it is absolutely terrifying. The ignorance of people is absolutely astounding and terrifying. I have conversations with people I work closely with and even the ones who don’t support the insanity are very reticent to call a spade a spade. If we ever get out of this, the cleanup is going to take decades. How long is it going to take to repair our relationship with our former allies? Are my kids going to be safe? Do I pick up and move and hope for the best? I had someone wearing a don’t tread on me flag hat stare me down with disgust the other day while sitting with my family eating. How can this be happening in the open now? /endrant
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moistclump@lemmy.world 4 days ago
As a Canadian, this has been scary and disheartening. I don’t know where we go from here.
It was one thing in 2016 when it wasn’t the popular vote and didn’t know what they were getting into. But now all I can think is… most of the voters voted for Trump even with Project 2025 published.
I don’t know how to act or feel. I don’t know what happens next.
denshirenji@lemmy.world 4 days ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah I’m a trans woman in a red state and I’m treated as though I’m violating a taboo when I advocate for my own rights or bring up the fact that I’m leaving a right wing area for my own safety.
And I don’t think we’re coming back from this in our lifetime when it comes to international situation unless we wind up being rebuilt Germany style.
j4k3@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Imagine being disabled 11 years ago, falling through the cracks and getting no where with disability benefits, in California where this should be easier than most places. I’m looking at homelessness and dying in a gutter somewhere on a cold rainy night because of a super unlucky bicycle commute to work when I encountered two SUVs crashing directly in front of me at speed. The person responsible had a two page long traffic violation history, the cognitive capacity of a third grader, and could only drive for work but was self employed. They literally drove directly into a passing SUV I was behind/beside without looking.
All I can hope for is that this breaks out into violence because that would indicate hope and that someone cares. No one cared before. There have been around 100k homeless people within 100 miles of me in the greater Los Angeles area for a decade but no one cares. Even the Dems mistreat these people as feral subhuman animals. The Nazis housed and fed people before gassing them. This is the level of ethics we were already at, so getting much worse is rage bait and an act of war and violation of fundamental unalienable human rights. A prisoner of war has more rights to be housed and fed than a disabled or homeless citizen of the USA.
moistclump@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I really, really sorry. I can’t even imagine. The neglect in the states should be registering world wide as a war crime. I went to San Francisco a couple years ago and was very, very depressed at the state of things. No sign of collective sense of responsibility or compassion.