To everyone who voted for Trump and relies on social security, or ACA healthcare, or have pre-existing conditions, or has a child with special needs, or LGBT family, or undocumented friends and family, I have no sympathy for you. You got what you voted for, next time learn your candidate’s policies before the election. We tried to warn you, we tried to tell you his policies were radical or even dangerous. We tried to tell you he wanted to take all those things away. We tried to tell you we would be the ones paying for his tariffs; but you wouldn’t listen. He is not your friend, he does not care about you, all he wants to stay our of jail and make himself and his wealthy friends richer. The rest of us were willing to pay a little more for groceries if it meant our families would have healthcare, our friend’s children with special needs could get an education, our parents could collect their hard-earned social security. Instead we will all pay a lot more for everything when tariffs are imposed and the migrants who pick our fruits and vegetables are deported.
Now your penance: call your congressmen every day for the next four years, ask them to stand-up to Trump, to block his policies that will make life harder and more expensive for everyday Americans, to block his nominations, tell them you will vote them out in the next election if they don’t – and actually vote against them when they don’t. Write letters to the White House asking them not to do all the things he promised us he’d do. Write to the Supreme Court, and all the government agencies we rely on everyday asking them to resist rolling-back all the progress we’ve made as a country over the last century. If you don’t, it won’t just be the liberals paying the price, it will be your friends, your families, and even you.
Posting on the internet doesn’t move the needle at all. Slacktivism does basically nothing. I know you want to believe so desperately that your voice on here does anything, but it doesn’t.
We’re a niche (the perpetually online), within a niche (sitting on fractured clone of Reddit), within a niche (people who actually vote).
Nothing said or done here will ever make a difference whatsoever.
Catharsis can be its own reward
Tell that to all the “bro influencers” who went all in for Trump this year. I’d argue it’s time for liberals to start astroturfing.
They already do.
Maybe you should check which community you’re in before replying
Maybe you should.
This isn’t an “off my chest” post as much as someone ranting about politics. This isn’t stress relief, and as much as I agree with it – it’s basically just yelling at others.
In fact, seeing it on here raises my stress level quite a large amount because I have done my damnedest to escape it, and it invades everywhere.
You think this is for posts that make YOU feel better?
I wouldn’t call the perpetually online a niche, but yes lemmy would be.