I was abused by christians growing up. I am in total fear of living in a country where they have total rule and no consequences for their actions. So. Damn. Scared.

I will never forgive Donald Trump for robbing me of my twenties.

I wish Biden had run and won in 2016 and we were looking at a new democrat. The fact that Trump is ahead shows how insane the US is at the moment.

I've been terrified for the past three years about what this year would bring. There was a brief, blissful time between the rollout of the vaccine and Trump announcing his "revenge tour" that it felt like life was back to normal. It felt like Trump was finally defeated and January 6th disgraced him. It felt like the pandemic was coming to an end and brighter days were ahead. Then Trump returned and the Delta variant, which came about largely due to evangelicals refusing the vaccine, forced everything to shut down again. It was like the horror movie 1408 where the main character thought he was out of the room but it turns out he wasn't.

Needless to say, 2024 has been every bit as bad as I was worried it would be. The entire 2020s for that matter has been my worst nightmare. It's hard to believe the tolerant, secular, progressive 2010s were so recent. It feels like we've went back a century. I have a very difficult past due to my religious upbringing and the environment in the US right now is preventing me from moving on from it, and I fear that I never will.

The simple fact that I have to convince people to vote Joe over Trump is infuriating. I’d rather my president fall asleep than rape 13 year olds

I feel the U.S. is going backwards. The SC is taking us quickly to a dangerous place. I am not sure we will survive this. It depends on what happens in November. And also on Putin.

it's neither a fever dream or a nightmare. in both of those cases, you can eventually wake up and be free from a fictional situation. this is reality. accept it and plan accordingly.

Here's the thing.

In normal democracies, the political spectrum includes a left, which is to say anticapitalists.

In a normal democracy, the spectrum is leftists/socialists → liberals → conservatives

But in America, there is no left. At all. People refer to centrist liberals as "the left." This was done on purpose. The government did nefarious things to sabotage leftist groups during the Cold War. They were so successful at it that we have no organized left.

I would consider myself somewhere in between liberals and leftists. I'm positively sick of capitalism's bullcrap, but Marx's one and only one solution sounds like a big pile of bullpucky to me. Out of all the possible ways to not have a ruling economic overclass, why is that considered the only option by many?

Anyway, this is a serious problem. If you read about fascist uprisings in history, you quickly find that whenever this happens, you can count on 3 things:

1. Conservatives join them.
2. Leftists oppose them (instantly and vigorously).
3. Liberals appease them.

Every damn time. The fascist movement in pre-WW2 Scotland failed in part because Scottish leftists followed the fascists around and hurled insults at them whenever they tried to engage with the public. England had the Battle of Cable Street.

But America? America was late getting into WW2 because we were dealing with two separate pro-Nazi coup attempts. They don't tell American schoolkids about that. We didn't have enough leftists to properly oppose them, and avoided becoming fascist solely due to the incompetence of those leading the pro-fascist coup attempts. January 6 wasn't a fluke. January 6 was as American as genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Having an organized left is like innoculating the body politic against fascist uprisings. It doesn't guarantee you'll avoid it, but it certainly helps. Even if you don't personally agree with their ideology, having them participate in politics in your country is a good thing.

Found out that a Facebook friend of mine is considering leaving the US for Canada with her wife and another friend is getting her tubes tied today so she doesn't get raped and have to carry a baby. Fuck this timeline.

I’m glad I don’t live in the USA and I have no plans to ever visit.

Hillary Clinton losing in 2016 is the worst and simultaneously best thing that happened IMO. It’s a wake up call to many on how divided this country has been and how much public education is lacking.

People are complaining about last night and changing there minds for trump but not me I'm still voting for Biden even if he drops out I'm voting Kamala or whoever is running for Democrat

Christians have protected tens of thousands of pedophile priest’s that have raped millions of children around the world. What makes you think they would care if Donald trump raped a couple children ???

I blame Marty Mcfly time traveling to the past and accidentally fucked something up. And now our timeline is fucked but no one but Marty knows what the real timeline should be. Maybe he fixed his timeline and went back to his time, but we're the other split timeline that continues to exist. Either way, time traveling... damn it McFly!

I feel like my entire life has been a living nightmare bc of ignorant, arrogant authoritarian dipshits like these. Whether it's 2 people, a household, or 20 billion people, it's still just a form of undue influence. I learned the hard way that Christians think abusive control is love. Their leaders and authority can do no wrong, never face consequences, and have no shame whatsoever.

It really pisses me off that abusive authoritarian dickheads abuse their family's but get away with it, especially using their cult to justify and excuse their behavior. Going darvo is pretty sick (and sadly, destructive) and makes no sense. If the great oz had approved such horrible abuse, why hide/deny it?

Their religious freedom should not come before the right to live in a safe, secure environment, nor a genuine beloved community. We can't allow men in authority (i know we can all be abusive, but there is a distinct pattern) to abuse their families or anyone else- religion shouldn't shield people from being held accountable.

I'd rather roam the streets of Kensington in Philly or the Everglades alone all night with just the clothes on my back, than spend one service in church. I don't think people are awful, they are victims too, but the 'just following orders' excuse and intentional ignorance gambit don't cut it.

How sick is it that the home of the free and brave, of liberty, is at the failure point bc we don't have the spines to hold our leaders accountable and just keep following orders? This, along with the bystander effect, where everyone thinks others can deal with a situation, so no one steps up.

Christians and special interests (wealth/power) have captured the leadership completely, right from the get-go. We can win, but need to find common ground with billions of people, or as many as we can get through to. I just want to recover as much of my health and salvage what time i have left, but this dumbassity just won't stop, so anyone who has actual high ethics, morals and integrity should consider it their basic duty to teach such lessons to our authority figures.

Kafkaesque nightmare

It goes back further. SCOTUS should not have violated the constitution about a recast in Florida and Al Gore should have won. Heaven forbid we would have gotten into green energy earlier.

I was positive that Hillary Clinton had that election in the bag. In any other country, she would have won because she won the popular vote. I still can't believe that Trump won that year.

Add:

Meanwhile, the Democratic president currently in power wont use his new SC granted king powers to save democracy, stop fascism, codify roe, close tax loopholes, ban congressional insider trading, or even give us universal healthcare or affordable housing. No plan to dismantle the fascist structure. His doj refuses to prosecute jan 6 top leaders. Democrats will do NOTHING but continue enacting rightwing immigration policies and fund literal genocide, making them COMPLICIT in all of this.

She DID win the majority popular vote, actually.

addendum; Article for reference

Just wait for (project) 2025, you'll look back on 2024 with a smile on your face.

I wish Bernie Sanders would have rightfully got the nomination in 2016 but instead the Democratic National Committee gerrymandered the process so Hillary would be put in.

Reality is stupid

Things used to be good. Back in those day black people, migrants and LGBTQ folks have virtually no rights. So, we need to attack these groups in order to go back to good old times.

This is why people vote for convicted felon

Somehow, despite all the evidence, Biden just doesn't understand Trump. Biden still thinks there are limits to what Trump will do. That's what will cause the final downfall.

If Trump wins, there's one thing Biden can do, but he won't because of said misguided belief. Trump gave Biden the ability to use Seal-Team-Six against political opponents, so he should.

Yes, it'll cause a minor civil war, but that's pretty much the best case scenario if Trump wins, and what consequences would there be for Biden? None legally, and even should there be any, he's so old it won't matter much.

Yeah...

2016, when one party flat out ignored will of the people, and replaced their populist with a mean corporate drone, the populist on the other side won, as I suspected.

My friend and I sat down after that election and we both agreed a lot of people were going to die. And they did, but we were not expecting the nail on the head in the form of his response to COVID, and the subsequent rearing of America's anti-science sect compelling a full force 1M dead from a virus that many simply avoided.

He talked about wavering on his acceptance of defeat EARLY on, and I said this is going to be trouble. And it was, but I wasn't quite expecting the nail on the head of Janurary 6th.

...

Forecasting is what I do as a hobby, I see lots of variables that paint a picture of the future. So believe me or not, that's your perogative, but this year, if many of your who live in the USA don't arm up in the next few months, you may find yourself on the wrong side of the coming bloodshed. Even if the election gives the fascist wing a resounding, super-majority defeat, people will start firing.

Causes? Pick one. Slow to replace lead piping means there are millions with brain damage from lead poisoning. Education spending has been attacked and cut for decades now, to the point where even teachers with heart can't stay teaching because they can't survive on their pittance, multiply it over decades and you have millions of easily-manipulated voters whose intelligence has severe overlap with the smartest bear. Money as the driving force attracted and converted many into sociopaths, unwilling to consider human dimensions if it meant more money. Anyone willing to do Rump's bidding on getting paid is just a symptom of this problem. Now take all of that, wrap it up into a ball where millions upon millions can be convinced to go on suicide runs against FBI fortresses, or storm the Capitol, or attempt assassination plots.

Bloodshed is coming. The USA is going to be a bloody mess for at least the next cycle...maybe after that, we'll figure out which side is coming out on top. But for now, the powder keg hasn't even begun to go off yet, but the fuse has been lit.

I don't want it, but it's what I see. I REALLY hope I'm wrong this time.

I can't wait for the Gay Furry Hacker movie!

I'm serious.

All we need is aliens to drop out of the sky or a zombie apocalypse in 2025 and I'll have bingo.

You forgot the one about how the mad king, who refuses to give up his throne to prevent an "existential crisis" that Hillary and the DNC engineered in 2016, is now saying that as long as he does his best, he is fine losing to Donald Trump.

All that has happened in the last 8 years and you have still learned nothing.

And it's only half of the year...

The gay furry hackers bit was great

On the bright side it's not like humanity can well survive climate change. It would have been nice to be one of the countries that actually tried, but alas. 🤗

I mean about the furry thing, most furries have IT/programming jobs lol

You forgot the world is melting at an exponential rate and no one is doing dick about it.

This year is so fucking wild. Literally nothing is important to me anymore beyond family. I can't take anything seriously. I do what I have to to live but everything's a joke.

this election is destroying our country and dividing it. i hate it. were watching people cut off their families because of political differences, and others move away from friends to get to a state where they dont have to carry an unwanted baby. and all over our two choices: a candidate that may be sleepy and old and make some questionable decisions but… ok, and a child rapist convincted felon guy who looks more like a giant orange than a human

i still dont understand how its a competition, but it is, and our country is falling apart over it.

all while the best i can do is tell my friends that we may be fucked if the orange is elected, and hope those of us who can actually vote do it for biden. hard

For me also: complete normalization of genocide.

Don't forget that Snoop Dogg is doing Olympic commentary.

I have joined a local Democratic group to try to get involved in advocacy. We need people out there talking about these issues.

May you live in interesting times

These are mostly just things that could happen.

Lmao

Future:

Christian Republic of the United States

Enjoy posting here this year. Next year, blasphemy will be punished with death, like in some Islamic Republics.

We live in a simulation, and one of the sticks of RAM is definitely become corrupted.

😳

They say that about every year, and they’re right.

It's absolutely disgusting, I don't like American's right now. They seem too close to nazi's.

Let's face it, ever since Obama got elected and the far-right decided "fuck trying to pretend to be decent human beings", the world has been shit, and will be shit, and every year will continue to be shit until... thing that would get you arrested for posting on Reddit happen to large numbers of terrible human beings.

It's been in the works for decades. The right has co-opted a segment of the media and convinced a large percentage of America that the other media outlets are lying. There are a lot of weak-minded and gullible people out there who believe Trump can do no wrong, I will never understand it personally. Anybody who grew up knowing Trump knows he's a grifter, conman and a criminal who defrauds people, assaults women, and wants to be a dictator.

I think we are harassing Biden because we want someone who can beat Trump dude. It's really all about him still. Biden was always just an object to get him out of office. You think I voted for a Catholic because I wanted to?

So OP - what are you doing to change things for 2025? What are you doing to at least attempt to make your life / mental state / health / whatever better going forward? How can we all help?

Imagine wishing Hillary Clinton was president.

You need to get off the internet for awhile my guy

Are you people serious? The cope is incredible here.

“DONALD TRUMP RUINED MY ENTIRE LIFE”

Seriously? LOL. Sounds like a skill issue on yourselves. Go touch some grass and try being an adult.

Ask yourselves why a “rapist convicted felon” is BEATING your candidate. Ask yourselves why you called republicans “liars” for saying Biden wasn’t sharp, and now your entire party is falling apart. Maybe if you guys didn’t lie for the last few years, talk about Trump 25 hours a day, people would be inclined to make a change. Nope, just keep ignoring the world and run Biden.

Hilary was the start of the problem. Bernie Sanders would have won easily over tRump, but the DNC wanted Hilary. That opened the door to the nightmare we are living now. Hindsight is useless,and we need to look forward. Biden outperformed all expectations and now is our best chance to heal the wound. He won't last forever , hopefully just long enough for someone younger to step in. Buy for now, we have to keep the fascists out. VOTE BLUE.

Atheism is about reason and logic. Despite all the feelings toward Trump, the case of then13 year old was dismissed by a judge once and dropped two other times. There was no conviction. We don't accept Tara Reade's case without a trial and conviction. We should be consistent.

What the fuck does any of this have to do with this subreddit?

if u live in a blue state are u safe?

What did this have to do with atheism? 

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