• SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Doomerism would be if there were an “…and therefore it’s pointless doing anything” at the end.

      I’d say the thing that helps nothing is a casual assumption of “if we campaign well enough, then we’ll win the next election and everything will be fine”, as opposed to “we are sleepwalking into a fascist dictatorship and we need to take that seriously”.

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        16 hours ago

        You don’t need to spell out that last bit for it to have the same effect, as their whole attitude implies it

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          14 hours ago

          I’ve seen no attitude in this thread which suggests that people are doing anything other than assuming that the next US presidential election will happen and be business as usual.

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            13 hours ago

            One need only look at the start of this very thread to be proven wrong about that… it’s almost as if my comment on the doomerism was not spawned from nothing.

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              12 hours ago

              The correct word would have been “threatens”

              Please fuck off. Let Tim Waltz run

              Honestly? Fuck it. Corporate Dems are pushing Newsom hard; I’d love to see Kamala wrestle with being abandoned by everyone she gave up any morals for.

              Ensure we have no chance of winning

              I will splinter the two party system into a thousand little pieces. Mark my words.

              That’s every top-level post above mine. Which suggests to you that the poster is concerned about Trump subverting or cancelling the election to finalise installing himself as a dictator?