I get it, 50% residents of one of the most influential countries on earth will be very upset, with a lot of geopolitic consequences.

But for some, we cant change the outcome in anyway, I hate the way content even on the Fediverse becomes. Yes its important but man. I was all into 2016 elections but it doesnt really change anything anyway. Americans go vote and all, though.

I just wanna talk about kernels and factorio, man

  • @[email protected]
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    Tomorrow is the last day to vote. I imagine all the talk won’t be over until noon January 20th with the transfer of power to the new administration.

  • @[email protected]
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    I’d like to be calm but since I live in a country neighbouring Ukraine … yeah, I’m scared

    • @[email protected]
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      619 days ago

      I’m sick of every single comment tho any political article being, “Doesn’t matter. Go vote.”

      Like, no shit. Stop commenting the same damn comment on every article.

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    It drives me mad how the UK media obsesses over US Presidential elections because they’re still pretending the “special relationship” exists, yet they pay hardly any attention to European elections that actually have more impact on the UK.

    They’ll literally cut away from UK news to bring a campaign speech from Trump or Harris. Why? We don’t get a vote in it, so we don’t need to hear it.

    • @[email protected]
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      We gotta pretend we give a shit about your crowns and all that, so I don’t want to hear it.

    • Billiam
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      Well, talking about the EU might remind the rubes how shit things have gone since Brexit, so of course they don’t want to bring that one up.

  • @[email protected]
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    Not to be a downer, but the political ramifications matter significantly, and vice versa. This planet is way too small now, and I patiently monitor the politics of many countries to see how the world shifts in relation to peace and climate change.

    This corresponds to everything, including games and distros if one country (not just the US) suddenly collapses.

    I happily await the day politics calms down, the wars settle, and we focus primarily on climate change and science as our main passions once again.

  • Servais (il/le)
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    Ironically, I was happy that this community was one of the few without posts about that election.

  • @[email protected]
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    1018 days ago

    i honestly think this election is part of an ongoing cold war that has spread across the world and turned hot in Ukraine

    we are all part of it and can participate

  • @[email protected]
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    1019 days ago

    Haha i quit reddit not because of the api change and the stupid blackout/protest. But to get away from the propaganda.

    • @[email protected]
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      419 days ago

      Small reddit pages are the best, but yeah front page reddit seems like a lot of political/corporate content

  • @[email protected]
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    819 days ago

    One more day. Just one more day. Election day is tomorrow, and by the early hours of the morning after, it’ll all be over.

    • Cyborganism
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      No it won’t. The bullshit will continue with all the election denialism, the rhetoric and violence. Not to mention an the Republican state governors that will fuck shit up.

      It ain’t over.

      • @[email protected]
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        419 days ago

        That bullshit will continue, but the obsession of the upcoming election will die down. For those of us who are interested in politics, it will remain an active time; for the majority of people, and thus the constant, annoying buzz of election articles on here, it’ll be over.

        • @[email protected]
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          419 days ago

          i dunno… one thing about trump: he’s basically guaranteed ratings for the media–ALL of it. and he’s pretty much a bottomless supply of absolutely apeshit bonkers headlines which will probably only increase regardless of the outcome of tomorrow

    • melon
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      This is unfortuantely going to be dragged out for weeks while counts are finalized and certain candidates start claiming victory fraudulently. Just like the last election 🙄

    • @[email protected]
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      Do you know when the first reliable results will come in?

      I bet it will be quite late over here in the EU though 😔

      Edit: thank you both, guess I’ll see the results in the morning :-) or if I go pee in the middle of the night 😋

      • @[email protected]
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        619 days ago

        Depends on how close it is. 2020 was a bit chaotic on account of COVID; 2012 and 2016 were both decisively called before 5 AM EST.

      • @[email protected]
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        The first polls on the East Coast close at 2000, which will be 0100 Wednesday morning in the UK, 0200 CET.

        It will take a while to count up all the votes, though, particularly in states where they don’t start counting the mail-in vote until the election closes. I bet when you wake up on Wednesday we still won’t really know.

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          Well, they’ll know how a lot of places will go, but this one will be probably close enough that I doubt that we’ll be able to make a solid call on the election as a whole very early.

          And always possible that there could be a Florida “hanging chads”-style challenge and effort to trigger recounts in any place that winds up extremely close in results, so that might extend it.

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      It takes two to make a conversation so to make it casual both parties must converse casually. If you are the only comment opposing this conversation’s casual nature then it’s not the person casually initiating conversation that is at fault but your response that is making the conversation *heated. non-casual/uncasual/anti-casual/casual-less idk what the word for opposit of casual would be lol.

            • @[email protected]
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              Cheers to a casual as fuck conversation 🍻

              Edit: fuck itd be so cool if there was a way to only allow voting to reference how casual you thought a comment thread was and keeping a ranking of the chillest of the chillest casual conversations lol if not voting then maybe a button similar to reddit’s gold used to be where you awarded the casual-est conversations and have the ranking based on the amount of casuawards you were given🤔

  • Schwim Dandy
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    It costs me nothing to scroll past. Let everyone think it makes a difference, in a few months, we’ll settle back into our comfortable dystopia and we’ll go back to arguing over other stuff.

  • @[email protected]
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    519 days ago

    I’ve been trying to limit my election posting to the explicitly politics communities. I think that by blocking all of them, the non US people can hopefully keep the election chatter down to at least a dull roar, although I realize a lot of it is also spilling out into everywhere.

    You folks have my sympathy, in other words. Hopefully in a week or so, we won’t need yours.