2024 Election - Thread #1

[GethN7]

Overall, I do want to say I urge calm regardless what side of the political aisle you are on, stay calm. The world did not end in 2016, it did not end in 2020, it will not end now.

That's easy for you to say, when the world isn't literally on fire around you the days after the election.  And I do mean literally literally -- I have two air purifiers running at full blast and the house still smells like smoke.  The world is ending, slowly but surely, as we once again abandon our holy duty of stewardship of the land and its creatures, all sacrificed on the altar of economy and avarice.

At least I finally know, without a doubt, that more than half of my countrymen are evil.  And we're definitely gonna hit +3°C.  I'm not sure what to do with that knowledge.  Right now, it just makes me want to give up.

First off, I hope the heat problems where you are abate, that sounds terrible. Second, as someone who was apathetic to either outcome, and someone who studies history, calling your political opponents evil is incredibly stupid. If they have committed grievous error, burning any bridge towards winning them back to your side is a bad idea.

Also, and this is the last I will address this topic, I want to throw on some water on the fire of panic here with a little history lesson.

Adolf Hitler and the Nazis only got to do what they wanted to Germany only after they seized the Reichstag Fire as an excuse and got the Enabling Act, which allowed them to rule by decree and ashcan any hope of democracy. It was with that Germany was condemned to fascist thrall. The very fact Democrats have, to this point, not done a January 6 is to their credit, and if they want to prevent an American Enabling Act, they'd be wise to not let a January 6 happen by their own hand, assuming the other side truly wants an excuse. 

The United States is far more fundamentally stable than Weimar Germany right now, and the fact you can even complain about the election without disappearing into the night and fog means you are not under a fascist boot YET. My advice, keep being sensible and make the other side make the mistake. Your time will come, just be smart and don't do something foolish in your upset lest your fears become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

With that, I'm noping out of this conversation. I was prepared to sleep just as soundly if Kamala won as I do now, and no, I do not believe people with different opinions who should be elected leaders are categorically evil. That was the same attitude that led the Nazis to murder the Jews, and I advise not repeating that mistake no matter how mad you are.